Movies
September, 1970
The publicists' blurbs proclaim that everything you've heard about Myra Breckinridge is true, which amounts to faint praise, indeed, considering the reams of adverse comment placed on record by those assembled for the filming of Gore Vidal's grotesquely erotic satire. Writer--sometime actor Rex Reed, who looks noncommittal about his movie debut vis-à-vis Raquel Welch as Myra's epicene alter ego, penned a put-down of the enterprise (along with a pictorial) for Playboy's August issue. Meanwhile, a...
