Caster Foundation, a not-for-profit from which proceeds will benefit needy artists and musicians. She plans to publish her memoirs, but will first found the Cynthia P. The film has received raves worldwide and screened as an official selection at 17 festivals, including the Seattle Underground Film Festival, CMJ Film Fest, the Leeds, UK International Film Festival and the NoDance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.Ĭynthia is delighted with the film and the recognition it has garnered. Every castee of note is interviewed, excepting Hendrix. We observe Cynthia pitching 5ive Style guitarist Bill Dolan at her first gallery show casting Demolition Doll Rods guitarist Danny Doll Rod and litigating with former Frank Zappa manager Herb Cohen, who held her collection captive for ten years. The film is an insightful, often hilarious portrait of a woman who has lived according to her muse. Villines ended up with an estimated 150 to 200 hours of footage, which she edited into the 97-minute Plaster Caster. "They couldn't have come along at a better time," she says, "because it was two of the craziest years of plaster casting's history."Īnd how. "She was really nervous and shy," says Villines, "but finally she blurted it out." Denison graciously declined, but Villines, intrigued at the legendary groupie's shyness about recruiting "cast-idates" even after 30 years, rang her up later and made a proposition of her own: would she care to be the subject of a documentary? Cynthia agreed. Cynthia was there to ask Villines' then-boyfriend, Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, to pose. The filmmaker met Cynthia at Crash Palace, the Chicago club where Courtney Love first met Kurt Cobain. Her deeds have been immortalized in song (KISS' "Plaster Caster," a failed bid by Gene Simmons to enter the fraternity.CPC chooses only musicians and artists who move her) and celluloid Jessica Villines' documentary, Plaster Caster. has been casting breasts since 2000, beginning with L7 vocalist/guitarist Suzi Gardner). Today, such rock luminaries as ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist/spoken word artist Jello Biafra, Mekons/Waco Brothers frontman Jon Langford, Revolting Cocks vocalist Chris Connelley, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer and latest subject, showtuney indie rocker Bobby Conn are among the 70-plus plaster penises, as well as a number of women (Cynthia P.C. Hendrix readily submitted and from there, Cynthia Plaster Caster's legend and collection grew. The first, and forever the most famous, cast would come two years later when the Jimi Hendrix Experience rolled through Chicago. She didn't induct the first rock and roll member that night.Lindsay balked.but did lose her virginity. It was double standard."Įven so, the burgeoning sexual revolution enabled it, and when Cynthia was charged with casting "something solid" in a college art class, it became the perfect backdrop for her fabled creative quest.įriends Joel Coplon and Al Hernandez served as test subjects before shy Cynthia approached Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders. ![]() "The groupies were choosing multiple partners just like the guys in bands. She believes it was Peter Noone she first heard use the term negatively, likely because he was miffed ladies were acting as sexually sovereign as he and other rock stars. I live two blocks away from the Rock and Roll Hotel." But I looked it up in the Random House Dictionary and it says it's a young girl who follows bands. ![]() Contemplating the ugliest and easiest connotation of the word."slutty".she makes a case: "I don't think there's anything strange or dark about desiring men that are talented, good lookin', frequently witty and fun to be with on a casual basis. The 55-year-old self-described groupie, whose claim to fame is creating plaster casts of rock stars' penises, genuinely wants to know what she's been calling herself for the past 30 years. Of Plaster and Semantics ( Cynthia Plaster Caster)Ĭynthia Plaster Caster poses the question only somewhat rhetorically.
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