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Dana Jean

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I Am Divine. What a good show! We watched John Waters' This Filthy Life (also very good. He's a clever, witty, thoughtful guy.) a week or so ago, and I Am Divine was a good bookend.
Loved This Filthy Life, (spoke on it myself in this thread a few weeks ago), but I can't stand Divine. I just can't stand her/him. Maybe I need to watch the doc to understand her.
 

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I'm going to try and find both of those, then.

Has anyone been watching This American Life on Showtime? They are so random but so incredibly good. Things you never ever think about. Very good brain food.
I heard about that from one of my kids--they watched some episodes in history class :) I'm pretty sure it is on Netflix (or mane it was Hulu? Can't remember, but I know I looked it up to watch :D)
 

swiftdog2.0

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Just watched Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' on Netflix.

Excellent Hendrix documentary. Hendrix, man \w/ Best. Guitarist. Ever!

40 some-odd years after his death and people are still trying to catch up to him musically. And the thing is, there is no one even close.

 
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Dana Jean

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Bettie Page Reveals All.

This was very interesting. Bettie Page was the breakthrough pin-up girl way back when sexuality and nudity were practically underground. She was very sweet and had a great outlook on what she did. She was happy doing it. She loved her work and she didn't take any sh*t from anyone. Just because she posed nude didn't give anyone any right to disrespect her.

But she was fragile. Her mother never wanted her. Her father molested her (which I have opinions as far as highly sexualized people and molestation). She ended up a paranoid schizophrenic, hospitalized for 10 years in a psychiatric hospital. I very much hated that people used her sweet nature against her and made money off her without her seeing one dime of the profits. Hugh Hefner jumped in there and got her surrounded by lawyers who saw to it she was compensated for her image. She made her own bathing suits that a company bogarted not only the suits, but her wearing them in their brochure and she didn't sue!

Definitely a look back into a repressed world.

I like Hugh Hefner. He is a smart man who has led an interesting life and has walked the walk when it comes to fighting for 1st amendment rights.
 

Dana Jean

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I Am Divine. What a good show! We watched John Waters' This Filthy Life (also very good. He's a clever, witty, thoughtful guy.) a week or so ago, and I Am Divine was a good bookend.
Watched I Am Divine last night. And, I still hate the character Divine. Crude and vulgar in my opinion, with nothing creative at all in anything he did. His schtick seemed all fat and hair and alien make up shouting at people and people shouting at him.

But, I liked him as a person. Obviously his persona worked and he made good money and traveled the world, but I think he was much more than Divine and he knew it. He had beautiful blue eyes.
 

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Crude and vulgar in my opinion, with nothing creative at all in anything he did. His schtick seemed all fat and hair and … shouting at people and people shouting at him.
I think about the same about Melissa McCarthy--lol.

And I agree with you about his aspirations. That made the end, when he was so excited about being on Married with Children as himself, being taken seriously (well, as seriously as that show took anything) as an actor, all the more poignant.
 

Dana Jean

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I think about the same about Melissa McCarthy--lol.

And I agree with you about his aspirations. That made the end, when he was so excited about being on Married with Children as himself, being taken seriously (well, as seriously as that show took anything) as an actor, all the more poignant.
I know! a day or two before starting his legitimate career and poof! dead. i'd like to know what part he would have had on that show.
 

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In the past few weeks I watched a docudrama on Jonestown and Nova:Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby? both on Netflix. I honestly didn't know much about either topic. The Jonestown story broke my heart-what lengths people will go to for acceptance and a sense of belonging. And I think Lindbergh himself had more to do with the kidnapping of his child than people realize. There are many theories out there, that's just my opinion!