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119: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (Poodle Episode)
We're both overseas at the moment so pulled this classic ep out of the archives!
This week, Kate and Brodie are digging into the source material, backstory, iconic moments and sexy highlighter costumes of the outcast classic: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Jinxy also coins a great new abbreev: et cet. There might not be Also Alsos this week, but don't worry, there's still plenty of further reading and ideas to Add To Cart – or at least Open in New Tab.
It's 1997 and Romy White and Michele Weinberger, best friends and fun cool party girls who live in Venice Beach, find out their 10 year high school reunion is coming up. As all the old, buried teenage insecurities re-emerge, Romy insists they need to improve themselves before coming face-to-face with their high school bullies, by getting more impressive jobs, finding boyfriends and SOMEHOW losing weight. Once they get closer to the event, they find themselves lying about their lives and losing one another for a few hours, before reuniting just in time to resolve all their high school trauma with (what else?) a dance scene.
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- Mira Sorvino's Oscars speech
- LA times review of Ladies' Room
- Ronan Farrow's early reporting on Weinstein
- An Oral History of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief
- How Hollywood can make it up to the actresses Harvey Weinstein smeared
- Mira Sorvino answers all our Romy and Michele questions
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47:16|On this week's See Also, Kate and Brodie are cracking the spine on Kathleen Hanna's memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk. We talk about our experiences crossing paths with Kathleen over the years, the things we learned (and didn't hear about) in this book and what it means to have Kathleen be the author of her own story finally.Follow us at @seealsopodcast and join the Hogg Hive on Patreon to hear ad-free and bonus episodes of See Also.118: The Hairy Bird (Poodle episode) feat. Anton De Ionno
01:31:37|A reminder that you can support See Also on Patreon!As a member of the Hogg Hive, you'll get:Ad-free versions of every See AlsoA minimum of 6 extra ad-free episodes of See Also every year, including over the holidays and next weekFurther discounted codes for live showsOur eternal love, duhDescribed as "Dead Poet's Society meets Clueless", The Hairy Bird is a 1998 film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan. Inspired by her time as a student at the Connecticut girls' boarding school Rosemary Hall in the 1960s, the film follows new student Odette Sinclair (Gaby Hoffman) as she meets the ICONIQUE headmistress Miss McVane (Lynn Redgrave) and falls in with a new clique led by Kirsten Dunst's Verena Von Stefan. No sooner is Odie welcomed in than their friend Tweetie (my girl Heather Matarazzo) overhears the school board's plans to merge Miss Godard's into a co-ed school with the nearby St Ambrose Academy. This sets the films antics into motion, pits the boy crazy Tweetie and Tinka, an aspiring "actress-folk singer-slut", against Verena and brainiac Momo (our girl Merritt Wever) and eventually leads Odie to stage a sit-in to demand the girls at Miss Godard's have a voice in the future of their school.Brodie is joined by her bff Anton De Ionno to discuss the sad saga behind this film's release, its legacy in our lives and many spiritual connections to Gilmore Girls.See AlsosHaley Mlotek's piece in MetrographInterview with Sarah Kernochan in Business Insider + in Flashback Films26 years before The Holdovers, Disney buried the best boarding school comedyPeter Biskind’s 2004 book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent FilmAnton recommendsAn Unmarried WomanLove Is a Drag: For Adult Listeners Onlydry-humping116: Full-tilt Boogie
01:22:19|On this week's See Also, Kate and Brodie are both prepping for some time away, plus Jinxy recaps the Melbourne premiere of Beetlejuice and BL describes a bizarro time seeing Blink Twice at Kino's "Cinema 8".On the docket this week are chats about two very brilliant and very different films: Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (skip from 32:37 to 53:43 if you don't want spoilers) and Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow. We chat about how it's been a big year for chicks shooting up, finding a bit of flesh to poke an earring in, listening to what a film is saying – even if it's not speaking to you – and being simply a lesbian. Also: What was your Buffy journey and What Was The Name of Your High School Band? Is South Yarra the SoHo of Melbourne? Is asking that question totally insufferable? All that and more, this week on See Also!Also: Alsos!Follow us at @seealsopodcast and join the Hogg Hive on Patreon to hear our upcoming bonus episodes.See AlsosEmily Gould's profile on Chloe Sevigny for The Cut Miranda July answers All Fours questions in Emily Sundberg's newsletter Feed Me The Substance Is Disgusting, Twisted, and Instantly DivisiveFor This Director, There’s No Such Thing as Too Much BloodKelli Weston's The Substance review in Sight & SoundDemi Moore for Interview MagazineKate's review of I Saw The TV Glow in The MonthlyAlso AlsosThe Beautiful BunchLe Creuset Stoneware butter dishReissue of Horizon Unlimited (1970) by the Lijadu SistersSeason ChickenSmall Feelings: The Films of CassavetesRomance by Fontaines D.C.115: Only in South Yarra – See Also x United Places
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