Okay I have one for you (classic one, but with similar vibes to the one you asked me):
Which famous person from the past would you like to meet for a dinner?
(It doesn't have to be a remote past, but let's say they can't be alive today, as a frame of reference)
Oh man… tough one! There are soooo many (as an aside I love doing those who would you invite to a dinner party questions, too). Hmm, just one person, eh?
Dorothy Parker - writer, poet, critic and satirist from the 1920s and 30s and beyond. I read her biography ages ago (motivated by the movie, Mrs Parker & the Vicious Circle- seriously gorgeous film) and sort of fell in love for life. She was such a funny woman, in a time when women were mostly not known for it nor appreciated for it. I am pretty sure she would roast me alive - and, she’d be right — but damn, it’d be a fun evening. I’d also probably wind up arrested and hung over. 🥂
For point of reference she coined the saying - “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
We are returning to the work of Jennifer Jason Leigh this week, and Jourdain Searles is joining us once again with an underrated and underseen gem. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle takes on the life of indelible writer Dorothy Parker, capturing her days with the insular Algonquin Circle and her later dissolution with the group, all with Jennifer Jason Leigh as the noted wit. Launched at Cannes, the film was celebrated for her performance even with a limited audience, including Golden Globe and Independent Spirit nominations for Best Actress. But even in a famously uncompetitive Best Actress lineup, Leigh was left out.
This episode, we talk about Leigh's several close calls for a nomination in the 1990s and our feelings about the nomination that she eventually received for The Hateful Eight. We also talk about Pulp Fiction's domination on the independent film scene, the Cannes Film Festival, and the influence of producer Robert Altman.
Topics also include writer/director Alan Rudolph's filmography, the film's massive (and nepotism baby-inflected) ensemble, and the person-not-company Condé Nast.
Your Current Favorite Blorbo, A song Going Through your Head About them, Five movies Scenes you'd Love Them to Act Through. Ask Five More People.
Blorbo: …Pretty sure I've already played this game with Skull. So...Bulk~
Song: 'Chapel' by Nicole Dollanganger
Five Movie Scenes (wow this was specific):
-Getting into a fist fight with a challenger after walking into a town that is more like the outline of a dream than something that suggests reality. (Red Garters)
-Doing striptease and catwalk dance in a bar in the 80s before taking a seat under a pull cord--whereupon he yanks it and gets soaking wet wearing nothing but jean shorts. (Flashdance)
-Waking up in the morning with Jason after his husband has gotten a call from work and insisting that he eats a breakfast before he heads out into a day with fresh snow everywhere. (Fargo)
-Chopping his wrists cleanly but deep with an old fashioned barber's razor after a terrible bout of depression brought on by the death of a loved one. (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
-The ballroom ceiling and balcony performance that is the result of a chase to protect someone important and get them back to someone he loves. (Babe: Pig in the City)
The Iconic & Radiant BiRacial FlashDance 💃🤎 Actress Of The 80's
Born On December 19th, 1963.
Beals was born and raised in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. Beals's father was African-American, and her mother is Irish-American.
She is an American actress. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Alexandra Owens in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
Beals has appeared in several films including Vampire's Kiss (1988), Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Roger Dodger (2002), The Book of Eli (2010), Before I Fall (2017), and Luckiest Girl Alive (2022). On television, she starred in shows such as The Chicago Code (2011), Proof (2015), Taken (2017), and The Book of Boba Fett (2021). She is best known for her portrayal of Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), which earned her a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She reprised her role as Bette Porter and served as an executive producer on the sequel series The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2023).
Please Wish This Iconic & Radiant BiRacial Actress Of The 80's, A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
YOU KNOW HER
YOU LOVE HER ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
& SHE'S DEFINITELY A MANIAC WHEN COMES TO ACTING
THE 1 & ONLY
MS. JENNIFER BEALS AKA ALEXANDRA OWENS OF FLASHDANCE 💃🤎 & BETTE PORTER OF THE L WORD
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR. BEALS & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.
What Happened To Jennifer Jason Leigh After All These Years?
Sixty one year old Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. Her career started back in the 1970s before she achieved immense success and popularity as Stacy Hamilton in the 1982 blockbuster hit Fast Times at Ridgemont High. She later received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn 1989, Miami Blues 1990, Backdraft 1991, Single White Female 1992, and Shortcuts 1993. In 1994, Leigh was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. She also starred in a 1995 film written by her mother, who was also a screenwriter Barbara Turner, titled Georgia.
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★★☆☆☆ - Enter Laughing, Carl Reiner (1967)
★★★☆☆ - Kaboom, Gregg Araki (2010)
★★★☆☆ - Pearl, Ti West (2022)
★★★★☆ - Sugar Cookie, Theodore Gershuny (1973)
★★★★☆ - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Alan Rudolph (1994)
★☆☆☆☆ - couldn’t even finish
★★☆☆☆ - finished reluctantly
★★★☆☆ - would recommend but unlikely to reread/rewatch
★★★★☆ - would recommend and will likely reread/rewatch
★★★★★ - loved it!
It hasn’t been as bad as it could have been and I’m also based in Hawaii and generally I feel a lot more comfortable to be here -– it’s part of the culture and the respect is upheld. But I think, fortunately, the fashion industry is so welcoming of people who fall in very different points of this grey area in the LGBT community.
Project Runway Season 7: Episode 7: Slutty Strippe.The Huffington Post: What was it was like for you to come out as transgender in the fashion world after you had become a household name following season eight of “Project Runway”?Īri South: There were a lot of questions that I had to think about before I made the decision to make it public.
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Project Runway-Season 7-Episode 8-Big Bowl o' Hair.
The Amazing Race 16-Episode 5-Dumb Luck Strikes.
Project Runway Season 7-Episode 9-Lost in a Concept.
The Amazing Race 16-Episode 6-Cathy Drone?.
Scenes from the Life of an Amateur Comic Book Coll.
Health Reform-But at What Cost to Obama?.
Second Time in Louisville and Presidential Lovers.
The Amazing Race 16-Episode 7-Case of the Missin.
Project Runway Season 7: Episode 10: Irish Girl Sp.
Ben did the former and Jonathan the latter.Īnd how many times did they mention Garnier? I should keep track of the product placements. You'll recall I spoke about this very topic in my blog last week and that the middle pack would have have to drop out or rise to the top. BTW, why does Ben always look like he's on his way to Rawhide (a leather bar for you non-New Yorkers) and do the contestants all get those cute little phone things? What's her name who cried all the time had one too.īen and Jonathan had a really interesting talk about being safe and staying in the middle. This would have tipped me off that Ben would have been on his way to the gallows because he was talking with his boyfriend, or husband since they got married, on that little keyboard-iphone doohickey-always the kiss of death. Seth Aaron's leather outfit was fierce, but what was the extra piece on her ass? Nina was really hard on Maya and that French guy seemed like he was a little too relaxed, maybe he was drunk and could have used some peanuts and pretzels from hair-bowl girl.Īfter the runway show, I caught up with the first half during the repeat.
When does project runway start plus#
Jonathan's laughter in the air dream was reminscent of his toilet paper in a windstorm, but this time it worked, plus Irish Carrie looked beautiful. Mila couldn't color-block the pain and got a tongue lashing from Nina. Jay's twister-sister look from the tornado ballet in The Wiz induced jaw-dropping stares from the judges, but he couldn't be eliminated. But I guess the judges are thinking out-of-box crazy shit beats out ho-hum bad stitching. Her work was far worse than Ben's shark suit. She screwed up last week too, so I don't know why she stayed. Why doesn't she throw in some chips and pretzels and make herself useful by serving them to the judges?"Īmy described her objective as "controlled chaos." Well, she got the second part right. The model turned the corner and I said "What the fuck is that? It looks like she's balancing a bowl of hair on her breasts. As a result, I was totally unprepared for Amy's horrifying big-bowl-of-hair. When I discovered it wasn't recording I thought, OK, I'll watch the runway show now and catch up with the repeat at 11:30. Parker and the Vicious Circle, I was looking forward to watching the show from the top. So when I came home at about 10:30PM after a hard night of reviewing plays like Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. I thought my DVR was going to record this week's Project Runway from the beginning but for some reason it didn't.