I saw this last nite on the Sundance Channel and ive never been disgusted at any of John Waters movies until i saw Edith Masey wearing that black leotard...oh my *beep* god my stomach revolted and i almost threw up my dinner. Her teeth are just something out of this world. I still saw the whole thing and i never switched channels but oh god Edith Maseys body in that outfit will forever be burned in my mind.
You people are cruel. She was adorable.
Kill everyone now!
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Its not about cruelty, its about nightmares
*This Charming Girl*
"Oh Gator i'm sorry about Ernie, I thought you'd be cute together!"
"The life of heterosexual is a sick and boring life!"
John said he used to have to cut some of her lines down because she had trouble remembering them. In all the interviews I have read when The Dreamlanders talked about Edie they said she was the most caring, lovable person you could ever meet.
R.I.P Edie, you were, and still are so loved.
Gee, I used to attend her birthday party annually at The Marble Bar just to see her perform with The Eggs and she always wore that black leotard outfit to perform. So I paid to see her dressed like that, I have no sympathy for you. The world of heterosexual is a sick and boring life
shareI have something for your face Mother F##ker.
shareI think I have a new hero! I would have loved to have seen her - she seemed like she would be a great person to have known.
share"Perform"?
What did she "perform" onstage???
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
And I suppose you are the poster person for "hot"??
"Family" is just another word for "Censorship"
A friend describes Edith in the lace-up bodysuit with cut-outs as "trying to contain Kool Whip!" Ha! I love this movie!
shareWell then you have to thank John Waters for understanding that the sight of Miss Edie would burn itself forever into innocent (and not-so-innocent) minds.
Film is all about "strong visuals" - just keep in mind that "strong" doesn't necessarily equate to "beautiful" or even "good".
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
One of the 50 best moments in cinema: Miss Edie knocking down the priest that married Dawn and Gator.
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
I love the montage of Edie harrassing Dawn and vice versa with the fish and the garbage. LOL.
"This? This is my over-the-moon face."
She will be missed.
I love that part too. I love it when Edie sticks her tongue out and gives Dawn the finger. Edith was awesome and is greatly missed.
shareI wonder where John Waters found her and what she did before she met him.
shareI think there's a short biography of her in "Ask Dr. Mueller," a book by Cookie Mueller (1997). It's a pretty touching account. Too bad she died in 1984. She would've been great in more films.
Actually, here's more on her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Massey
I thought I'd post a point here since I haven't been able to get any serious response to it on the board for Desperate Living. Desperate Living has some real funny moments, and I liked the idea of Mortville, but I kind of felt sorry for Edith Massey (Queen Carlotta). I wish they'd left the sex scenes with her out. I sensed she was actually quite uncomfortable in those scenes. There's no nudity on her part in DL, but she is in some scenes that are sexual. She's incredibly funny in the scene in Female Trouble where she's nude for a few seconds (not a sex scene), but in this film, I sensed she was uncomfortable. She stumbles over words at one point, and I think she's uneasy.
When I post points like this related to Waters films, there's generally no serious response. I find this kind of ironic given that Waters himself, from what I've heard, has said he'd like to remove at least one scene (the scene in Pink Flamingos where Divine "goes down on" her son) for Divine's dignity. I love her nude scene in FT--it's a great antidote to all the stereotypes about nudity in films--but I don't think the sex scenes in Desperate Living were good for Massey's dignity.
I suppose Waters does promote this attitude on the part of his fans of not taking anything seriously. Maybe that's what his films are about on one level: not taking the world seriously. But as one critic, Guy Mariner Tucker, said, Waters films at their best contain some real human warmth. And that is undermined when the characters are treated in an insensitive manner, as they are in those two scenes in Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living.
I was touched by Waters' comment in the commentary on FT about Edith's nude scene: "She was so brave to do this. She did it for me. I would never let anyone use this for anything else."
"Extremism in the pursuit of moderation is no vice."