Deeper And Deeper

Are Bananas A Carb?
Madonna & Co

"Deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper

Sweeter and sweeter, and sweeter, and sweeter

I can't help falling in love
I fall deeper and deeper the further I go..."

Hey Minions, I hope you enjoy this still of Madonna & Co. from her classic hit Deeper And Deeper going bananas.

TGIF!

Madonna on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/madonna/?hl=en  

Michael's Musings

Being You, The Myth
Michael Shinafelt
Photo:
https://www.instagram.com/jessemerrellphoto/

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas yesterday! I did what everyone in Los Angeles does for Christmas. "Yes" I went to the movies.

Now that it's all over, moving into 2025 it's time to take inventory of yourself and tend to you! It's the one thing you truly own and you need to make sure it's paid in full.

F#ck being demure. Be as bold, brave and weird as you can, that's all

If Jesus was the son of Mary and Jesus was the lamb of God. Does that mean Mary had a little lamb? Asking for a friend 

People just don't moon each other the way the used to (sigh)

Oh, you're wondering what movie I saw yesterday? Babygirl with Nicole Kidman, quite good and quite provocative

Finally got around to seeing The Whale with Brendan Fraser. He definitely deserved the Best Oscar Actor for it, amazing!

Remembering the great George Michael, it has been eight  years since his passing yesterday

309 day until Halloween...

So Carry-On is one on Netflix's biggest hits. I watched it Christmas Eve I couldn't get into it. Jason Bateman was terrific as the villain though!

Woman Crush of the Week - Nicole Kidman who is the perfect "Babygirl"

In case you were wondering I'm Team Blake Lively

Christopher Nolan is filming Homer's The Odyssey coming July 17th 2026...I can't wait!!!

Have you seen the video for Kim Kardashian's cover of Santa Baby? It's like John Waters and David Lynch had a love child

And now for something completely different...

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Ho! Ho! Ho!

"Santa Claus won't make me happy with a toy on Christmas Day" - All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey 

Enjoy your day and find your own bliss. Me? I'm seeing Nicole Kidman in Babygirl. 

I don't need the kind of toys Santa Claus brings...😉

Babygirl on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30057084/  

And To All A Good Night...

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the Sorority House, a creature was stirring and it wasn't a mouse...

Merry Black Christmas Minions!

(if you know, you know)

Black Christmas (1974) on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_(1974_film)

Shelf Life

“Hilarious and horrifying.” – LA Weekly

 

Liberation Hall is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Paul Bartel’s Shelf Life, making its global debut

on Blu-ray and DVD on January 21st, 2025. The dark comedy starring O-Lan Jones (Edward Scissorhands), Andrea Stein (Hard to Kill), and Jim Turner (Arli$$, Randee of the Redwoods/MTV) was initially released in 1993. 

In a strange bit of appropriateness, the movie about three children stuck in a bomb shelter for thirty years was lost for three decades. The film never received a theatrical release after playing a few festivals. This status changed when a 35mm print was discovered, and at long last, viewers can the experience the final feature film from director Paul Bartel.  

In the aftermath of the shocking assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, a couple grabbed their three kids and moved into their nuclear fallout shelter, fearing the world would be ripped apart by World War III. While nothing of the sort happened, the family never resurfaced. The parents passed away early on, and the children raised each other deep underground without any outside contact beyond a stray TV signal. Pam (Andrea Stein, Trouble in Mind), Scotty (Jim Turner, Bewitched), and Tina (O-Lan Jones, The Right Stuff) have developed into strange child-like adults with a warped sense of play. They exist in a mutated version of 1963 even though the calendar reads 1993. The brother and his sisters entertain each other in their imprisoned life with twisted role-playing games. Will the siblings survive the fallout from each other’s imaginations? 

Shelf Life was originally a play, directed by Maryedith Burrell (Fridays), that ran at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood. Paul Bartel saw the play and arranged to shoot it as a movie with the original cast (who jointly wrote the script). Bartel used the camera to go beyond capturing the play and dug deeper into the bonds between the subterranean siblings. 

  

Paul Bartel was one of the great indie filmmakers. He directed Secret Cinema, Private Parts, Death Race 2000, Eating Raoul, Lust In the Dust and Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. He also acted in numerous films including Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Escape From L.A., Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Usual Suspects, and Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird. Shelf Life was his final directorial effort. 

Jim Turner starred in St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys, Joe’s Apartment, and the HBO series Arli$$. Turner played the spaced-out hippie Randee of the Redwoods in numerous MTV promos during the ‘80s. O-Lan Jones appeared in Married To the Mob, Edward Scissorhands, Natural Born Killers, Mars Attacks, and “The Bubble Boy” episode of Seinfeld.
Andrea Stein appeared in Hard to Kill and Trouble in Mind. 

The bonus features include an audio commentary with O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner, Philip Holahan, and 2024 Oscar nominee Alex Mechanik, an American Cinematheque Q&A with O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner, and Alex Mechanik, a Q&A with Tina, Pam, and Scotty (2023), trailers, and a 'Chain Reaction' clip. The soundtrack includes “In My Moondream,” performed by Andy Paley and Brian Wilson. 

  

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_6tlYQUO8 

Oder Here: https://customers.mvdb2b.com/b2b/s/LIB-4055

When Marilyn Met Maria

Happy Talk
Maria Callas & Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe and Opera Singer Maria Callas encountered each other in 1962 at President John F Kennedy's Birthday gala.

As is evident by the fact Marilyn is wearing the iconic Birthday Dress (it cost $12,000) she crooned the Birthday Song in at the event to the crowd for JFK's Birthday. 

What I would truly be interested in is what these two icons spoke about. "Yes" I would love to have been the proverbial "fly on the wall" and eavesdrop, taking in every single word and sentence.

Wouldn't you? 

Only three more days until Christmas Minions, time to bend it like Marilyn and break out your Sunday Best!

Marilyn Monroe on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/marilynmonroe/?hl=en

Maria Callas on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006568/

Winter Wonderland

Pamela Anderson
as
Hecate

Today is the first day of Winter, the Winter Solstice as they say. In Los Angeles it's supposed to be sunny and seventy degrees. Suck on that winter!

So why did I include an image of Pamela Anderson eating grapes oh so elegantly draped? This photo brought the Goddesses of ancient Greece to mind when I saw it.

Pam is here to represent the Goddess Hecate for the kick-off of Winter on Entertain Me.

Here's all you need to know about Hecate:

Hecate: The Greek goddess who sometimes accompanies Persephone on her journey to the underworld during winter. 

I'm going to join her on the journey to the underworld, so I must get going!

Happy Winter Minions!

Pamela Anderson on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/pamelaanderson/?hl=en