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Also, the Hepburn-Tracy relationship was platonic? That changes so many things...

Speaking of LGBTQ in this era, did anyone read Amy's article?

Totally. AAE made me consider smoking. It looked so cool.

I watched All About Eve with the commentary last night, and strangely they didn't explain the rear projection at all. A few interesting things I learned is that Joe Mankiewicz hated that because of All About Eve, an actual Sarah Siddons Award was created. Celeste Holm, the actress who played Karen, actually received the award one year, which rankled Joe. One of the commentators was Ken Geist, who wrote a Mankiewicz biography. I wanted to find out more about Geist, and in my Googling, I found out that Geist said Eve Harrington was originally conceived as a lesbian. Joe Mankiewicz's son, Tom Mankiewicz, was another commentator and his insights about his parents were fascinating. He said he saw his father in Bill and his mother in Margo. His mother was Rose Stradner, mostly known as a theater actress in Austria. When she married Joe Mankiewicz, she came to Hollywood and became a homemaker. It was her understudy who ended up with a successful career in Hollywood - sound familiar? Tom said his father had many affairs (for example, Joe had an affair with Judy Garland during his marriage with Rose) and Tom said he saw his parents during the fight scene between Bill and Margo on the bed on stage. Lastly (most importantly), the third commentator was Celest Holm. While she shared very little, my favorite trivia came from her. She said that she painted the eggplant herself! She was bored waiting around set sometimes, so in between takes, she actually painted that still life of bananas and eggplant. She sounded really proud of the painting LOL.

so your dog is also a tiny sociopath?

Maybe, but aren't a lot of pop culture cats orange? Garfield, Heathcliff, Ripley's cat in space, Sandra Bullock's "pet" in The Heat, just off the top of my head.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the posts here, but I don't think Margo plans to give up acting when she gets married. In the Cub Room, where she announces her upcoming wedding, she declares "no more make believe, off stage or on" and describes her plans to play "grown up women" in future plays. Speak of "modern interpretations," I see Margo as a kind of Liz Lemon. Successful career, husband and kids, and delicious sandwiches from NJ.

I love that all the cats’ expressions say “imma murder you human”

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No, being a good liar doesn't makes you a great stage actress, but I was poking fun at Eve that she was always "on" when she was around Margo and the group.

Well yeah, her whole persona was an "act"

LOL, is it because you recently watched The Back-up Plan?

Yes, I totally agree he was at the least "bewitched" lol. It definitely showed when Lloyd ran up to New Haven in the middle of the night to help calm her down.

Look how fat that eggplant is! Interesting. I thought Eve made up the story (or at least heavily embellished) the Lloyd affair. I thought she "spilled her beans" to Addison, thinking he would publish it in his column and really breakup Lloyd and Karen's marriage.

Another thing - do you think Karen ever came clean to Margo about the car? On one hand, they're best friends and I'd imagine keeping a big secret like this would be a burden on Karen, but on the other hand, if Margo ever found out, I don't think she would forgive Karen - or at least it would take a long time before Margo came around. And I can't post a ss of this scene, but in the scene where Karen was painting, did anyone else catch that she was doing a still life of a bowl of bananas and a big fat eggplant. That made me chuckle.