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cookingmywaythroughcarryon · 4 years

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SAMOSAS AND CURRY

Welcome to another episode of Cooking My Way Through Carry On. Today I tackle one of the iconic meals in the book--Simon’s dinner the night he and Baz go after the vampires and the night where everything changes between them.

I made these samosas and this curry for dinner the other night and it was a rousing success. I’ll share the samosa recipe here and a link for the keema curry recipe I used!

“I’ve finished my curry and two orders of samosas, and I’m watching him read–I swear he sucks on his fangs when he’s thinking–when he snaps the book shut with one hand and stands up. ‘Come on, Snow. Let’s go find a vampire.’”

Carry On, Chapter 60.

These are baked samosas, since I didn’t want to deal with deep frying anything. They’re also vegan. I am a big fan of Isa Chandra Moskowitz and this recipe is from her book Vegan with a Vengeance, one of my favorite vegan cookbooks.

The keema curry recipe is one I got from a friend and it is so close to the one my father-in-law used to make for me that it brought back a lot of memories for us.

Samosas

Ingredients:

Dough Ingredients:

3/4 cup rice or soy milk (I used coconut milk--any of them work)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (any mild vinegar is fine, really)

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

about 3 cups of flour

Filling Ingredients: (sorry forgot to get photo)

3-4 medium size russet potatoes, peeled and cut into one inch chunks

2 tablespoons vegetable oil plus extra for brushing the samosas before baking

3/4 teaspoon ground cumin (the recipe called for cumin seeds which I didn't have and this worked fine)

1 teaspoon mustard powder (the recipe called for mustard seeds which I didn't have and this worked fine)

1 medium sized onion, very finely chopped

2 cloves garlic (or two teaspoons chopped garlic if that’s what you have)

1 tablespoon fresh ginger

! teaspoon ground coriander

1.2 teaspoon ground turmeric

pinch of cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon salt

juice of 1 lemon (or whatever equivalent is if you have lemon juice and not a lemon--it usually will say on the bottle)

3/4 cup frozen green peas

Method:

In a large saucepan, boil the potatoes for about 20-25 minutes, until they are tender (use a fork to poke them to check). When they are done drain them and set them aside.

Po-tay-toes (boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew) In this case they are to be mashed!

Make the dough:

Pour the wet dough ingredients into a mixing bowl.

Add 2 cups flour and the turmeric, baking powder, and salt. Knead the mixture until well mixed, adding the rest of the flour bit by bit until a smooth but not sticky dough is formed, Maybe 10 minutes by hand?

I cheated and used the dough attachment on my KitchenAid so it was a bit under that time. (I kneaded it a bit by hand when the mixer was done too.) (Something something about the gluten, per Paul Hollywood and GBBO.)

set the dough aside, cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap and begin working on the filling.

Preheat over to 400F somewhere in here

Filling:

Saute the onions with oil in the skillet on medium high for about 7-8 minutes or until the onions begin to brown.

add the garlic, cumin, mustard powder, ginger, coriander, turmeric, cayenne, salt, and lemon juice, and saute a minute more.

Add the potatoes (honestly it pains me to not type ‘po-tay-toes’ in true LOTR style)

Mash the potatoes with a spatula or potato masher until it’s all a big mash of potatoes and spices (taters, precious)

When the potatoes are well mashed and the whole mixture is warm then add the frozen peas to the mix. Mix well.

Back to the dough:

divide the dough in half and roll one half of it out on a floured surface until thin (I use a big silo pat as my surface)

Now cut out circles of dough. I used a 4 inch round cookie cutter ( 4 inch circumference not diameter).

Have a small bowl of water nearby

Cut out 8 circles

I rolled them out a bit once I cut them out, because they tended contract a bit when I cut them. Keep the shape circular.

Place 1 1/2 tablespoons of potato mixture into the centre of the dough circle, the dab the edges of the circle with water, fold over the edges to form a triangle shaped wedge and seal with your fingers.

Repeat until you have 8 roughly symmetrical samosas

Repeat process with second half of dough

Place filled samosas on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray or use a silo pat on the baking sheet and then brush each side of the samosa with vegetable oil

Bake at 400F for 15 minutes. Flip the samosas over and then bake them for 10 more minutes or until lightly browned.

Take out of the oven and let them sit for about 5-7 minutes to cool.

These may be frozen and reheated in the oven. They never had a chance at our house because the family descended on them like a ravenous pack of wolves.

Tumlbr is being stupid about letting me put photos between the steps today so here are all the photos in a row.

We had chutney in the fridge to go with the samosas. If you don’t have chutney here’s a quick recipe from the same cookbook:

chutney

1/2 cup coconut milk

1/3 cup finely chopped fresh mint or rehydrated dried mint in these times of pandemic

1/3 cup finely chopped fresh coriander. I don't know what to sub for this other than perhaps some ground coriander to taste

1 clove mince garlic

1 teaspoon maple syrup

1 teaspoon fresh lime juice

1/4 tsp salt

These were some work but the result was definitely worth the effort! Highly recommended. We also had curry along with the samosas, to really recreate the meal Simon had that night with Baz. The curry recipe is here and it is EXCELLENT!

And here is the recipe without the photos:

Samosas

Ingredients:

Dough Ingredients:

3/4 cup rice or soy milk (I used coconut milk--any of them work)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (any mild vinegar is fine, really)

1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

about 3 cups of flour

Filling Ingredients:

3-4 medium size russet potatoes, peeled and cut into one inch chunks

2 tablespoons vegetable oil plus extra for brushing the samosas before baking

3/4 teaspoon ground cumin (the recipe called for cumin seeds which I didn't have and this worked fine)

1 teaspoon mustard powder (the recipe called for mustard seeds which I didn't have and this worked fine)

1 medium sized onion, very finely chopped

2 cloves garlic (or two teaspoons chopped garlic if that’s what you have)

1 tablespoon fresh ginger

! teaspoon ground coriander

1.2 teaspoon ground turmeric

pinch of cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon salt

juice of 1 lemon (or whatever equivalent is if you have lemon juice and not a lemon--it usually will say on the bottle)

3/4 cup frozen green peas

Method:

Pour the wet dough ingredients into a mixing bowl.

set the dough aside, cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap and begin working on the filling.

Preheat over to 400F somewhere in here

Saute the onions with oil in the skillet on medium high for about 7-8 minutes or until the onions begin to brown.

add the garlic, cumin, mustard powder, ginger, coriander, turmeric, cayenne, salt, and lemon juice, and saute a minute more.

Add the potatoes (honestly it pains me to not type ‘po-tay-toes’ in true LOTR style)

Mash the potatoes with a spatula or potato masher until it’s all a big mash of potatoes and spices (taters, precious)

When the potatoes are well mashed and the whole mixture is warm then add the frozen peas to the mix. Mix well.

divide the dough in half and roll one half of it out on a floured surface until thin (I use a big silo pat as my surface)

Now cut out circles of dough. I used a 4 inch round cookie cutter ( 4 inch circumference not diameter).

Have a small bowl of water nearby

Cut out 8 circles

Repeat until you have 8 roughly symmetrical samosas

Repeat process with second half of dough

Place filled samosas on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray or use a silo pat on the baking sheet and then brush each side of the samosa with vegetable oil

Bake at 400F for 15 minutes. Flip the samosas over and then bake them for 10 more minutes or until lightly browned.

Take out of the oven and let them sit for about 5-7 minutes to cool.

These may be frozen and reheated in the oven. They never had a chance at our house because the family descended on them like a ravenous pack of wolves.

We had chutney in the fridge and it goes so well with the samosas but if you don’t here is a quick recipe:

1/2 cup coconut milk

1/3 cup finely chopped fresh mint or rehydrated dried mint in these times of pandemic

1/3 cup finely chopped fresh coriander. I don't know what to sub for this other than perhaps some ground coriander to taste

1 clove mince garlic

1 teaspoon maple syrup

1 teaspoon fresh lime juice

1/4 tsp salt

#cooking my way through carry on #the food of Carry On #carry on cooking #samosas #curry #iconic vampire hunting power meal #their first date

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recurring-polynya · 5 years

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For yesterday’s cake, I made a grapefruit genoise (I used the genoise recipe from the red-and-white King Arthur book, and added some zest to the dry ingredients and ~1/4 cup of the juice from the grapefruit into the wet).

I baked it in two 9″ rounds, and filled it with a layer of lime curd and some coconut creme patisserie a I just sprinkled it with powdered sugar for decoration.

Impressions: I think I overbaked the genoise. It was too stiff on the outsides. I maybe could have baked it as a single, thick cake in my springform, and then cut it in two, although I’m not confident that would have worked. It did not have a strong grapefruit flavor, but it may have just been overwhelmed by the lime. The batter got nice and fluffy though and tasted AMAZING, so I think I did at least part right.

This is the second time I have made this lime curd and it is amazingly good. The coconut creme pat was great, too, and I had no curdling accidents, which is pretty good, considering that altogether, this cake used just a ton of egg yolks. I did mess up my first genoise and had to start over.

Also, I never put in enough filling. The creme pat wasn’t terrible stiff and sort of squeezed out. I have a lot of extra curd and creme pat and I’m probably going to eat it with a spoon.

Reception: Beloved. We had some family friends over it and they were extremely complimentary. We all did Paul Hollywood impressions and criticized it for having “close crumb” and looking “a bit too casual.” (It was not a pretty cake, I did not take any pictures of it. I do pretty* cakes for the children, it’s my birthday and I ain’t got time for that)

* For certain definitions of “pretty.” My son requested a praying mantis cake this past year, and the rule in this house is, it’s your birthday, you get the cake that you want.

#baking #genoise #cake

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filmista · 6 years

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Casablanca (1942)

“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”

‘Casablanca’ a film we’ve all heard of even when we hadn’t seen it yet, open any book on film history, go through any list of best films ever made lists and it’s likely to make an appearance.

People that have never seen it know entire quotes from the film and have iconic images of the film in their mind, it’s that ingrained in our collective memory and that beloved.

‘Citizen Kane’ is considered the best film Hollywood has ever made, on a technological level but ‘Casablanca’ is considered Hollywood’s best entertainment. At that time, studios usually pumped out film after film, with no intention of making the best film ever.

But it seems that sometimes by pure luck and coincidence; the right people come together at the right time and place and a brilliant unforgettable film is a result; ‘Casablanca’ seems to have been the result of such an instance, everything about the film works, if there were a recipe for a great film, ‘Casablanca’ throws in every ingredient.

It has a simple (sometimes even seemingly impossible) but entertaining and suspenseful storyline, two great actors, giving it their all and in the roles that introduced them to the world, beautiful imagery, brilliant and in this case very significant use of music.

But still there were other great classic films, why is this the one that even people that have no clue about classic films and don’t like black and white films usually end up liking?

The story, which by now is pretty well known revolves around Rick, the cynical American manager of Rick's Cafe Américaine in Casablanca during the Second World War. Initially, we don’t know who this mysterious figure is, where he comes from or what he has experienced, but we soon notice how gloomy his outlook upon the world is.

He tolerates both actions of the collaborating Vichy government in his bar, as well as the private affairs that resistance people have to deal with, with only one golden rule: he doesn’t stick out his neck for anyone, always putting himself and his own safety first.

Indirectly Rick comes in possession of a couple of letters, signed by De Gaulle, which offer the carrier an indisputable, irrevocable passage to Lisbon, from where it should have been relatively easy to take a boat to America.

These letters serve as the McGuffin of the film: the object that everyone is all about, and that everyone wants, that sets the plot in motion, but ultimately is of little interest and has little meaning overall.

For example, we are required to believe that letters signed by De Gaulle and won’t be questioned by the Vichy government - you don’t have to be a history expert to realize that this is unlikely. And even if the signature would normally be sufficient, the Nazis were not known for taking that kind of business very seriously if that meant that they had to let a pivotal figure in the international resistance go free.

That pivotal figure is Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), a Hungarian resistance hero who, together with his wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), enters Rick's Café in the hope of escaping to Lisbon and then to America. But Rick and Ilsa have a shared past, consisting of Paris, champagne and the song "As Time Goes By".

One of the reasons why 'Casablanca' still works so well for a contemporary audience is likely because the film transcends all genres. There is a lot of humor in it, but it’s not a comedy, it contains a huge amount of drama, but it’s not a full-fledged tragedy either.

It’s also a highly romantic film and a piece of propaganda that fulfilled a very pertinent function in 1942: convincing Americans that it had indeed been a good idea, even a necessary to get involved in the war.

That idea becomes very clear in the final scene when Rick finally says goodbye to Ilsa and thus sacrifices his own feelings for her and doesn’t get to be with the woman, who’s probably the love of his life; all in favor of the greater good - Laszlo, the great resistance hero, needs her and the world needs Laszlo.

"The problems of three people are not very common in this crazy world," Bogart tells her, and in fact summarizes the dilemma of the American people at the beginning of the war.

Apart from the political agenda of 'Casablanca' at the time, the film is in the first place one of the greatest love affairs that cinema has ever seen, and together with 'Gone With The Wind' one of the most famous.

The scenario, written by the brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, provides much of the driving force behind the romance, but it’s the performance of Bogart and Bergman that do the heavy work - adding credibility.

Legend has it that the script was not finished during filming and that Bergman didn’t know with which of the two men she would get on the plane and fly towards freedom at the end. Curtiz then advised her to play it "a bit in between"

The result is that the confusion on her face, the doubt she has to play, is in many cases real. she perfectly conveys a feeling of helplessness and powerlessness that brilliantly matches her role.

Bogart, in turn, has just about all the good lines in the film, and with his witty cynicism, he effortlessly outshines the rather characterless Laszlo. The nominal hero of the film, the flawless, brave resistance man who was locked up in a concentration camp and managed to escape, is the most boring character of the entire film because he is so straightforward.

Laszlo is in everything an impeccable figure. Nothing is more annoying than that - we want to see Bergman with Bogey on the plane, when she doesn’t in the end, it's frustrating for the audience - but it's also a guarantee that Rick, at best, won’t change.

If Bogart had flown away with Bergman, he would have himself become the boring hero. He would have thrown his last bits of cynicism overboard, everything that made him the irresistible Rick from the rest of the film. As it is, we see him disappear into the mist, perhaps with one of the best scenes in film history: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

With all that - the politics, the love story, the performances - it remains difficult to define why 'Casablanca' is such a permanently popular film. I could mention the dialogues - 'Casablanca' is one of the most 'quotable' films ever, with gems like: "Here's looking at you, kid," "Play it, Sam, for old time's sake", and many others.

Of all productions from the forties, 'Casablanca' is one of the least outdated. Of course, the special effects are laughably naïve in comparison to those of today, and of course, there are certain parts of the story that would be done differently today, but the pace is still there, the humor still works and the romance pulls you in any way, whether you want it to or not.

It’s a very frustrating activity to write a review of 'Casablanca', because no matter how many aspects you name, no matter how many explanations you try to come up with for the continued popularity of the film, the feeling remains that you just keep scratching at the surface, and each time there are more elements, even more, stories to tell.

The cinematography, which is very functional, but regularly does absolutely beautiful things with shadows and continuously films Bergman from the left, in a hazy way, to make her softer and more beautiful, and two musical themes: the song "As Time Goes By" and the Marseillaise, which infuses the whole film with emotion.

Watching 'Casablanca' is returning to a very specific time in the film industry and the world and discovering that it’s a good place to spend some time every once in a while.

- When I said I would never leave you...

- And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

#“what’s your nationality? I’m a drunkard”#is one of my favourite ever film dialogues #casablanca #casablanca 1942 #casablanca movie #casablanca film #michael curtiz #ingrid bergman #humphrey bogart #classic films #classic movies #movies #films #classic cinema #cinema #movie review #film review #filmista

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sheepdogdg-blog · 4 years

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Some days are best described as surreal.

Certainly, living in 2020 we can say that a lot, but there was a day not long ago that seemed like it would be the enduring surreal experience of a lifetime.

One bright and sunny January morning in Los Angeles, only a couple of miles from a certain star on Hollywood Boulevard, just over two hundred and fifty men, women, children, babies — and one dog — sat in a small studio parking lot. These were not normal people. Oh no. These intrepid souls were of a very weird ilk, and each one of them was there to prove themself passionately so.

I was among them, you see, so I know a little bit of how we all felt on that day.

THE DAY THE MIRTH STOOD STILL

First, let me begin by saying I do not own the content of the pictures in this story. The majority of them are from two incredible articles by New York Times Magazine (this one and this one), and I would highly encourage anyone who wishes to learn more to show the journalist and photographer the love they deserve. I also don’t mean to suggest I actually know how every participant on that day felt; this is merely my personal account.

Okay. Now that we’re done with the gratuitous exposition, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled program.

The casting call was put out at the end of December. This was to be a once-in-a-lifetime photoshoot with a living legend, an icon, the ingenious prince of parody, known to the world as “Weird Al” Yankovic. Word was, Al was going to be photographed with three hundred warriors willing to stand in the breach while wearing “vanilla 80s Al” costumes.

Now diehard fans (and Paul Rudd on Halloween) already know what that means, but in case you don’t here is the recipe:

1 ‘Magnum P.I.’ Hawaiian shirt

1 jerry curl wig

1 pair of Jeffrey Dahmer glasses

1 porn ‘stache

1 pair of canvas top shoes (cost in 1984 – $20; current cost – $200)

1 unfailing sense of irony

Accordion, optional

Thousands responded, and just two short weeks later, hundreds of us were calling out of work and, in some cases, flying to California. I never dreamed I would get so lucky, but I was among the chosen few. I rushed up from my San Diego home. Destiny awaited.

Those of us in the fandom, having been sworn to secrecy, began to covertly contact one another with coded queries. “Are you – uh – going to the – uh- eagle landing?” I myself made plans with several dedicated luminaries I had met through mutual adoration of Al’s music (especially his originals, but the parodies are good too). I already knew his work appealed to a diverse group (of mainly white and nerdy) people, but nothing — not the concerts I have been to or the fan pages or the chance encounters while wearing merch — could prepare me for the pure spectacle.

There were accountants and real estate agents, flight attendants and grocery store clerks, comic book artists and reality TV editors, teachers and health care providers, police officers and criminals on the lam, all dressed as their hero. As we waited, we sang, danced, and played squeezeboxes of every shape, size, and color. When Al came, we stood and cheered, excited to see his excitement.

That was the moment I think we’ll all remember the most. He came out from the barn doors leading to the large white backdrop we’d all be standing with him on, and he thanked us for coming and making the day special for him.

Special for him.

There were two noteworthy people standing there with him. The first was his wife, Suzanne. She’s an accomplished person herself, a brilliant woman us fans are thrilled Al managed to marry. She’s a former television executive, responsible for putting many of your favorite shows on the air. Her photography is fantastic, and I’m very proud to have one of her pieces hanging on my wall. I, like many other Weird Al fans, am also a fan of her work.

The second person of note was Nina, their daughter. She seems to be equal parts Al and Suzanne, a brilliant mind with a large heart, passionate about the environment and a shy participant in her father’s legacy. Those of us who love Al simply can’t wait to see the woman she someday will become. Great things are in her future, to be sure.

The best part, possibly of the whole day, was seeing Nina dressed up like daddy. She would be posing with the rest of us.

We stood in relative silence. We were a crowd of respectful people, unwilling to disrupt the project. Not that it was a somber shoot. We laughed a lot. Our photographer was great! Hilarious and visionary. He was laughing along with everyone else at the absurdity of a horde of Weird Als standing in ranks like Terracotta soldiers, all smiling for the birdie.

This was not a man of little experience. Art Streiber is an award-winning photographer who’s snapped off shots of — well, everyone! Just check out this slideshow.

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My own personal experience may have differed from that of the others, but I’d like to take a few moments to write them for posterity’s sake.

First, I was fortunate enough to be placed in a memorable position for the shot. I got to hold one of the “weird” signs, and they even let me keep it. When the work was done, Al stayed and (reluctantly, perhaps) said hello to the whole mob. Yes, I am the very proud owner of a signed sign.

I would also like future generations to know that while directing the crowd to get into its ideal configuration, Mr. Speigel kept comically referring to me as Santa Claus. “Santa Claus,” he would say, “hide more of your face behind that sign.”

This one is for my own ego, but something I said made the whole group laugh, including Art — and I hope Al, but I couldn’t see his face. It was something I said intending to be funny, which is a bonus, because no one likes those incidental instances where everyone laughs at you. It may not have been groundbreaking, but it was good enough for the guy standing behind to pat me on the back.

Art: “Can you lift the dog higher. I want to see more of her face.”

Me: “That’s not a dog. That’s my wife.”

You probably had to be there, and I wish you had been. Especially if you’re a “Weird Al” fan. It was a great way to spend a day.

As I’ve said in previous posts, the Yankovic community is a good bunch of people, and I enjoy spending time with them. On this particular day, I got to meet a lot of great people. A big group of us went out afterward to the Farmer’s Market, where we shared our thoughts on Al’s legacy, some of us still greased up with Groucho-esque mustaches. We still keep in touch, sending each other funny memes or heartfelt messages of acceptance.

To anyone at that shoot or any other fan of “Fat,” I’m extending an open invitation. If you chance upon me at a show, say hello. After all, in a way doing so is like spending time with Al himself, because as the pictures prove, we’ve all got a little bit of his weirdness in us.

On a final note, I’d like to say something a bit personal.

First of all, thank you to the team who put this together. Thank you for including me. A special thanks to the participants who turned what could have otherwise been a dull block of hours waiting into something truly memorable. And thank you to Al himself for inspiring our passion.

On a day when I was notified I would be put on furlough from work. . . On a day when my sister, who is a nurse, was tested for Covid-19. . . On a day when she informed me of three infants at her hospital whose deaths were supsected to have been caused by the virus. . . On a day when Facebook totally changed their layout to something annoying. . . It is truly a comfort to have pictures like these to look upon and smile at the memory of.

270 Maniacs – My Lame Claim to Fame Some days are best described as surreal. Certainly, living in 2020 we can say that a lot, but there was a day not long ago that seemed like it would be the enduring surreal experience of a lifetime.

#art #fandom #Magazine #music #New York Times #photography #Weird Al #Yankovic

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nathgriffnegotiatedproject · 7 years

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Primary Research 3# -

Top Images

I wanted to point out some other key features I liked in various cookbooks. Starting with the top two Images, the left one is from ‘The Weekend Baker’ by Paul Hollywood and the second from ‘Gordon’s Greatest Hits’. What I liked about these was the photo montage/collage of numerous dishes and pictures of the chefs engaging in various activities. I like this Idea because it is something that Emma and I could incorporate in our book by using pictures of people engaging in the festival, to show off everyone having a good time, as well as showing off some of the nice dishes.

I really like how the Images are a nice size that they show off the dishes well. It would be a great opportunity to use some of my Images that may not make it into the final product and allows them to be showcased.

Bottom Images

Looking off at the bottom Images, something that really caught my attention here was the interesting illustrations of key ingredients that relate to the dish. I found these in a book called ‘much more Veg’ by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. I know my key focus is the photography with cookbooks but I found that these illustrations really compliment the photography on the page. It also helps the audience get a better understanding of the recipe and contrasts nicely on the white page.

Left Image

What I did like about the photography was mainly the really strong colours used. For example, the red dish shown on the bottom left has a really nice strong red that’s further complemented by the yellow inside of it, this really helps the dish contrast with the old style wooden background. I also really enjoyed the composition of the left Image as it appears at a slight angle and off centre showing that the Image doesn’t need to take itself to seriously by being purely neat and centred, something I’ll definitely be considering when doing my photography shoots.

Right Image

Again I really enjoyed the strong colours used here and how they really bring the dish to life. The yellow used in the right dish is really powerful and stands out quite well on the Image, something I aspire to achieve with my Images. I was interested in the use of green in the dish and how that contrasts the yellow content of the dish. Similar to the bottom left Image, I liked the composition of the bottom right Image as it was at a slight angle showing the author of the Image hasn’t taken it too seriously. The angle is also a great way to show off the contents of the dish as a whole.

Something else I liked about this Image was the use of background content, obviously, the main focus is drawn to the dish itself but I enjoyed the use of relatable background content to make the overall Image more appealing to the viewer. This is something I’d definitely consider for my Images.

Something I didn’t think was too amazing about the Image was the choice of background used, and this was due to it being a bit too similar to the choice of dish, which I felt blended too much with the background in my opinion. I think for my Images I would try to avoid this by being prepared with a whole range of colours to use for each dish and deciding which may be the best to use at that time.

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njawaidofficial · 7 years

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

On the 50th anniversary of her death, a look back by a Broadway actor at what a generation of stars (and Kardashians) owes the shrewd and extravagant trailblazer.

For broadcast journalist Elaine Stevens, now 68, it feels like it happened only yesterday. In fact, it happened exactly 50 years ago today.

Stevens answered the door to her parents’ Gulfport, Mississippi home. Her fiance, Ronnie Harrison, stood before her. Describing him today, Stevens still sounds 18: “He looked like Matthew Modine or Ralph Fiennes.” The couple was planning to elope three days later; Stevens was carrying their child. “The last thing he said to me was, ‘Will you always love me?’ And I said, ‘Of course I will. I’ll always love you.’”

That was the last time they ever saw each other.

Two hours later and 500 miles away, another woman, Vera Peers, awoke in a panic. Her daughter, Jayne Mansfield, had appeared to her in a dream. Standing atop a large, white stairwell, she was screaming, “Mama, I have a story to tell you. You have many steps to go. I’m at the top now, but I’ll be waiting for you.”

Vera awoke to the shriek of a police car’s wheels at her front door.

Jayne Mansfield, 34, movie star, mother and mother of invention, was gone, dead from a car crash on Highway 90 in Slidell, Louisiana en route to New Orleans. Also killed with her were her attorney, Sam Brody, and their driver, Stevens’ fiance, Ronnie Harrison. All three children in the car — Mickey Jr., Zoltan and Mariska Hargitay — survived.

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Jayne Mansfield was nobody’s fool. The world’s smartest dumb blonde appeared in 27 films (only a handful of them memorable). But her bid for immortality lives on in a thriving, “famous-for-being-famous” culture she helped to create.

Before stars could reach millions of followers in 140 characters and 60 seconds or less, Twitter’s equivalent had a name: Hedda Hopper. Facebook, too, had one: Louella Parsons. These, along with a dozen other syndicated Hollywood power brokers, formed a mainline to the heart of the American people. And Jayne was their pied piper, adept as any modern-day social media maven at keeping herself in the public eye.

In fact, if it weren’t for Mansfield then, there would likely be no Kardashians today.

***

Mansfield’s leverage of the press was never more potent than in 1957, when she seemed poised to take over the world.

Borrowing the test-driven public persona of Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield beat out Monroe herself in popularity polls. She had four major features under her belt, and Twentieth Century Fox estimated her worth at $40,000,000 ($350,000,000 today). Mansfield’s name was “magic at the box office,” Parsons wrote.

On tour with Bob Hope, Mansfield brought 100,000 servicemen to their feet (co-star Neile Adams remembers her “in a bikini in Alaska in 20-degree weather”). Mansfield’s impact on men was likened to that of Elvis Presley’s on women, leaving riots in her wake. She had, as columnist Walter Winchell put it, “the world in the palm of her little pink hand.”

So why is Jayne Mansfield barely remembered today?

The answer may lie in a single item that appeared in Hopper’s column at the turn of 1957: “Jayne Mansfield is pushing ahead too rapidly.”

In fact, she was pushing 60 years ahead of her time.

***

Less than three years before her meteoric rise, Mansfield, 20, left Texas for Hollywood with husband Paul and their first child, baby Jayne Marie, in tow.

Growing up, Vera Jayne Palmer was a violin and piano prodigy; her instructors felt she would someday conquer Carnegie Hall. She spoke five languages and boasted an IQ of 163. At one of three colleges she would attend, Jayne (she dropped the “Vera”) studied chemistry, abnormal psychology and drama — a seeming recipe for success in Hollywood.

In Dallas, where she lived for a time with her husband, Jayne studied with Baruch Lumet — celebrated Yiddish Theatre actor and father of director Sidney Lumet — who directed her in a “perfect” performance of Death of a Salesman. The Seagull was one of her favorites, and she longed to play Blanche DuBois.

Texas journalist John Bustin, who had known Mansfield since her theatrical debut in Austin Civic Theatre’s Ten Nights in a Bar-room in 1951, wrote of her potential in 1954: “She might prove bigger than, say, Jane Russell in a couple years.”

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In January 1955, Mansfield scored a plus-one to a press junket for Howard Hughes’ Underwater starring Jane Russell. Outfitted in a skintight red lamé swimsuit, Mansfield dove into a pool and, according to journalists, “had the genius to permit her bathing suit to split open.”

Overnight, Mansfield’s image was plastered across America as “Marilyn Monroe, king-sized.” In a Person to Person interview broadcast live before 20 million, Edward R. Murrow inquired about the wardrobe malfunction — to which Jayne replied innocently, “I don’t remember the incident.”

“Ever since Underwater, the press just adopted her,” says Ray Strait, 93, Mansfield’s former press secretary and biographer. Actually, it was Mansfield who hacked the system: Tapping into a sweet spot of marketing known as “optimal newness,” she presented a brand that was an ideal blend of both originality and derivation — a replica of Monroe who went just a bit further.

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Warner Bros. signed her briefly, marketing her as their “threat to Marilyn Monroe.” She tested for Rebel Without A Cause (Natalie Wood got the part), booked small roles (including an echo of Monroe’s breakout role in Asphalt Jungle in a film called Illegal) and posed for Playboy.

Paul Mansfield, recognizing that he would always be second choice to his wife’s career, filed for divorce and custody of their daughter. Jayne claimed Paul was jealous of her Chihuahua — and won. It turned out that flying solo worked to her advantage.

While men had always fancied Mansfield, women now sympathized with her. She became, ostensibly, the first sex symbol to wipe Freud’s “Madonna-whore complex” from the psyche of millions of American men. After all, who could fault a single mother who posed nude for Playboy “to pay for milk and food for the baby”?

***

Mansfield kept her last name but lost her Warner’s contract. It wasn’t long, though, before lightning struck again.

Headlines blared “Marilyn Monroe Is Due for Surprise” when Mansfield conquered Broadway in 1955’s Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Aping Monroe, she snagged a Theatre World Award and raves for her performance as a blonde movie queen. Her costar Orson Bean, 88, recalls fondly: “It became a hit because of Mansfield and all the publicity. She is the only performer who was on the cover of Life magazine twice in one year!”

Indeed, every day became Underwater for Jayne. In addition to managing motherhood, a melange of pets and a full-time show schedule, she orchestrated three to five personal appearances, photo shoots, interviews and endorsements per day. “I’m serving a kind of internship here,” she said. Actually, she was building an empire.

***

With Monroe sitting strike at Fox (she sought greater creative and financial control over her work), it wasn’t long before the studio sent scouts to size up Mansfield. Fox gave her a powerful launch, producing Mansfield’s most significant body of work — The Girl Can’t Help It, the film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and The Wayward Bus — in the first year of her contract. With strong reviews and respectable box office sales, Mansfield earned a Golden Globe Award, fulfilling Parsons’ prophecy that, in 1956, it would be “Mansfield to win, Loren to place, Monroe to show.”

Fox had signed Mansfield as a bargaining chip in the face of Monroe’s insubordination. But what the studio hadn’t counted on was that their new star would display a defiance all her own.

***

Like other sex symbols of her era, Mansfield was encouraged to date within the studio’s stable and not have children, a mandate to which she agreed — initially: “Too many Hollywood stars are getting married too fast,” she quipped in 1956. “I’ll devote myself to work during this seven-year contract. After that, I can have four kids. This town was built on glamour, not babies.”

A little over a year later, however, she married former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay. Despite her proclaimed wish for “a quiet, dignified” wedding, 90 percent of her guests were newspapermen — and an estimated 8,000 spectators turned up after she revealed the locale, the glass-paneled Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes, in the papers.

In short order, the second of Mansfield’s five children was on the way. Her embrace of motherhood set a precedent for other leading ladies, becoming an expression of her femininity rather than a deterrent. Nevertheless, pregnancy did not sit well with the Fox image factory, and it cost Mansfield roles.

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As Monroe came back into the fold at Fox, Mansfield bucked the studio’s publicity machine and engineered stunts to gain traction. One event in particular branded her in public memory.

“The party was in full swing when Jayne arrived,” recalls Mitzi Gaynor, “gorgeous and at her most platinum. It was one of those oh-so-showbiz moments when the whole room seems to stop for an instant. She sensed it, seized the opportunity and the rest is history.”

The soiree at Romanoff’s, celebrating Sophia Loren’s American debut, became something of a coming-out party for Mansfield’s decolletage instead. While Mansfield denied any premeditation — or even awareness — of the spillage, friend and fellow contract player Robert Wagner remembers differently. He laughs when recalling how he spotted the “sweet and marvelous” star, whom he often accompanied to premieres, from his car at a red light en route to the party. “I see her in her car, and she’s putting rouge on her nipples!”

The girl couldn’t help it.

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Fox was beside itself. Stars were meant to be unattainable; a movie ticket was the price of access. Mansfield, however, “would open a cracker box if she thought it would get the press there,” recalls Strait. “She had to have that spotlight all the time.”

The consequences of this pursuit began to reveal themselves in the columns of those who’d helped launch her career: “She has been far too accessible to every lensman, scribe and high school reporter,” barked columnist Dorothy Kilgallen.

If the studio couldn’t shake her of the habit, it could punish her — and did. At $200,000 per picture, Fox loaned Mansfield out to studios overseas while retaining her services at $1,250 per week. The quality of her films diminished, as did her cachet.

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Fond of telling reporters, “If you’re going to be a movie star, you should live like one,” Mansfield fulfilled the fantasy by purchasing a Sunset Boulevard palazzo in 1958 and re-christening it “The Pink Palace.” She actually preferred purple, but since Columbia chief Harry Cohn had already dubbed Kim Novak “the lavender blonde,” Mansfield exhibited her branding genius — again. “Now I had a gimmick,” she declared, replete with matching pink car, furs and poodle.

With the Palace came mounting expenses, and Jayne’s business acumen kicked into high(er) gear.

As one of Las Vegas’s first — and highest-paid — female headliners, she earned $200,000 for 10 weeks of work: Fox’s loan-out fee for an entire motion picture. She built an adjunct career leveraging her notoriety in exchange for cash, food and furnishings for her family and menagerie of pets — to the tune of $10,000 per ribbon cutting. A 1961 Associated Press headline trumpeted her ingenuity: “She has found a way to capitalize on fame which may create an entirely new kind of star. There’s not much to the part, but the pay is spectacular.”

“To merchandise her popularity outside of films, she did exactly what she should’ve done,” notes Derek Thompson, author of the bestselling Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction. “As tastes changed at the gatekeeper level, she went directly to the people. She was innovative because she had to be.” For Mansfield, the motivation was simple: “I turned $2,000,000 worth of publicity into $300,000 cold cash. That was my objective. It still is.”

Once again, she hacked the system.

***

And then in 1962, the world changed. Marilyn Monroe was dead — and with her passing, the era of the blonde bombshell was over.

The day of Monroe’s death, a tiny item ran in the papers indicating that Mansfield had been dropped from Fox. The perfect storm that had brought her to the studio had now taken her from it.

The day after Monroe’s passing, it was reported that Mansfield was separating from Mickey Hargitay, whom many considered to be her Rock of Gibraltar. She told reporters before telling him.

***

If Mansfield had hacked the system in the ’50s, she would crash it in the ’60s. She had spent years “out-Monroe-ing Monroe.” Now she was determined to out-Mansfield Mansfield.

After telling columnist Earl Wilson that “nudity just doesn’t mix well with motherhood,” she starred in Promises, Promises — breaking ground as the first major star to appear in a nude scene onscreen. While Mansfield’s appearance in the film kicked open doors that would be entered by countless actresses after her, it also ruptured a social contract she had worked hard to maintain — that of “accidental exposure.”

Again, there was method to her madness: Contradiction, by design or caprice, had been her call-in-trade since the dawn of her career. It was typical for Mansfield to tell reporters “I’m through with cheesecake” before crossing a busy intersection in a leopard-print bikini, causing a three-car pileup. “I’m done with publicity,” she alerted the press at a Catholic funeral service held for her pet Chihuahua, Galina.

There was likely a genuine desire behind all of these statements — but there was also an intrinsic understanding that when audiences grow habituated to a product, that product grows obsolete. The solution, then, was dishabituation — the deliberate disturbance of audience expectation. Madonna may have mastered it, but Mansfield started it.

***

A funny thing happened after Promises, Promises. Jayne had shown audiences more and now they expected more — at a lower price. While she continued making films, touring with a nightclub act and even starring in plays, public interest shifted almost entirely from the roles she played to the person she had become. Referring to herself as “a goldfish,” Jayne’s medium, at last, became her message.

“She can sell newspapers and magazines, attract millions of television viewers and draw crowds everywhere she goes,” wrote a Canadian journalist, “but at the movies, she’s a big bust… It could be that the public got so much of Jayne Mansfield for free that paying for the same privilege was too much.” Another critic asked, “She acts? Who cares?”

***

Mansfield told Parsons in 1956, “I want to be a great actress.” But shortly afterward, she told rival columnist Sheila Graham, “The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They’re personalities.” The conflict illustrated by these statements was one with which Mansfield wrestled for the entirety of her career.

On a whistle-stop promotional tour for the film adaptation of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Jayne began telling journalists that, more than anything, she wanted to play Hamlet. They thought she was joking.

After meeting Mansfield in 1957, Love Boat and Mary Tyler Moore Show star Gavin MacLeod, 86, recalls a fortuitous encounter with Ben Bard, director of new talent development at Fox. Bard — who had molded stars as diverse as Alan Ladd, Mickey Rooney and Olivia de Havilland — told MacLeod in no uncertain terms, “Jayne Mansfield was the best Hamlet I ever saw.”

***

Mansfield once said of herself and television, “we were meant for each other.”

Co-stars from her earliest appearances, from Carol Burnett to Jamie Farr, remember her with great fondness, and she remained a prolific presence on talk shows in later years. Hairdresser-cum-song stylist Monti Rock III, who appeared with Mansfield on a memorable episdoe of The Merv Griffin Show, remembers the “extraordinary, incredible lady” who took him under her wing: “She taught me about the importance of the press,” he recalls. “It took someone like Jayne to help me understand who I was: I was famous for being famous.”

Notes P. David Ebersole who, with Todd Hughes, co-directed the upcoming documentary, Mansfield 66/67, “She really was the first star to create the idea that the public needed to know who you are — not just the public persona, but behind closed doors.”

Toward that end, in 1965, Mansfield produced and starred in a pilot playing an actress who wants to do Shakespeare — but settles for playing Jayne Mansfield instead. Part sitcom, part proto-reality show, The Jayne Mansfield Show seemed a natural fit for the actress who had already surrendered a good portion of her private life to public consumption. Thirty years ahead of its time, it was quietly shelved by NBC.

***

“By today’s standards, her act was extremely tame,” recalls Stevens, whose fiance died with Mansfield in that fatal car crash. “But at that time, she was like the original Lady Gaga. She had a brand, and it was called ‘Jayne Mansfield.’ And, like most women of her day, she did what she had to do to keep her family fed.”

Stevens, author of the forthcoming memoir, Mermaid in the Window, still finds the events of 1967 “extremely painful.” After the crash, she was forced to give up her child for adoption. It would be more than 30 years before Stevens would see her daughter again. When the two reunited in 1999, “It was just remarkable seeing part of Ronnie walk the earth again.”

Stevens feels that reporters at the accident site were “a precursor to the paparazzi fascination with [Princess] Diana,” heralding a deeper dive into an era of no-holds-barred journalism in which Mansfield, regrettably, had a stake.

***

Mansfield’s film work never did engage the public in the way that Marilyn Monroe’s had (few ever would). While Marilyn was unattainable, Jayne was entirely available. There was little for audiences to chase, so Mansfield chased them instead.

A 1967 Los Angeles Times elegy concluded that her ingenuousness led her to confuse “publicity and notoriety, stardom and celebrity.” Joe Schoenfeld, then-editor of Daily Variety, added that Mansfield had “won what our culture has instructed her to achieve. And don’t sell her achievement short.”

In 1964, she even engaged in a publicity campaign called Jayne Mansfield For President. Who knows? In today’s world, she might have won.

Erik Liberman currently appears in Broadway’s War Paint and is co-author of the upcoming book Luminous Life (New World Library, 2018).

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Miami Beach Gay Pride Announces Marshals For 2017

Honoring Four Individuals Who Significantly Contribute to the LGBT Community

For the first time in its nine-year history, Miami Beach Gay Pride will honor four individuals who have made significant contributions to the LGBT community as Pride Marshals. Television personality and pop culture expert Ross Mathews will serve as Grand Marshal; celebrity bartender and cast member of iHeart Radio’s “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” “Uncle” Johnny Pool, will serve as the Advocate Marshal; and philanthropists and advocates Liebe and Seth Gadinsky will serve as Ally Marshals. Miami Beach Gay Pride is presented by Celebrity Cruises and runs April 7 to 9, 2017. “We are really proud to expand our Marshal program this year,” said Mark Fernandes, chair of the Pride board. “As an organization and an event, it is critical that we embody the diversity and inclusiveness of the entire community we serve. We can think of no better way to live up to that promise than by celebrating the accomplishments and efforts of these four outstanding leaders.”

Openly gay comedian, TV host and author Ross Mathews will serve as Miami Beach Gay Pride’s Grand Marshal leading the loud and colorful parade that’s expected to draw over 130,000 spectators this year. Mathews is a strong supporter of the Human Rights Campaign, speaking at many of their nationwide events and receiving their Visibility Award in 2011. He has hosted the GLAAD Media Awards, officiated a same-sex marriage from a float in the middle of Capital Pride in Washington D.C., and recently produced a widely hailed video response to a personally degrading comment made by Milo Yiannopoulos during his resignation press conference as senior editor at Breitbart.

Of his video response, The Advocate later reported: “Knowing he can be an example for kids across the world who don’t have positive role models is what drives him most, (Mathews) went on to say, ‘I’m afraid that the kids like me out there now will see his message and not my message. So I want every kid out there who is different, who feels different, who knows that they’re different to know that that’s good.’” Mathews entered the public psyche as “Ross the Intern,” a correspondent on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Currently, Mathews can be seen hosting the nationally syndicated daily entertainment talk show “Hollywood Today Live,” which was just renewed for its second season. He’s part of the E! Network’s red carpet commentary team and has guest judged on “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.”

In addition to his work on television, Mathews can be heard weekly on his top rated podcast “Straight Talk with Ross Mathews” [PodcastOne] where he gives his hilarious take on the latest entertainment news and gossip.

In 2013, Mathews released his first book, “Man Up: Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence” [Grand Central Publishing], which quickly became a national bestseller. “Man Up” takes readers inside Mathews’ personal journey from coming out to his family, to becoming a super fan, while revealing the most embarrassing and hysterical moments of his small town life and big city adventures. It chronicles his journey of how he managed to turn an obsession with pop culture into one-on-one interactions with A-List celebrities.

“Uncle” Johnny Pool is a legendary bartender who bartended at the world-famous Stonewall Inn in the 1960s. He was an active participant in the Stonewall Riots, widely credited as the beginning of the equal rights movement, and has since fought for the equality of all human beings regardless of sexuality or skin tone. The Advocate Marshal, new for 2017, honors an individual who has fought tirelessly for LGBTQ equal rights.

Pool got his start bartending in Cherry Grove on Fire Island where he has worked for over 53 years. His career began at The Beach Hotel & Club in Cherry Grove in 1964, which would later become The Ice Palace. He currently works at Cherry’s on the Bay and is celebrating his 17th year this summer. With over 53 consecutive years bartending at the legendary LGBTQ summer destination, Pool has seen it all. Now he can be heard as the oldest living intern on “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” the #1 top 40 radio show in the country, where he bartends on a weekly basis. Johnny is best known on the show for his infectious greeting, “Hello Lady”, as well as his sometimes irreverent knock-knock jokes. To celebrate “Uncle Johnny” and his decades of fighting for equal rights, Miami Beach Gay Pride will turn one the bars in Lummus Park into Cherry’s on the Bay and Pool will make special appearances at the bar to mix his favorite cocktail recipes. Bartenders throughout the Pride Festival will also wear “Hello Lady” buttons.

Also new for 2017, the Allied Marshal pays tribute to LGBTQ-allied individuals who have championed social justice and human rights. Liebe and Seth Gadinsky have devoted over two decades to advancing social justice. Seth serves on, and formerly chaired, the board of the Anti-Defamation League in Florida. Liebe is dedicated to building community through her volunteer efforts, having distinguished herself as a strong supporter and advocate for human rights. Through her volunteer work for SAVE (Safeguarding American Values for Everyone), she worked tirelessly to help pass and defend the Miami-Dade Human Rights Ordinance. She served on the Board of The Miami Foundation and its GLBT Community Projects Fund Advisory Board. Liebe currently serves on the board of the National LGBTQ Task Force and formerly served as the first straight ally to chair the board. Additionally, she has spent the last 10 years helping ensure the success of the Task Force Gala – Miami. Together, Seth and Liebe are passionate supporters of myriad LGBT organizations in Miami-Dade and beyond.

Since its inception in 2009, Miami Beach Gay Pride has grown from a neighborhood event to an event on the global stage with A-list celebrities such as Elvis Duran as Grand Marshal in 2016 and Jordin Sparks as headline entertainer. Mario Lopez was Grand Marshal in 2015, Gloria Estefan was Grand Marshal in 2014 and Adam Lambert performed in 2013. Attendance has grown as well. An estimated 15,000 spectators turned out for the first Pride parade in 2009; an estimated 130,000 attended the event in 2016, which attracted not only South Floridians, but also visitors from throughout the world. In addition to Parade spectators, last April’s event included more than 65 parade contingencies, 35 floats and 2,700 participants. The Pride Festival which followed featured more than 100 LGBTQ-friendly vendors and businesses, plus refreshments, two stages of entertainment, a family-friendly play area and fireworks. Recently, Miami Beach Gay Pride was named one of the “Top 100 Events of the Year” for the third year in a row by BizBash Magazine and earned the Pink Flamingo Award as favorite multi-day event for the fourth year in a row. For 2017, Miami Beach Gay Pride will be a full, three-day weekend, April 7 – 9, and will include a Friday night VIP Reception, Saturday beach party and festival, and Sunday parade and festival.

Miami Beach Gay Pride is produced with the support of the Miami Beach Visitors and Convention Authority. In addition to Celebrity Cruises as the presenting sponsor, other sponsors include: 1015 Multimedia; AHF; Ambiente / Unity Coalition; Artfood Staffing & Hospitality; Atlantic Broadband; Bank of America; Barefoot Wine & Bubbly; Bayou Rum; BB&T; Brown-Forman; Blick Art Materials; Chase; City of Miami Beach; Coca-Cola; Crunch; Craig Zinn Automotive Group; CVSHealth; Delmay and Partners; Fertility & IVF Center of Miami; G.H. Cretors, Cornfields; Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; Gulfstream Park; Hiro Sake; Herradura; HotSpots / Mark’s List / Genre Latino; iHeart Radio: 103.5 The Beat, 93.9 MIA, Enrique Santos, Tu 94.9, Y100; Jack Daniels; Jackson Health System; Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce; Miami Gay Blog; Monster Energy; NBC6 / Telemundo; Palette Magazine; Pollo Tropical; Pride.com; Source Events; Salvation; Score; South Beach Hotel Group; Spartacus; Stoli; T Mobile; TD Bank; The Gaythering; The Hub at the LGBT Visitor Center; The Palace; Twist; URGE; Walgreens; W South Beach Hotel; Washington Park Hotel; Wet; and Wire Magazine. For more information visit www.miamibeachgaypride.com.

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

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Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?

On the 50th anniversary of her death, a look back by a Broadway actor at what a generation of stars (and Kardashians) owes the shrewd and extravagant trailblazer.

For broadcast journalist Elaine Stevens, now 68, it feels like it happened only yesterday. In fact, it happened exactly 50 years ago today.

That was the last time they ever saw each other.

Vera awoke to the shriek of a police car’s wheels at her front door.

***

In fact, if it weren’t for Mansfield then, there would likely be no Kardashians today.

***

Mansfield’s leverage of the press was never more potent than in 1957, when she seemed poised to take over the world.

So why is Jayne Mansfield barely remembered today?

The answer may lie in a single item that appeared in Hopper’s column at the turn of 1957: “Jayne Mansfield is pushing ahead too rapidly.”

In fact, she was pushing 60 years ahead of her time.

***

Less than three years before her meteoric rise, Mansfield, 20, left Texas for Hollywood with husband Paul and their first child, baby Jayne Marie, in tow.

***

Mansfield kept her last name but lost her Warner’s contract. It wasn’t long, though, before lightning struck again.

***

Fox had signed Mansfield as a bargaining chip in the face of Monroe’s insubordination. But what the studio hadn’t counted on was that their new star would display a defiance all her own.

***

As Monroe came back into the fold at Fox, Mansfield bucked the studio’s publicity machine and engineered stunts to gain traction. One event in particular branded her in public memory.

The girl couldn’t help it.

***

With the Palace came mounting expenses, and Jayne’s business acumen kicked into high(er) gear.

Once again, she hacked the system.

***

And then in 1962, the world changed. Marilyn Monroe was dead — and with her passing, the era of the blonde bombshell was over.

The day of Monroe’s death, a tiny item ran in the papers indicating that Mansfield had been dropped from Fox. The perfect storm that had brought her to the studio had now taken her from it.

The day after Monroe’s passing, it was reported that Mansfield was separating from Mickey Hargitay, whom many considered to be her Rock of Gibraltar. She told reporters before telling him.

***

If Mansfield had hacked the system in the ’50s, she would crash it in the ’60s. She had spent years “out-Monroe-ing Monroe.” Now she was determined to out-Mansfield Mansfield.

***

Mansfield once said of herself and television, “we were meant for each other.”

***

In 1964, she even engaged in a publicity campaign called Jayne Mansfield For President. Who knows? In today’s world, she might have won.

Erik Liberman currently appears in Broadway’s War Paint and is co-author of the upcoming book Luminous Life (New World Library, 2018).

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