Good stuff. You can always count on Rudy Ray.
G'night gang!
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Pen drawing of Rudy Ray Moore wearing a suit and pageboy cap drawn on a green alpaca-themed Post-It note.
Phenomenal show tonight Fright Club! Keeping up the Rudy Ray Moore theme, and falling asleep to Disco Godfather! Sleep well, horror fans, and thanks for all the fun!
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God, that was a good time. #PeteyWheatstraw
Kudos to the cast! No budget and they probably made it in no time, too, but some very fine acting. ๐๐๐
Thanks #FrightClub! We are back tomorrow with a Stephen King doubleheader! The Dark Half (1992) and Misery (1990).
Yeah, he kept quiet about it. I might be looking way too into it, but I feel like there's so much queer coding with the performative over-the-top hetero-normitivity of Rudy. It'd be like finding out the lyricist for The Bloodhound Gang or Andrew Dice Clay were gay! ๐คฃ
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Pen drawing of Marki Bey holding up a bladed weapon drawn on a piece of hippie-themed stationery.
I wish the blaxploitation genre would have lasted long enough to get a Petey Wheatstraw / Sugar Hill crossover, but unfortunately, by 1977, it was petering out ... Blacula VS Blackenstein was just sitting there waiting to be produced as well ...
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Complete with deep red nail polish and lipstick!
He looks damn good in that disco devil outfit.
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Yes.
He stayed pretty closeted in his public life, didn't he? I think he kind of had to, given when and how he became a big deal.
But if we look for that wink and nod in the performances, it's there!
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Notice how the turntable shook but didn't fall during the Satanic Earthquake ... No way they're wasting a stereo system for this movie ...
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I don't know if you can escape the devil by leaving town, Petey...
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Pen drawing of Rudy Ray Moore smiling drrawn on a black background.
Thank you kind! Loved his work since my early 20s and always acknowledged its satirical flair, but after finding out Moore was gay I really started thinking about the exaggered machismo of characters like Dolemite and Petey Wheatstraw in a new light! He was the best!
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omg the demon costumes are so cute
They look like they're all dressed up for a Halloween party
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Petey tired out all the demon girls!
Are they even alive? Or still undead, whatever? They're definitely not conscious!
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Thank you, kind! Rudy does seem to have that great deadplan serios stare while still managing to smirk at the tongue-in-cheek, mock self-seriousness of his characters; kind of sums up a lot of his m.o., imho! He winks at you while staring daggers!
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๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ To quote John Waters, "Sometimes stupid and cute are enough!"
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Nice one
He does this fun thing where his face isn't necessarily super serious but his eyes are, and you really got that!
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Pen drawing of Rudy Ray Moore holding a cane and wearing a pageboy cap drawn on a town weekly planner.
And done! Here's my new drawing of Rudy Ray Moore for tonight's Fright Club presentation of Petey Wheatstraw. Can't believe I haven't drawn anything for this one yet, so glad this watch party finally me the gumption!
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The world would be a better place if all confilcts could be resolved by Rudy Ray Moore turning people into puppies with an Occult pimp cane ...
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Absolutely adore how he's using the devil powers to be basically Santa
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Pen drawing of Sissy Spacek looking dazed drawn on a postal sticker.
Rudy Ray Moore poetic cadence: "Petey Wheatstraw looked smooth just like Dolemite, As he killed those motherf***ers like Carrie White ..."
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Adorable puppy!
That lady has enough people to take care of already. I was a little surprised she wanted to add a dog. But he is super cute!
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I don't think Willie was really cut out for the whole henching gig.
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, let's give it up to Octaman on Keyboard and Trombone!"
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The cane is making Leroy and Skillet say what they really think?
HAAAAAA
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Whoa whoa whoa. Leroy AND Skillet? Shit is about to Pop. Off.
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Pen drawing of Rudy Ray Moore holding a microphone rawn on a torn weekly plannerr.
If you don't have a funky club opening scene musical interlude, multiple car chases, three kung fu fight scenes, at least three nude shots, and enough smart-ass quotable clap-backs to shut down any John Bircher in your blaxploitation film, are you even trying?
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I thought for SURE that's where that was going but no, they went with the slapstick bomb disposal gag instead.
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"Frankie and Johnnie were lovers...."
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I'm not sure the wallpaper set out to be a character in the film, but this group has made it one ๐
and I love you all so much
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The guy who plays Mr. White does a pretty good uptight honky, imho! Like the Tom Arnold of the mid-70s!
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๐ถ"You used to call me on my Hell Phone ..."๐ถ ๐คฃ
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