Talk:Valley of the Dolls (novel)

Wot, no cult?

Why was this removed from "Cult films"?

What are dolls?

my apologies, could you elaborate on what dolls means in this article? or make it more readily apparent if it is in there already? thanks

"Doll" is also regarded in some English speaking cultures as a slang term for "woman"

Needs work

I guess I will have to do some work on this article. There's enough material for two articles, one on the book, and another on the movie. Sad to see it's been so neglected. Jeffpw 18:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Remake

Since we seem to be in an edit war with a new user, I Googled(tm) this and found that Ms. Thomas has been trying to get this film made for about nine years now, with various proposed stars. The only current source is the Hollywood.com entry which notes multiple writers for new scripts and rewrites, and Ms. Knowles. Perhaps her name will help get the thing made this time, or maybe in fact Ms. Garner is the new proposed star, but I think better for Wikipedia would be to just kill all reference to this remake until they actually start shooting.

Likewise the immediately preceding reference to Ms. Conley which, if it belongs anywhere, belongs in the article on her.

I'm outta here. Good luck! --Wfaxon 23:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree completely, Wfaxon. If it has not already been deleted from the article, I will delete it now. Jeffpw 09:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

"Dolls"

To those who wonder, the term refers to a slang usage for barbituates. "Downers" may be more familiar as a slang for the same thing.JBDay 15:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

• It would be nice to have that information in the article. Never reading the book, and reading the plot in this article, had me confused what a doll actually was. 151.197.41.173 02:54, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Split article

There was enough material for two separate articles, so I split the film info off into Valley of the Dolls (film). -- Grandpafootsoldier 19:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

"Original book cover" art is not the original

The photo you have captioned as "Original book cover" is from a later printing (probably a paperback edition.) The actual original first edition of Valley of the Dolls looks like this:

http://www.firsteditionpoints.com/BookDetail.php/ValleyOfTheDolls

It's a paperback that obviously came out after the movie. It is certainly not the original book cover. --Smirkboy 13:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, no. That's not a paperback book cover. It's an audio book cover. Doesn't anyone have a picture of the bestselling novel of the Sixties?

Quotes

I have removed this section: ==Quotes== American ska-punk-rock band [[Sublime]] used a quote from ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'' in their song "[[Smoke Two Joints]]": "She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male and the other two, well, the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there. And furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes--Reefers."

... because it refers to "Beyond TVOTD", which is a different movie. Plus I doubt that this information is relevant. Maikel (talk) 11:36, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Valley?

Now that the "dolls" conundrum is solved, what's meant by the valley? I presume it's LA valley, right? Maikel (talk) 11:53, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Valley of The Dolls. Where is the Valley?

'Dolls' are slang for downers and the 'Valley' of the Dolls is the most effecient and rapid way of admistering them i.e in the back passage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EGGIE2 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Jennifer's Mother

Jennifer's character makes mention that her mother's collect calls come from Milwaukee, not Ohio, as was previously noted in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.60.92.194 (talk) 03:37, 22 June 2009 (UTC)