As An Aspringing Silent Cinema Geek, I Wouldn't Say Ruth Is Wearing A Louise Brooks-style Bobo. The Bangs

As an aspringing silent cinema geek, I wouldn't say Ruth is wearing a Louise Brooks-style bobo. The bangs are much the same, though.

Hey, dude, how come Ruth got a haircut? Does it look like Hollywood actress Louise Brooks?

Because hair grows and I don’t know who that is.

Joyce Gets a New Dress

How it Might Have Happened...

(*Sarah-speak for "I’m not touchy-feely, but I care...just a little”.)

I’ve been following a “century after, to-the-week” history of WWI. (Right now it’s on early June of 1917.)

The host continually talks about the trenches and the incredible carnage there, because it’s not easy to understand how much there was. And he remarks on this all the time.

It’s always a tricky thing to mix genres like this, but it seems riveting and also well-done.

That sequence occurs in the grim no-man’s-land between English and German battlefield trenches. Though Diana has been told she can’t cross it and must play by man’s rules, she takes it upon herself to save women and children threatened by the Germans. It’s a very powerful moment. We have a character committing to her true self, doing what she believes needs to be done.

I’ve never seen anyone else make this post, so I GUESS THIS IS UP TO ME:

So waaaaaaaay back in season one of Steven Universe, we got our first ~new fashion~ opportunities for the gems in the episode “Beach Party” where the gems generate cute new beach outfits. Garnet: cute. Amethyst: ultra cute. But Pearl’s didn’t quite sit right with me.

A part of me thought: “Well I guess this shows that Pearl has no idea what a ‘beach party’ entails and is concerned with being proper, thus highlighted by this far-too-fancy dress.” And also “I guess the writers and artists know better than I.” But really at the time I couldn’t get over that it felt somehow too … feminine for Pearl.

Of course this is all pre-”Rose’s Scabbard”, pre-”Jail Break”, pre-lots of things.

Because come seasons three and four we got this:

And then this:

And let’s not forget this look:

And so far capped off with this:

So in conclusion: I am both happy that I always knew it my heart that Pearl is a total butch lesbian, and understand now that the SU crew had to maintain a certain plausible deniability (“oh look at Pearl in this ~nice dress~”) for a while before they could go “just kidding, everyone is super gay all the time.”

“Mr. Bugs”? At least the actual display window got it right.

For the Fleischers, trying to make feature films against Disney, maybe it’s not true that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”.

Animated window promotion for Max and Dave Fleischer’s MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN. 

Motion Picture Herald, May 9, 1942

I have to pile on (I hope) for him in Laura. Before he was “Vincent Price playing a Vincent Price role in a horror movie”, he was great in that noir.

No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.