#screaming mimi

[gatabella]

Anita Ekberg on the set of Screaming Mimi, 1958

[legendarytragedynacho]

Anita Ekberg as dancer Virginia Wilson - Screaming Mimi 1958 Dir. Gerd Oswald

[waitingforthet]

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[corvid-ghost]

Hawkeye to Whitney Frost (a Hydra scientist) "everyone deserves a second chance"

Hawkeye to (at the time) Screaming MiMi (has tried to kill him) "everyone deserves a second chance"

Hawkeye to Princess Python (has tried to kill him) "everyone deserves a second chance"

Hawkeye to Ant-Man (joined the avengers after their break-up years ago) "fuck you"

[bitter69uk]

Died on this day: voluptuous mid-20th century actress and pin-up Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015). In the fifties, the statuesque Swedish sex goddess reigned alongside peers Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors as one Hollywood’s preeminent glamour queens. By the early sixties, Ekberg was triumphing in Europe, cavorting in the Trevi fountain beside Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s visionary masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960). Fellini and Ekberg memorably reunited for Boccaccio ’70 (1962). (He was definitely the director who knew best how to utilize her charms). But as a connoisseur of cinematic perversity, I love Ekberg at her gloriously wooden best in the serial killer shocker Screaming Mimi (1958) and later bargain basement Eurotrash horror movies Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Killer Nun (1979). Even in these indignities, as author Sam Staggs puts it, Ekberg “can steal any scene just by standing still.” In 1999 the BBC made a documentary about Ekberg, capturing her craggy temperamental monstre sacrée later years. She relished trashing her contemporaries. (Asked about Sophia Loren: “Who is that?” On Brigitte Bardot: “she was pretty. You can’t say beautiful. She was – how you say? – very “Barbie.””). After gossip columnist extraordinaire Michael Musto experienced her diva’s wrath in 1999, he rechristened her “Anita Yecch-berg.” (From his 2007 book La Dolce Musto: “All I could hear was Ekberg yelling, “Why do they keep letting Sophia Loren into the country? She was in jail for a month for tax evasion!” Between courses, other arresting pronouncements came fast and furiously: “Frank Sinatra was not a good lover!”; “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people chewing gum. It’s like cows out to pasture!”; and “Not being able to smokbe in restaurants is against the Constitution!”). Still, you can’t help but love her – Anita Ekberg made the world a more glamorous place.

[comicpolls]

Which Melissa Gold mantle have you read more of?

Screaming Mimi

Songbird

Voting ended onMay 27

[roselyn-writing]

Why there are no gifs of this Diva?? Songbird, or known as ‘screaming MiMi’ of marvel. I love her - especially her powers: supersonic screams (which gives me my Oc Laya’s vibes ✨🎶😈)

I don’t own Songbird, or marvel (just the gifs I made <3) 😄.

[josephinekhawaja]

My shipping prediction for myself as I like to do for fun in any lead-up to a MCU project. Of course I could be wrong about it. (I still find my Captain America 4 OTP to be cute, though I expect literally nobody else will ever ship it. And I still stand by NovaDox as my Deadpool 3 OTP, they were stand-out; Marvel was just visceral with the two of them.) And by indications I imagine most of the audience will emerge shipping Boblena, given they are supposed to be the most closely involved of the cast of characters. And ship Mel with either Bucky (given their phone conversation) or her boss lady. But this is what I am vibing with going into the film. Get together the two smallest (that is to say overlooked or underestimated) characters dismissively introduced with a mundane monosyllabic nickname, but are potential Thunderbolts in their own right. And on that note of Valentina grooming "Bob" into the Sentry, there are bound to be a lot of behind-the-scenes interactions for fic🎼⚡🕳️.

Also, as somebody for whom TaserTricks has been my MCU OTP from the beginning (I predict Thunderbolts will match the first Thor film as my favourite-ever MCU film)…

A quirky or sassy assistant type -- played by a comedic actress -- to a more dynamic female lead in the film ❎ the godlike villain of the film who still holds promise for being redeemed into an anti-hero and be a future fixture in Avengers films? Feels like coming home.

In another life, funny to think I would then be shipping Steven Yeun x Ayo Edibiri (that would be an interesting chemistry to see onscreen), the original castings for the roles. But think I was always going to smoosh these two characters together no matter what. I was going to post about this all the way back with the teaser trailer, 'Careful who you assemble' era, but kept stalling for whenever there would be a point closer to the film when I could look like a marginally less insane person -- but that day will never arrive, I am crazy as shit, and literally running out of time before I see this film. So here is my cringe for my own blog's posterity.

…and in the event that "Mel" does turn out to be 'Melissa' (Melissa Gold AKA Songbird) then I already have a ship name for them: SongVoid. I just love getting ahead of myself in things literally only I will ever speak of or even think.