tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post6055480270635334351..comments2023-11-12T10:41:32.063-08:00Comments on Dr. Gore's Movie Reviews: "Pets" reviewDr. Gorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05594145866407558448noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-30809291214201835642010-07-31T23:21:35.953-07:002010-07-31T23:21:35.953-07:00Nice work. Couldn't have had a better calling ...Nice work. Couldn't have had a better calling card than Candice Rialson. Unless you had a full expose on Sybil Danning. Like "My days and nights with Sybil". I like to dream. Can't you tell?Dr. Gorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594145866407558448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-16608403562839285832010-07-30T08:09:30.555-07:002010-07-30T08:09:30.555-07:00Doc,
When I moved out here in September '93, ...Doc,<br /><br />When I moved out here in September '93, my Candice Rialson piece was in many ways my calling card. It was a good article, featuring quotes from tons of people. I called everyone I could think of who had known or worked with her, including a bunch of folks who subsequently became quite successful -- directors Joe Dante, Allan Arkush, Mark L. Lester and Jonathan Kaplan, producer Jon Davison -- plus Julie Corman, Candice's former agents, and tons of her co-stars, from "Candy Stripe Nurses" to "Chatterbox." Fortunately for me, everyone had really liked her, and they were all quite curious about what had become of her. (The conventional wisdom of the time was that she was dead -- she had done quite the disappearing act.)<br /><br />When I went to visit Arkush in LA, to thank him in person for his help (I had interviewed him by telephone) and generally to shoot the shit, he told me he needed another copy of the Femme Fatales article: Tarantino had been by, and when Arkush showed him the Rialson piece, QT had to have it that minute. He thought it was awesome that there was an article about Candice in a contemporary movie magazine -- and he took it with him. I ran into QT months later at some event and introduced myself. I also remember discussing Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith with him (I informed him the obscure fact that Bobby Carradine had delivered her son). I've run into him fewer than a dozen times since, but on one occasion a few years later (after the release of Jackie Brown) he told me the story I related above.<br /><br />There are better Candice Rialson movies than "Candy Stripe Nurses." I recommend "Mama's Dirty Girls," "Hollywood Blvd." and "Stunts" (although her role in the latter is very small, it's easily her best performance. "Moonshne County Express" is quite a good movie (and also features Claudia Jennings), but Candice's role is miniscule. She was dating one of the grips (who had also worked on "Hollywood Blvd.") and took a tiny part essentially to get to go on location with him.Michael Whiteacrehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whiteacrenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-59369702386701743222010-07-25T00:18:54.175-07:002010-07-25T00:18:54.175-07:00Very cool you got to meet Candice Rialson. Also in...Very cool you got to meet Candice Rialson. Also interesting you were hanging out with Tarantino. You'll have to tell me the context of that talk.<br /><br />Candy Rialson looked like she was a classic California blonde. Good to hear she was a cool person. Nice signed poster too. That's got to be worth some money to collectors. <br /><br />I'm ashamed to say I never saw "Candy Stripe Nurses". I will have to keep the Candice film festival going. RIP Candy.Dr. Gorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594145866407558448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-5760542528297232552010-07-23T17:22:43.385-07:002010-07-23T17:22:43.385-07:00I penned the definitive Candice Rialson bio for Fe...I penned the definitive Candice Rialson bio for Femme Fatales magazine back in 1993. Found her alive and well and living in Palmdale. She still had "it," as I recall telling an enthralled Quentin Tarantino in the mid '90s. QT then told me that Candice inspired the Bridget Fonda character in jackie Brown, Melanie. Although the character doesn't have a last name in the credits, on the door buzzer outside her apartment building, the listing is for "M. Ralston."<br /><br />Candice was gorgeous, funny, and exemplified the classic '70s California free-spirit. Pets was her first starring role, and was followed by Candy Stripe Nurses for New World. Eastwood, who then as now thought of himself as an independent filmmaker working within the studio system, would often go see B and drive-in movies, which is where he saw Candice, as well and Jocelyn Jones who later appeared in The Enforcer.<br /><br />Candice passed away a few years ago of liver disease, and I miss her terribly. She was special and unique in so many ways. Among my most prized possessions is my autographed Hollywood Blvd poster, which I also got signed by co-directors Joe Dante & Allan Arkush, the late Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Roger Corman, producer Jon Davison.Michael Whiteacrehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Whiteacrenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-14867840290619297782010-07-13T09:19:42.987-07:002010-07-13T09:19:42.987-07:00Candy was the art student in "The Eiger Sanct...Candy was the art student in "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) and Eastwood let her get away from him (on film) but i bet he buggered her senseless off camera the fucking lucky bastard.the sneering (homo-phobic) snobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-47969240581395265042010-07-12T22:26:51.649-07:002010-07-12T22:26:51.649-07:00I don't know but I wish I did. Sounds interest...I don't know but I wish I did. Sounds interesting.Dr. Gorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594145866407558448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19115881.post-25920038927913184312010-07-12T12:07:58.473-07:002010-07-12T12:07:58.473-07:00Hmmm. What's that other 70s movie where the ho...Hmmm. What's that other 70s movie where the hot brunette is kept in a demented/rich man's horse stable?Rusty Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16143817211151177797noreply@blogger.com