Post #458950 by Formikahini on Thu, Jun 4, 2009 12:40 AM

What!!
You don't think Gidget is exotic??

But she's in a swimsuit!!
And she's a female!!
What more do you want?!

Little known Exotica facts about Gidget/Sally Field:
1.) She was originally cast as Liat for South Pacific, but when they sprayed her skin with darkening paint for the make-up test, she got deathly ill and they had to replace her just days before shooting began.
2.) Martin Denny asked for her to be his cover girl for Primitiva, but she's hydrophobic and couldn't enter the water at Arrowhead Springs. (All the surf scenes in the Gidget movies were blue-screened, natch.)
3.) She really was the descendent of the Inca sun gods.

Ok, of Puerto Rican nuns. Same thing.

But you have to admit that flying is pretty exotic.

Ok, maybe not exotic, but pretty unusual.
Hey! Cindi Lauper is So Unusual! So she's exotica, right?

4.) She played the title role in "Varla's Tale: The Tura Satana Story" on Cinemax in 1983. She learned judo for the part, and even how to twirl her tassels in opposite directions like Tura could for the big volcano sacrifice number.

5.) Hey, you like [her]! You really like [her]! (And liking her/thinking that she's hot is good enough, right?)

I'm working on the Marilyn-as-Exotica-Girl justification next......