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Archive for February 11th, 2009

Where’s Tom And Crow When You Need ‘Em?

Posted by scott on February 11th, 2009

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Art imitates life.  But life imitates bad art.

Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash

In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.

untamedyouth2.jpg And as serious students of crappy cinema know, this is the exact plot of the 1957 B-movie Untamed Youth, which was featured in the first season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.  The only difference seems to be that the teens involved were not forced to pick cotton, and did not respond by dancing around the plantation bunkhouse singing “Oobala Baby” in their underwear, like Mamie Van Doren.  Mores the pity.