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normal friday night activities: making a jodie foster in nyad fancam
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Mean Girls (2004) House MD (2009)
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Propaganda
Jane Fonda (Barbarella, Sunday in New York, Barefoot in the Park)—Feminist icon, LGBTQ+ rights activist since the 70s, Civil Rights and Native American rights advocate, environmentalist… she really is THE woman ever
Rita Hayworth (Gilda, Cover Girl)—Absolutely, drop-dead gorgeous. She steals every movie she’s in; she was Fred Astaire’s favorite dance partner, as you can see in clips from their movies [link][link]. Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, Rita's story had its tragedies—her father was awful and had her performing in nightclubs way, way too young; the studio totally remade her look because they were afraid of her hispanic image, putting her through painful treatments and diets; she had a string of failed marriages. But beside all that, I think there's something about Rita that still glows through—an inner beauty that has nothing to do with the studio, or the men who pinned their dreams on her. Rita brings an incandescence to roles that's impossible to replicate, and was truly a great actress in that she could switch from herself—shy Margarita—into a bold and glamorous femme fatale so convincingly everyone fell in love with her as Gilda. She's my favorite movie star, and I think she was a beautiful human through and through—Rita, gorgeous and real and shining bright.
This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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at a perfect 50/50 right now!
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“beige flags” “trauma dump” “the ick” let me ask you this have you ever gone outside and marvelled at the beauty of the spider’s web
Huh this one says "some pig"
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Broadway Divas Tournament: Semifinals
Two-time Tony-winning, newly three-time nominee, dancer-extraordinaire Bebe Neuwirth (1958) is best known for her winning role as Velma Kelly in Chicago (1996) alongside her beloved Annie Reinking. After playing Velma off-and-on for some years, she then took on Roxie, and later Matron "Mama" Morton. Bebe has also won for Sweet Charity (1986), and is a two-time Emmy winner for, of course, Lilith in Cheers. Other credits include Here Lies Jenny (2004), Fosse (2001), and Cabaret (2024), which opened to glowing reviews for Bebe, and dismal reviews for basically everything else. In addition to her beloved stage, Bebe is a devoted cat-lover, and activist. She founded the Dancers' Resource program to provide support for injured and/or aging dancers. She is *THE* living Dancing Diva of Broadway.
Seven-time Tony nominee, two-time winner Bernadette Peters (1948) has a sixty-plus year stage career of monumental proportions. Considered the foremost Sondheim interpreter, their collaborative works include Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), Gypsy (2003), and Follies (2011). She has a thriving concert career, and was a co-founder of the beloved Broadway Barks event each year in Shubert Alley. She has an honorary third Tony (Isabelle Stevenson Award) for her outstanding advocacy and philanthropy. A true Broadway Baby at her core.
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three tickets to challengers
i will continue to spill much ink about hacks because it is in that sweet spot of being so close to perfection that i want to tweak it until it gets there because it's within reach!!
the other piece of hacks not going all the way with ava and deborah is that it's not even us projecting something we want to see onto the story. they're flirting with it in every single episode so imo it's not unreasonable to start to ask why. like it's different from that lame form of criticism that attacks a work for not being exactly what the critic wants it to be, because hacks is basically already going there. just in a way that maintains an air of plausible deniability
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Ken Levine and David Isascs discussing Bebe Neuwirth (x)
i've said this before but hacks will be a fine show by keeping ava and deborah's relationship in the ambiguous space between platonic and romantic, but it's a rare instance when i think this is the wrong choice. usually, i think ambiguity is the way to go because it's much more fun to imagine the way a relationship might play out than to actually see it come to fruition in a way that is almost inevitably unsatisfying. (this is something that clara bradbury-rance expertly explores in relation to lesbian films like céline sciamma's water lilies in her book lesbian cinema after queer theory).
we can certainly still take pleasure in a pervasive "mood of sexual potential" as bradbury-rance puts it, but in the case of ava and deborah in hacks i think this is the easy choice. there are areas of lesbian experience that have yet to be made readily visible in film and television and one of those is older women discovering their sexuality later in life. hacks would bring an additional level of complexity by having its protagonist navigate this as a woman in the public eye.
like, i think opting for ambiguity and taking pleasure in ambiguity makes sense when we retrospectively appreciate works that were created before the (relative) normalization of lesbian visibility OR in our current moment where we can look to other places for conventional lesbian representation. but we're not at a point where old lesbians, let alone ones who figure out their sexual identity in their 70s, is normalized/pervasive/whatever word you want to use.
i guess the tldr is intentional ambiguity makes sense when 1) ambiguity is the only option or 2) when the same sort of story has been told explicitly before. but this story hasn't been told before and the hacks writers have the means to tell it, but they choose not to. that's what makes it cowardly for me, even if it the story still ends up being beautiful and well-told
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oh my god the king princess cover of dirty work that needle drops as ava's gf breaks up w her over choosing deb yet again and she immediately fucking drives to vegas to move back into deb's house……… when you need a bit of lovin cause your man is out of town???? that's the time you get me runnin and you know i'll be around??????????? i'm gonna throw up
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one thing i'm really enjoying about this season of hacks is that i really love when two characters are just all-consumingly in love with each other and totally enchanted by how much more alive and seen this other person makes them feel, how healing it is to have found someone who is so totally made for you ...
and then to everyone around them they're just. the two most annoying people on earth. horrible trash people whose bond makes them even more horrible to be around. everyone being forced to witness this pair of soulmates in action is like: bleh. can you two not?
in my sondheim independent study class we talked about how sweeney todd is seemingly production proof, but i think the revival that just closed proved us wrong. the idea was that it can work with a maximalist scope (original production or on a big outdoor stage like the muny), a minimalist scope (barrow street and other "tiny todds"), in an opera house, with fewer instruments (doyle), etc. but somehow thomas kail fucked it up with, among other things, the worst, cringiest a little priest i've ever seen
pleated pants and mosquitoes is not a great wedding summary btw! and then she had an awful honeymoon, too
ladies is it heterosexual to confuse you and your husband's honeymoon with a long weekend in prison? 🧐
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did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why
My FAVORITE quote, of all time, is from the like, 2008 VH1 Top 50 Best Boy Band Songs special when AJ was commentating this song’s #1 win and he said, “I’ve never understood this song. WHAT WAY do I want it? And why DON’T I want it that way if SHE wants it that way? What’s the way? This song makes no sense. But man, they paid me to sing it.”
He was so distressed about his confusion, and I loved it. I love this song. It is truly the song of all time.
The songwriter, Max Martin, has written or contributed to the lyrics for a huge number of pop hits since the 90s. Max Martin is Swedish, and English is not his first language, a fact which feels incredibly obvious once you know it.
It’s not my intention to mock him for this–his English is miles ahead of my Swedish!–but this sincere vagueness and novel interpretations of English grammar are a noticeable quirks of his songs, especially his earlier work, so much so that trying to tease apart the individual words and phrases of the songs is a task designed for a Greek tragedy. His songs are the aursl embodiment of “no thoughts just vibes.”
Citation: Slate’s 2014 article/highlight reel of some of Martin’s most baffling lyrical Decisions:
They don’t bring it up in that article, but Martin is also responsible for Britney Spears’s “…One More Time,” and I’m sorry to anyone in whom something was awakened with those lyrics, but our good friend Max thought “hit me” was contemporary American slang for “call me.”
I feel like this adds a thin, waxy coating of surrealism in a genre whose worst examples can lean hard toward bland vapidity, and I love that Backstreet Boys lyrics are still making people question their sanity 25 years on. But mostly I can’t get over the thought of all of these singers–many of them already really big before they worked with Martin–puzzling their way through these lyrics enough to figure out how to sell the shit out of them.
“hit me up” the phrase he was probably thinking of was “hit me up”.
this is weirder coming from kaya than donnelly because kaya knows that elsbeth has a son, and it's not like elsbeth said "my husband" which would more indicate marriage in the present tense. it makes it seem like kaya is shocked that elsbeth has ever been married at all. so what assumption was she operating under? that elsbeth had a son with a sperm donor and raised teddy as a single mom? is she assuming elsbeth is a lesbian?
gifs from @imaginaryhat
