THRILLVILLE: Will "the Thrill" Viharo's weird, wild world of Pulp Fiction, B Movies, & the Lounge Lizard Lifestyle.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Faster Pussycat, Thrill! Thrill!: A Tiki Toast to Tura
With Suz and Lee: Eat your heart out, Russ Meyer
With Pam and her Tura shrine
Lee as Tura/Varla: scary-sexy
The evening of Monday, February 7, I hosted an "emergency" Forbidden Thrills movie nite at Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda, featuring a torrid torrent of tropical tributes to my late friend, TURA SATANA, who passed away this past Friday, February 4. Our master mixologist/manager Suzanne Long created a special memorial cocktail, "Varla's Blood": strong, sensuous and spicy like its namesake (Tura's character in Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!), and our sexy server Lee Williams went all-out with an incredibly accurate Varla wig and costume, creating an eerily similar, voluptuous visage. Both these buxom beauties did Tura's memory some juicy justice. A first time FI patron, PamMoore, came from San Leandro (Russ Meyer's birthplace!) and brought her Tura shrine with her, adding the perfect touch to the film festivities. Here's to Tura, cheers and aloha, pussycat. Read my Examiner article about Tura.
