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Ode to Billy Joe

Billy Joe enjoyed being raped by an older man. So he kills himself because of the guilt?

This bullshit is absurd.

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by Anonymousreply 313August 29, 2020 2:49 AM

Well, Billy Joe never had a lick o' sense.

by Anonymousreply 1July 25, 2020 9:38 AM

Why is it so absurd? Small rural town, small mindset, easy to believe a young man who finds he likes gay sex cannot reconcile it in his mind so ends his life. He wouldn't be the only one, still happening today.

by Anonymousreply 2July 25, 2020 9:54 AM

Uh, fucktard, he wasn't raped.

He was drunk and he let the older man suck his cock.

Pay attention dilbert.

by Anonymousreply 3July 25, 2020 9:58 AM

What’s your definition of rape, Dogbert?

by Anonymousreply 4July 25, 2020 10:00 AM

This was a good movie. But I did walk away confused about the plot my first time watching it. What exactly happened that night? I thought it was a stable of female prostitutes taking BJs virginity. He was also very drunk. How was this anything but rape?

by Anonymousreply 5July 25, 2020 10:01 AM

There is no mention of cocksucking, pendejo.

by Anonymousreply 6July 25, 2020 10:03 AM

Didn't Rosco P. Coltrane rape Billy Joe? Or am I conflating?

by Anonymousreply 7July 25, 2020 10:10 AM

So was a blind girl skating around the rink after winning the competition, but done in because of the flowers they threw on the ice, but we don’t hold that against Robbie Benson either.

by Anonymousreply 8July 25, 2020 10:27 AM

But what about the doll!

by Anonymousreply 9July 25, 2020 10:28 AM

You are correct, r7

by Anonymousreply 10July 25, 2020 10:28 AM

We were forced to watch a movie in high school in which Robbie played a drug addict.

by Anonymousreply 11July 25, 2020 10:32 AM

I was molested, I didn't jump off a bridge FFS!

by Anonymousreply 12July 25, 2020 10:50 AM

He wasn't raped. He was just drunk.

by Anonymousreply 13July 25, 2020 10:53 AM

I can't tell you how many times I've been in Billy Joe's situation - get drunk, sleep with a gross person, regret it the next day. I just did that last weekend, but hopefully won't do it again until... next weekend.

by Anonymousreply 14July 25, 2020 11:02 AM

Robby Benson is still an amazing looking guy.

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by Anonymousreply 15July 25, 2020 11:03 AM

Sex when you are falling down drunk is never a good idea. I doubt Billie Joe was sober enough to give consent, woman or man. Roscoe P. Coltrane took advantage of the situation.

by Anonymousreply 16July 25, 2020 11:24 AM

The other guy was drunk, too, so neither of them was sober enough to give consent.

by Anonymousreply 17July 25, 2020 11:32 AM

Robby Benson was such a dreamboat to young me. Just dreamy.

by Anonymousreply 18July 25, 2020 11:34 AM

He was so freaking sexy, you're right R18

by Anonymousreply 19July 25, 2020 11:35 AM

I know, R18.

He was so fucking cute back then.

by Anonymousreply 20July 25, 2020 11:36 AM

So that’s why Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge!

by Anonymousreply 21July 25, 2020 11:38 AM

I have never understood, and I know this isn’t the right thread, why having sex with a really drunk person can be rape (if the drunk person decides so later) but being drunk is not a defense for having raped someone.

Sort of on topic: does anyone remember the 5th Dimension’s “dramatization” of the song on their live album? Gay little me loved it.

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by Anonymousreply 22July 25, 2020 11:41 AM

R8, I laughed so hard I almost choked on my bagel. I love you

by Anonymousreply 23July 25, 2020 11:45 AM

What Bronze Age bullshit are you queens talking about?

by Anonymousreply 24July 25, 2020 11:49 AM

There was a virus goin’ round,

Papa caught it, and he died last spring.

And now my momma doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything.

by Anonymousreply 25July 25, 2020 11:50 AM

From the song many people surmised that perhaps Billy Joe got Bobby Lee pregnant.

In the movie the story goes that Bobby Lee likes Billy Joe, but Billy Joe likes dick.

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by Anonymousreply 26July 25, 2020 11:55 AM

Dick? I don’t recall a character named Dick in the movie?

by Anonymousreply 27July 25, 2020 11:58 AM

I watched this as a kid and i do not remember the rape subtext. Was Robby Benson kind of dim in real life or was he just acting?

by Anonymousreply 28July 25, 2020 11:59 AM

Robbie Benson was the poster boy for wide eyed innocence when he was young. He out ingenued the ingenues.

by Anonymousreply 29July 25, 2020 12:13 PM

Look at him here all dewey eyed next to Glynnis O’Connor another ultimate ingenue, he is literally the person who the phrase “protect at all cost” was invented for.

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by Anonymousreply 30July 25, 2020 12:34 PM

Why does he talk so breathy? Travolta did that, too when he was young. Robby could sing in a couple different styles. None of them really interesting to me, but with some real skill.

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by Anonymousreply 31July 25, 2020 2:54 PM

Robby was so dreamy. I wish he could have deflowered me.

by Anonymousreply 32July 25, 2020 3:07 PM

Being man-raped in a movie does wonders for an actor's career.

by Anonymousreply 33July 25, 2020 3:13 PM

Wow, movie was made for $1 million but grossed $27 million- even with negative reviews. That should have launched Baer as a major director, but he backed away from directing.

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by Anonymousreply 34July 25, 2020 3:26 PM

You're forgetting Baer's other masterpiece Macon County Line. (He didn't direct, but wrote and produced it.)

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by Anonymousreply 35July 25, 2020 3:32 PM

What I always found hilarious is that Bobbie Gentry doesn't care what the reason is for the suicide and says the song focuses on the family:

[quote] Those questions are of secondary importance in my mind. The story of Billie Joe has two more interesting underlying themes. First, the illustration of a group of people's reactions to the life and death of Billie Joe, and its subsequent effect on their lives, is made. Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first Billie Joe, and later, Papa), and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognize their mutual loss or share their grief.

The movie is completely the creation of screenwriters divorced from the actual creator's vision.

by Anonymousreply 36July 25, 2020 3:41 PM

Was this the same Max Baer who played Jethro and Jethrine, or was it his father?

by Anonymousreply 37July 25, 2020 3:42 PM

[quote]You're forgetting Baer's other masterpiece Macon County Line.

Which was a huge hit that earned a sequel featuring Nick Nolte & Don Johnson.

by Anonymousreply 38July 25, 2020 3:43 PM

[quote]Why does he talk so breathy?

Hey it got him a great gig....

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by Anonymousreply 39July 25, 2020 3:45 PM

Wait... there was a movie?

The things I learn on Datalounge.

And Robbie Benson, who has that killer combo of dark hair and blue eyes, is the answer to the Jews Age Terribly troll. (Benson and Paul Rudd and Paul Newman)

by Anonymousreply 40July 25, 2020 3:46 PM

r37 Max Baer Jr. played Jethro/Jethrene on the Beverly Hillbillies and was the auteur director of Billy Joe.

Max Baer Sr. was a prizefighter and sometime movie star of the 40s and 50s. He was much hotter than his son.

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by Anonymousreply 41July 25, 2020 3:53 PM

Max Baer, Jr. attended the wedding of my friend at Lake Tahoe about 10 years ago. I guess he lives or lived in that area, but I don't know how they knew him. They said he was a nice guy.

by Anonymousreply 42July 25, 2020 4:01 PM

How did Brother Taylor happen to see Billy Joe and some girl who looks a lot like you on the Tallahatchie Bridge?

And then, how did someone happen to see Billy Joe jump off the bridge later?

Do people stand and look at the bridge all day long?

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by Anonymousreply 43July 25, 2020 4:15 PM

Max Baer Jr. was a hot slab of beef as the sheriff/police in Macon County Line.

by Anonymousreply 44July 25, 2020 4:18 PM

r43 The bridge is high up on Choctaw Ridge in view of many down below.

by Anonymousreply 45July 25, 2020 4:20 PM

This is my favorite cover of the song.

Gives it a whole new layer of meaning.

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by Anonymousreply 46July 25, 2020 4:27 PM

R41, I had such a major crush on him when I was a gayling watching Beverly Hillbillies.

by Anonymousreply 47July 25, 2020 4:36 PM

Never a fan of Robbie,but I adored Glynnis . Even as a young gayling I figured out that Roscoe had banged Robbie ,even if I didnt quite understand what that meant . I was mad for her brother ,much more than I cared about Robbie.

by Anonymousreply 48July 25, 2020 4:36 PM

Did they make love or was it rape rape?

by Anonymousreply 49July 25, 2020 6:40 PM

If I’d jumped off a bridge each time I got drunk and let someone blow me I would’ve run out of bridges.

by Anonymousreply 50July 25, 2020 9:07 PM

Billy Joe had dreamy eyes

by Anonymousreply 51July 25, 2020 10:03 PM

R51 Not to mention that lovely, smooth pink hole.

by Anonymousreply 52July 25, 2020 10:07 PM

Dewey Barksdale was played by James Best who was a cousin of the Everly Brothers.

I bet Billy Joe thought he was pregnant and that's why he jumped off the bridge.

by Anonymousreply 53July 25, 2020 10:46 PM

That wasn't his cherry they threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

by Anonymousreply 54July 25, 2020 10:50 PM

[quote]Billy Joe enjoyed having sex with another man.

▲ Fixed, OP.

So he killed himself because of the guilt.

Typical 1970s narrative for gay characters; they always tended to die one way or another. There's an informative segment of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐭 (1995) which deals with it.

by Anonymousreply 55July 25, 2020 11:01 PM

I just read that Robby graduated from high school at 14 as valedictorian.

Hot guys who are also smart are my weakness.

by Anonymousreply 56July 25, 2020 11:03 PM

Why would a 1-time experience convince Billy Joe that he was gay? Couldn't he have gone to church, ask for forgiveness for his supposed "sin," and then marry his friend/girl friend? That's what church going girls in Conservative small towns, who had illegal abortions, did at the time.

Yes that was the norm for centuries. Normally married gay/bi men would go on a "business trip" and have a fling in a big anonymous city. Same with a man who wanted a wilder woman (usually not White.)

by Anonymousreply 57July 25, 2020 11:19 PM

If you have a hard-on and can successfully launch it into somebody else's hole, you're not that high/drunk.

by Anonymousreply 58July 25, 2020 11:26 PM

R56 Up until the early 70s one always heard about kids graduating early from high school under the age of 15 or so. But then that doesn’t seem to have happened anymore. What was that all about? And how pissed do you think that 18 year old number 2 in his graduating class was that year.

by Anonymousreply 59July 25, 2020 11:29 PM

A good friend of mine is Robby’s cousin and I got to meet him once for a tiny moment. He was breathtaking and I was too overwhelmed to say anything.

by Anonymousreply 60July 25, 2020 11:33 PM

[quote]Why would a 1-time experience convince Billy Joe that he was gay?

He'd probably always been aware on some level of the attraction, but once it was something he'd acted upon, it just clicked, and he knew.

[quote]Couldn't he have gone to church, ask for forgiveness for his supposed "sin,"

No, R57. In a small-town Southern community, homosexuality marks you. There would have been talk forever.

[quote]and then marry his friend/girl friend?

Speaking for myself, I could not have done that. No way, no matter what.

[quote]That's what church going girls in Conservative small towns, who had illegal abortions, did at the time.

Completely different issue. A pregnancy ended, or a child given up for adoption, and a woman can put it behind her, provided no one in town knows. But homosexuality is forever.

[quote]Yes that was the norm for centuries. Normally married gay/bi men would go on a "business trip" and have a fling in a big anonymous city. Same with a man who wanted a wilder woman (usually not White.)

You're looking at it through 21st century eyes, R57, through the eyes of someone who has experience. Not through the eyes of a 1970s teenager who's tasted it for the first time and realizes there will never be anything else for him, and can't live with his family finding out, which they unquestionably would in time.

by Anonymousreply 61July 25, 2020 11:35 PM

I don't remember the movie. Does BJ actually come out and say he was looking for gay sex?

by Anonymousreply 62July 25, 2020 11:36 PM

Watch it, R62.

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by Anonymousreply 63July 25, 2020 11:39 PM

Robby got locked into a string of shit movies, just like that red head Annette O Toole. Annette should have followed the path of her brother Samuel and gone into porn.

by Anonymousreply 64July 26, 2020 1:04 AM

R62, According to Wikipedia: : "He admits to Bobbie Lee that he has been with a man, and when she tries to reason that he was drunk, so maybe didn't have complete control of himself and didn't really know what was going on, he confesses that he knew what he was doing, knew it was wrong, and did it anyway because he wanted to. "

by Anonymousreply 65July 26, 2020 1:08 AM

[quote]Typical 1990s narrative for gay characters; they always tended to die one way or another. There's a movie adapted from a short story written by a straight woman, Brokeback Mountain (1995), which perpetuates it.

Fixed, r55.

by Anonymousreply 66July 26, 2020 1:18 AM

The narrative that gays have to die was far less prevalent in the 90s than in the 70s, R66.

by Anonymousreply 67July 26, 2020 1:24 AM

And then we got Brokeback Mountain, r67.

by Anonymousreply 68July 26, 2020 1:26 AM

Glynis O'Connor was the third (of four) Margo Hughes on As The World Turns. She was without question regarded as the best of the four.

by Anonymousreply 69July 26, 2020 1:29 AM

Argumentative, aren't you? Had it followed the 70s pattern, R68, they'd have both died.

You cannot make 'Brokeback Mountain' typify the entire period.

by Anonymousreply 70July 26, 2020 1:30 AM

Doesn't the girl try to fuck it out of him but he can't get it up?

by Anonymousreply 71July 26, 2020 1:56 AM

What show is this from?

by Anonymousreply 72July 26, 2020 1:58 AM

R72, The Golden Girls, Rose.

by Anonymousreply 73July 26, 2020 2:00 AM

Oh, this is actually a film called Ode to Billy Joe.

You could have been clearer, Boomers.

by Anonymousreply 74July 26, 2020 2:12 AM

It's a coming of age homosexual movie. Go watch it now. You won't regret it.

by Anonymousreply 75July 26, 2020 2:24 AM

Hope they douched first.

by Anonymousreply 76July 26, 2020 3:08 AM

Bump.

by Anonymousreply 77July 26, 2020 3:19 PM

r46 We need to cancel Dorothy Moore for cultural appropriation.

by Anonymousreply 78July 26, 2020 4:23 PM

R74 you seem retarded

by Anonymousreply 79July 26, 2020 4:31 PM

Well, I'm getting a free meal out of all this.

by Anonymousreply 80July 26, 2020 5:08 PM

I just watched the movie thanks to this thread. As I was watching I was reminded of Summer of ‘42, then afterward I saw that Herman Raucher wrote both. Robby Benson was so beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 81July 26, 2020 6:05 PM

[quote]Robby got locked into a string of shit movies, just like that red head Annette O Toole. Annette should have followed the path of her brother Samuel and gone into porn.

Whatchu talkin' bout Willis? IMBD has no mention of a brother. Spill it.

by Anonymousreply 82July 26, 2020 9:14 PM

Google 'Samuel O'Toole', R82. No relation to Annette O'Toole.

by Anonymousreply 83July 26, 2020 9:17 PM

The movie was dumb. But the song was always haunting. I think listeners were always intrigued by the mystery; what did Billy Joe and the girl throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

by Anonymousreply 84July 26, 2020 9:18 PM

Billy Joe was purdy.

by Anonymousreply 85July 26, 2020 9:23 PM

Some cornbread muffins that had gone rancid, R84.

What 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 they have thrown that would be worthy of the suicide and subsequent mystery?

by Anonymousreply 86July 26, 2020 9:24 PM

At the beginning of the movie I thought Billy Joe was a tad special, but he was just acting goofy, right?

by Anonymousreply 87July 26, 2020 9:34 PM

R86 It's possible what was thrown off the bridge was not related to the suicide, just a tangential observation.

by Anonymousreply 88July 26, 2020 9:44 PM

Speculate, R88: What could it have been?

by Anonymousreply 89July 26, 2020 9:48 PM

Did Robby give his hole to men in real life?

by Anonymousreply 90July 26, 2020 9:51 PM

That's what Bobby Gentry wanted, for the listeners of the song to imagine themselves what it might have been.

by Anonymousreply 91July 26, 2020 9:53 PM

We're going to do a new group version of the song as a benefit for transgender rights.

by Anonymousreply 92July 26, 2020 10:03 PM

They threw off an aborted fetus.

by Anonymousreply 93July 26, 2020 10:41 PM

R93, not according to the movie. Billy Joe couldn’t get it up for a girl.

by Anonymousreply 94July 26, 2020 11:11 PM

"What 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 they have thrown that would be worthy of the suicide and subsequent mystery?"

Maybe Billy impregnated The Girl. He takes her to some old woman who lives in a shack in the backwoods to have an abortion. After the abortion, Billy Joe and The Girl take the aborted fetus out to the Tallahatchie Bridge have a memorial for it before disposing of it by throwing it off the bridge. Billy Joe, consumed with guilt over the pregnancy and abortion, commits suicide. I always though that was the most plausible explanation.

by Anonymousreply 95July 26, 2020 11:41 PM

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say the Billy Joe was clearly the mastermind of an international drug cartel. Suicide?! Think again, rubes!

by Anonymousreply 96July 26, 2020 11:50 PM

Robby Benson is up there with Rupert Graves in the Twink Hall of Fame.

by Anonymousreply 97July 26, 2020 11:52 PM

Someone please post the scene where Roscoe has his way with him. I can't find it online.

by Anonymousreply 98July 27, 2020 12:09 AM

R98, it’s not shown, just talked about.

by Anonymousreply 99July 27, 2020 12:13 AM

My guess is some mutual masturbation. I don't think Billy would have fucked him in the ass or got fucked in his.

by Anonymousreply 100July 27, 2020 2:00 AM

R100, I absolutely think Billy Joe was cornholed and he liked it. There wouldn’t have been a tearful confession about mutual masturbation.

by Anonymousreply 101July 27, 2020 2:01 AM

Billy Joe should have gotten a good pounding out if he was going to kill himself. Pretty guys are so stupid.

by Anonymousreply 102July 27, 2020 2:05 AM

Maybe the scene was cut and it will be in the blu-ray edition.

I say it was oral.

by Anonymousreply 103July 27, 2020 2:31 AM

R95, I always thought the same thing: a forbidden abortion. Bobbie Gentry left it up to the listener's imagination.

by Anonymousreply 104July 27, 2020 2:43 AM

If there are deleted scenes I want Robby Benson nudity.

by Anonymousreply 105July 27, 2020 2:46 AM

Robby Benson still looks pretty good, except when he lets his hair and beard grow too long and unkempt. His wife, Karla DeVito, is a gray-haired hag. But the marriage is obviously a good one; they've been married since 1982.

by Anonymousreply 106July 27, 2020 3:13 AM

I don't think abortionists would made their patients take the contents home. It wasn't a fucking fetus thrown from the bridge.

by Anonymousreply 107July 27, 2020 3:20 AM

Perhaps it was Billy Joe's diary, or his gay 'sexbooks' that were thrown from the bridge.

by Anonymousreply 108July 27, 2020 3:25 AM

Billy Joe working his Daisy Mays

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by Anonymousreply 109July 27, 2020 3:31 AM

Who was Daisy May?

by Anonymousreply 110July 27, 2020 3:33 AM

Was she like Gloria Vanderbilt or Antoine Bugleboy?

by Anonymousreply 111July 27, 2020 3:34 AM

If Billie Joe hadn't thrown his surfboard off the bridge he'd be sucking cock today.

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by Anonymousreply 112July 27, 2020 3:34 AM

Holy Shit!

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by Anonymousreply 113July 27, 2020 3:35 AM

Cocktaw Ridge.

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by Anonymousreply 114July 27, 2020 3:38 AM

So they made a movie and never broached the topic of what was thrown off a bridge?

That was the whole mystery of the song.

by Anonymousreply 115July 27, 2020 3:38 AM

I mentioned the doll at the start of the thread, from what I remember that’s what was thrown off the bridge. Wasn’t it in the song or the movie?

by Anonymousreply 116July 27, 2020 3:39 AM

[quote]Who was Daisy May?

R110, Daisy Mae Duke, a character from 'The Dukes of Hazzard' television series, played by Catherine Bach. The extremely short shorts she wore on the series were given her character's name - 'Daisy Maes.'

In R109's pic, Robby Benson is wearing such a pair of shorts.

by Anonymousreply 117July 27, 2020 3:39 AM

Billy Joe MacAllister first phone sex operator in Tupelo Mi.

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by Anonymousreply 118July 27, 2020 3:43 AM

R118 Was it a party line?

by Anonymousreply 119July 27, 2020 3:44 AM

Roscoe P Coltrane was an child sex trafficker, who trafficked victims to Tom Hanks and Oprah. Billy Joe was one of his many victims.

by Anonymousreply 120July 27, 2020 3:46 AM

My friends call me BJ preacher Paul.

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by Anonymousreply 121July 27, 2020 3:50 AM

Call Me By Y'all's Name

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by Anonymousreply 122July 27, 2020 3:54 AM

It looks like tomorrow is Bobbie Gentry’s birthday, she’ll be 78.

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by Anonymousreply 123July 27, 2020 3:55 AM

Bobbie gentry is that the song was based on real events and that there had been a young man that he committed suicide by jumping off the bridge but she also said she had no idea why he did it.

The song does not say what they were throwing off the bridge.

The movie shows Billie Joe accidentally dropping/throwing hey dial into the river. The doll belong to Bobbi

by Anonymousreply 124July 27, 2020 3:56 AM

I hate siri/auto correct.

Bobbie Gentry has said that the song was based on real events and that there had been a young man that had committed suicide by jumping off the bridge but she also said she had no idea why he did it.

The song does not say what they were throwing off the bridge.

The movie shows Billie Joe accidentally dropping/throwing the doll into the river. The doll belong to Bobbi

by Anonymousreply 125July 27, 2020 3:59 AM

[quote] throwing hey dial into the river

cum again, R124?

by Anonymousreply 126July 27, 2020 3:59 AM

Those jean shorts were called "Daisy Dukes" and not "Daisy Maes".

Daisy Mae was Granny's real name on The Beverly Hillbillies.

The song's narrator says that after Billy Joe's death, "And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge/And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

by Anonymousreply 127July 27, 2020 4:22 AM

I met him in Las Vegas at a video convention along with Ann Miller, Van Johnson, Elayne Boosler, Sam Jones. He was nice and next doorish.

Keanu and Alex were there too. for Bill and Ted. I didn't really have interest.

Oh yeah I met a then new to the scene Joey Stefano at the Adult portion of the convention.

Thanks foe listening to my ramble.

by Anonymousreply 128July 27, 2020 4:44 AM

^ Any dirt about Van Johnson or Ann Miller?

by Anonymousreply 129July 27, 2020 5:09 AM

Billy Joe McAllister was transformed into a hideous beast as punishment for fucking/sucking/masturbating Roscoe P. Coltrane. Only the act of heterosexual sex could free him from this curse. The night before the last petal fell from his gay little rose, he shacked up with a local village girl and was changed back to the handsome twink in the photos above. He promptly dumped the village girl and rode his horse nonstop to the Mineshaft. Some say it may have been the Ramrod or Eagle. You get the picture.

by Anonymousreply 130July 27, 2020 5:34 AM

[quote]Bobbie Gentry has said that the song was based on real events and that there had been a young man that had committed suicide by jumping off the bridge but she also said she had no idea why he did it.

I'm pretty sure she never said anything like that, [r125]. Gentry has always been very coy about anything pertaining to this song...and anyway, I've been to that bridge. It's fairly close to the water and I don't think you could kill yourself by jumping off of it.

by Anonymousreply 131July 27, 2020 9:56 AM

I'm sure it was a deep fudge packing. Nobody kills themself over a bj.

by Anonymousreply 132July 27, 2020 10:27 AM

R131 as far as I know Bobbie Gentry never publicly stated why the boy killed himself.

After last June 3rd I ordered the DVD. I’ve watched it twice along with the eight minute 55 second documentary short “ Bobbie Gentry a voice of the South“

Concerning Gentry’s knowledge of the motive for the boy’s suicide I went to Wikipedia (which is not always 100% accurate, unfortunately) and read this passage

“When Herman Raucher met Gentry in preparation for writing a novel and screenplay based on the song, she said that she had no idea why Billie Joe killed himself.“

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by Anonymousreply 133July 27, 2020 11:10 AM

I just discovered this it Wikipedia

The bridge is steps from now-ruined Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market, where 14-year-old Emmett Till allegedly whistled at the co-owner in 1955, resulting in the boy's lynching. His body was sunk in the Tallahatchie River.

by Anonymousreply 134July 27, 2020 11:13 AM

[quote] The bridge is steps from now-ruined Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market

They’re 18 miles apart.

by Anonymousreply 135July 27, 2020 2:10 PM

Does Billie Joe get called a “fag” in the movie at all?

by Anonymousreply 136July 27, 2020 2:15 PM

"I don't think abortionists would made their patients take the contents home. It wasn't a fucking fetus thrown from the bridge."

Maybe they would if the abortionist was an old woman who lived in a shack in the woods somewhere out in Hicksville. It's possible The Girl and Billy Joe asked for the remnants of their child in order to give it a decent farewell. I think it's a very plausible scenario.

by Anonymousreply 137July 27, 2020 3:06 PM

It's not like that bridge is very high.

by Anonymousreply 138July 27, 2020 3:13 PM

Can we get back to Robby’s hole?

by Anonymousreply 139July 27, 2020 4:31 PM

I think he got a doll stuck in there.

by Anonymousreply 140July 27, 2020 4:33 PM

R138 didn't Marcie Blane sing a song about it?

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by Anonymousreply 141July 27, 2020 4:57 PM

I had no idea his wife (Karla DeVito) is the woman from Paradise By The Dashboard Light. I always thought she hammed it up way too much.

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by Anonymousreply 142July 27, 2020 5:00 PM

R137

[quote] It's possible The Girl and Billy Joe asked for the remnants of their child in order to give it a decent farewell. I think it's a very plausible scenario.

A decent farewell by throwing it off a bridge? Lol. Yes, very plausible scenario

by Anonymousreply 143July 27, 2020 5:16 PM

R143 Well not seen in the movie, they also threw a headstone in the river right afterwards too.

by Anonymousreply 144July 27, 2020 5:23 PM

That song was my inspiration for my wonderful books and television series.

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by Anonymousreply 145July 27, 2020 5:49 PM

They didn't need an abortionist. The girl could have induced a miscarriage.

by Anonymousreply 146July 27, 2020 5:52 PM

Billy Joe isn't called a fag in the film. However, Bobbie Lee calls him "one of those men" or "those kinds of men." That does not sit well with BJ and likely gave him the push to kill himself. She couldn't fuck the gay out of him.

by Anonymousreply 147July 27, 2020 7:31 PM

Why didn't he just pray the gay away like I did?

by Anonymousreply 148July 27, 2020 7:33 PM

If the story took place in NYC, which bridge or building would BJ have jumped off?

by Anonymousreply 149July 27, 2020 7:34 PM

^ Brooklyn Bridge

by Anonymousreply 150July 27, 2020 7:37 PM

He wouldn't have killed himself in NYC. He would have gone to live with his older lover.

by Anonymousreply 151July 27, 2020 7:42 PM

"A decent farewell by throwing it off a bridge? Lol. Yes, very plausible scenario."

You just don't GET it, do you? They were white trash, hicks, rednecks. Saying a prayer and throwing their aborted child from the bridge probably seemed, to them, like a decent thing to do. I suppose it seemed like a ritual. It was certainly better than having the abortionist throw it in the trash for dogs to eat.

by Anonymousreply 152July 27, 2020 9:19 PM

[quote]He wouldn't have killed himself in NYC. He would have gone to live with his older lover.

After the adoption, of course.

by Anonymousreply 153July 27, 2020 9:21 PM

R114 makes me happy.

by Anonymousreply 154July 27, 2020 9:23 PM

There's a young saleswoman at a vineyard in Ithaca, NY, who looks exactly like Robbie Benson circa 1977. Same haircut, etc. I was trying to figure out who she reminded me of when I was buying the wine, and when it hit me on the way out the door I started giggling.

by Anonymousreply 155July 27, 2020 9:30 PM

Billy Joe seemed a little off in the movie. I think the girl lusted after his body, but not necessarily his mind. Didn't the older guy confess to having molested Billy Joe? Did he give any hints as to what they did?

by Anonymousreply 156July 27, 2020 10:11 PM

The girl was the original Grace Adler.

by Anonymousreply 157July 27, 2020 10:22 PM

Was Robbie's voice always that whiny?

by Anonymousreply 158July 27, 2020 10:24 PM

What grubby old fatty paid for the joy of taking Robbie cherry, I wonder? Hopefully he hired a well-endowed stunt dick for the job. Honest brides always bleed, Robbie, sorry.

by Anonymousreply 159July 27, 2020 10:39 PM

R128 Keanu and Joey Stefano under the same roof. The mind boggles.

by Anonymousreply 160July 27, 2020 10:41 PM

The fuck you going on about, r159?

by Anonymousreply 161July 27, 2020 11:08 PM

r129

No real dish on Ann or Van. They were there promoting MGM on video. Ann went to dinner with us, she was a nice lady, a little squirrely.

by Anonymousreply 162July 28, 2020 1:02 AM

R160- It was a strange experience indeed. It was my first video convention. 1/2 of the convention was regular movies and entertainment, the other 1/2 was all adult. the usual suspects were there, Ron Jeremy, I think one of the Lynn girls too. Chi Chi Larue was parading around Joey and introducing him to people. Later I saw Joey on his own and we talked a bit, nice guy. One strange thing is I saw him in Kansas City probably a year later at a club appearance and he remembered me from Vegas, or maybe he just said he did. Super nice guy, didn't seem troubled.

by Anonymousreply 163July 28, 2020 1:07 AM

In the book the girl leaves town letting everyone believe she's pregnant so Billy Joe's hetro rep will be saved. As she's leaving the sheriff tells her "I told Billy Joe it would never be the same afterwards."

by Anonymousreply 164July 28, 2020 1:07 AM

Did he jump...

OR

was he PUSHED????

by Anonymousreply 165July 28, 2020 1:30 AM

R165, his huge penis made him lose his balance.

by Anonymousreply 166July 28, 2020 1:31 AM

A tale as old as time: Billy Joe was a hot twink who loved to receive hard poundings from random Top Daddies.

by Anonymousreply 167July 28, 2020 10:00 AM

R167 No one is random in a town that small, unless he was a traveling salesman.

by Anonymousreply 168July 28, 2020 10:08 AM

Wrong. Billy Joe preferred to give. He pounded the older man until the older man split in half.

by Anonymousreply 169July 28, 2020 4:59 PM

Let's fuck the gay out of you, boy.

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by Anonymousreply 170July 28, 2020 9:36 PM

Now I'm starting to wonder if Billy Joe was giving handjobs to the guys in the dark back row of the Carroll County picture show. That was the day he put a frog down the narrator's back, maybe to "prove" he still had some interest in the gals.

by Anonymousreply 171July 29, 2020 2:25 AM

It's pretty homophobic that Billy Joe's dark secret was just a little same sex experimentation. And as trivial as it was it drove him to suicide. What a crappy movie.

by Anonymousreply 172July 29, 2020 2:41 AM

Max Baer Jr's other well-known film, Macon County Line, contains the disturbing scene in which the Sheriff's wife is raped and murdered. As the one guy is forcing her to masturbate him, he's having flashbacks of beating beaten by cops. What the fuck? Here's part of the scene, with the most graphic bits left out....

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by Anonymousreply 173July 29, 2020 2:47 AM

No thanks. I'd rather watch the scene of Billy Joe fucking.

by Anonymousreply 174July 29, 2020 3:04 AM

R163 I shared a limo with Nick in the big 80's also shared a urinal with Keanu. They had a lot in common.

by Anonymousreply 175July 29, 2020 3:35 AM

I love Green Day!

by Anonymousreply 176July 29, 2020 3:48 AM

I'm amazed how many folks watched that movie and didn't realize why Billy Jo McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge!

by Anonymousreply 177July 29, 2020 4:01 AM

[quote] His wife, Karla DeVito, is a gray-haired hag. But the marriage is obviously a good one; they've been married since 1982.

After I paid perfectly good money to see Linda Ronstadt in "The Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway, she was out that day and Karla DeVito was playing her role.

by Anonymousreply 178July 29, 2020 4:14 AM

[quote]and Karla DeVito was playing her role. —And I'm still bitter about it

Be glad it wasn't Danny Devito.

by Anonymousreply 179July 29, 2020 4:26 AM

Who will play the main roles in the inevitable reboot? I think Logan Lerman has aged out of the part or he'd be perfect.

by Anonymousreply 180July 29, 2020 4:46 AM

If it’s the porn version, I nominate Dakota Lovell.

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by Anonymousreply 181July 29, 2020 5:14 AM

Maybe the spiderman kid.

by Anonymousreply 182July 29, 2020 5:28 AM

Little Sally Draper

by Anonymousreply 183July 29, 2020 6:20 AM

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge.

by Anonymousreply 184July 29, 2020 9:29 AM

Check out Bobbie Gentry's abs.

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by Anonymousreply 185July 29, 2020 9:32 AM

I can’t tell you what a positive message this was for gay kids growing up in the 70s. Thankfully I grew up in a flat part of the country.

by Anonymousreply 186July 29, 2020 11:25 AM

R173 My God, the seventies sure loved the rape scenes! The more graphic and gratuitous the better. See also: all of those horrible Death Wish movies. Depressing and depraved.

by Anonymousreply 187July 29, 2020 4:03 PM

R186 Pardon me, but I can’t tell if you are being facetious or not?

by Anonymousreply 188July 29, 2020 4:05 PM

I'd have paid good money to have had Billy Joe sit on my face.

by Anonymousreply 189July 29, 2020 6:32 PM

Billie Joe killed himself and yet the family is critical or dismissive. It's clear from the song that the young girl was close to him, but her family is oblivious or thoughtless. The girl loses her appetite upon hearing Billie Joe committed suicide, but the family is oblivious, the father wants more biscuits.

by Anonymousreply 190July 29, 2020 6:45 PM

R189, yum.

by Anonymousreply 191July 29, 2020 8:25 PM

[R190] More "biscuits."

by Anonymousreply 192July 29, 2020 9:37 PM

I'd love a good taste of Billy Joe's "biscuits."

by Anonymousreply 193July 29, 2020 11:39 PM

Not his chitlins?

by Anonymousreply 194July 29, 2020 11:44 PM

I've posted this here before. Robby is great guy. I saw him and Karla in his semi-autobiographical musical "Open Heart" at the Cherry Lane theater in NYC. It's small place so as he was making his entrance through the audience he stepped on my foot. Saw him outside the theater after and we laughed about it. We subsequently friended each other on Facebook and still chat occasionally on there. He is really devoted to his wife Karla. Robby still looks great by the way. I wish I still looked so good. A nice man all around.

by Anonymousreply 195July 30, 2020 1:24 AM

My mom was knew Robby Benson's mom. She told me Robbie had a very serious congenital heart condition and he had been close too death several times.

by Anonymousreply 196July 30, 2020 1:43 AM

So if there was no male on male actions scenes what do the characters actually do and say for the viewer to conclude that Billy Joe nd Roscoe hooked up?

by Anonymousreply 197July 30, 2020 3:08 AM

The girl tries to fuck him but he turns her down with some lame excuse about being a filthy fucking pervert.

by Anonymousreply 198July 30, 2020 7:11 AM

Can you as Robbie what kind of sex BJ had withe old guy? Does the scene exist?

by Anonymousreply 199July 30, 2020 8:20 AM

I wonder why they changed the spelling from Billie Joe to Billy Joe.

The song is titled "Ode to Billie Joe"

The movie is titled "Ode to Billy Joe"

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by Anonymousreply 200July 30, 2020 9:54 AM

Well that helps explains why I kept remembering it as “ie” and not “y”! Isn’t Billie more used as a feminine name?

by Anonymousreply 201July 30, 2020 10:45 AM

Jesus, he spent time with Paul Newman? Are we not gonna speculate that Newman enjoyed his tight 70s twink body? I mean look at that pic on R122.

by Anonymousreply 202July 30, 2020 11:19 AM

Was Robby his hoped for costar if he was going to film the Front Runner?

by Anonymousreply 203July 30, 2020 11:23 AM

Paul was courting Richard Thomas for that role R203.....but there would have been no challenge there to get him into bed.

by Anonymousreply 204July 30, 2020 3:05 PM

[quote]I wonder why they changed the spelling from Billie Joe to Billy Joe.

"Billie" is more girly, and the character was already a closet case in the movie.

by Anonymousreply 205July 30, 2020 4:40 PM

He wasn't a closet case. His boy parts reacted in the way they were meant to and for that, he felt guilty.

by Anonymousreply 206July 30, 2020 9:52 PM

R206, do you mean his bussy?

by Anonymousreply 207July 30, 2020 9:55 PM

Until the cut scenes are made available, we won't know what parts were used.

by Anonymousreply 208July 30, 2020 10:02 PM

I've always had a fetish for boys with enormous hair helmets. Upstairs and down.

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by Anonymousreply 209July 30, 2020 11:40 PM

R200 , Well if you can believe Wikipedia: "Gentry stated that the original spelling had been a typo, this is corroborated by her original hand-written lyrics of the song."

by Anonymousreply 210August 1, 2020 12:27 AM

Here you can some of the lyrics and it's spelled Billy not Billie

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by Anonymousreply 211August 1, 2020 12:29 AM

Maybe Gentry didn't have a lick of sense either.

by Anonymousreply 212August 1, 2020 12:29 AM

I think the underlying secret here is Billie was actually a girl passing as a boy, that would explain a lot.

by Anonymousreply 213August 1, 2020 12:43 AM

McAllister? That's a Scottish name. The Scots are some fucked up people. It comes from eating sheep's brains all their lives.

by Anonymousreply 214August 1, 2020 12:49 AM

Back to the important stuff: What kind of sex did they have?

by Anonymousreply 215August 1, 2020 12:54 AM

R215, bareback buttfucking.

by Anonymousreply 216August 1, 2020 12:55 AM

R215 The kind where a man goes up into another man.

by Anonymousreply 217August 1, 2020 12:58 AM

Nah, I think the old guy probably sucked Billy's dick.

by Anonymousreply 218August 1, 2020 12:59 AM

R218, there’s no way he wouldn’t have taken his boy cherry. That was primo Robby Benson hole.

by Anonymousreply 219August 1, 2020 1:06 AM

Where was this supposed to have happened? The scene shows BJ going into a stall with a hooker. A woman.

by Anonymousreply 220August 1, 2020 1:14 AM

What a strange yet interesting thread. It really is a great song.

by Anonymousreply 221August 1, 2020 1:54 AM

Ode to Billie Joe and this song hit the airwaves around the same time when I was a little kid in the late 60s. Led me to think of the Deep South as quite a hotbed.

In the late 70s the girls used to call me Robby because I resembled Benson; alas, I never had a Billy Joe moment.

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by Anonymousreply 222August 1, 2020 2:42 AM

They did a tv show based on Harper Valley PTA. All those country songs provided made-for-tv movie hits.

by Anonymousreply 223August 1, 2020 2:46 AM

There was a movie before the series, R223, just a couple of years after the movie version of Ode to Billy Joe.

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by Anonymousreply 224August 1, 2020 2:51 AM

where is the dick sucking? i'm confused as i was in 6th grade.

by Anonymousreply 225August 1, 2020 2:52 AM

why does he have yellow skin?

by Anonymousreply 226August 1, 2020 2:53 AM

when the fuck did he explain it to her. i get the end. ugh

by Anonymousreply 227August 1, 2020 3:05 AM

Was there a movie for The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia?

by Anonymousreply 228August 1, 2020 3:11 AM

Sadly, R228...

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by Anonymousreply 229August 1, 2020 3:16 AM

[quote]Was there a movie for The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia?

Starring Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid and Mark Hamill!! A DL wet dream of casting.

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by Anonymousreply 230August 1, 2020 3:17 AM

Besides bad movies, what was the reason Kristy MacNichol disappeared from show biz, was it bipolar or schizophrenia or something? I remember Jimmy having to take care of her or something!

by Anonymousreply 231August 1, 2020 3:23 AM

[quote]what was the reason Kristy MacNichol disappeared from show biz

Hollywood doesn't go for lesbians. Look at the trouble Ellen is having. They all end up drunk and in the gutter.

by Anonymousreply 232August 1, 2020 3:29 AM

Hollywood doesn't go for booze and lesbians.

by Anonymousreply 233August 1, 2020 4:09 AM

No way would a virgin like Billy Joe allow a full grown dick to enter his hole. He'd be way too scared of being "tore up" down there. That scene would not be hot. It's Roscoe P. Coltrane, for fucks sake.

by Anonymousreply 234August 1, 2020 7:15 AM

I think they were throwing flowers off the bridge in remembrance of someone else who had died, the same way the protagonist throws flowers off the bridge in remembrance of BJ. That's what they were talking after church.

by Anonymousreply 235August 1, 2020 8:06 AM

... talking about after church.

by Anonymousreply 236August 1, 2020 8:08 AM

Ode to Billy Joel would have been a very different film.

by Anonymousreply 237August 1, 2020 9:49 AM

Some scenes from “the night the lights went out in Georgia“ were filmed about 20 miles from my house in a small town named Trenton Georgia.

by Anonymousreply 238August 1, 2020 3:33 PM

Billy Joe was one hot piece of twink ass.

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by Anonymousreply 239August 2, 2020 9:44 AM

Wasn’t the hooker a transvestite?

by Anonymousreply 240August 2, 2020 11:36 AM

That's what I always thought, R240.

by Anonymousreply 241August 3, 2020 2:15 PM

This thread is a true delight.

by Anonymousreply 242August 3, 2020 2:42 PM

R127, Granny’s name was Daisy May Moses, though it was seldom mentioned.

The more popular and familiar Daisy Mae was the voluptuous and lovesick girl in the 43-year run of the comic strip and later Broadway show and movie L’il Abner.

by Anonymousreply 243August 3, 2020 2:49 PM

The way Billy Joe said: "I've been with a man....." made me think that they had had sex not just blow jobs or jacking off......

.....in the back of the patrol car with a uniformed officer.....that was hot.

by Anonymousreply 244August 3, 2020 6:47 PM

There is no uniformed officer in this tale as old as time.

Billie Joe was full on country. He had never had sex and was likely ignorant of what happens. When he says he's been with a man, it could very well mean they just kissed or masturbated together. Personally, if I was Bobbie Lee, I would have demanded details from both BJ and fucking Roscoe P. Coltrane.

by Anonymousreply 245August 3, 2020 8:57 PM

I let Billy Joe blow me on that bridge. That boy had a purty mouth, fo' sure.

by Anonymousreply 246August 3, 2020 9:16 PM

Robby’s pink hole was plundered and used.

by Anonymousreply 247August 3, 2020 10:22 PM

Why do you think we call it corn holing?

by Anonymousreply 248August 3, 2020 10:36 PM

R234, you ought to look at "Roscoe" when he was younger. Damn, he was hot. He did a couple of Andy Griffith shows, Perry Masons, etc, where he was smokin'!

by Anonymousreply 249August 5, 2020 12:52 AM

Wasn't he fat and missing teeth in the movie?

by Anonymousreply 250August 5, 2020 1:01 AM

R250, the only thing fat in the movie was my twink cock.

by Anonymousreply 251August 5, 2020 1:03 AM

Young James Best was pretty hot in that dirty Southern white boy way. He was still handsome in Ode, though about a biscuit or two from morphing into Roscoe.

I haven’t watched the movie in forever, but I remember BJ running off after the jamboree. BL found him and that’s when he admitted to her that he’d been with a man.

The flashback scene was purposely confusing due to the delicate natures of the day, but I think drunken BJ thought he’d dabble with a budget whore in the hooker pavilion but ended up with our man Roscoe (and he liked it!). My memory is fuzzy here, because I’ve probably watched too many heavily cut versions, but Dewey might have been wearing a robe or, god love him, a caftan. My guess is he saw his chance and set up a glory hole-like situation to sample the menfolk of the town, but took it further when he realized how fucked up BJ was.

BJ should have packed his bags for Atlanta like any good gay boy from the South, but decided to take his own life.

Later on, Dewey runs into BL as she’s leaving town. He admits that it was him in the tent and she shouldn’t leave when he was the one who was to blame. BL says she’s still leaving so everyone thinks BJ knocked her up and killed himself because of it. I guess she thought that was more heroic, though I thought he still seemed like a crybaby little shit either way. The whole town assumed she was pregnant, anyhow, so she saved Dewey’s ass.

I wonder what Dewey did for Jamboree the next year?

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by Anonymousreply 252August 6, 2020 7:54 AM

Not to be picayune but it's just "Rosco." Rosco Purvis Coltrane.

by Anonymousreply 253August 6, 2020 8:34 AM

I hate that I also know his middle name is Purvis, r253.

by Anonymousreply 254August 6, 2020 9:01 AM

I'm really trying to avoid having to watch the entire movie but this thread is getting me more and more confused about what actually happened. What's a picayune?

by Anonymousreply 255August 6, 2020 9:19 AM

[R254] I have mixed feelings over knowing his dog's name was Flash.

by Anonymousreply 256August 6, 2020 1:38 PM

James Best was a cousin to the Everly Brothers......but I may have mentioned that before.....

by Anonymousreply 257August 6, 2020 3:05 PM

Glynnis O’Connor did another movie in which she played a disfigured woman who had her pussy lips transplanted to her face. Can’t watch any of her movies without staring at her lips

by Anonymousreply 258August 6, 2020 3:20 PM

I had no idea Glynnis and Robby were in another movie called Jeremy (1973) and he sings!

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by Anonymousreply 259August 6, 2020 3:50 PM

Glynnis will always be known as the quintessential Margo Hughes on "As the World Turns".

by Anonymousreply 260August 7, 2020 1:07 AM

Oh yeah? And what will Robbie always be known as?

by Anonymousreply 261August 7, 2020 1:57 AM

Is it too late for a sequel?

by Anonymousreply 262August 7, 2020 2:47 AM

He died. What would a sequel look like exactly?

by Anonymousreply 263August 7, 2020 3:06 AM
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by Anonymousreply 264August 7, 2020 5:51 AM

Um, BJ comes back as a swamp monster to rape all the town men?

by Anonymousreply 265August 13, 2020 2:35 AM

R265, damnit! Just when I thought this twink-raping thread was over you suck us back in.

by Anonymousreply 266August 13, 2020 2:37 AM

My apologies. I was getting tired of the million threads on the royal family.

by Anonymousreply 267August 13, 2020 2:47 AM

Did any royal twinks have sex with unscrupulous law enforcement officers and go off the deep end?

by Anonymousreply 268August 13, 2020 2:52 AM

Why do you think Harry is so fucked up.

by Anonymousreply 269August 13, 2020 2:56 AM

Who could play the male leads in the porn version?

by Anonymousreply 270August 13, 2020 9:58 AM

R270 A few years ago Hunter Page would have been perfect during his innocent southern boy twink who’s ripe for the plucking peek.

by Anonymousreply 271August 13, 2020 11:58 AM

Biggest question, will Billy Joe be cut or uncut?

by Anonymousreply 272August 13, 2020 12:52 PM

A 1960s hick town in Mississippi? Of course he was uncut.

by Anonymousreply 273August 13, 2020 1:11 PM

R273, I was born in a hick town in the South in the 60s and I’m circumcised, as was pretty much everyone around me.

by Anonymousreply 274August 13, 2020 1:27 PM

The film ode to Billy Joe is set in 1953 and at that time Billy had already been out of high school at least one year.

So Billy was born about 1934.

by Anonymousreply 275August 13, 2020 1:33 PM

Did Billy Joe actually have real feelings or desire for Bobbie Lee?

by Anonymousreply 276August 13, 2020 2:40 PM

R276 I think he did

by Anonymousreply 277August 13, 2020 2:42 PM

He may have been bisexual, but it still doesn't look good that a much older man took advantage of a drunk Billy Joe. Being that drunk, he would not have been able to give his consent. His boss should have been thrown in jail.

by Anonymousreply 278August 13, 2020 5:29 PM

[quote]I was molested, I didn't jump off a bridge FFS!

Your career did, Lorna.

by Anonymousreply 279August 13, 2020 6:33 PM

Bullshit! Did you miss a little blockbuster called "Grease 2?"

by Anonymousreply 280August 13, 2020 6:37 PM

Don't worry Lorna. I like the shapes that aren't stars.

by Anonymousreply 281August 13, 2020 6:45 PM

I'm glad I don't share their same mother.

by Anonymousreply 282August 13, 2020 6:50 PM

I think Billy Joe was just Frat Drunk [I don't remember a thing about last night, bro] and not really drunk.....he was presenting his hole like the slut he is....no wonder Fat Cop tagged it. It was free and its owner was more than willing.

Kinda like fishing at midnight......

by Anonymousreply 283August 13, 2020 7:00 PM

Where did you get that the rapist was a cop? Wasn't he the owner of the lumber place BJ worked at? He had likely been eyeing Billy Joe for some time. He waited until the perfect moment to set his plan in motion. Get the twink drunk, make him think he is going to get pussy, then jump him and take what you think you are entitled to.

by Anonymousreply 284August 13, 2020 7:09 PM

R284, he played the sheriff in The Dukes of Hazzard.

by Anonymousreply 285August 13, 2020 7:28 PM

For awhile there in the late Sixties-early Seventies, they were marketing a men's fragrance called Eau de Billy Joe.

by Anonymousreply 286August 17, 2020 6:04 PM

[quote]they were marketing a men's fragrance called Eau de Billy Joe.

I thought I smelled gin and regret.

by Anonymousreply 287August 17, 2020 6:52 PM

Glynnis O'Connor and Robby Benson were an "item" at one time, which I guess is why they were in several productions together. They certainly seemed to complement each other well. I thought they were perfect ad George and Emily in a production of "Our Town" that was shown on PBS. It also starred Ned Beatty, Sada Thompson, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ronnie Cox and Hal Holbrook (who was also perfect in his role) as The Stage Manager.

by Anonymousreply 288August 17, 2020 10:42 PM

I envy Glynnis her access to Robby’s pole and hole.

by Anonymousreply 289August 17, 2020 10:46 PM

R288 I had to turn that off when Sada (Sad Sack) Thompson started the ritual miming of kneeding the bread.

She looked like she was doing the hand jive.

by Anonymousreply 290August 17, 2020 11:39 PM

Ned Beatty? Wasn't he the guy who got butt fucked by the hillbilly in Deliverance? His character has that in common with Robbie's character. Are we playing six degrees of buttfucking?

by Anonymousreply 291August 18, 2020 10:35 PM

I'm sorry, have we decided whether it was anal. oral, etc?

by Anonymousreply 292August 18, 2020 10:36 PM

The thing Billy Joe dropped off the bridge was a mouthful of cum! WHORE!

by Anonymousreply 293August 18, 2020 10:37 PM

R292, he was plundered, defiled, deflowered.

Buttfucked.

by Anonymousreply 294August 18, 2020 10:39 PM

Billy Joe was a virgin. He would not have swallowed that nasty man's load. His country ass would be afraid of getting pregnant.

by Anonymousreply 295August 18, 2020 10:46 PM

Ryan Murphy will do the reboot and cast Billy Porter as Billy Joe with Patti Lupone as the boss who takes advantage of and rapes Billy Joe. BJ kills himself because he fears he is now hetero. Billy Porter will perform a sad song right before he jumps to his death.

by Anonymousreply 296August 19, 2020 4:02 PM

If you're looking for some jelly, in the pantry, get you some.

And mama said she heard from Mrs. Jones, Billy Joe was leaking cum.

Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge

And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

by Anonymousreply 297August 19, 2020 4:14 PM

You couldn't be bothered to do the whole fucking song?

by Anonymousreply 298August 19, 2020 9:55 PM

R18 I agree, I always dreamed of covering him in an endless stream of my teenage jizz.

by Anonymousreply 299August 19, 2020 10:02 PM

[quote]You couldn't be bothered to do the whole fucking song?

No. I couldn't even be bothered to make the small part I did scan.

I have things to do.

by Anonymousreply 300August 19, 2020 10:08 PM

R32 I bet his hole was absolutely divine. Pristine and pure.

by Anonymousreply 301August 19, 2020 10:08 PM

Not at all. Billy Joe was a peanut butter bottom.

by Anonymousreply 302August 21, 2020 3:33 AM

Miss Nancy Wilson had a superb rendition.

by Anonymousreply 303August 23, 2020 8:55 AM

Correction, Miss Nancy Wilson had a superb rendition, linked.

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by Anonymousreply 304August 23, 2020 8:55 AM

^^^ Cultural appropriation.

by Anonymousreply 305August 23, 2020 10:15 AM

Fuck this thread for not having a survey to decide what kind of sex they had in the hooker stalls.

by Anonymousreply 306August 24, 2020 4:35 AM

A southern boy named Billy Clinton said a blow job don't count as sex.....so they had to have the sticking in kind.....

by Anonymousreply 307August 24, 2020 3:48 PM

The theme song is one of best pieces of music ever written and performed. Bobbi Gentry was exceptionally!

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by Anonymousreply 308August 24, 2020 3:54 PM

I wonder if it was controversial for Robbie to take this role. Or if the movie itself was deemed controversial at the time. Does anyone remember if there was a disclaimer before the movie?

by Anonymousreply 309August 24, 2020 9:13 PM

No disclaimers. There is a statement that the movie was filmed on location as described in the song. That was a good decision, as the movie doesn't look like California, as so many do.

The 15 year old girl talked like Blanche DuBois. Once you get accustomed to the dialogue, though, it becomes part of the fabric of the film.

by Anonymousreply 310August 28, 2020 2:15 PM

The whole hooker warehouse scene was disturbing. Billy Joe looked terrified at having to entertain the ladies.

by Anonymousreply 311August 29, 2020 2:06 AM

i think that's the sequence: sometime off camera and earlier, BJ and Rosco did the nasty.

BJ tries to fuck a hooker at the popup whorehouse, but realizes that it won't work. he doesn't want to fuck women.

he used to think he was in love with BL, but it was just childhood friendship. she tries to have sex with him which he can't complete, and he realizes he doesn't have a future in that town. too poor and hopeless to get out, to young to see any other options. he is just a working class kid in a sawmill, after all.

because she is a dreamer which expands her range of possibilities (and maybe a striver--outhouses aren't good enough for her), the girl then takes off. she doesn't think that it matters what the town thinks of her, because they already think she is on the road to slut-dom, but she did care about BL and tries to salvage his rep. she doesn't have a future in that town either, but she knows she has to get out.

sounds poetic. doesn't sound like it reflects the song very well, though because the song is skeletal in meaning. could be any kind of doomed love affair.

by Anonymousreply 312August 29, 2020 2:19 AM

The kid had options. He could have married Bobbie Lee while continuing to fuck guys in secret. I seriously doubt it was love between Rosco and BJ. He didn't have to jump.

What makes you think they fucked before the hooker free for all?

by Anonymousreply 313August 29, 2020 2:49 AM
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