Dog Bytes ALICE GOODBODY (Sharon Kelly) learns that the old showbiz adage “Break a leg!” can be applied to other body parts too.


Alice


Goodbody’s History of Hereafter


ALICE GOODBODY aka GOSH!


1974, Code Red, $19.98, 81m 32s, DVD By John Charles


Voluptuous redhead Sharon Kelly has the title role in this showbiz sex farce as a starstruck (and not very bright) waitress who finds that breaking into the mov- ies means spending a lot of time on her back... and not just in the obvious way. Repeatedly injured on the set of Massive Pictures’ would-be musical epic “THE WORLD OF JULIUS CAESAR,” Alice finds the size of her role increas- ing with each black eye and frac- tured limb, providing that she is willing to sleep with half of the crew and Massive president Manny Spearman (Arem Fisher).


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The humor is pretty one-note (you’ve never seen so many oral sex gags in an R-rated movie) and Joe Dante and Allan Arkush’s HOLLYWOOD BOU- LEVARD would do a better job of mining laughs from this basic premise, but Kelly (a Harry Novak regular who would eventually segue into hardcore porn under the name Colleen Brennan) is appealingly daffy and the action behind and in front of the cam- eras on the Julius Caesar produc- tion (a spoof of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR with alleged numbers like “Julius Caesar, Crowd Pleaser”) generates a few smiles. Principal among the supporting players is ubiquitous character actor George “Buck” Flower (billed as “C.D. LaFleure” to evade SAG) as the production’s voyeuristic slob of

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