Slept a little later than usual, but it felt good and I recommend it to everyone. Lovely to wake up to so many excellent postings. I feel that soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.
The Boy Friend was completely lambasted by critics on its original release, and completely ignored by audiences. It had wretched box office (BO, in Internet lingo) and was gone in just under two weeks. I saw it five times in one week, all at the Picwood Theater in the Wood of West and loved it every single time. MGM had cut the thing by ten or fifteen minutes, but I finally saw the uncut version when the film was released on laserdisc. Now people are beginning to understand how good the film really was. The choreography (credited to several people) is wonderful, Russell's direction is actually breathtaking at times, Twiggy is entirely adorable, the rest of the cast shines but, for me, the real star of the film are the settings by our very own Tony Walton. They are beyond brilliant.