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I'm going to recommend the documentary about Eartha Kitt again, "Cat Woman vs The White House". The link is in the movie post. Done by The New Yorker, it is quite good(and less than 12 minutes), and Eartha Kitt is a badass.

"She discovered there was a C.I.A. dossier on her that said she had "a vile tongue" and was a "Sadistic nymphomaniac."

Her response: "What has that got to do with the C.I.A. if I was."

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During early development, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett ran into a writing impasse while trying to work out how the alien would get aboard the ship. Shussett came up with the idea "the alien fucks one of them", which was eventually developed into the face hugger concept. This method of reproduction via implantation was deliberately intended to invoke images of male rape and impregnation, so both writers were adamant that the face hugger victim be a man: firstly, because they wanted to avoid the horror cliché of women being depicted as the easy first target; secondly, because they felt that making a female the casualty of a symbolic rape felt inappropriate; and thirdly, to make the male viewers feel more uncomfortable with this reversal of gender conventions.

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