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#PLEAAAAASSSSEEE just ONCE bring the eyeshadow back I'm BEGGING 🙏🙏🙏#Tyler brought the red beanie back. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!! JUST PUT THE DANG MAKEUP ON#twenty one pilots#twenty øne piløts#twentyonepilots#tøp#josh dun#tøp clique#blurryface#blurryface era#joshua dun#signature garbo#the bagel boy
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List of reported and confirmed Warner Home Video DVDs that have rotted:
Box Sets and Series:
4 film favorites: Hugh Grant
4 Film Favorites: King of Horror- The Dreamcatcher side of Disc 1 doesn't load in any player. That side of the disc has become discolored.
4 Film Favorites: Lethal Weapon
4 Film Favorites: Urban Action (Black Belt Jones, Hot Potato, Black Samson, Three the Hard Way) - Hot Potato freezes at layer chagne
Adventures of Superman: The Complete Fifth & Sixth Seasons - Disc 2 (2U / L907)
Alfred Hitchcock - The Signature Collection-All these discs fail at the layer change:- Foreign Correspondent- Strangers on a Train: Two-Disc Special Edition (both discs)- Stage Fright- Suspicion- The Wrong Man
Animaniacs Seasons
Astaire and Rogers Collection Vol 1 and 2 and complete set
Barbara Stanwyck Signature Collection
Batman - The Complete Animated Series- Volume 2, Disc 3 starts skipping at episode 5.- Volume 3, Disc 2 doesn't play the last episode.
Bette Davis Collection Vol 1
Bette Davis Collection Vol 2
Bette Davis Collection Vol 3
Blade Runner 4 Disc Collector’s Edition-Disc 1,2 and 4
Burt Lancaster Signature Collection
Busby Berkeley Collection Vol 1
Busby Berkeley Collection Vol 2
Buster Keaton TCM Archives collection
Cary Grant Signature Collection
Clark Gable Signature Collection
Classic Comedies Collection
Classic Comedy Teams Collection
Classic Musicals From the Dream Factory Vol 2
Classic Musicals From the Dream Factory Vol 3
Cult Camp Classics Volumes
Dallas-multiple seasons
Doris Day Collection Vol 2
Dukes of Hazzard - Multiple Seasons
Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton collection
Elvis Presley [Deluxe 2-Volume] (10-Disc Set)
Errol Flynn Signature Collection Vol 2
Errol Flynn TCM Spotlight WWII Adventures
Esther Williams Collection Vol 1
Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 3
Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 4
Film Noir Classic Collection Vol 5
Forbidden Hollywood Vol 1
Forbidden Hollywood Vol 2
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Friends: Season 3, Disc 1,Season 6, Discs 1, 3, and 4
F-Troop Season 2
Gary Cooper Signature Collection
Greta Garbo Signature Collection
Henrik Ibsen Collection- The Master Builder and The Lady From The Sea will not play.
Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection Vol 2
James Cagney Signature collection
James Stewart Signature Collection
Joan Crawford Collection Vol 1 and 2
John Ford and John Wayne Collection
John Ford Collection
Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection
Katharine Hepburn Collection
Legends of Horror Collection-all discs rot.
Literary Classics Collection
Lois & Clark - The Complete Fourth Season: Disc 4 freezes at episode 3 on one player and read as invalid on another.
Looney Tunes Gold Coll 5 - Disc 2,Disc 4
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 2: Disc 3
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 4 - all four discs have rotted
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5 - all four discs have rotted
Lucille Ball Film Collection
Man From Uncle Complete Series: Season 2 Disc 6
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection- TCM reissue pack is okay
Motion Picture Masterpieces Collection
Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection TCM Spotlight
Nancy Drew Movie Mystery Collection
One Tree Hill
Paul Newman Collection
Pinky and the Brain seasons
Popeye Volumes
Powerpuff Girls Complete Series
Rooney & Garland Collection
Sam Peckinpah Collection
Shakespeare Collection
SilverHawks Volume One - Disc 4 (2U / L906)
Smallville - The Complete Sixth Season: Disc 2 skips and freezes. Discs 3 and 4 only play the first two episodes on one player and read as invalid on another.
Spawn: The Animated Collection - 10th Anniversary Signature Edition (Steelbook)- Disc 1 freezes and skips over the opening eight minutes of the first episode.
Stanley Kubrick - Warner Home Video Director's Series
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - Disc 2 (60, L387)
Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition Tin-multiple films and extras no longer play. Some discs completely rotted.
Superman: The Theatrical Serials Collection: Disc 4
Supernatural (Season 2), some episodes on discs 4 & 5 won't play
Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Fifth Season: Disc 1, Disc 2 froze before the end of the last episode on one player and read as invalid on another.
Tales from the Crypt - The Complete First Season: Disc 1 doesn't play.
Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Sixth Season: Disc 1 & 2 won't play some of the episodes. At least three are inaccessible.
Tarzan Collection Vol 2
TCM Archives Laurel and Hardy Collection - both discs rotted
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection - Horror
Tennessee Williams collection
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection - both discs rotted
The All-New Super Friends Hour Volume One - Disc 1 (2U / L908), Disc 2 (2U / L907)
The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection
The Cult Camp collection
The Exorcist - The Complete Anthology- Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist fails at the layer change.
The Flash: The Complete Original Series - Disc 2 (2U / L907), Disc 6 (2U / L907)
The John Wayne Collection
The Sopranos
The Twisted Terror collection
The West Wing-Multiple Seasons
Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 2: Discs 1 and 2
Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection Volume 3: Disc 1
Tough Guys Collection-reissued as Gangsters Volume 2
Twisted Terror Collection
Vacation/European Vacation- Comedy Double Feature release
Val Lewton Collection-I Walked With A Zombie / The Body Snatcher, The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars - The Complete Second Season
Veronica Mars - The Complete Third Season
Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 1
Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 2
Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 3
Warner Bros Gangsters Vol 4
Individual Titles (Boxsets listed if originally released as part of a set):
2001: A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series
30 Seconds to Tokyo
A Clockwork Orange-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series
A Free Soul/Divorcee-A free Soul rotted-Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Shakespeare collection and standalone
A Nightmare on Elm Street - Infinifilm Edition
A Slight Case of Murder-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2
Across the Pacific-Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection - Volume 2
Act of Violence /Mystery Street (Only Plays Mystery Street) Film Noir v4
Action in the North Atlantic-Bogart Signature Collection v2
Adventures of Don Juan-Errol Flynn SC V2
Air Force
All This and Heaven Too
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Arsenic and Old Lace-snapper case
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Infinifilm Series)
Babes In Arms- Rooney & Garland Coll
Babes on Broadway- Rooney & Garland Coll
Bathing Beauty-Esther Williams Vol. 1
Best Foot Forward
Billy Budd-Literary Classics Coll
Black Legion-Gangsters V3
Blade Runner- 4 disc collector’s edition
Bombers B-52
Boom Town
Born to Dance
Bringing Up Baby-Classic Comedies Collection
Broadway 1936
Brother Orchid-Gangsters v4
Bullets or Ballots-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2
By the Light of the Silvery Moon-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Captain Blood-Errol Flynn SC V1
Captain Horatio Hornblower-Literary Classics Coll
Captain of the Clouds-James Cagney Signature Collection
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-Tennessee Williams collection
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory SE
City for Conquest-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2
Command Decision
Crime Wave/Decoy-Film Noir V4
Critic’s Choice
Cruising
Damn Yankees
Dance Girl Dance
Dangerous When Wet-Esther Williams, Vol. 1
Dark Passage
David Copperfield-Motion Picture Masterpieces
Decoy-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4
Deep in My Heart-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3
Desperate Journey-Errol Flynn TCM WWII Adventures
Destination Tokyo-The Cary Grant Signature Collection
Dinner at Eight-Standalone copy
Dive Bomber-Errol Flynn SC V2
Dog Day Afternoon SE
Dr. X/Mask of Fu Manchu-Legends of Horror
Dragon Seed-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll
Droopy
Du Barry Was a Lady
Each Dawn I Die-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2
East of Eden SE
East Side West Side
Eight Legged Freaks
Evelyn Prentice-Powell and Loy TCM Collection
Executive Suite-Barbara Stanwyck Signature Collection
Eyes Wide Shut-Stanley Kubrick Director’s Series
Female/Three on a Match-Forbidden Hollywood v2
Firecreek-James Stewart Signature collection
Flamingo Road-Joan Crawford V2
Flying Down to Rio (Astaire/Rogers Collection)
Fort Apache
Friendly Persuasion
G Men-Tough Guys Collection and Gangsters V2
Garbo Silents Collection-Garbo Signature Collection
Gentleman Jim-Errol Flynn Signature Collection V2
Girl Crazy-Rooney & Garland Coll
Gold Raiders/Meet the Baron double feature
Hairspray SE
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix SE
High Sierra
His Kind of Woman-Noir V3
His Majesty O'Keefe-Burt Lancaster Signature Collection
Hit the Deck-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3
I Love You Again (Loy/Powell collection)
I'll See You in My Dreams-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Illegal / The Big Steal (only plays Illegal)-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4
In This Our Life-Bette Davis collection v2
Invisible Stripes-Gangsters V4
Jeopardy-Barbara Stanwyck: The Signature Collection
Jailhouse Rock Remastered (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Elvis Presley 10 Film Set
John Carpenter’s Someone is Watching Me
Julius Caesar
Kismet-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3
Lady Be Good- Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3
Lady Killer-Gangsters V3
Land of the Pharaohs-Cult Camp Classics v1
Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol 1 disc 1 & vol 5 disc 4
Love Crazy-Powell and Loy TCM Collection
Lucky Me-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Madame Bovary-Literary Classics Coll
Manhattan Melodrama-Powell and Loy TCM Collection
Meet the Baron/Gold Raiders-Gold Raiders won’t play
Mogambo-Clark Gable SC
Mr. Skeffington-Bette Davis collection v1
My Dream Is Yours-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Mystery Street-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4
Neptune's Daughter-Esther Williams, Vol. 1
Night and Day-The Cary Grant Signature Collection
Night of the Iguana
Ninotchka-Garbo Signature Collection
Nothing But Trouble-Classic Comedy Teams Collection
Lucky Man
On An Island With You-Esther Williams V1
On Moonlight Bay-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Operation Crossbow
Othello-Shakespeare Coll
Passage to Marseille-Bogart Signature Coll V2
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid SE-Peckinpah Collection
The Wild Bunch 2 disc SE-Peckinpah collection
Personal Best
Popeye
Popeye vol 1 discs 1 & 4
Presenting Lily Mars
Pride and Prejudice-Motion Pic Masterpieces
Prince of The City
Rebel Without a Cause
Red-Headed Woman-TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 1
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reunion in France
Rio Bravo
Roberta-Astaire Rogers coll
Romance on the High Seas-The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2
Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare coll
Royal Wedding-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2
Sadie McKee-Joan Crawford V2
Shawshank Redemption SE
Shoot the Moon-Rooney and Garland coll
Side Street-Film Noir Classic Collection Volume 4
Splendor in the Grass-snapper
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle-Astaire and Rogers
Straight Time
Streetcar Named Desire
Strike Up the Band-Rooney and Garland Collection
Superman the Movie [Four Disc Edition]
Superman II [2 Disc Deluxe Edition]
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman III (Deluxe Edition)
Superman IV-deluxe reissue
Superman Returns
Tarzan’s Desert Mystery-Tarzan collection v2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Unrated)
That Midnight Kiss-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2
That’s Entertainment 3
That's Dancing-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2
The Big Cube
The Big Steal-Film Noir v4
The Charge of the Light Brigade-Errol Flynn SC V2
The Clock (1945)
The Comedians-Taylor-Burton collection
The Corn is Green-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll
The Dawn Patrol-Errol Flynn SC V2
The Devil Doll/Return of Dr. X-Legends of Horror Collection
The Divorce-Forbidden Hollywood V2
The Fighting 69th-James Cagney Signature collection
The Flintstones
The Fountainhead-individual and Gary Cooper Signature Collection
The Golden Compass SE
The Great Lie
The Great Ziegfeld
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Hill-WWII collection
The Informer-John Ford collection
The Jazz Singer-2007 release
The Little Giant-Gangsters v4
The Live By Night/Side Street-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4
The Maltese Falcon 3-disc SE and Humphrey Bogart: The Signature Collection - Volume 2
The Man Who Came to Dinner-Bette Davis collection
The Naked Spur-James Stewart Signature Collection
The Old Maid-Bette Davis V3
The Pirate-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2
The Prince and the Pauper-snapper case
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex-Errol Flynn SC v1
The Prodigal
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Stratton Story-James Stewart SC
The Three Musketeers-Literary Classics Coll
The Toast of New Orleans-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory, Vol 2
The West Point Story-James Cagney Signature Collection
The Wreck of the Mary Deare-Gary Cooper SC
The Yakuza-Robert Mitchum SC
There Was A Crooked Man
They Died With Their Boots On-Errol Flynn SC v1
They Live By Night-Side Street-Film Noir v4
Three Little Words
To Please a Lady/Jeopardy-Jeopardy does not play. Barbara Stanwyck SC
Torch Song-Joan Crawford V2
Treasure Island
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Undercurrent-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll
Vacation/European Vacation Comedy Double Feature release
Wally Gator
Watch on the Rhine-Bette Davis collection V3
Waterloo Bridge-TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection - Volume 1
West Point Story-James Cagney Signature collection
Where Danger Lives/Tension-Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol 4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SE-Taylor Burton Collection
Without Love-Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniv Coll
Wizard of Oz- 2 disc SE
Wonder Woman
Words and Music-Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 2
#warner bros#dc#cartoon network#power puff girls#fosters home for imaginary friends#superman#hugh grant#alfred hitchcock#animaniacs#pinky and the brain#batman the animated series#Youtube
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Hey, it seems like you really know a lot about Greta Garbo. I saw a signed photo that is addressed to Miss Louise. Would you happen to know who Miss Louise would be?
thank you so much for your trust! i believe i am not aware of who "miss louise" is as i am sure this dedication was not autographed by garbo herself. you'll find countless photographs like this with fake signatures. i even answered a question recently related to this here on my blog (link) and garbo rarely agreed to sign autographs. so it's very likely that we don't know the miss louise mentioned, it could be anyone.
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Wait wait galaxy brain thoughts here --
In an AU where the figure out Palpetine's a Sith a bit sooner :
Mace Windu is retired from the stage because "I want to be left alone" officially, but unofficially he got promoted to the Council and doesn't have time for hobbies outside the Temple.
One of his biggest fans pre-retirement, who shows up at every opening night, hangs out at the gala specifically to talk (gush) about Mace's brilliant turn as Mak-Bet in The Mon Cala Play, and get an autograph for his fictional nibling: Sheev Palpetine.
(Sheev knows Mace is a Jedi, but talent is talent, and dramatic stage arts are his only Sith weakness)
Council discovers Palpetine's the Sith. Council starts a headcount to see how fast and how many Jedi can they call back before the Sith makes a move, maybe Anakin can spy on the Chancellor --
Not necessary, Mace assures them, they have some time because he has A Plan, calls up an old director friend, and suddenly the holonet is tearing itself apart because Mace Windu will be making a triumphant return to the stage as Do-Ker Charlay in a new production of The Valachord Lesson next month.
Hold off on Order 66 boys and girls, Sheev's too busy using force-lightning on scalper bots trying to get front row center tickets for the first week of performances without having to pawn a Sith artifact.
Taking some pages out of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich's playbooks, Mace offers a private meet and greet to the Supreme Chancellor on opening night, and of course in deference to the threats on the Chancellor's life he will meet him in his dressing room entirely in the nude to assure him that this is not a secret assassination plot.
(This is the point where Sheev should have realized the Jedi were on to him, but One. Sith. Weakness.)
Once the Chancellor agrees it's time for the Jedi to put on the best little show to save the Republic
Anakin was not invited because everyone knows he hates theater/opera. The only time he willingly goes without a bunch of whining about how he's bored is when Palpetine invites him.
Obi-Wan is just relieved that he's not playing honeypot this time. He's excited to be the lead electrician operating the spotlight in the catwalk.
Quinlan, Tholme, and Ayala have fully invested themselves in the roles of beleaguered head costumer / make-up artist / hair stylist.
Yoda is stage manager.
Sheev shows up backstage and is ambushed by Mace Windu holding only his actual lightsaber and 50 Jedi cast and crew who quickly turn him into a lightsaber pin cushion.
Anakin, who was invited to attend by Palpetine but has not recognized that the man whose face and name are on all the playbills and posters is THAT Mace Windu feels the shift in the Force and joins in on the fun, not realizing until it's too late that Palpetine's the Sith they've all been stabbing backstage. (This incident will spur Anakin to be assessed by neuropsychologist who diagnosis him with face blindness among many other diagnoses).
Mace Windu wins a Honorary Award at the Corusc-ony Awards for saving the Republic through the power of theatre.
The End
(References:
1. "I want to be left alone" - Greta Garbo on her retirement.
2. Macbeth aka The Scottish Play in theatre circles.
3. Fuck scalper bots and Ticketmaster.
4. Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich both allegedly (take with a pound of rock salt) had similar plans to assassinate Hitler that involved being in a room with him alone and naked.
5. Samuel L. Jackson was nominated for a 2022 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role as Doaker Charles in The Piano Lesson by August Wilson.
6. By operating the spotlight in the catwalks, Obi-Wan maintains the highest of grounds at all times.
7. All of Quinlan's costume designs are sleeveless. Aayla has no clue what to do with humanoid hair so it's pigtails and headbands for everyone. They both get nominations for their work come awards season.
8. Turns out Anakin has been using people's Force signatures to identify them all these years instead of their faces, which explains how no one caught on, but does bring up questions about how he was fooled by the Rako Hardeen incident, not to mention how he missed that his friend the Chancellor's a SITH...
9. Coruscanti Tony Awards and a hat tip to Samuel L Jackson's Honorary Award at the Oscars in 2022)
Happy Birthday Ian McDiarmid
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ok im like an hour late but its birthday time baybee
#idk if theyre supposed to have the same birthday but whatever i wanted to draw them together#my art#ocs#lola samson#lyra samson#also peep the new signature#p sure ill change all my online shit to shirine even though ppl mispronounce it still#also this colour palette is garbo but lets just hope the night screen is skewing that
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INTRODUCTING ... I POUR ALCOHOL INTO THE GAPING HOLE IN MY CHEST. IT DOES NOT HEAL / NOT TODAY / MAYBE TOMORROW.
GENERAL DETAILS.
FULL NAME: weston tobias abbott NICKNAME(S): wes, toby, chef in professional settings AGE: forty DATE OF BIRTH: november 22nd PLACE OF BIRTH: westerly, ri CURRENT LOCATION: westerly, ri — returned officially about nine months ago ETHNICITY: caucasian; german & british hailing GENDER: cis male PRONOUNS: he / him ORIENTATION: questioning RELIGION: lapsed catholic OCCUPATION: executive chef & current owner of restaurant ‘ six oh one ‘ LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: two bedroom flat downtown; he’s hardly unpacked since moving in but at least he has a couch! FINANCIAL STATUS: upper middle class with tendencies to splurge on practical and collectible items alike. SPOKEN LANGUAGES: english, conversational german
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, ETC.
FACECLAIM: chris evans HAIR COLOR AND STYLE: dark brown, styled in a medium length quiff with tapered sides. EYE COLOR: cornflower blue with flecks of green. EYESIGHT: farsighted, often wears round frame reading glasses to combat such. HEIGHT: 6′1″ WEIGHT: 187 lbs. BODY AND BUILD: well built & athletic TATTOOS: lots of meaningless stick and pokes dotted around the few that actually have some meaning; most notably, his brother’s birthday transcribed on his left wrist. PIERCINGS: none, but he still has a scar from that one time he had a brow piercing. CLOTHING STYLE: moody with classical, slim silhouettes when not adorning his whites in the kitchen. SIGNATURE SCENT: devoted dior sauvage wearer
HEALTH.
MENTAL DISORDER(S): unmedicated anxiety disorder SLEEPING HABITS: constantly tired, hardly well rested; sleeps ‘ when he can ’. EATING HABITS: unregulated but he keeps a somewhat healthy diet. SOCIABILITY: none. do not perceive him. ADDICTIONS: alcoholism, previous history with prescription pill abuse. DRUG USE: irregularly, only smokes weed ALCOHOL USE: frequently but not socially
PERSONALITY.
LABEL(S): the isolato, the crestfallen, the despondent POSITIVE TRAITS: independent, ambitious, imaginative, competitive, reliable NEGATIVE TRAITS: enigmatic, nihilistic, domineering, perfectionistic, penitent HABITS: taking up space for no good reason: sprawling across chairs and couches, leaning in doorframes and against walls, taking his anger out on his line staff, nervous hand rubbing. GOALS AND AMBITIONS: hardly inhibits any current long term ambitions on account of his therapist’s suggestion; for now, wes’ only goal is getting through the day.
FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, ETC.
MOTHER: gisela abbott ( 67, alive ) FATHER: elias abbott ( 73, deceased ) SIBLING(S): jaime abbott ( 39, deceased ), mila abbot ( 37, alive ) PET(S): none officially but he’s befriended a stray cat unofficially garbo on account of how many times he’s spotted it rummaging in the garbage bins behind six oh one.
BACKSTORY
TW: child neglect, familial loss, mentions of mental health
the eldest by a handful of months, weston grew up trying to be everything his little siblings needed. their parents are twisted but he would learn to see them1 through rose-colored glasses instead of living in pain. when his siblings fell, he felt it, too, & when they cried, weston was the shoulder to lean on. it’s too much responsibility. his parents fed and clothed them, but he held their mental health in his hands and the truth is he was no better. weston just got so good at hiding behind this mask that he couldn’t seem to tell the difference between himself & party favor anymore, and the fact of the matter is that while weston was quiet and just so different in a way that his parents feared he would be, he blended in like a chameleon.
he was class president & prom royal. that’s the way it’s always been. but all the academic strivings and kodak ready smiles in the world can’t hide the fact that weston was no better. the older he got, the more they could see. his grandmother, first. then his little brother’s best friend. his first love. everything he tried to hide sits in his lap & wes tried to wrestle it into submission and but sometimes it won. they know him but he doesn’t. his eyes flashed golden sometimes when he’s mad enough that he remembers that he’s the one who put the burn stains on the wood floors of his family’s old home, but he’s more human than anyone can ever even imagine.
he was angry in a way they couldn’t be. he liked classical music at prolific volumes and he liked driving his car too fast and wes liked making people regret believing in him. his mother scoffs. says he’s just like his grandmother who she moved countries to get away from, who drank vodka like orange juice, who never could stand the way her daughter liked to lie to herself. his father glances away. asks weston to please turn that down, or please show your ‘ friend ‘ out, or to please stop ruining dinner. when he’s home alone again at age eighteen wes makes them regret treating him like this. and when he’s nineteen when they leave the keys to the porsche in his eyesight. and when he’s twenty-one and him and jaime can’t even make it up the steps to the front door because you’re so wasted new years eve. wes can be angry and vicious and that made him really fucking happy in a way that nothing else does.
but, when his father passes, reality grips wes with a frightening stillness. while his siblings are inducted into the family business and take the helm of the restaurant, wes packed his life away into cardboard boxes and leaves washington for the first time in his life. his first taste of true freedom. freedom, as it turned out, felt an awful lot like being confined as well, as weston shackled himself to shitty jobs to keep a steady flow of money coming in, living in leaky flats with shitty roommates and eating a lot of humble pie as he figured himself out. eventually, he finds his own current and instead of cleaning dishes, he prods the idea that had always lingered in the back of his mind: culinary school. he’d never been the best cook, jaime had bested him at that, but it was something weston could apply himself to, so he latched on.
for the first time in many, many years, weston allows himself to follow through and with this new career set into motion, he took the plunge and quit his day-job the moment that first soux chef check landed in his palms. he spends the next few years embracing this one true freedom — falling in love with girl who he didn’t deserve once, twice, maybe three times, studying things that truly enthralled him, and establishing himself in the culinary field. swiftly rising from soux to executive chef, his name becoming synonymous with splashy ‘chefs to watch for’ writeups and running a world class line staff. though, weston stills for just a moment long enough for life to pass him by at a frightening pace. within the span of a few months he was awarded the james beard foundation award and in the same span, lost his younger and only brother, jaime. as it turns out, old habits thought to be deaded a decade ago have an odd habit of rearing their heads when least needed and so the cycle reinvents itself and lurches onward.
and it’s like being guilty for a crime he hadn’t committed because while weston was innocent in the larger scheme of things, he cannot help but to think that it should have been him. if anyone could bare the weight of the world, let alone keep the family business afloat, it could have been weston. not jaime. jaime should have been the one living his life, and instead he took his father’s place while wes indulged in god knows who or what for the past decade. for now, weston is back in town, picking up where jaime left off: cooking up good food, repaying back a debt he didn’t take out, and trying his very best not to think of all the unpleasant things.
HEADCANONS
renamed barnie’s ( the family restaurant ) after jamie’s birthday on 06/01/83
slipped back into binge drinking after his brother passed
still attends his AA meetings, though he has yet to fess up to not being sober; mostly just attends for emotional validation at this point.
while they weren’t born at the same time, wes and jaime were oft called the “ abbott twins ” growing up on account of how closely they stuck to one another.
currently receiving a bit of pushback following the recent conversion of barnies into six oh one but there still hope of getting both kitchen staff and previous regulars of the restaurant on board with the change.
owns thousand dollar chef knives but has no curtains in his apartment.
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It’s his touch tone telephone 🌕🐺
[Image Description: A colored illustration of Trevor Garbo from Smile for Me. He is a mid-toned Latino boy with shoulder length red hair that falls loose over his eyes and sticks out at the top of his head. He is wearing a striped green scarf, a dark blue coat, and a yellow-green button up shirt. He is hunched over, holding a phone receiver in his left hand and the cord in his right. He has sharp claws growing in the place of his fingernails, sharp teeth, and slit eyes. His body is outlined on the left with a pink-white rim light from the glow of the moon behind him. The background is blurred, has two clouds on the right, one on the left, and a large moon. In the bottom right corner, the artist signature reads “Eben Rose Taylor”]
#trevor garbo#smile for me game#s4m#touch tone telephone#werewolf#moon#fanart#artists on tumblr#digital painting#Illustration#I had a timelapse to go along with this but tumblr is difficult with uploading things#you can check it out on my twitter or insta tho!!#also its my first time writing an image description! i hope its not too intrusive#eben art
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#my favorite video on earth#tyjo. jishwa. pls do another letsplay PLEASE 🙏#USE YOUR GLUTES#twenty one pilots#twentyonepilots#twenty øne piløts#tøp#tyler joseph#josh dun#tøp clique#signature garbo
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SIXTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, POP ART WENT PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
THE DAILY PIC shows the window of the Gunther Jaeckel department store off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan as it stood 60 years ago this week, giving the public its very first glimpse of true Pop Art — by a certain Andy Warhol, as it happens.
This post celebrates that 60th birthday, but also the release of the paperback edition of my Warhol biography, published by Ecco at HarperCollins.
I thought this would be a good moment to list my own favorite moments in the book, so readers of the new edition could cut straight to the chase, as it were.
I’ll admit that I’m particularly happy with what I managed to find out about the changes in marketing at Gunther Jaeckel — and across American retailing — that let Warhol’s Pop Art make sense for its window display in April of ’61.
Here, in chronological order, are a dozen other moments in my book that I’ll admit to being pleased with:
1) Documents left over from Warhol’s college years — from teachers’ class notes to college textbooks, some covered in Warhol’s own annotations — let me outline precisely what he learned about art, and how advanced that teaching was. Forget the notion, often propagated by Warhol himself, that he was a self-taught know-nothing.
2) The memories and records of gay Pittsburghers revealed the utter brutality that they suffered in Warhol’s hometown in the years after World War II — just when Warhol was coming out. When gays weren’t being beaten up by college jocks they were being shot and extorted by local cops. No wonder Warhol could never be completely comfortable in his queerness.
3) Thanks to records at the Library of Congress, I was able to dig into Warhol’s experiences with the avant-garde dancer Franziska Boas. For several months late in 1949, soon after he’d arrived in New York, Warhol rented a corner of the Chelsea loft that Boas shared with her nudist Lesbian partner. It was his first sustained contact with New York’s gay bohemia, and I think it affected him deeply.
4) It’s a minor detail that almost got left on the cutting-room floor, but in the end I just had to share it with readers: In 1959, Warhol designed a production of Jean Cocteau’s Orphée put on by students at Barnard; a surviving contact sheet of the sets shows that silver foil and fabrics played a big role — years before Warhol’s famous Silver Factory came into being.
5) There are only shreds of evidence that survive from the meeting between Yves Klein and Warhol at the Chelsea Hotel in the spring of 1961. But I hope my book makes a convincing argument for why the encounter was vital for both of them.
6) Silkscreening and Warhol go together in our minds like … silkscreening and Warhol. But amazing records preserved at the New York Public Library show that by 1962 the technique had acquired all kinds of baggage — aesthetic, political, economic and cultural — that affected what it meant for Warhol to adopt it. It had been celebrated in industry as an example of America’s commercial know-how, denigrated by fine printmakers who were fighting for art-world respect and trumpeted on the left as a way to bring art to the people. I’m pleased with the pages in my book that allowed me to share that complexity.
7) Once Warhol began to build his classic Pop persona, striped sailor’s shirts and dark glasses became part of his signature look. It was fun to unpack exactly what those shirts and those glasses meant in and for 1960s culture: The shirts came with links to Picasso, biker flicks and Jean Seberg; the glasses crossed over between Greta Garbo, JFK, James Bond and Miles Davis. (I discovered that once Warhol went out of a morning in his shades, he couldn’t really take them off again even in the dimmest of rooms; they had prescription lenses that corrected his extreme near-sightedness.)
8) Almost since the moment that Warhol began to live his life in public, people have judged that public life to be one of his most important works. I was pleased to discover that this was more than an empty cliché that might apply to almost any celebrity. Warhol’s self-sculpting was part of an early-’60s trend that saw artists on the farthest margins of the avant-garde working hard to break down any barrier between art and life. Alberto Greco declared his final work to be his own suicide, committed days after one of Warhol’s first appearances in his full biker-jacket-and-shades look, at the ICA in Philadelphia in 1965.
9) Warhol skeptics love to doubt the worth of his “superficial” society portraits. I hope I’ve managed to convince a few doubters that those portraits have true value and heft as a single, giant project in social analysis and commentary. Not everyone will buy my comparison to Goya — but I borrowed it from some of the smartest critics in Warhol’s own day.
10) I was surprised to discover, and pleased that my book could reveal, Warhol’s close ties to late-’60s conceptualism. He admired the conceptualists, mixed with them, collected them and, more than anything, wanted to copy their achievements. Some ideas he got from them, like an interest in Business Art, got him in trouble when he took them further than anyone else.
11) Warhol’s Shadow paintings, made and shown in the late ’70s, can seem like some of his most straightforward, even superficial works: “Disco décor,” he himself called them, and others have seen them as simple — maybe simpleminded — abstraction. But I hope that, by digging into what disco and abstraction truly meant at the time, to Warhol and others, my book reveals these paintings’ real depths.
12) Already from college days Warhol probably knew of Marcel Duchamp’s doubts about painting’s validity in modern times. Those doubts informed all the many “paintings” that Warhol went on to make. (Those scare quotes are there, invisibly, as a frame around every one of his canvases.) I hope my book shows that those doubts are front and center when he engages with the new, hot painting and painters that hit the scene in the 1980s — he paints to explore his own doubts, not to show that he’s lost them.
(Artworks in my image © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.
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Reginald Leigh Dugmore (20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967), better known as Reginald Denny, achieved success both as an English stage, film and television actor, and as an aviator and UAV pioneer. He was also once amateur boxing champion of Great Britain.
Born as Reginald Leigh Dugmore on 20 November 1891 in Richmond, Surrey, England, he came from a theatrical family; his father was actor and opera singer W.H. Denny. In 1899, Master Reginald Denny began his stage career in A Royal Family and starred in several London productions from age seven to twelve. At sixteen, he ran away from a boarding school and trained as a pugilist with Sir Harry Preston at the National Sporting Club; he also appeared in several British stage productions touring the music halls of England of The Merry Widow. In 1911, he went to the United States to appear in Henry B. Harris's stage production of The Quaker Girl, then joined the Bandmann Opera Company as a baritone touring India and the Far East India where he performed for Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV.
Although he worked in "flickers" during 1911 and 1912, Reginald officially began his film career in 1915 with the World Film Company and made films both in the United States and Britain until the 1960s. Among the numerous stage productions in which he starred, Reginald appeared in John Barrymore's 1920 Broadway production of Richard III; the two actors became friends and starred in several films together including Sherlock Holmes (1922), Hamlet (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series (1937-1938).
Denny was a well-known actor in silent films, and with the advent of talkies he became a character actor. He played the lead role in a number of his earlier films, generally as a comedic Englishman in such works as Private Lives (1931) and later had reasonably steady work as a supporting actor in dozens of films, including The Little Minister (1934) with Katharine Hepburn, Anna Karenina (1935) with Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) and the Frank Sinatra crime caper film Assault on a Queen (1966). He made frequent appearances in television during the 1950s and 1960s. His last role was in Batman (1966) as Commodore Schmidlapp. In 2020, Kino Lorber released 4K restorations on DVD and Blu-ray of three of Denny's silent comedies: The Reckless Age, Skinner’s Dress Suit, and What Happened to Jones? in The Reginald Denny Collection.
Denny served as an observer/gunner in the First World War in the new wartime Royal Air Force.
In the 1920s he performed as a stunt pilot with the 13 Black Cats and loaned his WWI Sopwith Snipe biplane to Howard Hughes for use in Hell's Angels (1927). In the early 1930s, Denny became interested in free-flight model airplanes. In 1934, he and oil tycoon Max Whittier's son, Paul Whittier, formed Reginald Denny Industries and opened a model plane shop, which became a chain known as the Reginald Denny Hobby Shop, now California Hobby Distributors.
He designed his "Dennyplane" with its signature model engine "Dennymite," developed by engineer Walter Righter, in addition to the "Denny Jr." which child actors would enter in model plane competitions at Mines Field, which later became Los Angeles International Airport. In 1935, Denny began developing his remote controlled "radioplane" for military use. In 1939, he and his partners won the first military United States Army Air Corps contract for their radio-controlled target drone, the Radioplane OQ-2. In July 1940, they formed the Radioplane Company and manufactured nearly fifteen thousand drones for the US Army during the Second World War. The company was purchased by Northrop in 1952.
Denny had a great deal in common with Robert Loraine, an older actor / Airman. They had been in a West End production together in 1902 in London,[5] they were both veterans of the RFC (and its successor, the Royal Air Force) and were both still flying and making films in Hollywood in the 1930s. It is possible that Denny's interest in radio controlled aircraft was influenced by his old RFC colleagues and the British unmanned aircraft developments.
Denny married actress Irene Hilda Haismann on 28 January 1913 in Calcutta, both were with the Bandmann Opera Company. They had one daughter but were divorced in 1928. Denny married actress Isabelle "Betsy Lee" Stiefel in 1928 and they had three children.
Denny died on 16 June 1967 at the age of 75, after suffering a stroke whilst visiting his sister in his home town of Richmond in England. His body was buried at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. His wife Isabelle survived him until 1996, living to age 89.
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13. LATVIA
Samanta Tina - “Still breathing”
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THOUGHT I’D NEVER GET UP?
THOUGHT I GONNA GIVE UP?
LOST IN MY WAYS
MANY TIMES BETWEEN
BUTT STEEL BREEDIN’
I’M STEEL BREEDIN’
NOTHIN’ TO REGRET
NEVER LOOKIN’ BACK
Song Analysis
Apparently 13th is the highest my conscience will let me rank “Still breathing” because LMFAO this song is AWFFFFULLLLL.
Is this take a surprise? Let’s be honest. Samanta Tina does NOT do good quality music, babes. Samanta Tina does whatever the fuck Samanta Tina wants and we... well some of us love her for it I suppose, but I mostly just look at her works, ye mighty and despair.
So of course when she showed up in Supernova, I was obviously extremely cautious because ‘Cutting the wire’ was so woeful it gave me fucking night terrors. But it looked like she was co-operating with Aminata, so maybe she could channel pure Aiste Pilvelyte and erupt in an outcry of I’M LIKE VVOOLF.
Except, SURPRISE Aminata was merely the lyricist and Samanta composed the instrumentation herself: A literal chain of camel farts and klaxon noises that served as an amplifier for Samanta Polakova, Feminist Extra-Ordinaire PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSIST SAMANTA DEMON. 😍😍😍😍😍 Lmfao at the entire “female empowerment angle” btw. “Still Breathing” empowers exactly one woman, and that’s Samanta herself . The song’s actual purpose is to give a subtle middle finger to the country that spat her out at least seven times, but she obviously can’t say that out loud so she quickly created some pseudofeminist narrative to cover it up <3
Then 2020′s signature Freak Factor struck and she won Supernova when her international fans hijacked the internet vote. It totally caught me off-guard, like, Samanta is going to Eurovision? “Do I actually have to... rank this piece of shit song and analyze her chances in earnest?” 🙄 “At least she’s amusingly shit, I guess”
As we all know, most ironic love eventually becomes unironic. I can’t exactly pinpoint when it clicked for me, so I’ll just post the lot of them. SAMANTA GIFS INCOMING:
THE KRUMPING
THE POSTURING
THE WHATEVER THIS IS.
MARVEL UPON HER CRAZY-EYED DESPERATION
BECAUSE SHE’S GONNA BLOOOOOOOOOOOW
LOOKING FOR THE STARS CUZ YOU KNOW I’M GETTING CLOSER LIFE IS MUSIC ~I aM a CoMpOsUr~
Samanta Tina may be famewhore deluxe, but by Daði she does not give A SINGLE FLYING FUCK what people think about her, as long as she gets to do whatever it is she wants to do, and gets to do it in front of as many people as possible. <3 She’s the type of narcista who pursues attention not because she thinks she’s better than everyone else, but because she wants to be an inspiration in the lives of as many people as possible. 💫
In sum, I love Samanta for her fucking Samantaness, and since “Steel breeding” is the most evocative of her signature components (defeaning loudness, palpable egocentrism, pretentious locomotion, insane asylum energy), I am obliged to love it too by default. 😍
Europe had better be ready because A BLOOD MOON WILL BE RISING and... omg 😍 I cannot wait to get to ranking that, somewhere near the end of April 2022. (lol I realize this post will go online AFTER ‘The moon is rising’ has been released but can’t be bothered changing it, chickens!!)
NF CORNER
Supernova 2020 really feels like an EXTREMELY distant memory that I only have vague recollections on, so I suppose I’ll cover the three entries I can remember liking?
MADARA - “Maras Zeme”
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EPIC HIPPIE QUEEN <3333333 I had completely forgotten that 2020 had a few CRAZY ASS environmental fundie anthems, channelling pure Greta Thunberg from every orfice. “Maras Zeme” is less insane than some of the other green garbo ahead of us (“Pich” 😍 “La-Ley-La” 😍), but Madara suddenly swerving into English, lecturing us on how MOTHER HAS CARED FOR US is a fucking wig-snatching moment that should have earned her a spot in the finale line-up WTF!!!
Katrina Dimanta - “Heart beats”
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The cute chubby member of Aarzemnieki showing up in a folk version of Emiliana Torrini’s “Jungle drum” 😍 and of course Katrina effortlessly won the Latvian-exclusive televote because Latvia were *never* picking Samanta without her crazed stans hijacking the app vote. 😍
ANNNA - “Polyester”
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Samanta almost completely passed me by in Supernova because I was (and still am!) a committed member of #TeamPolyester. Socially-conscieous Dutch queen with an anti-sweatshop anthem. 😍 And despite the obvious gimmick subject, surprisingly competent too as a standalone indie song? Let the Annna gifs commence:
SO PRETTY! NO PITY!
TEE SHIRTS IN ALL THE COLOURS NEED MORE WHAT WILL I WEAR NEXT SUMMER?
NEED MORE, FANTASIZE, HEY NEXT SEASON TIME TO BUY
FREAKY! FRIDAY! FACTOR!
The ‘Samanta Tina Tale of Many NF Fails’ is something I would LOVE to recap now, but given that another Samanta write-up is inbound for April, I’d rather wait until then, lol. However, I do love how Samanta’s 37 participations in Supernova, Dziesma and Eurovizijos Atranka, made her enough of a cult fave to win a Supernova which was not only set up for her to win, but she would have LOST had it not been for the internet vote. 😍 Add in the inherent Samantaness of her being, and you have a serve of High Adrenaleen:
Score: 5 Senhits out of five.
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I know in the late 90's Madonna's "Vogue" song and dance were outdated by then, but I wish during the World Wrestling Federation's Attitude era there was a commercial that parodied Madonna's "Vogue" music video.
The commercial is entirely filmed in black and white, when the music starts playing and some WWF diva shouts "strike a pose" while doing D Generation X's hands crossed over their head.
This commercial has some WWF diva describes how wrestling, be it the WWF and WCW, is inescapable, like the first verse in Madonna's "Vogue" song, while she describes professional wrestling's massive popularity she's surrounded by NWO, Austin 3:16, WWF Attitude and D Generation X logos.
Ivory and Jacqueline are roleplaying as these 2 women in the video:
Debra (Jeff Jarrett's valet and Stone Cold Steve Austin's former wife in real life) is roleplaying as Madonna in this scene:
Some WWF diva is roleplaying as Madonna in this scene:
And those hands in this commercial are D Generation X's hands crotch chopping and making "x" and "v" shapes with their hands.
The black cone bra is Sable's "handprint boobs" in this commercial.
The Rock does his iconic People's Eyebrow to the camera and the Blue World Order do their signature dance.
And the part where Madonna's back is turned to the camera while she wears this white corset could have some WWF diva with her back turned to the camera, although the commercial has a wrestling belt on her back instead of a corset.
Maybe the commercial would sing "C'mon Vince", as in Vince McMahon.
During the rap ("Greta Garbo and Monroe"), some WWF diva raps "Stone Cold and the Rock, D Generation X and X Pac" while while name dropping some WWF stars.
This diva would also maybe say "WWF Attitude" in the rap or even just say "ladies with an attitude".
During the part where there's a closeup of Madonna's face while some hands are touching her face, that same WWF diva could roleplay as Madonna while Mick Foley's Mr. Socko makes a cameo and touches her face, and maybe for a quick shot this commercial has Al Snow's mannequin head he carried roleplaying as Madonna when hands are touching her face.
And this commercial has voguing turning into crotch chopping, because I like to think D Generation X/NWO crotch chopping is like redneck voguing.
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D'Artigan 28th May 2021 (post).
Precision tailoring by Adrian (1903–1959) from 1942 onwards when he had left MGM .
#1 Suit by Adrian 1940s such precision and fine line © FID museum
#2. This 1951 newspaper advertisement for Robinsons of California with fashion designer Gilbert Adrian design house set up after his film career Here he has worked with a British wool manufacturer The decorative seamline details and close fit were key signature features for Adrian; using custom made striped textiles and exploring the optical illusion created with mitred lines in his work,
#3 1940s Gilbert Adrian suit in grey wool gabardine suiting with a diagonal button fastening. Hidden hook and eye closures Rare via 1st dibs
#4 Red wool suit by Gilbert Adrian ca.1950 with metal buttons © Met museum
#5 Wool day suit by Gilbert Adrian ca 1946-1948 Wool suiting, silk velvet trim & silk crepe de chine lining © FID museum
#6 #7 as #3
#8. Suit by Gilbert Adrian 1949 in wool twill, © LACMA
#9 Suit in wool twill 1949 © LACMA
#10 as #8
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Gilbert Adrian (1903-1959) built his career as a costume designer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, working on more than 250 films, including The Wizard of Oz. His glamorous creations for actresses such as Greta Garbo Joan Crawford and Katharine Hepburn inspired women of all ages. Macy’s and other retailers recognized this as a marketing opportunity and opened small boutiques within department stores across the country called “cinema shops,” featuring ensembles based on costumes seen in Hollywood films. To promote them, MGM released a short film in 1940 entitled “Hollywood: Style Center of the World.”
Encouraged by the success of the cinema shops, Adrian opened his fashion house in 1942 creating clean simple looks that appealed to the new American woman.
Fabric was central to Adrian’s aesthetic. He utilised many techniques ; such as appliqué, piecing, mitreing, pleating, and draping creating dynamic garments in which the materials were celebrated as much as the design. Adrian worked with and endorsed several different textile manufacturers throughout his career.
His final collection in 1952 was dedicated to the “beauty” and “integrity of fabric.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_(costume_designer)
Love D'Artagnan xxx
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Trying to step my game up with the presentation. I’ve been trying to improve the lighting and camerawork when doing these which has been kinda garbo up til now. Also added a signature in an attempt to be professional.
Check more of my stuff out on Deviantart:
https://www.deviantart.com/sheamless
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I really didn’t do it justice. This documentary was made in 2017 so it’s more interesting and is a more in-depth and modern take on Katharines influence on style throughout the years. She was one of the first stars to wear pants at a time where women were getting arrested for ‘masquerading’ around as a man just for wearing them. This documentary isn’t about her sexuality although they hinted at it. It featured a whole lot of other secrets/stars/scenes from movies that have been influenced by her. I think you all will really enjoy this one. It’s on amazon prime! Tell me how you like it!
Six Sides of Katharine Hepburn
* In movies, everything you see represents a choice
* Something formative to the eye that is a choice? Style.
* A screen characters style can influence generations to come
* Sometimes it’s what you wear, and sometimes it’s where you wear it
* Which leads us to Katharine Hepburn
* We’re often reminded of her influence in the form of imitation
* Katharine was tough. Was she a tomboy? Or a debutante? A movie star or a style icon?
* She made pantsuits cool, but killed it in Valentino.
* Decade after decade, Katharine defied categorization (labels) on screen and off
* The history of fashion in cinema is rich and varied full of icons and contradictions
* One can explore it through time, or in terms of aesthetics
* Katharine was an icon because she embraced her contradictions, thats why it’s impossible to follow just one roadmap when tracing her influence on style and attitude of the generations that came after her
* PANTS.
* One thing a woman couldn’t do was wear pants on the Senate floor in 1993.
* In the 1930s when Katharine started wearing pants offscreen and one, pants were essentially a crime....
* Not a fashion crime, a crime where women could be arrested for ‘masquerading’ as men.
* Any respectable woman walking around in trousers was consider scandalous, but a movie star? That was unthinkable.
* Katharine epitomized the woman in pants here she was, the embodiment of the modern post suffrage woman who’s seeming not to give a damn as she startled a mans world in pants she could do a cartwheel in
* The world though, wasn’t sure it was ready for it
* After she signed with RKO, the studio tried to force her into a skirt by swiping her jeans from her dressing room while she was filming
* Hepburn then proceeded to stride around on set in her ‘knickers’ until her pants were given back
* We can place Katharine among the 1930’s stars like Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rogers who danced in them frequently
* In 1940 Katharine made ‘Adam’s Rib’, one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time and pro-feminist classic
* Note the tag line- ’It’s the hilarious answer to who wears the pants’
* Through Katharine, pants became a symbol of female independence
* Eventually, they also became a fashion standard. By the 1960’s, a French designer was making jeans for women.
* “I wore pants when they were not fashionable. I sat down on a curb if I were tired, I did what I wanted and what I thought was reasonable so long as I didn’t hurt anyone.” - Katharine Hepburn
* In reality, her pants meant subversion, appropriation, and power.... all of which challenged our understanding of gender.
* Clothing designed for women has a history of being restrictive
* Even though Kate was known for her slacks, the way her characters got dressed up may have been even more subversive.
* Fancy clothes can reduce a woman to a trophy, it’s a symbol of wealth. They are as socially paralyzing as the are physically restrictive
* Kate defied her time... and by defying it she came to define it.
* When style becomes sensation, it’s usually because someone is breaking the rules.
* In 1951 when a hotel staff member told Katharine that slacks weren’t appropriate lobby attire, she used the staff entrance instead
* What did people mean when they called Kate sexless? Did they mean that she looked a bit like a guy? That she acted like a guy? That she was rigid, unbending and just didn’t yield the way a woman should? Or did they mean that she really just confused them?
* Society’s views on gender and identity gave certainly changed since then
* Now, it’s an open secret that Katharine swung both ways (I think she was gay), but even in her time, being queer was taboo
* Katharine helped blaze a trail for the eroticization of androgyny
* Hollywood had a handle on dudes looking like ladies long before it got around to girls looking like boys.
* When it was a woman doing the masquerading, it threatened the whole social fabric
* Kate embodied an idea that gender is what you make it
* Her outfits told you that she was in charge of the situation, of the movie, of herself
* Her feet on the table was a signature Kate (gay) move
* It has been an open secret of her decades long bearding relationship with Spencer Tracey. She lived in a cottage behind his house and had her ‘lady friends’ over frequently and vice versa
* The only public image she gave us was the one we saw in her films in her characters (sounds familiar)
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