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Meta link, and a story of three women
Mar. 27th, 2011 11:04 amI haven't watched the US version of Being Human, nor do I intent to, but even if you, oh reader, are not familiar with either the British or American one and have no intention of ever watching a single episode of BH, check out this post for a great demonstration of what "the male gaze" means, and how you can film two identical scenes in completely different ways, resulting in very different emotional content. (Err, spoilers for two scenes in the respective first seasons of both shows.) Hint: one is cheap exploitation, and the other is not.
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A few more pictures under the cut, this time of arguably the people who had it worst in the entire Beatles saga, the three first wives of John, Ringo and George. I'm excepting Jane Asher her, not because she was never married to Paul but because she managed to never let being romantically involved with a Beatle be detrimental to her own life. Being accomplished and famous in her own right as an actress before, during and after the five years they were together undoubtedly helped, as did ignoring any demands to settle down (as opposed to Pattie Boyd, who gave up her modelling career when George asked). As did trying to keep her life with Paul as much separately from Paul's life with the group as was possible. (Jane Asher was and is famously discreet after her break-up with Paul, but the two times she said something on the record during the relationship - in Michael Braun's 1964 book about the Beatles en tour, Love Me Do, and in Hunter Davies' 1968 The Beatles she sounds more critical than any of the Beatle wives/girlfriends has gone on record with being and unequivocably states she has no intention of being "part of a gang".) But the way Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison and Maureen Starkey dealt with the rock star wives life, how they became friends, failed each other and reconciled is a poignant drama of its own. It's a very 60s and early 70s tale from the female side as opposed to the male one.
( Wives and Friends )
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A few more pictures under the cut, this time of arguably the people who had it worst in the entire Beatles saga, the three first wives of John, Ringo and George. I'm excepting Jane Asher her, not because she was never married to Paul but because she managed to never let being romantically involved with a Beatle be detrimental to her own life. Being accomplished and famous in her own right as an actress before, during and after the five years they were together undoubtedly helped, as did ignoring any demands to settle down (as opposed to Pattie Boyd, who gave up her modelling career when George asked). As did trying to keep her life with Paul as much separately from Paul's life with the group as was possible. (Jane Asher was and is famously discreet after her break-up with Paul, but the two times she said something on the record during the relationship - in Michael Braun's 1964 book about the Beatles en tour, Love Me Do, and in Hunter Davies' 1968 The Beatles she sounds more critical than any of the Beatle wives/girlfriends has gone on record with being and unequivocably states she has no intention of being "part of a gang".) But the way Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison and Maureen Starkey dealt with the rock star wives life, how they became friends, failed each other and reconciled is a poignant drama of its own. It's a very 60s and early 70s tale from the female side as opposed to the male one.
( Wives and Friends )
