Reading this excellent book about the making (and almost not happening) of the Mary Tyler Moore show.
The show revolutionized sitcoms as well as fashion for women and in the early 1970’s 47 million people tuned in on Saturday nights to watch a show about a single woman (one who wasn’t whining about it) who had a blossoming career.
These days executives would call that woman, “unlikeable.”
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infestation
- me: winter is coming, fuckers
- ants: what is dead may never die but rises again harder and stronger
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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
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younger days #tbt
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The German words sound strange coming from American mouths, but the problem caused by the strange mouth shapes is somewhat ameliorated by the vacuity of the dialog.
— Siegfried Kracauer, 1930 review of Frank Capra’s FLIGHT (1929) -
REBLOG if you’re team Jinkx!
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YOU GUYS i FINALLY uploaded the video i made with ashly burch last year! it’s not perfect but i still think it’s pretty cute, and i hope you will like it.
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REBLOG if you want Jinkx Monsoon to be America’s Next Drag Superstar!
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well here is a neat way to spend lots of hours on the internet
a beautifully designed new yorker interactive graph of median income by subway stop
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how to slut-shame, brag about your boyfriend, and beg for compliments all in the same sentence
OH in the locker room: “I’m really glad I am not as attractive as either of you, and that I have a huge boyfriend, because I’d be really uncomfortable with people looking at me like that.” - skinny college girl in a one-piece bathing suit to her two skinny friends in bikinis
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confusing words.
