Comments | alivemagdolene: Does a Drag Queen Proud

alivemagdolene

Does a Drag Queen Proud

Aug 25, 2009 06:15

I'm aware that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is an almost farcically sexist story (times or no) despite being written by a woman (history's forgotten pioneer, Anita Loos) and the movie version manages to be even more... squirm-worthy, but goddamn if the song-and-dance numbers are glorious ( Read more... )

looks aren't everything, and now a video montage, utter deelite, let's talk about the moving pictures

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iamashamed August 25 2009, 10:58:12 UTC

Dude, I have no idea why I like her, but I do. I mean, I hate the lyrics, and the message SO MUCH. But I just really like her. 0_0

alivemagdolene August 25 2009, 11:34:10 UTC

Presence! That and she's gorgeous.

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iamashamed August 25 2009, 11:41:20 UTC

Yeah, exactly. That, and she seems like such a sweetheart. She stands for everything I'm against, but she is just really facinating.

warriorpoet August 25 2009, 11:29:21 UTC

I'm usually so so so not a fan of musicals, but I don't know why I can sit through this one over and over again.

alivemagdolene August 25 2009, 11:36:32 UTC

Me neither, but between the aforementioned choreography and, well, Marilyn, this is downright tolerable. ^_^ Also, there's the notorious "gay scene" with the men's gym.

meaculpa_g August 25 2009, 13:30:49 UTC

I've always wanted to like her, but my father's "perfect woman" fascination with her always got in the way. Although I did have this really cool t-shirt that said, If Marylin Monroe were alive today, she would be too fat to model.

alivemagdolene August 26 2009, 09:14:15 UTC

It's funny, but I think of Monroe as rather "unblond" (blond seeming a necessity to those that would categorize the "perfect woman" in that way). I mean, she had the "dumb blond" roles, but she never seemed as "blond" as say, Kim Novak or Grace Kelly, and especially not Bridget Bardot. Mai issuez: let me show u dem.

Indeed, even in Monroe's scary-skinny period, her figure still pwn3s that troglodyte Hilton.

myownghost August 25 2009, 15:52:14 UTC

oh, i loved her when i was a kid! her films would come on "Saturday Night at the Movies," and we always watched. i remember when she died. people *mourned*. she was fragile, beautiful, and doomed.

all that said, i'm going to watch these clips with great pleasure. jane russell is great in that role, btw. just slightly wooden, but very game. the song she does with all the body builders in the gym cracks me up.

p.s. i agree with your mother about madonna's "homage."

alivemagdolene August 26 2009, 09:29:10 UTC

Oh, her song with the bodybuilders! I love how that's frequently cited as an early "gay" scene in a mainstream movie (the body builders showing far more interest in each other than in Jane "The Bosom" Mansfield).

I gave Madonna a pass for "Material Girl" since it was more ironic, given the song: it was later, in her Dick Tracey years, when she was trying to pass herself off as the new Monroe that make my flesh crawl. Reminds me of this fabulous LOL I found at ROFLrazzi:

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myownghost August 26 2009, 11:03:27 UTC

haha! i like that site. the jokes are funny, not mean-spirited. there's one of john candy as Barf!

the factoid about jane that endlessly amuses me is that howard hughes designed her cantilevered bra for The Outlaw. we can thank him for underwiring, the sadist. :D

i just looked at wiki to make sure of my facts and discovered jane's real first name is ernestine! is this the party to whom i am speaking? *snort*