November 4. Released today in 1998, the film GODS & MONSTERS about gay horror director James Whale at the end of his career made by gay horror director Richard Condon at the start of his, became a B.O. hit. It was adapted from Christopher Bram’s kinky novel The Father of Frankenstein (2006). Love IS strange. Six foot four inch gangly backwoods country lawyer Abe Lincoln married five foot two inch Southern slave holding belle Mary Todd today in 1842. He was 33 and she was 22. There are no wedding photos. Unfortunately People magazine had not yet invented its 50 most beautiful people issue so no paparazzi were on the scene when the Uncle Ben rice flew. Mary was America’s “First lady” from 1861 to 1865 and she was widely considered as coo-coo as a cocoa puff. Within months of moving into the mansion the beefy belle overspent the congressional budget for White House furnishings by tens of thousands of civil war era dollars in department store debt. Rather than turning to “Honest Abe” for financial aid, the infamous shopaholic pulled a Lucy Ricardo and actually resorted to raising cash by selling off excess manure purchased for the fertilization of White House grounds and firing some of the mansions staff. Wacky. Needless to say, Mary had some ‘splainin’ to do to The Great Emancipator. Speaking of people who don’t have their shit together, Mary Jane Ward’s depressing novel about a woman trapped in a mental institution was released as a motion picture today in 1948. THE SNAKE PIT, starring Olivia De Havilland “packed ‘em in” because….well, on screen punishment is always so interesting, don’t you think? I could grouse that its depiction of psychotherapy is too simplistic and the situations a tad too Dickensian, but it’s a fact that the film raised public awareness about abuses in mental institutions and actually led to reforms in mental hospitals. Isnt that nutty? Hooray for Hollywood! 11.04.13 E.E.F.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:49:28 +0000
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