#Terry Maitland

[vicsuragi]

if i had to see this so do you

#the outsider #terry maitland #nsft #unfortunately i do kinda want him #it's unnerving

[sharry-arry-odd]

Terry gave him a look of which only high school teachers are capable: We both know you're an idiot, but I will not embarrass you in front of your peers by saying so.

The Outsider, by Stephen King

#page 92 #the outsider #stephen king #horror #thriller #suspense #quote #quotes #literature #book #booklr #reading #terry maitland #ralph anderson #teacher #this is so accurate tho #this is an accurate description of teachers #they do indeed have this power

[camyfilms]

WHITE CHICKS 2004

I don't see why I gotta go out with Buffy the White Girl Slayer.

#white chicks #2004 #shawn wayans #marlon wayans #jaime king #busy philipps #jennifer carpenter #jessica cauffiel #john heard #brittany daniel #terry crews #frankie faison #lochlyn munro #eddie velez #rochelle aytes #maitland ward #anne dudek

[thesillydoll]

I love you, in every universe

#aziraphale #neil gaiman #david tennant #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #terry pratchett #goodomens #crowley #good omens #thor and loki #thor ragnarok #miles maitland #michael sheen #doctor strange

[trpiaep19]

okay but is it me or do we seriously miss something in literature??? where are my gay main character boys in historical fictions??? living their lives to the fullest??? with their clique??? hiding but going wild????

i'm talking about miles maitland, francis abernathy, robbie ross, lestat, dorian gray, allen ginsberg... just bloody oscar wilde vibe and mentality!!!!

I NEED BOOKS!

#literature #books #reader struggles #gay characters in works are still not as common as id like #miles maitland #robbie ross #francis abernathy #oscar wilde #just look at all the characters michael sheen has played and you'll know what i mean #vile bodies #we only live once #interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #neil gaiman and terry pratchett #good omens #michael sheen #but in BOOKS

[lovecatnip]

White Chicks

2004

#white chicks #marlon wayans #shawn wayans #busy philipps #jennifer carpenter #jessica cauffiel #jaime king #brittany daniel #anne dudek #maitland ward #rochelle aytes #lochlyn munro #eddie velez #terry crews #frankie faison #faune a.chambers #drew sidora

[mariocki]

The Saint: Lida (3.2, ITC, 1964)

"Well, I think that about ties it up. Naturally you'll all be expected to attend the hearing, but it'll be no more than a formality."

"All neat and tidy - and a rubber stamp marks the case closed."

"I don't look for trouble where none exists, Mr. Templar."

#the saint #lida #itc #leslie charteris #classic tv #terry nation #leslie norman #roger moore #erica rogers #jeanne moody #barry keegan #peter bowles #marne maitland #aubrey morris #robert raglan #maggie wright #henry mccarthy #a seedy tale of blackmail in the Bahamas; it's been pretty well established by this point that blackmail is the thing that most #gets Simon pissed off‚ and here it concerns one of his innumerable old friends. Erica Rogers‚ having been ill served in her previous two #appearances (1.6 and the heinous 1.10‚ The Golden Journey) gets to play someone nice for a change‚ tho she still suffers the indignity of #being ogled in a bikini scene. the twist reveal of the villain is a little more obvious here I think than in similar Saint episodes #or perhaps I just happened to remember the details a little better. Marne Maitland for once isn't a bad guy‚ tho you could hardly call his #self serving bar manager a Good guy. this episode belongs entirely tho to Aubrey Morris‚ giving a deliciously grotesque turn as a murderous #henchman who giggles and squirms his way through the ep; it's the kind of creepy role he'd be typecast in for a while (see his guest spots #in It's Dark Outside and Man in a Suitcase for further evidence‚ as well as big hitters like The Wicker Man and A Clockwork Orange) #tho he was an actor of great range and ability. Moody was a genuine American who'd come over to the uk and would do a slew of tv genre #stuff before promptly retiring at the start of the 70s. she did appear in the Saint doc Network put together in 2008 tho so presumably #happy to discuss her (comparatively brief) time on the show

[amberastra]

Nine people you'd like to get to know better

Thanks for the tag @magnetarmadda!!

Three Ships

Jon/Martin from The Magnus Archives (obviously~), Kallus/Zeb from Star Wars: Rebels, and Lup/Barry from The Adventure Zone: Balance

First Ship

Oh geez, that's tricky, I really only started seeking out content for specific ships a few years ago. But I guess in terms of at least just noticing a preference for a character to end up with one person over another, maybe Katara/Aang from Avatar?

Last Song

Maitlands 2.0 from Beetlejuice the Musical

Currently Reading

Upright Woman Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

I've also been making my way through the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett and The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman

Last Movie

Wow, it's been a while since I've watched a movie! I think the last was Nimona, after it got put up on youtube

Currently Craving

Like, a raspberry iced tea, or something else cold and a bit sweet

Tagging @wordsintimeandspace, @ashes-in-a-jar, @ollieofthebeholder, @the-dwead-piwate-woberts, @mighty-ant, @odd-gelato, @lovetheinsane, @darlingsunshineprince, and @moss-and-monsters, but no pressure!!

#tag game

[tintagel-or-cockleshells]

Nine Favourite Books

Gor bless you @clottedcreamfudge for the tag even though I know my bookshelves physically pain you <3. (I don't organise them or code them in any way. When I had an operation in 2021 and had to be away from home for two weeks my partner said they would miss me but would use the time to eat all the stuff I can't, and put the bookshelves to rights).

Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland The book I picked for my Waterstones interview, where the task was 'find your favourite book in the shop and tell us why it's your favourite'. I am a big folklore gal, and this reimagines fairytales with a particular emphasis on the natural woods of the UK and elsewhere in Europe. She has an intriguing take on the themes of getting lost in German and English folktales.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke I was going to say Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for this, but I think Piranesi is a superior plot. It gives you the world and no guidebook. I adore the entries, I love the mystery.

Watching the English by Kate Fox Kate Fox is an anthropologist and the quirks of British life are wonderfully explained in this non-fiction guide to the strange island I call home. I like having social norms spelled out, too. (It's the autism).

Persuasion by Jane Austen "She was only Anne". I love a bit of second chance romance, the letter is one of the most beautifully grovelly things I've read, I'm absolutely here for a spinster being allowed to have another shot at the kind of life she wants.

Circe by Madeline Miller The book so beautiful I wanted to have the part about Daedalus as a reading at my wedding. Alas, it's way too short.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell I've never met a book before or since which so accurately describes what it's like to be in fandom and a fic-writer. Kept having to stop reading it to calm down.

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett This book has everything. Time travel. Chocolate. A budding romance. Death. All Death and Witches books count for this, just so you know.

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston More time-travel! Living in a shitty place in New York but with found family. The magic of city travel. Finding love in unexpected places, decades apart. Their best book to my mind, even though RWRB gets all the love.

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman Cheating to have a series, fully don't give a shit. Death influenced my personal style for a long, long time. It's so layered - you can read it time after time and go 'oh, underneath the thing about Shakespeare and Fae and child death there's Hobbesian philosophy'. I had quotes from this painted on my bedroom wall.

What are yours? Tagging @daisymae-12 @cheesecurdsgravyandfries @actual-sleeping-beauty @cha-melodius @14carrotghoul @rmd-writes @celaestis1 @orchidscript @savethepinecones @gloriousclio @dumbpeachjuice

#book meme

[bracketsoffear]

The Outsider (Stephen King) "An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King's propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can."

The Outsider (H.P. Lovecraft) "There's nothing I can say here that won't ruin the twist. Link"

#stranger poll #the stranger #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #stephen king #h.p. lovecraft #the outsider

[weirdesplinder]

Maratona di sette film anni ottanta da vedere a Natale

Vi propongo sette film anni 80' da vedere in sette serate durante le vacanze di Natale o il periodo natalizio in generale. Non si tratta di film ambientati a Natale (o almeno non tutti), ma film anni 80' che reputo adatti al periodo. Ho volutamente escluso titoli come Una poltrona per due e Il principe cerca moglie, sarebbe stato troppo ovvio. Eccomi la mia lista:

Die hard trappola di cristallo

Link: https://amzn.to/3sPxJUf

Trama: John McClane è un poliziotto di New York che giunge a Los Angeles per passare le vacanze di Natale con la moglie Holly ed i figli, nonostante la coppia stia vivendo un periodo di crisi matrimoniale. Nel grattacielo (il Nakatomi) dove lavora la donna si sta svolgendo un party per le festività natalizie fra i dipendenti della compagnia; all'improvviso irrompe al suo interno un gruppo armato e ben addestrato di criminali della Germania Est, che provocano alcuni morti tra i presenti. Il loro scopo sarebbe quello di costringere le autorità a liberare alcuni "fratelli della rivoluzione" detenuti nelle carceri americane e di mezza Europa. In verità l'unico vero obiettivo di Gruber è quello di penetrare nel caveau dell'edificio dove si trovano 640 milioni di dollari in titoli...

SOS fantasmi

Link: https://amzn.to/49T8wZO

Trama: Francis Xavier Cross è il direttore di un network televisivo statunitense: estremamente cinico ed egoista, cerca di raggiungere l'apice della propria carriera preparando un musical dedicato alla novella di Charles Dickens Canto di Natale, che andrà in onda la notte della vigilia di Natale. La vita di Cross è quella del tipico uomo di successo, ma se da un lato è divenuto ricco e famoso, dall'altro ha perso tutte le persone a lui più care. La fidanzata Claire lo ha lasciato per seguire le persone bisognose, il fratello lo cerca continuamente ma lui non si fa trovare ed i suoi dipendenti lo temono e lo odiano profondamente. Tanto più che poco prima di Natale licenzia senza scrupolo il suo dipendente Eliot. La sua segretaria Grace, vedova con cinque figli di cui il più piccolo affetto da mutismo, deve però sopportare stoicamente le sue angherie, perché ha bisogno di quel lavoro.

Beetlejuice

Link: https://amzn.to/46rndAs

Trama:  I pacifici coniugi Maitland, Adam e Barbara, rimangono vittime di un incidente d'auto; tornati da soli nella loro villa, scoprono cose bizzarre: sono capaci di fare azioni e gesti sovrannaturali, nessuno è in grado di vederli Grazie a un libretto chiamato Il manuale del novello deceduto capiscono di essere morti e soprattutto di essere diventati dei fantasmi. La loro casa rimane ufficialmente vuota e viene acquistata dall'eccentrica famiglia Deetz, che da New York porta nella nuova cittadina tutte le nevrosi della città. Adam e Barbara, infastiditi dalle loro insopportabili personalità, tentano di spaventarli senza successo e scoprono che Lydia (figlia di Charles Deetz, nata da un suo precedente matrimonio), una sconsolata e lugubre ragazza goth, è capace di percepirli e vederli e cerca invano di aiutarli. Adam e Barbara attraversano un portale e si recano nell'altro mondo, più simile ad un ufficio statale che all'oltretomba, dove si consultano con la loro assistente tombale, Juno: dovranno restare nella loro casa per almeno 125 anni e, se vorranno imparare a spaventare gli scocciatori, dovranno studiare a fondo il Manuale. Nonostante i fermi avvertimenti di Juno, Adam e Barbara contattano il suo ex assistente Betelgeuse (pronunciato come Beetlejuice, "succo di coleottero"), una sorta di bizzarro, libidinoso e vivace ghoul che di professione fa il "bio-esorcista", ovvero il contrario del classico esorcista: è un fantasma che si sbarazza degli umani per dare pace agli altri spiriti. Adam e Barbara si pentono presto di averlo invocato

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Link: https://amzn.to/3uDJGwK

Trama:  Terry Doolittle lavora in una grande banca di New York, utilizzando dei computer in rete per trasferire fondi. È una buona impiegata ed è popolare con i colleghi, ma a causa del suo look fuori dagli schemi e dal suo modo di fare molto diretto non è ben vista dal suo capo James Page. Un giorno Terry viene contattata sul suo computer da un uomo che si fa chiamare "Jumpin' Jack Flash", che le dice che lui è un agente segreto britannico in Europa orientale e che il KGB lo sta cercando per arrestarlo. Jack chiede a Terry di andare al Consolato Britannico per consegnare uno strano messaggio in codice al Dipartimento C. Nonostante qualche esitazione, Terry recapita il messaggio a un addetto alla sicurezza del consolato, Jeremy Talbot, che la informa che non c'è nessun Dipartimento C. Jack allora le chiede di entrare nel suo appartamento a New York per recuperare una padella, su cui ci sono dei contatti della CIA.

Ricomincio da capo

Link: https://amzn.to/3QScdq5

Trama: Phil Connors è un meteorologo televisivo dal carattere scorbutico ed egoista. Un giorno Phil deve recarsi controvoglia nella piccola città di Punxsutawney, in Pennsylvania, per fare un reportage sulla tradizionale ricorrenza del Giorno della marmotta (festa celebrata negli Stati Uniti e in Canada il 2 febbraio), a cui ormai partecipa da quattro anni. Qui però rimane intrappolato in un loop temporale: ogni mattina, alle 06.00 in punto, viene svegliato dalla radio che trasmette sempre lo stesso brano musicale (I Got You Babe di Sonny & Cher), e da allora la giornata trascorre inesorabilmente allo stesso modo della precedente. Gli eventi si ripetono esattamente uguali ogni giorno, e lui ben presto impara a sfruttarli per passare una giornata stravagante, spendere soldi, conquistare donne. Ma ogni tentativo di sedurre la bella collega Rita, che lo ha accompagnato per il servizio, fallisce invariabilmente. Alla lunga questa vita ripetitiva, e la consapevolezza che anche quando riesce a conquistare Rita, ella il giorno dopo non ne avrà più memoria, lo porta alla depressione e a tentare continuamente il suicidio nei modi più strani per interrompere il ciclo, ma si risveglia comunque, sempre nel Giorno della marmotta. Durante uno di questi giorni Phil si confida con Rita che, dopo un iniziale scetticismo, gli offre il consiglio di dedicare questa vita intrappolata ad aiutare il prossimo. Phil capisce così che non può in un singolo giorno - ovviamente - aiutare tutti, ma può migliorare se stesso. Scopre così i suoi talenti e capisce i bisogni altrui, il che lo rende un uomo apprezzato, amato e migliore. Alla fine tutto ciò lo porta a uscire dall'incantesimo, e a trovare finalmente il vero amore con Rita.

L'erba del vicino

Link: https://amzn.to/3RehrOg

Trama: In una strada della periferia americana tre vicini sono incuriositi da dei nuovi eccentrici arrivati che vivono isolati in una vecchia casa: i Klopek. La curiosità diventa sospetto non condiviso dalle loro mogli a seguito di strani rumori notturni e da strani accadimenti. La temporanea scomparsa di un anziano li convince di avere accanto degli assassini e atteggiandosi in maniera esilarante da commando indagano ad ogni occasione nella proprietà. Riescono ad avvicinarli anche con l'aiuto delle mogli, che credendo ormai i propri mariti impazziti dalle loro mosse, per scoprire che facciano i vicini, vanno a bussare alla porta per fare la loro conoscenza. In effetti all'interno vedono un po' di cose strane, a cui però le mogli non danno alcun peso. Ingannando le mogli, i tre amici penetrano nella casa dei vicini, approfittando di una loro uscita, alla ricerca dell'anziano.

Big

Link: https://amzn.to/46yefl0

Trama: Josh Baskin è un ragazzino di tredici anni che abita a New York. Josh è follemente innamorato di Cynthia Benson, una sua compagna di scuola molto più grande di lui, ma non ha il coraggio di dichiararsi e la sua vita è una frana. I suoi genitori lo costringono, tra l'altro, a fare il baby-sitter alla sorellina più piccola. Un giorno al luna park, dopo essere stato umiliato davanti a Cynthia che ama tanto, vede una macchinetta che riproduce le fattezze del mago Zoltar (la macchina funziona nonostante l'alimentazione elettrica sia staccata) e decide di esprimere un desiderio: non essere più un bambino. Il giorno seguente Josh si sveglia e si rende conto che qualcosa è cambiato. Non appena si guarda allo specchio, scopre di essere cresciuto di vent'anni, diventando così un aitante trentenne. Ritorna verso il luna park dov'era situata la macchinetta, ma scopre che non c'è più il luna park e che la macchinetta è sparita. Ritorna a casa ma la madre non lo riconosce.

Onorevoli menzioni:

Gremlins

#youtube #film #cinema #tv #televisione #natale #filmdinatale

[the-rewatch-rewind]

Back after a week off!

Script below the break.

Hello and welcome back to The Rewatch Rewind, the podcast where I count down my top 40 most rewatched movies. My name is Jane, and today I will be discussing number 31 on my list: RKO’s 1937 dramatic comedy, or comedic drama, Stage Door, directed by Gregory La Cava, written by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Adolphe Menjou.

When heiress Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) decides to go into show business, she moves into a theatrical boarding house called the Footlights Club with other, significantly poorer, aspiring actresses. She keeps the details of her privileged background secret, but nevertheless struggles to fit in with the others, particularly her new roommate Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers), who see her as a snob. The conflict heats up even more when Terry is cast in a role that another Footlights Club resident, Kay Hamilton (Andrea Leeds) had her heart set on.

I can’t remember exactly how I first discovered this movie, but I assume it was because I love both Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, and I was trying to watch as many of their films as I could get my hands on. They are two of the four actors to make it into at least 4 of the movies that will be on this podcast, so it makes sense that I would keep revisiting a movie that featured both of them, even though they apparently didn’t get along very well offscreen. I think I might have seen Stage Door for the first time in 2002, I’m not sure, but once I started keeping track, I watched it 17 times: twice in 2003, three times in 2005, once in 2006, twice in 2008, twice in 2009, twice in 2011, once in 2013, once in 2014, once in 2015, once in 2016, and once in 2022. Back in 2013, I blogged about the movies I had watched at least 10 times in 10 years, and at the time Stage Door was the only one of those I didn’t own a copy of, so I know that at least all the views prior to then were because I borrowed it from the library. When I finally got it on DVD, it was part of a Katharine Hepburn collection that included the 1933 version of Little Women, which won Best Adapted Screenplay. When I was going through adapted screenplay winners in 2017, after I watched that one, the collection somehow fell under my bed without me realizing it, so the next time I wanted to watch Stage Door, I couldn’t find it, and it wasn’t until 2022 that I finally cleaned out under my bed and uncovered it. So Stage Door would be even higher on this list if I cleaned my room more often.

In my last episode, I mentioned that what I really wanted out of Newsies was more of the ensemble just hanging out, and that is exactly what Stage Door provides. There are so many great scenes featuring Footlights Club residents exchanging witty banter, without in any way hindering the plot. While some of that comes from the stars, particularly Ginger Rogers, the supporting cast is absolute gold and features several relative unknowns at the time who became quite famous later, such as future television stars Eve Arden and Lucille Ball, in addition to then-14-year-old Ann Miller, who used a fake birth certificate to pretend to be 18, and somehow managed to hold her own dancing with Ginger Rogers. Gail Patrick was already somewhat established as a master of the cold, calculating secondary character, and she continues that here as Linda, Jean’s main rival before Terry shows up, but she later became even more noteworthy for executive producing the Perry Mason TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, when she was the only female executive producer of a prime-time show. It’s so fun to see these soon-to-be household names so early in their careers hanging out and swapping jokes. But I think I would still enjoy the ensemble scenes at least almost as much if I’d never heard of any of the performers. One of my favorite moments is when the oldest resident who is now an acting coach, played by Constance Collier, is going on yet again about “Back in my day” and somebody who’s holding a book interjects, “when knighthood was in flower” and Constance Collier is all offended until she says, “I’m sorry, I was just reading aloud” and her face and delivery are so perfect, and I have no idea who that character or actress is but I love her.

I’ve read several different stories of how this script came to be. While it’s ostensibly based on a play, apart from the title, the setting, and some of the characters’ names, it’s barely recognizable as the same story. Playwright George S. Kaufman reportedly quipped that the title should have been changed to Screen Door to further distance itself from his play. One story claims that director Gregory La Cava sent an assistant to pose as an aspiring actress in a boarding house and write down what the residents said to use as dialogue in the film. Another version says that La Cava had the actresses from the film hang out together on the set prior to shooting and incorporated their interactions into the script. And yet a third version is that much of the dialogue was improvised while filming. I’m not sure which is true, and I suppose it could be a combination of all three, or none of them, but regardless, the banter is excellent and feels entirely natural. While the slang is, of course, rather outdated, the way they insert snarky comments into their conversations feels exactly like how friend groups – particularly those who are discouraged and fed up but laughing to keep from screaming – interact in real life even now. It’s unusual to see a movie with a primarily female ensemble being so witty together, and I can’t even begin to explain how fun it is to watch. Granted, some of it does get a bit stereotypically catty, but even the least-developed unnamed extra in this movie feels like a real person. Beneath their jovial facades lurks a deep longing for success on the stage, as well as frustration at how difficult that is to achieve, and they all convey that so brilliantly. Mad props to the entire cast.

Like many of the movies I’ve talked about so far, Stage Door has a rather complicated relationship with sex and romance. Because production codes of the time prohibited most sexual content, they had to leave it kind of vague, but it’s implied that the character of theatrical producer Anthony Powell, played by Adolphe Menjou, is providing Gail Patrick’s character, Linda, with expensive clothes and jewelry in return for sexual favors – although why she’s still living at the Footlights Club is rather a mystery – until Ginger Rogers’s character Jean catches his eye and he gets her a job dancing at his nightclub. Jean initially despises him, and only starts dating him because of how much she hates Linda. It’s not entirely clear whether Jean actually sleeps with him – there’s a scene of her in his apartment getting very drunk, but then she starts talking about marriage and Powell has his butler send her home. But they apparently keep seeing each other after that, and Jean does seem to develop feelings for Powell, for completely unfathomable reasons, but Katharine Hepburn’s character Terry sees through him. There’s a great scene when Powell takes Terry to his apartment to discuss the role she’s just been given and she resists his advances, but then when Jean shows up Terry pretends they were in the middle of something so that Jean will see that Powell is no good. This doesn’t help Jean and Terry’s relationship, and most of the characters at the Footlights Club probably think that Terry got the role by sleeping with Powell – although the audience knows it’s because her father said he would help finance the new play if she was the star, hoping that she would fail and return home. Jean already thinks that Terry has previously had a similar arrangement to the one Linda had with Powell because Terry also has expensive clothes and a photograph of an old man she claims to be her grandfather – but again, the audience knows that Terry comes from a rich family and that the man probably is her actual grandfather. I guess showing characters inferring that other characters were having illicit sex was okay with the censors as long as it wasn’t confirmed? Also Powell tells Jean in the scene when she’s drunk that he has a wife and son, but later Terry exposes this as a lie, so even if he is sleeping with any or all of the people that characters think he might be, at least he’s not committing adultery because he’s not really married. Maybe this is just me, but I find it so fascinating what was and wasn’t allowed under these production codes. Anyway, in a similar but perhaps more innocent vein, Lucille Ball’s character is from Seattle, which apparently means she knows every lumberman who visits New York, so she’s often going out on dates with them. Jean clearly despises their uncouth ways, but the food at the Footlights Club is notoriously almost inedible, so she’s willing to let them dance on her feet and bore her in exchange for dinner. Incidentally, one of these double dates is what Eve Arden’s character is referring to in the line I quoted at the end of last episode about “a pleasant little foursome” and predicting a hatchet murder. It doesn’t seem like there’s sex involved in this arrangement, although Lucy’s character does end up marrying one of the lumbermen at the end, but it feels similar to the Powell situation in that it shows women willing to give men what they want in exchange for security, luxury, or both.

The idea that men always want sex and women either tolerate or use sex is certainly not unique to this film – it’s a prevalent stereotype even now that is harmful in so many ways, encouraging and normalizing incredibly toxic relationship dynamics between straight allosexuals. And a side effect is that it makes things very confusing for asexuals. Those who are socialized as girls may not recognize their own asexuality because women aren’t supposed to really want sex that much anyway. And those who are socialized as boys are pressured to ignore their asexuality because men are supposedly defined by their obsession with sex. It’s not great and we need to stop spreading this false narrative. But in terms of this movie, when you remember that it’s from 1937, the same year as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and “Someday My Prince Will Come,” it almost feels progressive to at least show women taking control of their own lives, even if they’re forced to do so within the confines of an oppressive, patriarchal society. There are a few times throughout the film when it’s suggested that these women would be better off getting married and raising children and giving up on their acting dreams, but this is presented as the view of society at large, particularly men like Powell, and not necessarily the truth. It’s rather empowering to see these women stubbornly taking the path that feels right to them even when they’re constantly being told to give up and conform. So from that perspective, the message feels less problematic and more encouraging, and that aspect speaks to me.

This movie also addresses mental health struggles in a very interesting way that I want to discuss a bit. Trigger Warning: I will be talking about depression and suicide in this section, so I’ll put time codes in the show notes if you need to skip through that [skip this and the next paragraph on the script]. For its time, I feel like this movie actually does a pretty good job of distinguishing between feeling a bit down and actually suffering from depression. Most of the residents of the Footlights Club are struggling to find work, but they’re managing. Kay Hamilton, however, is clearly not. She’s behind on her rent and skipping meals but refuses to ask for or accept help. It’s established that she gave a highly acclaimed performance in Anthony Powell’s previous play but hasn’t been able to find work since. Kay desperately wants the leading role in his new play, both because she needs the work and because she relates to the part. When Terry is cast instead, Kay is devastated, but insists that none of the others inform Terry how much she wanted it. To add insult to injury, Terry is awful in rehearsals, refusing to take direction and reading the lines as emotionlessly as possible, so we can all see that Kay would have been a much better choice. On opening night, Kay gives Terry her good luck charm, and then jumps out the window, killing herself. Jean confronts Terry and blames her for Kay’s death. Terry is beside herself – Kay was basically the only one who was nice to Terry – and at first doesn’t want to perform at all, but her grief puts her in the perfect mindset to play the character whose feelings she’s never understood before. She’s clearly performing to honor Kay’s memory, and all of the Footlights Club residents in attendance recognize that, and afterwards Jean and Terry finally become friends.

The main thing I remember from the first time I watched this was how shocked I was by Kay’s suicide. It felt like such an abrupt and upsetting change of tone from what had been mostly a lighthearted comedy. But upon rewatch there are so many signs. When all the other residents of the boarding house are laughing off their troubles, Kay never joins in, only occasionally managing a weak smile to try to reassure her concerned friends that she’s fine. Nobody knows how to help her, and she doesn’t know how to accept the help that’s offered. It’s an upsetting but realistic portrayal of depression, and Andrea Leeds plays it so perfectly that she was even nominated for an Oscar. Considering that, even with all the recent advances made in mental health research and treatment, many people still consider depression just a period of sadness when you’re not trying hard enough to cheer yourself up, it’s astounding that a movie made 86 years ago does such an excellent job of conveying what it actually feels like. It’s not really sadness; it’s more of a void. A hopeless void that you feel like you’ll be stuck in forever. And that’s what Kay shows us. I don’t think I consciously realized this when I was watching Stage Door as a teenager suffering from depression, but I do think in a weird way it helped, to see what I was feeling from the outside. To see that Kay was surrounded by people who cared about and wanted to help her, that the void was lying when it told her there was no other way out except through the window. I wish there had been a way to save her, and I don’t love the implication that her death was necessary to make Terry a good actress, although I don’t think that was the message they were going for. I think the film is trying to say that art and storytelling can be used to channel pain into something beautiful, and while there are certainly better ways to convey this that don’t involve suicide, I still feel like this movie is surprisingly respectful of mental health struggles, particularly for its time, and I appreciate that.

I know I’ve been emphasizing some of the darker aspects, but it’s mostly an uplifting movie. It’s just also trying to be realistic about the hardships faced by women pursuing artistic careers, particularly during the Great Depression – not that things are much better now. I kind of think having this movie in the back of my mind has contributed to at least some of my decisions to support female actors and producers on Patreon. If only the residents of the Footlights Club had had access to the internet. Anyway, there are lots of fascinating behind-the-scenes Stage Door stories, and I’m not sure if any or all of them are actually true, but I want to mention some of them nonetheless. There was apparently a random cat on the RKO lot that took a liking to Eve Arden, so Gregory La Cava decided to make it part of the movie that her character was almost always holding or playing with the cat. Perhaps the most famous line in Stage Door is Terry’s speech in the play, which starts with “The calla lilies are in bloom again…” This was taken from a play called “The Lake” in which Katharine Hepburn had appeared on Broadway, and, in the words of critic Dorothy Parker, “ran the gamut of emotions – from A to B.” So Hepburn used this performance to redeem herself a bit. She certainly shows more emotional range than A to B, although I feel like she still had more to learn before becoming the truly excellent performer she’s remembered as. According to several accounts, Katharine Hepburn was extremely envious of Ginger Rogers, whose career at the time was going much better than her own. Rogers had a much easier time taking direction and getting along with people, and just seemed to generally have more natural talent for performing. So Hepburn resented her, and insisted on sharing top billing instead of taking second billing under her. Rogers was disappointed when Margaret Sullavan, who had played Terry Randall on Broadway and was originally cast in the film version, became pregnant and had to drop out. So neither of them were thrilled to be working together. Since I love both Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, it makes me a little sad that they didn’t actually like each other, but that was kind of perfect for their characters’ dynamic in this movie. A nicer story is that Ginger Rogers helped launch Ann Miller’s career by insisting she get the role of her dance partner even though the director thought she was too tall, and apparently Rogers and Miller became life-long friends. And one last fun piece of trivia that I recently stumbled upon is that the woman in the photograph of Anthony Powell’s pretend wife was Verree Teasdale, who was married to Adolphe Menjou – so the character’s fake wife was the actor’s actual wife.

Thank you for listening to me talk through another of my most frequently re-watched movies. We’re a quarter of the way through the list already! Remember to subscribe or follow on your podcast platform of choice for more, and rate or leave a review to let me know how you’re enjoying it so far. This episode is coming out on International Asexuality Day, so I hope my fellow aces out there are feeling particularly supported and celebrated today. As always, I will leave you with a quote from the next movie: “You promised me a zillion dollars! And a nickel!”

#stage door #the rewatch rewind #tw depression #tw suicide #ginger rogers #katharine hepburn

[relative-dimension]

“The Unwilling Warriors”

Season 1, episode 32 - 27th June 1964

[id: Carol and Maitland both have their eyes screwed shut and their hands over their faces in pain, Maitland is hunched over. The Doctor and Ian watch, Ian’s hand hesitantly on Maitland’s back. /end id]

This story really feels so much more like “proper” sci-fi than the other scifi serials of this season - instead of a simple adventure story with generic evil baddies or whatever, this is an exploration of what would happen to a society of telepaths, and how they might interact with the outside world. It’s really fucking good.

Is it an entertaining watch: 4/5, the stuff with John is a bit crap, but as mentioned, I love this serial so much anyway.

Does the production hold up: 4/5, I love how weird the Sensorite designs are, and the scene of them and Ian facing off and slowly moving through the spaceship is absolutely fantastically done.

Does it use its time well: 4/5, the slow build of the Sensorites from strange and alien monsters to intelligent beings to the cliffhanger of their deal with Susan is so good, spaced out really well over the 20 minutes while the Molybdenum plotline is explored.

Are the characters consistent and well-used: 4/5, Barbara is slightly just left on “look after John” duty, but this serial is Susan’s time to shine, and Dr Who and Ian both get to puzzle over the central mystery. Susan in particular gets some of the best parts of this story to herself, especially next episode.

Is there anything actually going on under the surface: 5/5, Getting our first glimpse at the Sensorites really drives home that this serial will have a lot more nuance and care with how it treats its “monsters” than the other sci-fi serials (or for that matter the historical serials). While the Daleks and Voord are at least intelligent, they, along with several characters in the historicals, are driven by a single-minded evil, and often opposed by universally good and heroic allies for the Tardis team to side with. This serial, however, proves that I’m not being unrealistic to expect depth to my Doctor Who this early on - the Sensorites have good reasons to be opposed to the human presence near their planet, the humans aren’t universally good people, and it’s all just so much more interesting than anything Terry Nation attempted. Sorry Terry.

Does it avoid being a bit dodge with its politics: 3/5, I shall elaborate on my problems with John’s stuff next episode, but it’s just kinda weird.

Overall Score - 23/30

#doctor who #dw #dw review #first doctor #ian chesterton #barbara wright #susan foreman #season 1 #21-25 #have i mentioned i love this story? because yeah i love this story #i dont know why its so slept on by the fandom but it is THE best of the first series apartfrominsidethespaceship #inside the spaceship has the best character stuff overall. this has the best scifi #the best themes #the best susan #AND it makes fun of the british empire at the end #what more could one want really

[spiderverseandstuff]

Welcome to my blog!

Hi! I’m Tay and I love all things spiderverse and Trolls, as well as some other fandoms listed in my bio that I also write for if requested.

Characters I will write for:

Spiderverse:

Hobie Brown

Miguel O’Hara

Gwen Stacy

Miles Morales

Pavitr Prabhakar

Peter B. Parker

Spider-Byte/Margo

My OC (Ari)

Trolls:

Branch

Poppy

Viva

Clay

Spruce/Bruve

John Dory

Floyd

Creek

King Trollex

Velvet

Veneer

Kid Ritz

Orchid

Cobra Kai

Johnny Lawrence

Daniel Larusso

John Kreese

Terry Silver

Tori Nichols

Robby Keene

Miguel Diaz

Moon

Yasmine

Demetri

Eli/Hawk

Samantha Larusso

Anthony Larusso

Hamilton:

Alexander Hamilton

Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

George Washington

Philip Hamilton

Eliza Hamilton

Peggy Schuyler

Angelica Schuyler

Beetlejuice (Movie/Musical):

Lydia Deetz

Delia

Beetlejuice

Barbara Maitland

Adam Maitland

Requests are: Open

What I will write:

Fluff/tooth rotting fluff

Of age Smut

Pregnancy

Fake dating

Friends to lovers

Enemies to lovers

Angst

What I will not write:

Incest of all kinds

Under-age smut

Water sports

Slow burn

Thank you for reading and please feel free to ask questions and submits requests!

#across the spiderverse #trolls #hamilton musical #beetlejuice #requests #fanfic

[teashadephoenix]

So I finished Holly this morning. The climax felt sliiiightly off but I havent really been able to suss out why I feel that way. Otherwise I was incredibly pleased with it. I love Holly to bits and she's one of my absolute favorite King heroines. I can't wait for the next one he comes up with.

I stand by my original assessment that the serial killers were the worst he's come up with yet. fucking monsters. i think maybe i wanted them to get hacked to bits with a hatchet. it was far too quick for them.

Having finished The Outsider last week, I decided go ahead and watch the HBO series, so i started that today and i keep having a little screaming fits when i recognise an actor. (no jason bateman don't be terry maitland BAD BAD THINGS paddy as claude NO) adaptations being what they are i have no idea if the same shit's gonna happen but based on the book AAAAAAAAAH

jobhunt continues.

#stephen king #the outsider #holly #holly gibney

[otakutemmiebooks]

Currently listening to The Outsider by Stephen King

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.

An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

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