This column by Joe Bob Briggs was humming along splendidly, until: First of all, for those of you who don’t follow these things, The Wasp Woman was a 1959 quickie for … [Read more...]
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I could watch Corman’s “The Wasp Woman” (1959) every day. Now it’s on Blu-Ray.
Once again we see that, in the tradition of Carrie, Repulsion, The Brain That Wouldn't Die and Rosemary's Baby, men make the best "feminist" art: First up is THE WASP WOMAN, a … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell on one of my ‘touchstone’ movies, ‘The Wasp Woman’ (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgqeYyD8PAg On Monday, they did Sexy Beast, btw, which I can't help but think of as Gandhi Gets Pissed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Ofhz9LUr0 … [Read more...]
‘The Wasp Woman’ (1959) — a favorite movie on a favorite theme
An aging female executive woman tries to preserve her beauty -- at all costs. Ignore the bad monster makeup. What is particularly well observed (perhaps merely by accident or indifference on the filmmaker's part), especially since [Read more...]
TCM just revealed their Cult Movie picks for July
This is what I do when I'm supposed to be working... Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) is basically Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? with gigantism. There's a roadhouse … [Read more...]
There aren’t that many movies I’ve never heard of, but here’s one
Especially surprising since there's a Famous Monsters of Filmland connection and a cool sounding backstory. More [Read more...]
Under my thumb: just me & the remote
I finally sat through (barely, while working) William "One Shot" Baudine's Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1965) (free [Read more...]
“American Jewish humor, born of the ultimate border-crossing culture, has become the comedy of the global elite”
Peter Berger writes: I had encountered this before. My first full-time teaching job was at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina. Residents of the state … [Read more...]
Lilly Pulitzer dies, age 81
I was married in a Lilly Pulitzer dress, and own a pink & green (of course) shift (both a few sizes too big for me now.) The Palm Beach Post reprints a[Read more...]
‘Being a ‘good person’ is irrelevant when it comes to the survival of Western values’
Here's a sentence you'll see on this blog once, maybe twice a year: I wish I'd written that. Celestial Junk has a must-read, particularly for all those WASP/atheist Toronto … [Read more...]
Helen Gurley Brown: hillbilly, hippie-hater (and hero of ugly women who were too smart for college and don’t much like kids. Cough.)
Another title to add to my To Read list... Ms. Brown’s background lighted a kind of fire beneath her; it allowed her to speak effortlessly, later in her life, to the fears and aspirations of America’s often … [Read more...]