Memorandums from Mary
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Reframing Our Relationship to Life
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Ismael (Richard Basehart) and Queequeg (Friedrich von Ledebur) in the 1956 film version of Moby Dick. “Heathen” Queequeg represented the go...
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Pink Flamingos and White Eyeless Crabs
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Babs Johnson (Divine) outside her trailer with pink flamingo lawn ornaments in Pink Flamingos. The above title isn’t a reference to the 1972...
Friday, November 3, 2023
You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard
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2009’s District 9 in which members of an extraterrestrial race line up for food in a militarized refugee camp. The book Round Trip to Ameri...
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie—A Story of Entitlement
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Alexander Hamilton (Derryl Yeager) and James Madison (Craig Wasson) in a scene from 1989’s A More Perfect Union: America becomes a Nation . ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
A Mad Raging Womb
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I didn’t cover whether being a woman made you more likely to be considered “mad” in last week’s memorandum—“Fit to be Tied (in a Straitjacke...
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