#20th Century Pictures

[thepopculturearchivist]

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, January 8, 1934

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@giftober 2024 Day 2: IN BED Isidor and Ida Straus stay together till the end. Titanic (1997)

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Queen Nefertari, detail from a colossal statue of Ramses II, Luxor Temple. Photo by Rudolf Franz Lehnert (13 July 1878 – 16 January 1948), an Austrian photographer.

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Slumbering maidens photographed by Frank Eugene Smith (Germany, c1900)

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Time Travel Question 69: Assorted Performances VIII

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appreciation post for Lise Mayer!! she co-wrote The Young Ones (and The Bachelor Boys book, additional material like when they did Comic Relief, etc), which is well known. but she also wrote for other things in the alternative comedy scene like Rik Mayall and Ben Elton's comedy tour (source: BBC Breakfast Time interview)! and, something I didn't know until recently: she co-wrote/wrote for Kevin Turvey! she's not credited in his television appearances, but see below for sources.

i really loved the podcast episode she did with Alexei Sayle about TYO, you gain a lot of insight into her perspective! she also mentions misogynistic treatment like being asked to go make tea when they were doing script readings, not getting invited to a big BBC party because it was presumed she'd be Rik's plus-one, and getting groped at the BBC bar. it pissed me off on her behalf and partly prompted this post.

some specific accolades/accreditation/fun facts:

Rik crediting her with writing/conceiving the Kevin Turvey non-joke "All right, biting political satire: What do Lech Walesea and Menachem Begin have in common? They’ve both got foreign names! What do you mean it’s not funny?" (x)

Alexei Sayle in Thatcher Stole My Trousers crediting Lise with co-writing Turvey: "Lise was, like Linda for mine, a vital part of Rik’s career, co-writing both The Young Ones and Rik’s character Kevin Turvey..."

a 1987 source for Lise co-writing Turvey: "The assumption that women do not write comedy scripts was one with which Lise Mayer, co-writer of The Young Ones television series, has also had to contend. She started writing for Rik Mayall’s Kevin Turvey in the television series A Kick Up the Eighties..." (x)

Rowland Rivron (comedian who toured with The Comic Strip gang and lived with Rik and Lise) in What the f*** did I do last night?: "[Lise] also had the unenviable job of standing at the side of the stage when Rik was performing, and jotting down anything he said that was unscripted. If it got a laugh, it would be woven into the next night’s routine."

the only time i've ever seen a Rik Mayall/Ade Edmondson/Lise Mayer writing credit: for a poem called Distance which was collected in this anthology! Rik and Ade seem to have acted it out (or at least a version of it) in this 20th Century Coyote performance

Rik on Lise writing TYO: "‘She discovers different things: the comedy of embarrassment and awkwardness – she draws out the cheating and stealing that goes on in the house.’" (x) (Lise also says her "favorite comedy was always the comedy of embarrassment" in the Alexei Sayle podcast)

Rik: "... Lise Mayer wrote this great scene where I find a tampon in a handbag and it's my birthday party and I think it's a present because my character is Rick, who is such a git, he didn't know." (x)

Helen Lederer in Not That I'm Bitter, writing about being on The Young Ones: "[Lise] was known to be the brains behind it all, particularly the more surreal elements…"

she and Rik chose the bands (x)

Lise: “We’d have a table read at which point we’d discover that the script ran over an hour long, and then I’d have a sleepless night editing it.” Alexei: “You did that?” Lise: “Usually me, yeah…” (she later explains they'd present the script Monday and rehearsals were Tuesday, Wednesday-so she literally had one night to edit!) (x)

facts from the blu-ray commentary tracks:

Rick's yellow dungarees in Interesting were based off a picture of Lise in a similar pair

Lise wrote an essay about the tampon joke in Interesting so that the BBC didn't cut the scene (though they still edited it)

Paul Jackson (producer) credits Lise with arguing "you are seriously telling me that we cannot refer on television to something that happens to 50% of the population for about 30 years of their life? and we're not allowed to even refer to it" to make an executive back off about the tampon joke in a meeting

Lise came up with Neil's flowerpot covering in Nasty

Vyvyan/Vivian's name comes from Lise having lived in Vyvyan Terrace, Bristol

Lise thought of the cast switching costumes in Bambi (one of my favorite moments!!) (/end of commentary track facts)

this is guesswork, but i've seen Ben Elton and Rik Mayall's handwriting and i'm pretty sure the editing/handwriting on the bottom left on this script must be Lise's, which gives insight into what/how she wrote: (x)

i feel like it's easy for people to overlook or minimize Lise's impact, something that happens to female creators far too often. i hate when women's identities are framed around their association to a man-girlfriend to Rik in this case-which was the norm whenever i saw Lise discussed in articles/books/online discussions about TYO. it's important to know she was a writer and co-creator with her own identity and (underappreciated) contributions. The Young Ones (and Kevin Turvey, and things we don't even know she goes uncredited for) would not have been the same—or wouldn't have even existed—without her!

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I love that the premise of r1999 is basically just "what if the y2k bugs happened to the actual timeline" and then they made it Emotionally Devastating

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975

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Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters and Garfield from the Garfield comic strip have two shared actors.

Bill Murray plays Venkman in the live action Ghostbusters films and voices Garfield in Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, while Lorenzo Music voiced Venkman in Seasons 1 and 2 of The Real Ghostbusters and voiced Garfield in Garfield and Friends.

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That Came with the Frame

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The Picture Book

Artist: Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (British, 1891–1966)

Date: 1939

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: TATE, Britain

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was tryna take photos of this diorama but the back of it was a mirror, so i mostly ended up getting a picture of me

[theglitterdome]

Actress Dolores Hart

Happy 86th Birthday!

Born October 20, 1938

Actress Dolores Hart was a rising Hollywood star in the 1950s and 1960s. Many considered her the next Grace Kelly when she abruptly called it quits and became a nun. After appearing in films such as Where The Boys Are and King Creole, Dolores appeared as a nun in Francis Of Assisi and felt called to take holy orders in 1970. At 86 she remains Prioress of Regina Laudis and is still a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Ballet dancer Isadore Duncan, 1915

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"Our kittens, both named Peter"

Picture from 1916. Via swedens army museum. Link

I am just wondering why these two army barrack kittens are both named peter? Like... did they ran out of names?