Frank Ray Perilli
Auteur van Cinderella [1977 Film]
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Cinderella (Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith) is blonde and not too vacuous, with a passing resemblance to Joan Hackett. More than the glass slipper, what she really has going for her is a “snapper,” bestowed on her by her Fairy Godmother, a Black man and a thief (Sy Richardson), whose shuckin’ and jivin’ manages to suggest mockery rather than clowning. The stepmother and stepsisters are all made up as Divine and they are delightfully horrible, mugging furiously as they exult in their rottenness. The women are all insatiable. (The stepsisters make Cinderella pedal a Rube Goldberg machine that operates their sex toys.) The men are flaccid and hapless. The court chamberlain is a stolid manly type who caresses the ends of his lavish moustache just before falling down staircases. The King has been impotent for 20 years and when he wakes up with a rare royal boner he gleefully orders: “Fetch me my baggy pants! I’m taking this one into town!” The Prince, already sexually jaded at 21 (he sings “My Kingdom Won’t Come”), is played by glam rocker Brett Smiley with a wonderful exhausted style of smooth enunciation. He is never enthusiastic about anything, at least until he finds Cin (no one ever lets her finish saying her name) and shouts “She’s my SNAPPAH!” Even the boinking music is good, a lightly funky jazz.… (meer)