I picture the person who wrote this news bite sitting at a dinner table, gleefully delivering what he thinks is a rather witty introduction:
A new television reality show invites porn stars to test their serious acting abilities in London's theater district, raising the question: Debbie can do Dallas, but can she take on Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard?"
And while he's delivering the next couple paragraphs, he notices the blank looks on his audience's faces, and interrupts himself for a moment.
Ahem.
"Debbie Does Dallas" was a 1978 porn film about the misadventures of a young woman who becomes a cheerleader for a Texas football team.
The other dinner guests politely respond:
"Oh, yes of course. 'Debbie can do Dallas', right. Ha".
With considerably less enthusiasm, reporter finishes his story (hoping he doesn't have to explain that My Fair Lady was Lerner and Lowe's musical adaptation of G.B. Shaw's Pygmalion), and picks desultorily at his cheesecake.
By the by, "The Churning of the Cream" is a sexual position in the Kama Sutra, a Tantric Yoga text written sometime between the first and sixth centuries BCE...
Posted by monk at 28.04.06 10:18