White shoes after Labour Day?!

Obscure connections in history...

On this day in February 1974, America was gripped by one of the weirdest crimes in its history. Heiress Patty Hearst had been kidnapped by the mysterious Symbionese Liberation Army, and her father William Randolph Hearst had agreed to pay a ransom for her release. However, Miss Hearst was not released and instead took part in armed robbery with her kidnappers the SLA, for which she was later jailed.

John Waters (of course) adored the campness that surrounded this odd story and twenty years later, after Miss Hearst was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter, he went on to cast her in several of his films, including the fabulously sick Serial Mom, a movie we love here at Dolores Delargo Towers.

And so here's a clip of that very classic...

Serial Mom - White Shoes After Labour Day!

Miss Hearst is the one Miss Kathleen Turner murders for "wearing white shoes after Labour Day"!