Mommie Dearest

[FaerieOfDeath]

Best.  Movie.  Ever.

I first saw this one a few years ago at about 3 pm on a Sunday, probably on FOX, they show f**ked-up stuff like that.  My god, what a strange movie. My personal favorite part would have to be when Joan Crawford is screaming to clean up the bathroom, throwing scrubbing bubbles or whatever it was around at 2 am.  Priceless.

[peter johnson]

Some movies have almost single-handedly ruined the careers of actors/actresses.  Faye Dunaway, a serious and quite gifted actress, was cursed for years by this film.  Her asking rate for the films she could get plunged & even though she's had better pictures recently she is still feeling the effects of this albatross.

[Steve.]

Agreed, Peter - it almost destroyed her. She simply couldn't shake it off, it clung like s**t to a blanket.

[Flangepart]

It proves a point about the average film executive, more then the average filmgoer. If you hit it big as a Bad Person, the image is all they see, not the real actor/actress behind the character on screen. That, would take too mutch mental energy! If the "Suits" had any real imaginations, they would not be treating us like mushrooms,,,,keep ya' in the dark, and feed ya' S#%T!  In Hwood, only image matters. Thats why the place is hollow. There's no insides there.

[Steve.]

Directors can have similar woes. Michael Powell was finished as a director because of the hysterical reaction (at least over here) to his "Peeping Tom". He was branded all the monsters under the sun, and virtually black-balled (that sounds a tad unpleasant, actually).

[Flangepart]

Ooh.."Blackballed"...could be a prank pulled on sleeping collage freshmen(hand me the paint for' he wakes up!)...or, the consiquance of slideing down the bannister, and finding that splinter....ouch.

[Steve.]

Does this involve personal experience, by any chance Mr. Flange?

[Flangepart]

leave us just say, a wedgie was involved. and speaking of such, what movies would you conciter giveing the title, "Honorary mind-wedgie?" Any thing by Troma would be a good candidate......

[Steve.]

Er...I hate to bother you, but what is a "wedgie"? Please be gentle for verily I am but an ignorant Brit.

[peter johnson]

You were expecting an answer from Flange, but since I'm here now, I'll fire off an answer:
A wedgie is -- usually -- a surprise sudden lifting of the back of the elastic band of someone's undergarments, so that a significant amont of cloth material is jammed suddenly into the posterior opening of one's anatomy.  An atomic wedgie would be one where the elastic waistband is stretched over the victims head from behind -- this is very difficult, but not impossible, to achieve.
I defer to Mr. Flange's experience in such matters . . .

[Flangepart]

As well you should! An atomic wedgie is a fearsome thing, and an antimatter wedgie could only be worse! Personaly, i think it was invented by someones girlfriend to remind him, "Look, but don't touch, but don even look while i'm with you!". Ouch!

[Steve.]

It's true - you sure do learn something every single day. That is a very clinical explanation, Peter. I sense a traumatic experience somewhere along the line...The atomic version just doesn't bear thinking about., and the anti-matter...words fail me.