Anglo-Filles

Welcome to episode 32, in which Les Filles decide to class up the joint and talk about art, about which—us being us—we have many opinions. And also, dead bodies.

(We do not have dead bodies, we talk about dead bodies. For art reasons.)

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The Smart Bitches crew was at the Romantic Times BookLovers’ Convention! Click here to listen to the podcast.

Note: some images will be links to larger versions.

Alina went to the Art Gallery of Ontario!

Where she caught the last day of the Basquiat exhibit Now’s the Time. Here are a few pieces:

Lt Robert McClure (painted by Cornelius Krieghoff) knew how to explore the arctic in style!

Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott instantly transformed Alina in a 16-year-old girl

The beautiful Marchesa Casati

Massacre of the Innocents aka the one Alina didn’t see

Henry Moore’s statues

Kent by Chuck Close

Picasso’s Women of Algiers sells for $179M.

We bet you a five-year-old finger-painted this

Lucretia, with the blood and not a “wine stain”

The Spanish Knight

Click here to listen to the Stuff You Missed In History Class episode on the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist.

“Greece Rules Out Suing British Museum Over Elgin Marbles” (The New York Times, May 14, 2015)

Marina Abramovic and Ulay during the Artist is Present.

Burke and Hare, graverobbers.

Jeremy Bentham, the preserved philosopher.

Click here to view some of Cindy Sherman’s film stills.

Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son (by Ilya Repin)

Winged Assyrian Bulls

The Diego Rivera fresco is a very large image, but the Wikipedia entry has a picture and a close-up of Lenin.

@Ceilidhann @AngloFilles http://t.co/axijGKYNQu and Caspar Davied Friedrich in general

— Aoife (@BlackCatAoife) May 16, 2015

@Ceilidhann @AngloFilles Hard to choose 1…Persistence of Memory is up there ever since I was able to see it in person from 2 inches away.

— SoulExodus (@SoulExoComic) May 16, 2015

Welcome to Episode 31, wherein Les Filles discuss TV shows that keep. coming. back. We discuss some other stuff, too.

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Daredevil is on netflix!

The AVClub’s reviews of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Daredevil.

Kat Chow’s article on Dong from Kimmy Schmidt.

Twin Peaks in coming back! David Lynch is in! No he’s not, and the whole thing has been scrapped! No, it’s still happening but without David Lynch! I AM VERY TIRED.

X-Files is coming back for six episodes! None of us remember mythology episodes, but we all remember flukeman. Ah, Flukeman.

Beauty and the Beast, with Emma Watson, Dan Stevens (ptooey), Emma Thompson, Audra MacDonald, Ian McKellen, and announced just prior to posting but after recording, Ewan MacGregor!

Brows Held High did a La Belle et La Bete recently, too.

Jungle Book musical- reviews are not great.

NBC’s next live musical performance will be The Wiz

Fox is remaking Rocky Horror. No, no one knows why.

Fox is also planning a live Grease. Still, why?

Netflix is rebooting Full House. WHY. NO.

Join us next month for a topic yet to be determined!

Welcome to Episode 30, in which Les Filles discuss Tarzan, Brozan, and Blandzan and all ‘zans in between, including Tarzan Presley, the greatest of them all.

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Donations in honor of Leonard Nimoy: The COPD foundation , Everychild Foundation, the Beit T’Shuvah treatment center, and the Bay-Nimoy Early Childhood Center at Temple Israel of Hollywood.

Donations in honor of Terry Pratchett the Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE)

Tarzan on Project Gutenberg

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1999 Disney Tarzan

2013 Tarzan with kellan Lutz

2016 Tarzan by David Yates, with Alexander Skarsgård.

2003 WB series with Travis Fimmel and Lucy Lawless

2001 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

Canadian Tarzan

Tarzan Presley by Nigel Cox