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Young Lust (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Young Lust' is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Gary Weis and starring Fran Drescher and Mews Small. It was co-financed by Paramount.
It was an early script by Bruce Wagner and was never theatrically released. It was a spoof of soap operas.
Cast
*Fran Drescher
*Mews Small as Connie
*Dana Carvey
*Dorothy Constantine as Elaine Bimster
*Edith Fields
*Lucy Lee Flippin
*Terry Kiser
*Howard Mann
*Dean R. Miller
*Alley Mills
*John Roarke
*Michael W. Schwartz
*Lyman Ward
*George Wendt
*Mary Woronov
Production
The film was part of a slate of projects that Paramount rushed into production. In April 1982 the film was tentatively meant to come out in May.Film Notes
BY GARY ARNOLD The Washington Post 30 Apr 1982: W15. In June 1982 Paramount said they had no plans to release it.'Toy' cast clears air about city's pollution
Beck, Marilyn. Chicago Tribune 26 June 1982: 11.
A May 1983 article said the film "was such a mess that it has yet to be officially delivered to Paramount."
Bruce Wagner later said "I think the director was having some problems at the time with the studio and it was never released. It was a protracted death because a year was spent editing it." Wagner says after a year he was approached to work on the movie for reshoots. "That was also the year where a lot of movies like 'Young Doctors in Love' and raucous comedies like 'National Lampoons Vacation' [were released] and this movie... was very transgressive. The fact that it was not made informed a lot of my future work in writing about failure and shame. I certainly would have written about those things anyway, but in terms of my Hollywood experience, my entre was one of defeat rather than of triumph."
Legacy
Wagner said "That experience formed a template of failure and humiliation that has been a mother lode for me. Those were aspects of career not personal anguish that I drew from."
References
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