#louise smith

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Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986)

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WORKING GIRLS (1986) dir. Lizzie Borden A day in the life of Molly, a Yale graduate in her late twenties living New York City who works in a Manhattan brothel to support herself and her girlfriend, Diane. Dawn, a college student, and Gina, an aspiring boutique owner, also work in the brothel, entertaining various male clients while Lucy, the brothel madam, is out shopping. (link in title)

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Working Girls, Lizzie Borden (1986)

[sharonaw]

The Fallout show confirmed my HC!

Spoiler after the jump.

I wrote a long time ago in PoRSG that the Brotherhood were sadist who branded the members of their own faction! And what happens?? They branded squires in the freaking show!!!

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This kids name is Louise Hades Smith.

Recently becoming a high schooler after her 14th birthday, Louise lives with her mother S.H Smith; a doctor who works at the local town clinic. Louise has a special interest in all things associated with dark magic, occult, and Voodoo; much to the worry of her mother.

One afternoon when her mother called to tell her daughter that she would be working late, Louise decides to take a bus and train ride to the next town over and go to an occult bookstore for something she ordered without her mother’s knowledge. The book is an encyclopedia of occult rituals and spells that Louise thought was just for show.

On her way home, she missed the bus and decided to try and walk home when the sun went down; leading to Louise witnessing a random stranger being knocked out and thrown into a van by people with very life-like puppets attached to them. In a failed attempt to run off and call for help, Louise is caught and kidnapped by Mortimer and Riley and taken to the studio; Mortimer not wanting a loose end like last time.

After being taken to the studio, Louise is deemed too young and small to be a proper host for any of the puppets by Mortimer; who is content with just locking her up and waiting until she is grown enough to use as a host. As soon as she gets the chance, Louise attempts to escape as Riley tries to take her to human resources to lock her up and study her. Riley and Rosco attempt to chase Louise down but lose her; making her lose her backpack with her belongings and the occult book in the process.

That’s when Louise meets Nick. Louise unknowingly finds herself in the art section of the studio and notices how empty it is; thinking she’s found a place to rest and recuperate as she starts thinking of a way out. But she quickly finds out that she’s not alone as another one of those puppets comes out of the shadows. Nick Nack had his eyes taken away and left blinded by Mortimer as punishment for the uprising Riley had planned out with him and Daisy. (mentioned in one of the recording tapes you can find in Midnight show) After a few tense minutes of listening to the sad artist talk to himself about how shitty living at the studio is, Louise realizes that Nick is very unlikely to do anything to her. She could make a deal with him and get him to help her find a way out.

Louise and Nick make a deal(that gets complicated down the track after Nick finds out about the occult book) that if she gets his eyes back for him, he has to help her escape the studio. After Louise finds Nicks eyes in an old costume chest and gets her bag back with the book inside, she helps the artist put them back in; restoring his sight and making him so happy he suddenly stops rhyming. Louise tries to see if she could contact her mum or the police but her phone runs out of battery and dies much her frustration. Before Louise can bring up nicks part of the deal, the book falls out of her bag and nick quickly picks it up; seeing a page about transferring spirits/souls in other vessels/bodies with a spell/ritual. Much to Louises frustration, Nick blackmails her into changing his part of the deal; telling her that he could just turn her over to Mortimer if he wanted(he doesn’t want to but he knows she won’t help him and the others willingly). So now Louise has to not only help Nick find a human body to transfer his spirit into, because he thinks this is the only way to finally be free from Mortimers abuse. But now she has to convince Riley(Rosco included) and Daisy to do the same(Nick would be the one to handle finding the right vessels/bodies for himself and the others to inhabit) while avoiding the sock puppets and Mortimer himself. Meanwhile, Louises mother comes home from work to find her daughter missing and thinks something terrible has happened.

Yeah, bit of a big introduction to an OC(and a fake plot summery for an uncanonical squeal) for an AU. I wanted to make someone who could be like a bit of a teacher of humanity to the puppets (along for another certain someone who will be mentioned soon). Because let’s face it; those three would only have one brain cell between them to share.

I’m gonna post some doodles for the puppet’s human forms in the future, so that’ll be fun. And whoever can guess who Louises mum is gets a cookie.

[byneddiedingo]

Louise Smith in Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986)

Cast: Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell, Marusia Zach, Boomer Tibbs, Frederick Neumann, Carla-Maria Sorey. Screenplay: Lizzie Borden, Sandra Kay. Cinematography: Judy Irola. Production design: Kurt Ossefort. Film editing: Lizzie Borden. Music: David Van Tieghem.

Working Girls puts the emphasis on the "work" in "sex work." All work is alienating in that we do it out of necessity rather than choice. Even the most enjoyable job involves the submission of self to the demands of the boss, the client, and time itself. That alienation is key to Lizzie Borden's deglamorizng of the profession of sex worker. The film's protagonist, Molly (Louise Smith) is a sensible, well-educated (if we take her at her word that she went to Yale) woman who has somehow become a prostitute in a New York City brothel, to which she commutes by bicycle through the city streets. For most of the film she is confined to a windowless apartment -- a feeling of claustrophobia develops through every scene in that setting -- where she services a series of men, feigning interest in them as well as orgasms. The men are ordinary, middle-class, mostly unthreatening business types with a few hangups and predilections. Molly collects her fees and sets aside part of the money for the madam, Lucy (Ellen McElduff), a giddy, vain, but shrewd businesswoman. Molly's downtime is spent chatting and gossiping (usually about Lucy) with the other women who work there, some of them bitter, some naive. The boredom and frustration the women express are much like the ones you'd expect from office workers, schoolteachers, retail clerks, anyone with a job routine: financial problems, relationship issues, resentment of the boss, distaste for some of the regular clients, and so on. It's hard to make a movie about boredom without being boring, but Borden succeeds, if only because of the titillation involved in a movie that focuses on sex. Smith and McElduff give good performances, but some of the other actresses deliver their lines a little woodenly. There's not much in the way of plot, but it's a solid, well-crafted film that feels a little obligatory, as if designed to make a point about sex work and the media's portrayal of it rather than just to tell a good story.  

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ANOTHER

[oswincoleman]

A newly released picture of Jenna Coleman and Matt Smith from a 2013 photoshoot, by Mark Harrison!

[lizshaw]

Behind the scenes of Classic Who: The Doctor and his companions (1967, 1974, 1977, 1984)

[abraincellandahalf]

I think the season finale was one of the most quintessential doctor who episodes in a long time. I'm sorry that 12's run and the entirety of Flux have set you up to expect something more grand and heroic and wild, but don't you see how much they're trying make this like 9's run? Rose was an ordinary nineteen year old who worked in a shop, and very briefly, became the most important person in the universe. You know who else is a normal nineteen year old? Ruby. You know who else is a completey normal person? Her bio mom. The entire premise of doctor who has been that every living being is important and worthy regardless of their role in the grand scheme of things, regardless of what powers they have or don't have. 11 didn't say "900 years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before" for all of you to call Louise Miller's part in Empire of Death "underwhelming"

I think doctor who fans need to step back and reconsider if they really pay attention to the show or are just looking for another Star Wars where everyone is Special™

[loveisdamnation]

sylvia plath | as consciousness is harnessed to flesh, susan sontag | invitation, mary oliver | imaginary conversation, linda pastan | birthday, andrea gibson | good bones, maggie smith | the painted drum, louise erdrich | mouthful of forevers, clementine von radics | new year’s eve, maggie smith

[sharonaw]

I've missed Louise.

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