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From the movies ~

Myra Breckinridge (a film supposedly so awful it made the Medved Brother's notorious and completely incorrect List of the 50 Worst Films of All Time). West plays sex-mad casting agent Letitia Van Allen - she was 77 at the time. With a bed in her office (because she likes to work nights), Letitia interviews and seduces a bevvy of 1970s men (including Tom Selleck in an early role), with lines like "forget about the 6 feet, let's talk about the 7 inches." In the highlight of the film, she is carried onto a stage in a huge box, from which she emerges to sing "You've gotta taste all the fruit!" Although her singing voice is a little reedy, and you worry that she might fall over in her Edith-Head designed furs and picture-hat, she manages to pull it off with aplomb, even rapping out a few verses of "Baby I'm To Hot To Handle" as an encore.

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