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HOT DOG 2: THE SEQUEL

Thirty-five years ago, the most seminal Hollywood ski movie was, um, released on the public, exposing them to the stunt skiing of Tahoe legend Robbie Huntoon, the boozy antics of Squaw Valley misfits, a number of questionable scenes, including a 17-year-old runaway being roofied in a sauna by the entire Austrian freestyle team, and the repeated appearance of a pair of improbably shaped aftermarket breasts. Marketed as a teen comedy, promised America’s 13-year-old boys a utopia where Squaw Valley had 10,000 feet

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