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's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 23
"Pretty Poison" is a weird little movie, kind of like "Badlands" and "Bonnie and Clyde," in that it's about a teenage girl who gets sucked into a life of crime when she hooks up with a bad boy.
Martin Mull serves as a strait-laced straight man to the, it seems, universally mellowed-out, consciousness-raised, and fad-mad citizens of Marin County.
Nuns putting Woodway mansion up for sale
Interesting fact: The Philip Johnson estate served as the backdrop for the 1974 TV movie, "Reflections of Murder" starring Sam Waterston and Tuesday Weld.
David Hershkovits Is All About a Four-Day Workweek.
You may recall Bob Denver as Gilligan from Gilligan's Island -- older folks and TV sitcom students will also remember him from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , on which Denver played a beatnik character named Maynard G. Krebs, the fifth wheel in a storyline that featured Dwayne Hickman as Dobie and Tuesday Weld as the unattainable Thalia.
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