Bela Lugosi, John Carradine and Tor Johnson. via William Forsche
Blaz Porenta
The ‘Sex’ issue contains an interview with Jimmy Savile conducted in 1969, a little of which I’d like to reproduce here.
Q. Are you moral?
A. I would say that I am moral during the day, and even higherly moral during the evening but of course we won’t say anything about the night time, because that is when all real wolves like myself rise from the darkness and leap about causing chaos left and right.
Q. What do you feel most strongly about?
A. Girls. I feel that they don’t realise that I am here and available. When I see lovely young ladies walking about that don’t take advantage of me, I think they are missing a great thing in their lives. This is why I keep getting my face slapped. Other than that I feel most strongly about getting back to nature, and I’m all for getting back to nature and my case comes up next Thursday.
”Now the interesting thing about this statue, erected by British Authorities in 1751, is that it betrays many of the characteristics statues of this type are supposed to adhere to. Iustitia, in representing Justice, is supposed to be blindfolded- Blind to discrimination. Here, her eyes are unbound. Her scales, are always to be in working order and perfectly level; Innocent until proven guilty- Here, they always tilt in one way; Funnily enough, they lean to the side of the gate that Revenue, and Dublin’s Tax Office is situated. Her sword, meant to be pointing downwards is held provocatively upright and she looks at it with a smile on her face.
