ALBERT ZUGSMITH, PRODUCER
Girls Town (or The Innocent and the Damned), 1959, on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (16 December 1994, Comedy Central). The setting: a prison farm run by nuns. The star: Mamie Van Doren. The human and the two robots who trade wise-cracks about the movies they watch in the MST 3000 screening room might as well be lobbing spitballs for all the mileage they’re getting out of this one—until escapee Cathy Crosby is caught, and boyfriend Paul Anka has to convince her to go back to the nuns without scratching her, or their, eyes out. “I’ll visit you, ” says Paul. Cathy manages a weak smile. “You tell me what your favorite song is,” Paul says, “and I’ll come up and sing it to you.” From the peanut gallery: “You know White Light/White Heat’?”
Greil Marcus’ Im faschistischen Badezimmer: Punk Under Reagan, Thatcher und Kohl—1977 bis 1994 _was recently published by Rogner & Bernhard, Harnburg.













