#outsider actress

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 105 years ago: the fabulous Edith Massey (28 May 1918 – 24 October 1984) – snaggle-toothed naïve outsider actress, “egg lady”, punk granny, plus-size model, thrift shop proprietress and perhaps the most beloved of John Waters’ stable of regular actors. Massey made her film debut in Waters’ early “gutter film” Multiple Maniacs (1970). Her last appearance was in Polyester (1981). Her most treasured performances – as Mama Edie in Pink Flamingos (1972) and Aunt Ida in Female Trouble (1974) – will enthrall aficionados of cult cinema forever. The combo of Massey and Divine onscreen together is probably my all-time favourite comedy double act (like Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz for freaks and punks). Eat a hard-boiled egg or use “rah sha sha” in a sentence today in Edith Massey’s memory!

[bitter69uk]

“The first picture I saw that impressed me was The Prodigal (1955) with Lana Turner and when I was a child, I used to fill up the bathtub and put blue food colouring in it to make it blue like in Technicolour. I used to bring all of my mother’s plants into the bathroom and I had a yellow towel I would put on my head for blonde hair, for Lana’s hair. My mother had an ocelot coat and I used to put her coat which cost I think several thousand dollars on the floor of the bathroom, and I would go into the blue water with the blonde towel on my head, and make-up … blue eyeshadow …and get out of the water and slip into my mother’s high heels, walk on the ocelot coat with the plants all around and … I was Lana Turner in The Prodigal. A few years later I discovered Kim Novak in The Eddie Duchin Story (1956). I was always attracted to women with white hair. I thought it was the prettiest.”

/ Candy Darling quoted in a 1972 British documentary for British TV /

“Candy didn’t want to be avant-garde; she wanted to be Kim Novak.”

/ Bob Colacello in Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990) /

Born on this day: ethereally beautiful, memorable and funny transgender Warhol Superstar Candy Darling (24 November 1944 - 21 March 1974). (Yes, THE Candy “from out on the Island” immortalized in the 1972 Lou Reed song “Walk on the Wild Side”). Pictured: portrait of Darling by Jack Mitchell, 1971.

Candy Darling by Jack Mitchell 1971

[thefabulousfab-3]

If you cannot separate your hate for a character from the actor that plays them, you need help. If you are a grown ass adult and are harassing showrunners/writers because they made a decision you don’t like, you need help. If you feel the need to harass fans of a certain ship or character, you need help. At the end of the day it’s a tv show and those characters aren’t real. It’s never worth it to send actual death threats to people and harass them to the point of deleting social media. The fact that all this behavior is being perpetrated mainly by grown ass adults is even more disgusting.

[bitter69uk]

Died on this day 39 years ago: snaggle-toothed punk granny, plus-size greeting card model, thrift shop proprietress and “outsider actress” Edith “Edie” Massey (28 May 1918 - 24 October 1984) – perhaps the most beloved of all John Waters’ freaky repertory troupe of actors. Massey made her film debut in Waters’ early “gutter film” Multiple Maniacs (1970). Her last appearance was in Polyester (1981). Her most treasured performances – as Mama Edie the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos (1972), Aunt Ida in Female Trouble (1974) and Queen Carlotta in Desperate Living (1977) – will enthrall aficionados of cult cinema forever. The combo of Massey and Divine onscreen together is probably my all-time favourite comedy double act (like Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz for freaks and punks). Eat a hardboiled egg or use “rah sha sha” in a sentence today in Edith Massey’s memory! Pictured: Massey in Female Trouble (“You little bitch! Get me out of this goddamn bird cage!”).

Edith Massey in John Waters’ Female Trouble (1974)

[dallasgallant]

Still losing my absolute mind over Evie… she would’ve been too powerful if they included her in the movie.

I think she’s like a package deal with Steve at this point. He snuck up as a new favorite and now I’ve been thinking of her more than usual …

Steve whatever you do, dont👏 fall👏 asleep👏

[kumari8670]

Her name is Helga Sinclair, and she's acting on behalf of her employer who has a most intriguing proposition for you...

Are you interested?

[bitter69uk]

“I adored her. I loved her whiskey voice; she had this voice that just reeked of soul and sweetness. She was like the Billie Holiday of the dispossessed.” Stacy Keach “She had talent, yes but God she was exhausting.” John Waters "The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it." Susan Tyrrell

Died on this day: the truly wild maverick “outsider actress” Susan Tyrrell (née Susan Jillian Creamer, 18 March 1945 – 16 June 2012). “Actor often cast in sleazy, raunchy roles” was The Guardian’s headline for Tyrrell’s obituary. Seriously - what greater career summation could an actress possibly hope for? She brought nuance, humanity and perversity to her portrayals of grotesques, harridans, shrews and alcoholics. For better or for worse, off-screen the hard-drinking Tyrrell wasn’t dissimilar from the characters she played. And as Michael Musto concluded in his Village Voice tribute, “Hollywood never really embraced her – she was too strong, fiery, talented, unsculptable. Too unique.” Films I’ve loved her in: Fat City (1972), Andy Warhol’s BAD (1976), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Forbidden Zone (1980), Angel (1984) and its 1985 sequel Avenging Angel, Big Top Pee-Wee (1988), Cry-baby (1990) and Powder (1995). But if you’ve never seen a Tyrrell film, I’d recommend starting with ultra-freaky 1981 horror movie Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) as a starting point. She’s ferocious in that one!

[luxuriascloset]

Angelina Jolie looking beautiful while attending the Broadway premiere of the musical “The Outsiders” in New York City on April 11, 2024.

[sondheim-girly]

it’s so crazy to me when broadway actors from different shows know each other- like oh my god it really is a small community and oh my god the worlds are colliding and I LOVE ITTTT

[haileylnmt]

Guys what actress do you think would play Sylvia in the outsiders???

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Imagine trying to not only dictate how much of a fan of Scream someone is if they declare they boycotting Scream 7, but on top of that, trying to make it out like people are boycotting Scream 7 because their favorite actress is not in when in reality, its because Spyglass fired Melissa Barrera over her supporting Palestine and tried to ruin her via spreading lies about her being antiemetic and even when they did get into talks with her, they basically demanded she apologize for calling out a genocide.

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Mukkadas Kurban/Dài Si 代斯

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So cool as Fang ShaYàn 風莎燕 in I Am Nobody 異人之下!!

[bitter69uk]

“I either have lots of money or I’m penniless. I’m basically a c*nt either way, so it doesn’t mean much to my friends.” Susan Tyrrell interviewed by Michael Musto in The Soho Weekly News, 1981 

“She had talent, yes but God she was exhausting.” John Waters 

Died on this day: tempestuous maverick “outsider actress” Susan Tyrrell (18 March 1945 – 16 June 2012). Tyrrell possessed the talent and beauty to be a mainstream movie star (those heart-shaped cheekbones!), but her destiny lay in portraying grotesques, harridans, shrews and alcoholics. (When she died, The Guardian’s headline summarized her as “Actor often cast in sleazy, raunchy roles.” Seriously – what better eulogy could an actress possibly hope for?). For better or for worse, off-screen the hard-drinking Tyrrell wasn’t dissimilar from the characters she played. And as Michael Musto concluded in his Village Voice tribute, “Hollywood never really embraced her – she was too strong, fiery, talented, unsculptable. Too unique.” Films I’ve loved her in: Fat City (1972), Andy Warhol’s BAD (1976), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Forbidden Zone (1980), Big Top Pee-Wee (1988), Cry-baby (1990) and Powder (1995). But if you’ve never seen a Tyrrell film, I’d recommend starting with ultra-freaky 1981 horror movie Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) as a starting point. She’s ferocious in that one!

Gorgeous portrait of Susan Tyrrell by Rocky Schenck in promotion of Susu’s one-woman show, “My Rotten Life” circa 1991-1992. 🍸🚬

[ginaporterr]

So this has been really illuminating on so many levels, but we kind of have a musical to save.

SOFIA WYLIE as GINA PORTER High School Musical: The Musical: The Series | 4x06 – Trust the Process

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[bitter69uk]

"The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it." 

“I either have lots of money or I’m penniless. I’m basically a cunt either way, so it doesn’t mean much to my friends.” Susan Tyrrell interviewed by Michael Musto in The Soho Weekly News, 1981

Born on this day 78 years ago: tempestuous maverick “outsider actress” Susan Tyrrell (18 March 1945 – 16 June 2012). Tyrrell possessed the talent and beauty to be a mainstream movie star (those heart-shaped cheekbones!), but her destiny lay in portraying grotesques, harridans, shrews and alcoholics. (When she died, The Guardian’s headline summarized her as “Actor often cast in sleazy, raunchy roles.” Seriously – what better eulogy could an actress possibly hope for?). For better or for worse, off-screen the hard-drinking Tyrrell wasn’t dissimilar from the characters she played. When long-time admirer John Waters cast her as Ramona Rickettes in Cry-Baby (1990), he found the drunk and volatile Tyrrell a holy terror to work with (“God she was exhausting”). More happily, I love the actor and podcaster Sam Pancake’s recollection of encountering Tyrrell when she lived in Silverlake. Her roommate at the time was a drag queen performer called Sean DeLear. Tyrrell screeched to him, “Seanie was in the bathroom so long today I had to go out in the yard, dig a hole and take a shit in it!” If you’ve never seen a Tyrrell film, I’d recommend ultra-freaky 1981 horror movie Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (aka Night Warning) as a starting point. She’s ferocious in that one! Pictured: Tyrrell in her most acclaimed film Fat City (1972).

Fat City, 1972 ♥️♣️♦️🥃