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Dog Days of Summer Movies: A Summer Place
August 3, 2011 – 7:32 PM | 8 Comments
Dog Days of Summer Movies: <I>A Summer Place</I>

by Mark Blankenship
Tilt your head the right way, and you can see A Summer Place as a thoughtful and progressive discourse on sexuality. Cock it in the other direction, however, and you’ll see a smutty, …