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Cocktails and Capers: Cult Cinema, Cocktails, Crime, & Cool

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I'm on Diabolique, writing about the swingin' 1965 British film THE PLEASURE GIRLS and it's strange relation to a famous British scandal.

Read it: One Slow Descent into Respectability: Prostitutes, Profumo, and the Pleasure Girls

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