Today in Hooksexup's Film Issue: Joey Rubin interviews writer Joseph Lanza on his Ken Russell biography, Phallic Frenzy:
I begin the book with two traumas — he calls them traumas — that he had in his youth. One was when he was about eight years old and he went to see this movie about the Loch Ness monster. He saw this horrifying monster [which, to him, looked like] a penis. Then, he was about thirteen when he went to see Walt Disney's Pinocchio. He talks about watching Pinocchio's nose grow, and what he calls his "little willy" growing, but there's also a hand next to him groping it — an older gent — and that also terrified him, and he ran from the cinema.