European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Briggs rigs show to drive Over Linda Blair by Vernon Scott up Hollywood reporter july is Linda Blair month on the late night Joe Bob Briggs drive in theater show on the movie Channel stateside. The texan plays a Good of boy in cow boy hat. Western shirt and Bolo tic with a drawl As authentic As a Pitchfork in manure. A and he broadcasts some of the worst movies Ever to have escaped Hollywood. Briggs uses putdown wit in Deadpan Praise of badly made poorly acted horror pictures ridiculous Sci i. Women in prison and other exploitation flicks. Briggs column runs regularly on Page 17 of this Magazine he is adept at nudge in the ribs cuteness at the expense of people unaware of the High Jinks. It s corny. It s nostalgic. And it can be cruel. Briggs is a Road company David Letterman. The late night master of the cheap shot belittling guests with veiled sarcasm delivered with wide eyed innocence. Letterman in league with his studio audience encouraging unsuspecting guests to make fools of themselves succeeded adroitly with to Derek a few years ago. But Shirley Maclaine and Cher a a couple of highly intelligent women a managed at different times on the show to shoot Letterman Down in flames with pungent observations about his tactics. A Briggs is a neanderthal compared with Letterman. But his innocence when delivering cheap shots is just As convincing because of the hayseed act. Brutally. Briggs says of Blair Quot we re tired of this great woman being ignored year alter year by the motion picture Academy. For one entire month we intend to celebrate the new Queen of the drive in a Queen  get it folks Good clean fun. Nudge nudge. Wink Wink. Few actresses have made worse pictures than Blair who in 1973 at age 12 co starred in the landmark horror film the exorcist. Since then it has been mostly downhill for Blair. Her credits include the heretic. Wild horse hunk. Roller Boogie. Hell night. Heined heat. In huge streets. Night patrol. Us huge Island. Night Oree and silent assassins. She frequently is cast As a victim of brutality or a woman in peril. So what could be More cynical than a retrospective of her dreadful movies anyone appearing in that Many losers might be too naive to understand she is lampooning herself. But Here she is appearing As a guest on the show and discussing four of her films red Henl. Bedroom eyes ii repossessed and ., Blue and the Bun. Is she in on the joke a when Joe Bob asked me to do some interviews and comedy sketches with him i agreed Quot Blair said in an interview. �?o1 thought it could be a blast. They Tell me the Channel gets a big response from my movies whether i liked them or  but Why Are they showing some of her worst pictures _ Quot i thought doing the show was pretty nifty and neat a she said. A i worked with some Good people % 7d it % in those films. Leslie Nielsen in repossessed. It w As a spoof of the exorcist. I did bedroom eyes ii with wings i Lusser and  Blue und the Bun with David i Hasselhoff. "1 made red heat in Austria and i did no to like any part of it. J dismissed that aggravating movie. It was harsh and 1 broke my leg when we were making it a when pm in . I get my nails done by a vietnamese girl who saw red heat. She said it made her appreciate the . When she tried to return to Vietnam hey took her passport and harassed her before sending her Back. So maybe red heat had something to  Blair thinks Joe Boh could have chosen Quot better Linda Blair films. Quot altogether in be made about 23 pictures Quot she said with a touch of Pride. A some i m not so crazy about. I never signed for a picture i did no to like but the tables would amp turn and the movie would come out to be something  Linda Blair has made about 25 pictures. Blair Heads for crash ending to a dance number during filming of holler Boogie in 1979