Please support Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain, because it is a labor of love, and nobody gives me real jobs anymore. If this is the kind of content you enjoy, pretty please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Somewhere in my early thirties, two great things happened. My uncle and then-aunt dropped two new members into the family: my sweet little towheaded cousins: a lovely little girl named Abby, and around 2 years later, her brother Roscoe — who, it must be said, was born with a certain natural stage magnetism.
“...later wrote her college entrance exam on the difficulties and tribulations of having an “insane” cousin, i.e. me.)”--way to cross pollinate Abby! Abby was going places! This inspires me to try and write about the family theatre shenanigans we got into when I was growing up in Cabo Verde. The highlights involved me always being dressed like “an African” in a closing number we called “all the children of the world must love one another” (cute!) even though I was an African in Africa at the time, and so was everyone else...
CINTRA!!! I have always liked you and adored your writing. But after seeing the tour de force Wilberforce movie, I fainted at the high concept, artistic expression, casting and set design, not to mention the 5mm film camera last made in 1907 footage.
No seriously, I adored it.
I always look foward to your posts and this one was non pariel.
CINTRA! This was such a spectacular presentation that I had to reschedule my morning meeting to finishing absorbing every fascinating second. Your imagination is boundless and on a day when it’s hard to find much to smile about I laughed ....Now, can you please reprint the college entrance exam of your niece ? ( with permission, of course) ...
Interesting to see the production values evolve over time (I'd guess the studio execs very grudgingly agreed to minor increases in budget as the commercial success of the earliest films steadily -- but glacially -- accumulated). A daring decision to end that first black & white release, in presumably the Hays Code era, with what can only be described as an LSD-saturated phantasmagoria. How that got past the censors we may never know. Favorite line: "Oh, too much of a lady to dig up corpses?!?"
“I feel…..MORALLY CORRUPT. And I LIKE IT.” Even without knowing the provenance, that line would suggest a West Coast preteen version of John Waters’ Baltimore crew. For shame/kudos.
im not sure i will ever be the same after watching several of these films on cell phone at like 2am (what can i say i wake up alot) from the very first serpent and gypsy production to your richard burton stint (those trees! the set!) its all just about as entertaining as it gets...ok for someone with a bad neck scrolling on cell phone 🤣🤣
I needed the smiles this brought.
I do it all for you, Grossman.
Me too Mr Grossman, me too.
“...later wrote her college entrance exam on the difficulties and tribulations of having an “insane” cousin, i.e. me.)”--way to cross pollinate Abby! Abby was going places! This inspires me to try and write about the family theatre shenanigans we got into when I was growing up in Cabo Verde. The highlights involved me always being dressed like “an African” in a closing number we called “all the children of the world must love one another” (cute!) even though I was an African in Africa at the time, and so was everyone else...
I would LOVE to read your piece on that!!
CINTRA!!! I have always liked you and adored your writing. But after seeing the tour de force Wilberforce movie, I fainted at the high concept, artistic expression, casting and set design, not to mention the 5mm film camera last made in 1907 footage.
No seriously, I adored it.
I always look foward to your posts and this one was non pariel.
Thank you so much Doctor!!! Always good to see you in the comments!!
CINTRA! This was such a spectacular presentation that I had to reschedule my morning meeting to finishing absorbing every fascinating second. Your imagination is boundless and on a day when it’s hard to find much to smile about I laughed ....Now, can you please reprint the college entrance exam of your niece ? ( with permission, of course) ...
xx robin
Thank you so much dear Robin!
Interesting to see the production values evolve over time (I'd guess the studio execs very grudgingly agreed to minor increases in budget as the commercial success of the earliest films steadily -- but glacially -- accumulated). A daring decision to end that first black & white release, in presumably the Hays Code era, with what can only be described as an LSD-saturated phantasmagoria. How that got past the censors we may never know. Favorite line: "Oh, too much of a lady to dig up corpses?!?"
“I feel…..MORALLY CORRUPT. And I LIKE IT.” Even without knowing the provenance, that line would suggest a West Coast preteen version of John Waters’ Baltimore crew. For shame/kudos.
im not sure i will ever be the same after watching several of these films on cell phone at like 2am (what can i say i wake up alot) from the very first serpent and gypsy production to your richard burton stint (those trees! the set!) its all just about as entertaining as it gets...ok for someone with a bad neck scrolling on cell phone 🤣🤣
adorable xo