So I’m reading “Valley of the Dolls.” It’s mostly dialogue and exposition, so I’m flying right through it. I can see how it was such a scandal and a bestseller — for its time (the mid-60s) it has a ton of swearing and sex and drug use. Though for 2008, it’s rather tame and quaint.
Anyone here seen the movie and read the book? Are they at all similar? I think if this movie was made today, Mad Men style with lots of attention to detail and fix all the corny dialogue, it might be an interesting film. I guess it was remade for TV in 1981. I presume both versions were crap. But I kinda want to see them.
I’ve seen Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Screenplay by Roger Ebert!
“This is my happening and it freaks me out!!”
The book is nothing like the movie.
TED CASABLANCA IS NOT A FAG AND I’M THE DAME THAT CAN PROVE IT!
I haven’t read the book, but the movie of Valley of the Dolls is so insanely bad that it’s really almost great, in that crazily-over-the-top Showgirls kind of way.