[Anti-Super Bowl Party]

John Goldfarb Please Come Home

Starring Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov and Richard Crenna, the improbable, politically incorrect "comedy" combines football with an international crisis in a fictional Middle Eastern country right next to Iraq, according to Polish.

In the film, pilot John Goldfarb lands in an oil-rich country ruled by a sheik played by Ustinov. The football-obsessed king forces the pilot to coach an Arab team and blackmails the United States into a game with the University of Notre Dame. The university sued the studio because it objected to scenes involving Notre Dame players fraternizing with harem girls. During the trial, the judge called the film "ugly, vulgar and tawdry," but the publicity saved the film from obscurity when it was eventually released, according to Polish.

Government officials with names like Miles Whitepaper and Heinous Overreach are played by top sitcom stars of the era, and Shirley MacLaine provides romantic comic relief as an undercover reporter trapped in the harem. "She spends most of the film avoiding the sheik's advances and belly dancing in Edith Head's lavish harem garb," Polish said. "Come and find out why a reviewer wrote that the film was a 'flagrant display of bad taste and goes to the limit of sniggering suggestiveness'."

There will also be the world premiere of a foul film created by Ashlander Chris VanSchaack. Using creepy footage from the City of Ashland's sewer-cam, VanSchaack made "Ebbs, Flows & Flushes: Exploring Ashland's Sewers," which exposes the slime, gunk and creatures lurking under the city's streets.