Back in November, 1970; I went to an indoor aquatic center & out of the parking lot was a 1959 Edsel Corsair, Hardtop Coupe that was mostly red with a white roof and a spear-type side trim. I entered the indoor aquatic center and went inside an observation room where you could see an underwater view of the diving pool & what I saw for the first time was a salt/pepper couple. The girl was black and the guy was white and looked like John Neilson & Brenda Sykes' stunt doubles & had their swimwear on & diving gear doing a PG version of "Work with me, Annie ala Esther Williams" & this was my second time seen this live performance & "Wayne" had on a black swimwear & "Sheila" had a bright yellow bikini & had the diving gear on & I sat in the observation room as I did as a 5 year old in 1960 watching my sitter & her letterman beau perform it in front of me. In 1960, I was invited to attend their performance & in 1970, I was Del Shannon's "Stranger In Town" for the second performance with the stunt doubles of Sheila & Wayne. And never seen a white guy with a black girl live until 1970 & I was 15 at the time & did a good performance & like The Vietcong, I managed to slip in and out of the aquatic center & saw the couple head for the 1959 Edsel Corsair & put their gear in the trunk of the car & it turns out that "Sheila" was the "owner" of the 1959 Edsel, because she was the driver while her swimming partner rode shotgun. It was a PG performance because the couple kept their swimwear on intact. Then a year later, at a downtown Theatre the movie, "Honky" was played & bypassed it because I was not assigned to write the review on this movie, but in 1973, I was assigned to review the movie to my group & told them the movie wasn't good because three Birmingham church bombers had their way with "Sheila" and needed a visit from Tojo Brown & his Samuari Sword & stated had they allowed an "Esther Williams type scene" where Brenda & John do their aquatic ballet & underwater love scene instead of being stoned on pot while they have there first act, this movie would make it. However there was another inter-racial Esther Williams love scene that made sense this time is was a bearded hero with a black T-shirt with a white thunderbolt on it & a black girl/street fighter who drove a 1959 Edsel Corsair which was red & white. When they did it as well as a ballroom scene where the couple did a "Prom Night" for two in their regular attire it was okay. The guy in that story was an incarnation of "King Arthur" and the black girl was supposed to be The Lady of The Lake & still was one in the indoor aquatic center & like Sheila, the street fighter which we will call "Curley" was Killed in Action, but her guy accepted his role & took on the bad guys & won & later in a follow up meet his future bride & showed that Curley did not die in vain for her efforts & came in handy when the bad guys brought in her impostor & knew well that Curley only puts out in the pool & not in the stairwell of the building slated as Ground Zero. Now if the hack writers who did "Honky" threw a good Esther Williams type love scene in the aquatic center it would be easy to see the story. From Marcus Brainard
Review of Honky
