Is this the Cocksucker residence?

The marvellous Miss Kathleen Turner celebrates her 70th birthday today! We've adored her since she triumphantly turned the Steve Martin movie The Man With Two Brains from, well, a Steve Martin movie into something much, much more memorable. Even Romancing the Stone was bearable mainly because she was in it... But it is for one magnificent character we love her the most.

Here is Miss Turner in (probably) her finest, and certainly most camp, role as "Beverly" in John Waters' Serial Mom, tormenting poor "Dottie Hinkle" (Mink Stole)...

Kathleen Turner - Serial Mom - crank calling

Miss Turner has lately returned to her original great love, the stage. And here she is, singing in the play Mother Courage:

Kathleen Turner in Mother Courage

Unfortunately her Mother Courage never crossed the pond, and each time she's been in the West End we missed her - either in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or Bakersfield Mist. Hopefully at some point we'll see her in a production - Serial Mom - the Musical, perhaps?!

Mary Kathleen Turner (born 19th June 1954)

Eclectic viewing...

...at our "film club day" at John-John's yesterday!

This all-time John Waters classic:

Serial Mom [Official Trailer]

A bit of this, the show that launched Alan Cumming on an unexpecting world:

This brand new slice of genius from Aardman Animations [home of Wallace and Gromit]:

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget [Official Trailer]

And, best of all, this!

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [Official Trailer]

A remarkable film - all the more so for the unexpected (and excellent) presence of one of our house faves here at Dolores Delargo Towers, more well-known for her singing than acting prowess...

Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel

A great way to spend "that bit in the middle", I'd say!

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"!