Program II: Hold Me While I'm Naked and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

"The gap between our reality and our dreams, so often filled by Tinseltown illusions, is explored in George Kuchar's Hold Me While I'm Naked and Frank Tashlin's Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. The glamour surface is stripped away, and naked longing and loneliness, and empty success are left exposed. Tashlin's hilarious gag-filled film attacks the advertising world of projected desires unquestioningly consumed. Ad-man Tony Randall builds a lucrative account on Jayne Mansfield's 'oh-so-kissable lips', and then proceeds to stumble on the difference between the illusion he created and actuality; he finds the dream he's selling doesn't match his own. George Kuchar stars in his version of Hollywood, as a frustrated filmmaker unable to complete his film and find a happily-ever-after. Filmed in brilliant reds, life isn't so rosy as Kuchar's desires go unfulfilled, his dreams tarnish, and the gap in his life widens into an unfillable gape." Kathy Geritz

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