She and Virginia are, by now, world famous, and they are given the honor of receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her love life may be in tatters, but Penelope’s professional life is smooth sailing. Even worse, he dumps her via fortune cookie. (“No offense, Dick, but this is like making it with a Buick!”) Dick turns out to be appropriately named in more ways than one he dumps Penelope immediately after their tryst. They make love, but Virginia is not impressed. The date leads back to Dick’s home, where he has Penelope dress like a princess, while he enters the bedroom dressed in an ass-less suit of armor. Virginia impresses the audience with a rousing rendition of “Wang Dang Doodle.” ( CHATTERBOX is nothing if not the cinematic equivalent of a 12-year-old boy’s psyche.) This leads to another TV appearance, this time on “The Mating Game,” where Penelope wins a date with a guy named – you guessed it! – Dick. Pearl promptly books Penelope and “Virginia” (as her vagina comes to be known) on a TV show hosted by comedian Professor Irwin Corey. Pearl, who gives her a sound piece of mental health advice: enter show business! Establishing himself as her manager, Dr. She confides her problem to her psychiatrist, Dr. Penelope is so distracted by her verbose va-jay-jay that she gets fired from her job at a hair salon run by Mr. This critique continues over subsequent love-making sessions, until Ted gets fed up, telling Penelope, “I don’t have to stay here and be insulted by that bitch!” He promptly ends the relationship. One night, after a somewhat disappointing round of boot-knocking, her vagina abruptly develops a voice, which it uses to criticize her lover, Ted. In this softcore comedy, Candice Rialson plays a hairdresser named Penelope. I mean, it has Professor Irwin Corey, the guy who accepted Thomas Pynchon’s National Book Award Fiction Citation for Gravity’s Rainbow with a pun-filled speech that confused many and was a frequent talk show guest that went on to panhandle for charity well into his 90’s.Ever have someone tell you the plot of a movie, and it’s so bizarre that you don’t believe it’s real? That’s what we’re here to celebrate with Yes, It’s a Real Movie! For our debut installment, we’re going to look at a most unusual feature from 1977 entitled CHATTERBOX, which is about a woman with a talking vagina. I don’t know who you are, but I know they haven’t made all that many movies for you. If you ever wanted to see someone sing showtunes and disco from their secret garden, then this is the film for you. Oh yeah - her vagina is named Virginia and becomes more loved by her mother and more famous and in demand than its owner. Soon, they both learn that she can sing from her hoo-hah and this leads her to become a big star. Pearl (Larry Gelman from TV’s The Bob Newhart Show and porn’s Alice in Wonderland). She then reveals her secret to her therapist, Dr. Soon after, her lady business gets her in all sorts of trouble, like getting a lesbian client to tackle her at her hairdresser job (her boss is played by Rip Taylor, who is over the top and out of control, but why else would you hire Rip Taylor, you know?). Penelope (Candice Rialson, the inspiration for Bridget Fonda’s character in Jackie Brown and the star of Pets) is a hairdresser who learns that her vagina can speak after it makes fun of her lover’s lack of sexual skill. You know what Deep Throat was about? Well, Chatterbox is the exact opposite - a woman who discovers that she has not just another voice, but a whole other personality inside her vagina.
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