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Machine Gun Heather first posed for Jack Corbett
and Xtreme Magazine with Jack's Colt Python 357 magnum. Forunately Krazy
Ted accompanied Jack and Dirty Heather during the shoot.
Because that night the trio enjoyed a few drinks at Foxes and Hounds at
the Cheshire Inn in Saint Louis. With the exception of several
strip clubs on the East side,
Foxes and Hounds had become one of Jack's
favorite watering holes.
Long ago his sister had her wedding reception at
the Cheshire Inn. While even before that as a student at the
Saint
Louis Priory, Jack had thoroughly enjoyed the inn's cheese rarebits.
So there was that very rare English connection between Jack and the
Cheshire Inn. For one thing, the Saint Louis Priory was an English
college preparatory school that a group of Benedician monks started up
in Saint Louis. Jack had also bicycled all over England and
Scotland pedaling a bicycle he head rented in Liverpool for 6 weeks.
That was in 1964 when he was just 17. His tour group stayed in
youth hostels for the most part.
Part 2 More about Dirty Heather and
the birth of SPEW
Kevin Kline, who would later
become a famous movie actor was in most of Jack's classes. But by the time
Jack took Heather and Krazy Ted to Foxes and Hounds Jack had already written and
published his first book,
Death on the Wild
Side. When Jack read a four page story in the
Saint Louis Post dispatch about Mark Pullam, the bartender-writer, he just had
to go to Foxes and Hounds to meet Mark.
It was a very special day when Jack first shot
Heather in his Saint Louis East side apartment posing with his Colt Python.
Afterwards he took Krazy Ted and Heather to Shaw's Botanical Garden. Then
that evening he took them to Foxes and Hounds over at the Cheshire.
Foxes and Hounds resembled an English pub with its
roaring fireplace and pictures adorning its walls of English fox hunts.
The atmosphere was perfect for Krazy Ted, Heather and Jack. But the best
part of the evening was the discussions they had with Mark Pullam. Who
provided them with the special mixed drinks and ales he concocted.
Then Jack asked Mark what name he should give Heather
for his upcoming gun article for Xtreme featuring her with his pristine Colt
Python.
When suddenly Krazy Ted blurted out, "Dirty Heather."
Which totally cracked Jack and Heather up. "That's perfect, Jack replied.
:Dirty Heather as in Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood."
"I think that's up to Heather, said Mark. "She
might not like that name and find it insulting."
But Heather loved it straight off. And that
night became Dirty Heather. And not just for Jack's Xtreme magazine
article, "Dirty Heather and the Colt Python", Because months later she
would accompany Jack to Big Daddy's Cabaret in Missouri to once again play Dirty
Heather in an American champion ship wrestling match.
The wrestling match had been contrived out of the
fertile mind of Big Daddy, one of Big Daddy's Cabaret's two owners. The
match was between Killer Kloey, Big Daddy's star female wrestler. And
Dirty Heather the state of Iowa's female wrestling champion. It was
all to be a big hoax of course. Just like Big Daddy's hot oil wrestling
matches he was holding nearly every week between his strippers and servicemen
out of Fort Leonard Wood. But the hot oil wrestling match between Iowa's
champion and Missouri's Killer Kloey would not have happened had it not been for
the partnership between Big Daddy and Big Mike.
BIg Mike was the young bigger than life general
manager of Iowa's Lumberyard. A strip club in Desmoines Iowa. But Big Mike
and Big Daddy would never have met had it not been for the Exotic Dancer
convention in Las Vegas. Where Jack introduced Big Daddy to Mike. By
this time Jack had done another photo shoot of Heather posing with the Browning
30 calibar machine gun. Which he published in Xtreme. Once again
Karzy Ted played a vital part in the photo shoot posing as a Nazi World War II
soldier.
The stage was set for what later would become
SPEW. Sexy Professional Exotic Wrestling. All
the right ingredients were in place. With the cast assembling at Big Daddy's Cabaret, a strip club just
3 miles from a military base. Leah Layne who had been crowned Miss
Nude Illinois at Big Als was there. Hired by Big Daddy for several nights
as his feature entertainer, Leah had already become friends of Jack's and Krazy
Ted's. Because Ted as the DJ at Iowa's Flirts had become well acquainted
with Heather when his club had hired her in to do her shows.
Leah's role in "Death Match 1" was as the wrestling
match's referee. You can still see the video of Death Match 1 by
clicking here. The quality is not up there with what Jack would later do.
Because the cameras were nowhere equal to the Kikon's he's shooting with now in
Thailand. One must also keep in mind that twenty years ago the internet
travelled at the speed of molasses through phone lines. Which forced Jack
to keep the quality pf his videos to a very low level.
Big Daddy had once been a professional wrestler as part
of the Assassins team. Who had actually been on television. But as
practicallly most people know, "professional tel;evision wresting" is all about
over the wall entertainment. It's a big hoax but if one is so inclined it
can be hilarious. Death Match 1 would equial or even surpass the hilarity
of television wrestling. Dirty Heather as the Iowa female champion
wrestler usually wrestled against women as Killer Kloey would shout at her
during the match's introduction of the two contestants. "Whereas I,
wrestle only men. So I'm doing to kick your ass," Kloey continued to shout
at Heather. While Dirty Heather's grasping a very heavy professional
wrestling belt, Big Daddy takes over, He tells Heather, "In other words
Kloey's telling you, " Now a very angry Dirty Heather swings
the belt at Big Daddy but misses him hitting Krazy Ted instead. Big Daddy,
Krazy Ted and Dirty Heather all fall down in the ring. But when Krazy Ted
finally rises, blood is pouring out of his face.
But more is to come. A slender blonde jumps from
the audience into the ring where she starts verbally abusing Leah Layne, the
referee. Then security carried her out of the ring, kicking and screaming.
The blonde is Paine, another stripper friend of Jack's who's come all the way
from Columbus, Ohio to play her role in Death Match 1. Finally at the end
of the match Killer Kloey pins Dirty Heather for the victory. Big
Daddy starts to give the Championship belt to Killer Kloey when her team mate
Macy suddenly attacks Kloey and pins her to the mat. A now very excited
Leah Layne counts Killer Kloey out and awards Macy the title. Which is all
pretty bizarre stuff.
But Death Match 1 would set the stage for SPEW which
would continue on for over a year with entire teams of Lumberyard strippers
visting Big Daddy's in Misssouri to take on the Big Daddy's dancers. And
the Missouri girls visiting Iowa to take on the Iowa strippers.
Nevertheless, this video captures the essence of what
I found to be so captivating in U.S. strip clubs. And so did his photo
shoot of Krazy Ted and Machine Gun Heather. Totally unlike the general
impression of strippers and the men and women managing and owning strip clubs,
Jack (that's me writing in the third person) found that many strippers were not
motivated by money as much as they were by their desire to be actresses.
Hollywood would never hire them of course but all that creativity was deep
inside them nevertheless. And not just with the strippers. That need
to be as creative as possible and to show off all that creativity existed
just as much in his strip club owner friends, their managers, and Dj's such as
Krazy Ted and Hawkeye. Who would later become Big Daddy's star DJ.
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