Very penetrating, Steve.  I think you are onto something.  That never 
occurred to me until you asked the question, but come to think of it, 
the original Audrey especially--gloriously voracious, ruthless and 
articulate--could indeed be a metaphore for The Great American 
Meatgrinder.   The Audrey in the updated version lacked the edge, the 
bite, the intensity that helped to make the original, Roger Corman 
version, so very brilliant. 
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> Many amusing films on CPs, some good, some not so good.  Many quite
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