July 16, 2008


Truck Stop Women, brought to you by Phil Gramm

One of my favorite Texas politicians financed soft-core porn movies in the seventies.

The following year, Gramm sent Caton a check for $15,000, this time to finance the production of “Beauty Queens,” a soft-core flick about pageant judges having sex with contestants. But at the last moment, the director of “Beauty Queens,” Mark Lester, decided to shelve his production to make the sequel to his “Tricia’s Wedding,” a comedy starring the drag queen troupe, The Cockettes.

Gramm contributed at least $7500 towards the sequel, a satire of the Nixon White House called “White House Madness” that featured the crazed president wandering around the White House in the nude. Gramm never saw that money again. Shot in ten days on a soundstage crudely modeled after the Oval Office, “White House Madness” tanked at the box office.

posted by Deron Bauman in movies, politics, sex 

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One Response to “Truck Stop Women, brought to you by Phil Gramm”

  1. The World on July 16th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Deron,

    We do so miss Molly Ivins.

    Sincerely,
    The World

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