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So I just wanted to give a shout out to the costume designer for this. Especially for the red dress for the pub crawl/ powder room trips. His name is Charles LeMaire and he was influential in getting the Academy to have a costume design award. He worked on Broadway for Ziegfeld Follies and did a bunch of movies one of my favorite being his work with Edith Head on All About Eve (he did Marilyn Monroe's dress) .

Oh totally! It's very much an accident . When the scene first started I was honestly, very annoyed. Like oh of COURSE she loves this stuff because she's the perfect 50's woman! But just the throwaway line of "I'm more than just sexiness" felt to me like that was probably something Jayne had to deal with in real life? I don't know I'm probably reading into it. I just found it very poignant coming from someone who was pretty much sold to the public based on her sexiness.

I actually started looking up stuff and I just finished this really interesting article in Rolling Stone and they talk about segregated concerts and how rock and roll really did start to challenge Jim Crow laws. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-rope-the-forgotten-history-of-segregated-rock-roll-concerts-126235/

I was thinking about something along similar lines: How do you think the non white cast of performers were treated? This movie was made during Segregation. I'm sure they were paid less than the white singers because black performers routinely were. Doubly so for black female performers. Do you think because it's a film set people were (there is no nice way to put this) less racist assholes? Because they were more used to dealing with different people and were tolerant/ not racist douchebags? Or did the black performers just stuck together and didn't interact with anyone? Was the set segregated and if so how much?

So when they are driving to Long Island to see Fats Murder Museum of Memories did anyone else flinch at seeing that truck in the green screen background with Jayne at the wheel given how she died? I don't think it was the kind of truck that killed her but still... seeing her driving was eerie

Ok so I genuinely enjoyed this movie. I mentioned it in a comment in the preview section but the line Jayne has about wanting to be a mom but people only seeing her as a sexpot, is in my opinion, a really feminist statement. I know that sounds insane because it's such a 50's idea of the perfect woman who just wants to stay home and have babies but Janye sells it. She sells that she is a genuinely maternal person who loves being domestic and people keep sexulizing her and putting their fantasies onto her and forcing her to be this person. Which we see literally happen with Fats who won't even let her clean her own house or cook for herself. Girlfriend can't even wear one of her cute (and totally useless) frilly aprons! He just takes all agency away from her. She's like his doll through most of the movie (so I was LIVING or the bouillon scene) I think it's highlighted best when she's being fitted for her wedding dress. She looks like a literal doll with no life in her.

So I'm only 26 minutes into the movie and I LOVE Jayne Mansfield SO MUCH. She's just a delight! I love all the music so far and I'm dying to know what movie the song about Sister Kate is from. I could honestly care less about the men. I just want to see Jayne go around and be fantastic and fun. I'm sure we'll talk about it more but I really love this line she has when she's making him breakfast about how she wants to be a mother and housewife but all everyone sees her as is a sexpot and so they think she can't do it. Which honestly is such a feminist statement ( in that feminism is about letting women choose to be what THEY want to be. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be a housewife if that's what you want. It's a problem if that's what you think you have to be or that's all there is.) I'm really into this movie ! Plus I forgot how much I love the song The Girl Can't Help It

One of my other favorite contestants is Howard. I just found him to be delightful

She's the girl of my dreams: she can bake, she's hilarious, she's stunning,and she called Paul Hollywood a peacock. Honestly I don't know if you could build a more perfect person?

All I know is that I'm going to be spending the entirety of Action Jackson thinking about Arrested Development and the various things Carl needs to get a stew going. Hope you feel better soon Paul! I'm coming down with my yearly fall cold because I refuse to realize it's too cold out to sleep with the window open(I live on the second floor over seniors it gets really hot in here) so I feel you!

I've never actually seen The 7 Year Itch all the way through. I've somehow only managed to see the first half and snippets here and there. Besides the iconic dress scene I wasn't too impressed with what I saw (though I was slightly vindicated that Monroe's character also keeps clothes in the freezer during heat waves. ). Is it worth sitting down and seeing all the way through?

I want to see HER movie about a meek abused housewife who spends a weekend in Florida visiting her sister, going to male strip clubs, banging (presumably) a stripper/ random she meets from said club and finding herself so she can go home and leave her worthless piece of shit husband and have a successful life. Also maybe trying to sleep with her brother in law? They were wayyyy to close at that art gallery. She can wear the perfume and dress he likes while serving him divorce papers! On the subject of creepy controlling husband's when they first go to Heaven doesn't LAW say her husband doesn't know she drinks / approves?

Agreed! I bet she could have made BANK off selling NASA secrets . Worse comes to worse I'm sure the Kremlin would go wild for that stupid recumbent bike since everyone else wants it.

And then Madame Serena from Teen Witch finds him and turns him human once again but he's now forced into being her boy toy

The mosquitoes alone would have been too much for him

Yes! I think I read had to go back and edit it out of newer editions so now the first run or however comic printing works will one day be worth something because it's got Batdick in it

I think I like this house better. Even if Mickey Hargitay didn't build a heart shaped pool there. In fact that might make me like it even more

You know who also does high fantasy , mystery, comedy, and and baking? Terry Pratchett's Discworld! Particularly the famed (and deadly) Dwarf Bread . It's even got it's own museum which I think is part of The Fifth Elephant book when the replica of the Scone of Stone is stolen. My name is Gigitastic and I love Discworld, cats, Harry Potter , cheesy 90s tv shows with bad ass women,The Great British Baking Show, and drag queens(particularly when they play Dungeons and Dragons).I really don't want to fight because I am a delicate flower and my body is already a broken mess as is.

It's a short walk so yes. It's technically a part of your home environment, like if you had a driveway. I would judge you if you wore shoes in the pool, unless it was the kind with the painful rough "no slip" surface in which case pool shoes are fine. Judgment is saved for those who don't wear shoes when on airplanes, or when out running errands etc. Places where other people have to be. Though I do confess feeling weirded out by people just being barefoot in their yard for long stretches of time. I don't get the appeal of sitting on the ground with or without a blanket either though so *shrugs* And yeah 50 Shades would have been fantastic with Kevin Bacon in it. For something that is supposed to be super sexy I've never felt so bored. Dakota tried but honestly she's just so bland. Both her and her character... there's not much to work with. I don't think even a great actress could have salvaged that trash fire.

Yeah I know a lot of Asian cultures are big on taking your shoes off before going inside as a sign of respect. I grew up with in a pretty relaxed white household and we tended to do the same but we never like forced guests to take their shoes off. It just feels weird to have your shoes on inside especially when you have carpet. I don't trust people who go barefoot outside. That's how you get tetanus, hookworm and God knows what else. Of course half my family does it. The only thing worse are those weird glove like barefoot "shoes" Ugh

I like him as a baker but I've heard stories that he's a bit full of himself which makes me sad. He's ok but nowhere near as wonderful as Mary. I'd literally watch paint dry if Mary talked about it.

Oh you're right! I always thought that was a shadow or something. Jane Mansfield was the starlet who owned the Pink Palace right? She had this entire house done in shades of pink. I think they tore it down in the early 2000's. I just remember seeing a photo of her pink carpeted bathroom. *shudders* Even the ceiling and walls were carpeted! She's actually really interesting. Supposedly she was incredibly smart and worked very hard at the dumb blonde roll. I know she was rumored to have had a bunch of men in her life including John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. I do know she's Mariska Hargitay's mom from her marriage to Mickey Hargitay.

Wasn't she supposedly side eying her because her boobs were about to fall out of her dress onto the table? I seem to recall Sophia saying something to that effect . Speaking of Sophia Loren a local apple orchard has a llama named after her and I love her. I feed her apples every time I visit and tbh I half the reason I go there is because of the llamas.

I tried so hard to like CEG but I found the main character to be kind of awful in the first season and a half I watched . I just couldn't root for her. She's really manipulate it felt like and I just can't deal with second hand embarrassment.

Mary Berry is such a delight. Everyone on the show (but Paul) was. Honestly I'd watch Mary, Sue, or Mel go grocery shopping or any other mundane task because they are all pure sunshine in human form