#sara gilbert

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"No one listens to me. No one even remembers I was in the room."

The ineffable Sara Gilbert as Jane Figler in ER 11x11 "Only connect".

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Desert Blue (1998)

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Sylvie Cooper (Sara Gilbert) and Ivy (Drew Barrymore) in "Poison Ivy" (1992)

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POISON IVY | 1992:

"A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family." - IMDb description.

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Have you seen The Conners (2018-2025)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onMar 3, 2025

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“Famed not so much for his mid-sixties killings of three teenage girls as for his mind-boggling fashion statements, he was sentenced to death, one suspects, for his atrocious taste. “Smitty”, as he was called, pompadoured his dyed jet-black hair and wore a thick coat of pancake over his dirty unshaven handsome face. His Casanova lips were covered in white lipstick, and he designed a quarter-size beauty mark made of putty that resembled a hideous cartoon witch’s mole. His ultimate accessory was the large filthy bandage he wore on his nose for no apparent reason. Like all models, he wished he were taller, so he stuffed his boots with a three-inch layer of tin cans and rags …”

That’s John Waters describing Charles Schmid Jr (aka the “Pied Piper of Tucson”) in his 1983 volume Crackpot. Schmid’s story is loosely adapted for the screen in deadpan black comedy Dead Beat (1994) by first-time director Adam Dubov. “Smitty” is reimagined as Elvis-worshiping small-town lothario Kit (Bruce Ramsay) (pictured. As you can see, they dispensed with the nose bandage!). Dead Beat overlaps with the cinema of Waters and David Lynch in terms of style, content and casting. Its pastel-hued kitschy retro art direction evokes Waters’ Hairspray (1988), complete with neon signs, cars with fins and bouffant hairstyles. (And Deborah Harry appears in both films). Surf rock instrumentals by Link Wray and Dick Dale rumble on the soundtrack. (So do some rockabilly tunes by James Intveld – who provided the singing voice of Johnny Depp in Waters’ Cry-baby (1990)). Balthazar Getty and Natasha Gregson Wagner would go on to feature in Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997). And of course, the presence of Gregson Wagner recalls the memory of her mother Natalie Wood, who starred in the Rolls Royce of juvenile delinquent movies, Rebel without a Cause (1955). Ramsay attacks the role of Kit with wolfish lip-smacking elan. (Watching him makes me wish Waters had cast HIM in Cry-baby instead of Depp). But my favourite performance is by a virtually silent Sara Gilbert (aka Darlene from Roseanne). Not all of Dead Beat works by any means, but it’s stylish, provocative and worthy of investigation. (You can find it on YouTube).

/ Above: the actual Charles Schmid (1942 - 1975) /

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