Attention Must Be Paid: Grace Lee Whitney
Grace Lee Whitney’s son, Jonathan Dweck, wants her to be remembered as a survivor of…
Gillianren
Gillianren is a forty-something bipolar woman living in the Pacific Northwest after growing up in Los Angeles County. She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. She fills her days by watching her local library system's DVD collection in alphabetical order, watching everything that looks interesting. She particularly enjoys pre-Code films, blaxploitation, and live-action Disney movies of the '60s and '70s. She has a Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/gillianren
Articles:
I Feel I Have So Many Projects and I Haven’t Completed Them Yet: Roy Horn, 1944-2020–an obituary by Persia
I grew up in the waning days of the variety show, and of big, flashy…
Disney Byways: Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse
It’s not that the Tarzan makeover of the treehouse is bad, exactly, though I think…
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY Is Mostly, But Not Always, Yar
I have a friend whose mother didn’t want him exposed to American culture. (He’s half-Japanese;…
Another Discussion of the Theatrical Experience
Today is my partner’s thirty-ninth birthday. We never do too much for his birthdays, really,…
Stuff My Kids Watch: LUNA PETUNIA, Yet Another Magical Girl
Honestly, one of the reasons I’m writing about this show is that my son’s best…
Celebrating the Living: Ellen Crawford
Another place ER was good about diversity that doesn’t get talked about much was age.…
Attention Must Be Paid: George Sanders
Much of the life of George Sanders sounds like a character he played. He was…
Disney Byways: PINOCCHIO
I will admit that the day my state’s lockdown got extended for another month is…
Hic Incipit Pestis
It’s odd, really, that there are so few movies set during historical epidemics. Oh, you…