Glenn Weldon
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first heard Sep 2022
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Glenn Weldon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Little Edie was an actress and a model.
And Little Edie, especially throughout the film, is acutely aware of how she's being perceived.
She flirts with the camera.
She flirts with the mazels.
And watching it now, it's hard not to impute on her the feeling that she sees this as an opportunity, this film, as a way out.
And sometimes watching it nowadays, I get struck by what seems to me to be moments where the filmmakers, you just get this upwelling of empathy.
Not pity, but like just basic human kindness, like seeing these people as they are tinged with exploitation.
Because why not both, right?
Yeah.
And that's why I know this is not a competition, but I think my pick best exemplifies
Every aspect of the American dream.
It's not a contest, but I'm going to win because another thing this film touches on is something else about this country, which is that in American life, there is this weird escape hatch, Z-axis, ejector seat, ripcord.
I don't know what to call it, but like a weird workaround to hard work and determination, which is fame.
The kind of fame that...
That was completely rare back in, you know, when this film came out, but that this film helped to create, to Linda's point, which is celebrity.
And it's celebrity not based on anything you make or that you do or you produce, not based in skill, not based in any craft or even expertise, just personality.
Not what you do, but who you are.
And that was rare back then.
And now with the below decks of it all and the reality TV and the Real Housewives and influencer culture, it's kind of ubiquitous.
And it's that kind of fame that Andy Warhol talked about, 15 minutes of fame.
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