It was considered a special effect. James Earl Jones talked about getting credit for Darth Vader, which was considered a special effect. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-03-30-0803280455-story.html
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There was a time when women were used - and used - TV to advertise various things, including actual products. In an otherwise male-dominated flick, I find Dolores Gray refreshing in here over-the-top impression of Betty Furness, Jacqueline Susann, Faye Emerson, and all those other women who wanted to be taken seriously (?) as “Television Personalities” (I’m finding it difficult to take the latter two words of that sentence seriously). Anyhow…it’s MIDNIGHT WITH MADELINE, no matter what time it is where you are!
Her man is “Clifton Webb and Marlon Brando combined!”?
Oh dear…Webb was gay and lived with his mom (I read they resembled each other very closely); great actor, though, even though he was a fussy scene-stealer at times. Brando…um…well, all I can say is that the song lyrics are meant to reference their screen personas. Except maybe not Webb as Waldo Lydecker in “Laura”, lol.
And what are the merits of wearing what looks like a basic slim evening dress with a front left-leg slit having what appears to be a fur-trimmed tutu over it? WTF, did she have holster hips or something? They dress her like that in “The Opposite Sex” (1956), too, a year later. In any case, many movie fashions are designed with the fact in mind that they will be foisted upon female filmgoers. Oh, and the latter film is a musical remake (!) of that 1939 classic, “The Women”, with June Allyson (bleah) in the Norma Shearer role. (migawd Allyson’s forehead is Metalunan!)
But, they’re as feminist as they could get away with back then, along with “How to Marry a Millionaire” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (both 1953). I’m just glad we aren’t required to wear spike heels everywhere any more.
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The second item about the periods is what made me decide to post, but the whole thread is fascinating.
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I misread that…I thought it read, “…she was just a blank stare.”
I’m projecting my feelings about the entire franchise, I guess, lol - just one blank stare.
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Apparently, Natalie Wynn said something dismissive of non-binary people.
And by my reading Emily Gorcenski is saying we need to be more open to “I was wrong”…
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I’m not really sure what’s going on there. My knowledge of her is basically her participation in the Shakespeare read for Samaritans on Twitch. I’ve been Googling to fix that… there’s a lot of opinions flying around, but the original posts are gone.
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Obligatory as all hell:
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Peak mansplaining:
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DTMFA.
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Thread:
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It was a tossup between this topic and Random Silly Grins… but most of this thread is hilarious:
(And of course, there are the typical #notallmen and “well, guys like boobs” replies, because.)
Onebox issue? Editing to fix:
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Or Canadian.
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It’s the underscores. Discourse interprets them as italic indicators and truncates the url.
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