#monroe city

[monroecitypod]

OPEN CASTING CALL!! SEEKING ALL AGES AND GENDERS!!

MONROE CITY: A new podcast about the unusual lives of the residents of Monroe City, USA.

- Unpaid opportunity for early-career actors

- Gain experience in voice acting

- Get samples for your reel

- Be a part of an exciting new project

AUDITION INFO

- Choose 2 of the 4 of the provided monologues

- Record yourself performing the 2 monologues

- Send the MP3 file, resume, and weekly availability to

monroecitypodcast@gmail.com by 11:59pm on July 4th

- PLEASE NOTE: Must be available for callbacks on

July 16th or 18th at 5PM CST/ 6PM EST

[10bendog]

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY CN CITY!!! <3

This was my favorite era from the channel's history and I needed to commemorate my love for it for this occasion. I wish we'd see the city bumpers return, updated with more characters from all the shows that have aired since, but until then, I'll be doing it myself.

Speaking of, stay tuned next week, because I have two more of these prepared to post for the rest of June.

Here's also the full-scale drawings. It hurt a little to shrink and compress them on the city screenshot, so I'm posting them separately. :)

"This is Cartoon Network."

[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed in Atlantic City, 1952.

[intricate-ritualz]

i think my life is losing momentum / i think my ways are wearing me down

[ballpitbee]

OCs I went and drew today for a big thing im makin

[bellafemme]

[lovelyballetandmore]

James Monroe Števko | Jersey City Ballet

[simsterslife]

Places like skatepark.

[detroitlib]

View of businesses located at 18-30 Monroe St. Businesses include Monroe Gold Refiners, Shannon's Bar, Wormser Hat Shop, Wohlmuth Co., Central Hat Shop, and Dr. Strunk, dentist. Taxis in street; Cadillac Square building is visible in background. Printed on front: "18-30 Monroe."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[tufnation]

AI - Marilyn Monroe

[indy829]

Just watched Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023) and enjoyed all of the sartorial homages to mid-century Hollywood by costume designer Mileno Canonero, especially with Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe.

First up, we have the Edith Head-designed crisp white halter top and pistachio green pencil skirt ensemble cinched at the waist with a white belt that Kelly wore in Rear Window (1954). They even have Scarlett Johansson wearing a bracelet on the same wrist that Kelly wore her chunky charm bracelet. Even more bonus points for having Scarlett with a cocktail in-hand while wearing this outfit.

And then there's the floral dress that Johansson is seen wearing that is adorned with hand-painted pink and green cactus flowers. The floral design, along with the sleeveless bodice, quarter buttons that bifurcate said bodice, and jewel neckline encircled by a strand of tight-fitting pearls, really hammers home the Rear Window outfit Canonero wanted to reference. The main difference between the dresses is that while Johanssen has pink and green cactus flowers to match the desert setting of the film, Kelly's flowers are a golden yellow. These dresses are also both worn during the most action-oriented scenes in their respective films.

There are loads of Old Hollywood actresses Asteroid City could have referenced, so why Kelly? Well, Rear Window is largely a tale about the voyeurism displayed by the charcater portrayed by Jimmy Stewart. In Rear Window, the audience becomes complicit in that voyeurism as well. Asteroid City utilizes the lateral camera movements and dollhouse set designs favored by Wes Anderson to convey a sense of voyeurism, especially when the characters portrayed by Johannson and Jason Schwartzman are gazing into each other's (side) windows.

In these scenes, a couple of other mid-century actresses are referenced. While Johannson's outfits are mostly Grace Kelly-inspired, her hair and makeup are more decidedly Elizabeth Taylor, especially with how the latter looks in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

Could this be a reference to the fact that the playwright charcater portrayed by Edward Norton in AC is heavily-patterned after real-life playwright Tennessee Williams who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Is the pressured stream-of-consciousness dialogue that Anderson has been favoring lately imitating that of Tennessee Williams characters who are always bursting at the seams to reveal their hidden truths?

And finally, the last 50s actress I saw a reference to was also a bit of a downer. TW for self-harm/suicide.

Johansson portrays an actress in the film and often runs her scenes and lines with Jason Schwartzman's charcater. In one such scene, she is pantomiming overdosing in her bathtub. The most noticeable prop is a comically large bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume placed on a stool nearby. Why is this relevant? Chanel No. 5 was the purpoted favorite of Marilyn Monroe (though some reports that her actual favorite was Floris Rose Geranium, but the cultural image we have of her today is tied closely to Chanel).

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this scene. It seems that the film at large is a satire of/homage to 1950s Hollywood. Maybe this scene was a parody of the glamorous tragedy of the era that we as a culture still fetishize. Maybe it's a critique on how cruel the voyeurism of audiences and filmmakers can be especially with films like Blonde (2022).

The character herself, an actress who is considered glamorous but also complicated to work with being brought out to a remote desert locale brings to mind Marilyn Monroe filming The Misfits (1961) in the northern Nevada desert.

All-in-all, I enjoyed this latest outing with Wes Anderson and really admired how much thought and precision was put in by the likes of Mileno Canonero. I know that there are probably a ton of other references and homages I didn't mention here, but these are just a few impressions based off of my initial viewing last night.

[monroecitypod]

MONROE CITY NEEDS YOU!

There are tens, possibly evens twenties of residents that HAVE NO VOICE! You can help.

Pick two of our monologues, record them in an MP3, and send it our way along with a copy of your resume and rough availability for the next few months.

Oh, but you gotta be available July 16th or 18th at 5PM CST/6PM EST for callbacks. Everyone who's anyone is available July 16th or 18th at 5PM CST/6PM EST for callbacks.

Give a voice to the voiceless: Audition For Monroe City Podcast

[aurora-doll-333]

Marilyn Monroe being filmed by a young fan in New York City, 1955 ☕️💋

[cokedupblonde]

she’s the coolest

[ballpitbee]

Got paranoid I draw too many angular faces so I drew my humanoid characters to compare em

(Then realised theyre my OCs, and I like drawing angular faces... so it doesnt matter SHDGH)

[neonfeel]

Pulp Fiction (1994)