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They were watching Bob Ross just to ... watch Bob Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shoot; we have a pretty nice lookin' little sky,\" Ross would say as he stood back to assess his work. \"And there wasn't anything to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, unveiling his \"almighty\" 2-inch brush he'd say, \"Now then — let's get crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's making you think it's so easy,\" Kowalski says. \"Well, let me tell you something — these are not as spontaneous as they look.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ross made three of the same paintings for every episode. The first was sitting off camera and was used for reference. The second was the one viewers saw on TV. And the third was a more detailed landscape used for his instructional books. Ross was meticulous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bob used to lay in bed at night, he told me, he rehearsed every word,\" Kowalski says. \"He knew exactly what he was going to say on every one of those programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like this famous phrase: \"You know without question that we don't make mistakes here. We just have happy accidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross made viewers in living rooms across the country believe that they could pick up a paintbrush and whip up some majestic snow-covered mountains. On TV he appeared so \u003cem>relaxed\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kowalski has a different way to describe the real-life Ross: \"A tyrant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't believe that?\" she asks. \"Do you really think this company would be as successful as it is, if he didn't insist that everything be done a certain way?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, they had a company to look after, and Ross was as much a businessman as he was a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to leave the impression that he was rude or nasty,\" she says. \"He just wanted things done his way. He was wonderful. He was really wonderful. I want Bob back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross was diagnosed with lymphoma, and as his last days approached, he would sit beside Kowalski outside the hospital on a bench overlooking a lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-34355 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-800x450.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bob-boat_wide-f5ed68c7de929b77afb19808f79509002c96dfc8.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"He was wonderful. He was really wonderful,\" says Annette Kowalski, Ross' longtime business partner. \"I want Bob back.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Bob was not always full of compliments, but he said to me, 'Annette, you are the wind beneath my wings.' And that is what I'm left with and it means so much to me,\" Kowalski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross was 52 years old when he died on July 4, 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was left in the hands of Annette and Walter Kowalski, and Bob Ross Inc. remains an art supply giant. It includes paint and brush manufacturers, certified Bob Ross instructors, and now a deal with Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I'm doing this just the way Bob would've wanted it done,\" Kowalski says. \"I'm very proud of the fact, and I think Bob would be happy if he could see it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Re-watching the show decades later — it's now streaming on Netflix — \u003cem>The Joy of Painting\u003c/em> still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you want to get to know Bob Ross, you have to seek out Kowalski. When she discovered Ross 35 years ago, she was in the aftermath of a family tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My oldest son was killed in a traffic accident. It was very difficult,\" Kowalski says. \"I was so devastated. All I could do was lay on the couch and watch television.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She watched a painter named Bill Alexander, who was big on PBS back then. Kowalski's husband was desperate to get her out of the house, so he signed her up for Alexander's painting class, 900 miles away in Clearwater, Fla. But then Alexander stopped teaching and passed his classes off to an unknown protege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was very disappointed,\" Kowalski says. \"I so wanted to paint with Bill Alexander. But my husband said, 'Get up. Get in the car. We're going.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a five-day class in a hotel conference room. At the easel upfront was a guy with a perm who went by Bob. His paintings were good, but when he started talking to the class, that's when Kowalski knew she had met someone special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was so mesmerized by Bob,\" Kowalski says. \"Somehow, he lifted me up out of that depression. I just think that Bob knew how to woo people. I said, 'Let's put it in a bottle and sell it.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 779px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bobcamera_custom-389ced5f674c3a3e45843300c7935e3d3f649ec1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-34354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bobcamera_custom-389ced5f674c3a3e45843300c7935e3d3f649ec1.jpg\" alt=\"Ross filmed more than 400 episodes of The Joy of Painting. 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They packed up the paints, hopped in his motor home and hit the road. Kowalski bought ads in local papers while Ross held poorly attended seminars in shopping malls. They needed to generate some buzz, so Kowalski created a toll-free Bob Ross hotline: \u003cem>1-800-BOB-ROSS.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They eventually filmed a commercial and launched a TV show, and it was on TV that Ross hit it big. In the first \u003cem>Joy of Painting \u003c/em>episode, he's already using those friendly Bob-isms that made him famous: \"Let's have a happy little tree right in here,\" he says. \"There he goes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1982 through 1994, Ross filmed more than 400 episodes of \u003cem>The Joy of Painting\u003c/em>. But most viewers weren't tuning in to paint alongside him. They were watching Bob Ross just to ... watch Bob Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shoot; we have a pretty nice lookin' little sky,\" Ross would say as he stood back to assess his work. \"And there wasn't anything to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, unveiling his \"almighty\" 2-inch brush he'd say, \"Now then — let's get crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's making you think it's so easy,\" Kowalski says. \"Well, let me tell you something — these are not as spontaneous as they look.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ross made three of the same paintings for every episode. The first was sitting off camera and was used for reference. The second was the one viewers saw on TV. And the third was a more detailed landscape used for his instructional books. Ross was meticulous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bob used to lay in bed at night, he told me, he rehearsed every word,\" Kowalski says. \"He knew exactly what he was going to say on every one of those programs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like this famous phrase: \"You know without question that we don't make mistakes here. We just have happy accidents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross made viewers in living rooms across the country believe that they could pick up a paintbrush and whip up some majestic snow-covered mountains. On TV he appeared so \u003cem>relaxed\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kowalski has a different way to describe the real-life Ross: \"A tyrant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't believe that?\" she asks. \"Do you really think this company would be as successful as it is, if he didn't insist that everything be done a certain way?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, they had a company to look after, and Ross was as much a businessman as he was a painter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to leave the impression that he was rude or nasty,\" she says. \"He just wanted things done his way. He was wonderful. He was really wonderful. 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I’ve woven the wild and crazy into my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM-800x482.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers at 1998's Burning Man festival create patterns with fireworks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/OldSchoolBM-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at 1998's Burning Man festival create patterns with fireworks. \u003ccite>(MIKE NELSON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But now, when I look at that white fur and the bins scattered around my apartment, I’m filled with dread. It’s so much work to go to Burning Man, and this year I’m just not feeling the impending payoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is how I know that I need to take a break from Burning Man. I need to revive my sense of wonder at this place. Because I don’t want to lose it completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This advice comes from, among many others, my friend Jack Thorpe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s the very first time that a burner jumps on their bike or an art car, at night, and they ride out to darkness of playa. And there’s lasers and distant thumping of dance domes,” he says. “That first time you do it, is like seeing New York for the first time. It’s like going to the Grand Canyon. You’re never going to see it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The second time – it’s still incredible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, the third time, I remember riding out into the darkness and looking back at the skyline of Black Rock City and sort of having that feeling like, ‘Eeeeeeh, you know, I've seen this before,'\" he says. “That emotional jolt -- of this is something I’ve never seen before and is blowing me away -- is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking a year off, he came back with a new approach. Some of our friends shifted to become more involved in the event, becoming rangers or going early to help build art sculptures. What Jack did was refocus his attention back to our camp and our friends. We have a tight crew of about 30 people that camp together every year. For many of us, Burning Man has become a family reunion more than anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It’s on each of us to find new meaning year to year. And when it’s not there, the responsibility is on us to find it again, or take a step back.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s a time to see friends I see only once a year, or a time to see friends who live 10 miles away, but we find a depth and intimacy in the desert that’s hard to access in the nonstop pace of the city. But is that still enough after 15 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack says: “I think the conundrum is -- and you could apply this to anything in your life -- how do you maintain a freshness and a sense of innocence and discovery for something when you’re doing it over and over and over again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This immediately makes me think of another institution that can sometimes use a revived sense of freshness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sounds like marriage,” I say to Jack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ohhh yes,” he laughs, nervously. “Yes. ... And ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t mean to go there. 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And it’s more about feeling satisfied on what is really an emotionally deeper level than just that, ‘Oh my God, it blew me away!'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-800x425.jpg\" alt=\"The UFO at Burning Man 2013 goes up in flames.\" width=\"800\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-800x425.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-400x212.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-1180x626.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-960x510.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/BurningUFO-280x150.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UFO at Burning Man 2013 goes up in flames. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eric Evans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of people have been writing in recent years about how Burning Man has jumped the shark, lost its meaning. With nearly 70,000 attending, longtime attendees complain that it’s gotten too big, and the people who come now are too mainstream, too entitled. Whatever parts of this may be true, I don’t think it’s had an impact on the core values of the event. Burning Man is still Burning Man. I’ve seen plenty of people go for the first time in the last year or two, and they had an equally intense and paradigm-shifting experience as anyone else had 15 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who say Burning Man has lost its way, I contend, have lost their own way. It’s on each one of us to find new meaning year to year. And when it’s not there, the responsibility is on us to find it again, or take a step back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My husband and I have been together for 15 years -- as long as we’ve been going to Burning Man. It’s a very special place for us. But, after this year, we’re in agreement, it’s time to take a break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we stop, we’re going to take the spirit of Burning Man with us,” my husband, Alex, says. “I don’t think we would do this, but not let that mean we’re just going to stay home and watch TV. We're going to go off and do some different adventure that also instills us with a sense of awe and wonder and excitement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a way, you could think of Burning Man as almost school,” Jack says. “To learn how to be that way in the world. And then you take that learning, and at a certain point, you don't need to go to Burning Man anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, I decided to buy a white fur coat, to match Alex’s. We’ll ride the polar-bear car together and cruise the Black Rock City skyline, possibly one last time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A peculiar sight emerges from the Nevada desert floor: a Boeing 747, sliced in half lengthways. If you step out of the emergency exit, you'll find yourself in a poof of playa dust, amid the hubbub of \u003ca href=\"http://burningman.org/\">Burning Man\u003c/a>, which begins this Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airplane is a refugee of sorts, born as an idea and pulled from the hundreds of decommissioned planes at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/10/airplane-boneyard-in-the-mojave-desert/\">Mojave Boneyard \u003c/a>in California's high desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers have spent the last few months working on what's known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigimagination.org/747\">747 Project\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mojaveairport.com/\">Mojave Air and Space Port\u003c/a>, about halfway between Bakersfield and Barstow. They've been transforming the jetliner into what they hope will be the world's largest mobile art installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280101563\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Thursday, work crews and volunteers used a forklift to move metal beams into place so the plane could be lifted onto the back of a semi truck to make the 500-mile trek up the spine of California, along the eastern Sierra Nevada, to the arts festival in Nevada known for its burning centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only the top half of the plane would make the trip this year -- all that was the cabin -- phase one of the 747 Project. The tail is gone. The wings have been clipped. The inside has been cleaned out, leaving a cavernous, seat-less tube with its metal ribs exposed. It's a half football field long and three stories tall. One volunteer jokes that you could fit another plane inside it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to eventually take the entire plane up to Burning Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you eat an elephant? A little bit at a time,\" Ken Feldman jokes. He is the CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigimagination.org/\">Big Imagination Foundation\u003c/a>, the nonprofit arts organization that is funding the project with donations and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-747-project--2#/\">IndieGoGo campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"747 Project creator Ken Feldman (Hawaiian shirt), workers and volunteers help place beams that will help transport the plane to Burning Man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">747 Project creator Ken Feldman (Hawaiian shirt), workers and volunteers help place beams that will help transport the plane to Burning Man. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plane will be decorated with lights, with DJs playing music and people dancing inside. But as with so many other art projects at Burning Man, this one is interactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You come up through the cargo bay and you come to another staircase and at the top of that is the 'insecurity checkpoint,' where our TSA agents -- Touching Sensitive Areas -- will pat you down and help you get rid of your insecurities,\" Feldman explains. \"Then you move to the baggage check, where another flight attendant will ask you, 'Do you have any emotional baggage that you want to drop off?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it's on to the boarding zone, where a flight attendant asks where you're going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if someone says, 'Oh, I want to go to Disneyland!' It's like, 'No, no, no: Where, where are you going in \u003cem>life?\u003c/em> Where do you want to go?' And we give you a boarding pass, where you write down on the boarding pass where you are headed.\" Feldman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you staple your boarding pass onto the \"Destination Wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The flight attendant gives you a little airplane wings, gives you a little hug and sets you on your way,\" Feldman smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman came up with the idea during his second year at Burning Man a few years ago when he saw two bicycles made of fuel tanks of fighter jets. He sketched out the idea in the dust on the ground. His friends told him he was crazy. But seven years later, they're helping him with the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman says the idea is to use this interactive art to inspire people to dream big, much like the plane itself -- \"to make the world a better place, right? That's the ultimate inspiration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer Nick Avila drove down from San Francisco to help with the plane. On this particular day, he's troubleshooting how to secure seats in the cockpit and trying to figure out how to rig fake cockpit instruments to do things when people press buttons and take the controls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062202\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the Mojave Desert from the back of the 747 Project in August 2016, before it was transported to Burning Man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Mojave Desert from the back of the 747 Project in August 2016, before it was transported to Burning Man. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"All this stuff is hopefully going to work. Like you can come and pull the throttle up, down.\" Avila shows how the throttle controls move. \"Probably shouldn't move the landing gear thing, but you can move that around. So it'll be cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avila says the 747 Project is part of the Burning Man tradition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8OTGapssc\">art cars\u003c/a>, which people at the festival call \u003ca href=\"http://burningman.org/event/black-rock-city-guide/infrastructure/dept-of-mutant-vehicles/\">\"mutant vehicles.\" \u003c/a> They're basically any vehicle, from bicycles to buses, made to look like something else, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00w9ec2OF0\">pirate ships\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMtKtGIw4c8\">dragons\u003c/a> and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRL9dDHLh1I\">unicorns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avila has worked on one art car project before, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BeezusChristSuperCar/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf\">Beezus Christ Super Car\u003c/a>, a utility cart turned into a bee. He said it was \"1/100th of the size\" of the 747 Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And we would serve honey out the back and preach the teachings of Beezus Christ over a megaphone,\" Avila remembers. \"So it was kind of like a fake religious thing and also we would just give out honey to people. You know, taste the body of Beezus Christ.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avila laughs. He says it's the ridiculousness of it all that he loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me, it's about bringing cool things out that you built for no real reason, other than just to bring it there and share it with people,\" Avila says, pointing out that he has his own ridiculous theme camp at Burning Man this year. It serves coffee and spankings. And it's called \u003ca href=\"https://playaevents.burningman.org/2016/playa_event/20472\">Scarbutts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just like almost anything you could ever imagine is going to end up being there eventually,\" Avila says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, Big Imagination plans to bring up the bottom half of the plane, bolt it back to the top and drive it around Burning Man with an airport tug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keru McKenzie of Ridgecrest, who's been working on the plane several days a week for the past few weeks, says he's excited to see it come to life in the Nevada desert. \"It's the people and the art and the interaction. It's different than going to a concert or a music festival where you sit in the audience. You know, they might stand and wave and clap and what not. But at Burning Man, you're actually out there being. You're part of the theater.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He is the CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigimagination.org/\">Big Imagination Foundation\u003c/a>, the nonprofit arts organization that is funding the project with donations and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-747-project--2#/\">IndieGoGo campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"747 Project creator Ken Feldman (Hawaiian shirt), workers and volunteers help place beams that will help transport the plane to Burning Man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20970_IMG_1969-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">747 Project creator Ken Feldman (Hawaiian shirt), workers and volunteers help place beams that will help transport the plane to Burning Man. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plane will be decorated with lights, with DJs playing music and people dancing inside. But as with so many other art projects at Burning Man, this one is interactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You come up through the cargo bay and you come to another staircase and at the top of that is the 'insecurity checkpoint,' where our TSA agents -- Touching Sensitive Areas -- will pat you down and help you get rid of your insecurities,\" Feldman explains. \"Then you move to the baggage check, where another flight attendant will ask you, 'Do you have any emotional baggage that you want to drop off?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it's on to the boarding zone, where a flight attendant asks where you're going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if someone says, 'Oh, I want to go to Disneyland!' It's like, 'No, no, no: Where, where are you going in \u003cem>life?\u003c/em> Where do you want to go?' And we give you a boarding pass, where you write down on the boarding pass where you are headed.\" Feldman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you staple your boarding pass onto the \"Destination Wall.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The flight attendant gives you a little airplane wings, gives you a little hug and sets you on your way,\" Feldman smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman came up with the idea during his second year at Burning Man a few years ago when he saw two bicycles made of fuel tanks of fighter jets. He sketched out the idea in the dust on the ground. His friends told him he was crazy. But seven years later, they're helping him with the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman says the idea is to use this interactive art to inspire people to dream big, much like the plane itself -- \"to make the world a better place, right? That's the ultimate inspiration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer Nick Avila drove down from San Francisco to help with the plane. On this particular day, he's troubleshooting how to secure seats in the cockpit and trying to figure out how to rig fake cockpit instruments to do things when people press buttons and take the controls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062202\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the Mojave Desert from the back of the 747 Project in August 2016, before it was transported to Burning Man.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20968_IMG_1971-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Mojave Desert from the back of the 747 Project in August 2016, before it was transported to Burning Man. \u003ccite>(Susan Valot/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"All this stuff is hopefully going to work. Like you can come and pull the throttle up, down.\" Avila shows how the throttle controls move. \"Probably shouldn't move the landing gear thing, but you can move that around. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a Bay Area native, Burning Man has always existed at the edge of my plane of awareness. I don't remember exactly when it shifted in my mind from \"culty hippie pseudo-spiritual druggie art party that I definitely don't want to go to\" to \"culty hippie pseudo-spiritual druggie art party that roughly one-third of the people I know go to and also talk about incessantly for the rest of the year that I also still definitely don't ever want to go to, please stop telling me how much I'd like it because you are wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do clearly remember one summer after college, when I worked at a Berkeley co-op bakery favored by hippies -- remind me to tell you the one about the guy who came in wanting to trade a few of his pot brownies for our regular brownies, in lieu of payment -- and business crawled to a standstill come Burning Man week. The soy milk carton at the coffee station remained full; wheat-free vegan banana oat bran muffins sat sadly, rejected, behind their glass. \"Wow,\" I remember thinking. \"This Burning Man thing is really, well, a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, it's an ever-bigger thing. Most people you talk to -- even people who love it -- will tell you it's \"over.\" Ticket prices now require second jobs and mortgages; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/fashion/at-burning-man-the-tech-elite-one-up-one-another.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">tech moguls have run amok\u003c/a>. I am fully aware that for many this is very sad, and if you are one of those people, I'm truly sorry for your loss. To each his or her own. For people like me -- who, I readily admit, have only ever experienced the superficial perimeter of the Burning Man mushroom cloud -- it means only that the hallmarks of Burner culture that used to make us skeptical at best and queasy at worst have been eliminated and replaced by new and different elements that make us want to throw up in new and different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, there are those things that, thankfully, never change. Like this: Every year, as 50,000 people descend on Black Rock City for a life-altering experience, San Franciscans experience something maybe even weirder: a city that doesn't feel overcrowded. Parking spaces proliferate over night; lines at popular brunch spots seemingly dissolve into the thin, fragrant air. It's beautiful, but almost eerie, not unlike the eye of a storm -- the latter half of which in this case is all your friends coming back from Burning Man, posting nonstop photos of it, wanting to talk about it, and making everyone else deal with their\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-car-wash-owner-spills-the-dirt-on-Burning-Man-6476792.php\" target=\"_blank\"> dust-covered crap\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other pure Burning Man-related joy to which I treat myself every year around this time is simpler: Burning Man Craigslist. That's right, for a couple weeks every year, no matter the section -- \"for sale,\" \"community,\" \"personals\" -- entering the words \"burning man\" into the search bar yields some incredible results. Gently used rainbow booty shorts abound, as do fake fur coats that, I gather, are are best paired with assless chaps. (As my esteemed colleague \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/shotchkiss/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/a> just wondered aloud, what would happen if a recently-landed alien were to try to piece together an idea of Burning Man based solely on Craigslist? Hilarity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event, since I'm not one to be selfish, I thought I'd share my favorites from this year thus far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/01414_6sIlbzIXgAR_1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/5727757627.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dumb and Dumber' Van Replica\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>At just $6999 (someone went to business school!), this shaggy dog-like van honestly seems like a steal. Built by a Florida-based \u003cem>Dumb and Dumber\u003c/em> superfan, it includes extras that are so exciting they must be typed in all caps: \"ORANGE AND BLUE TUXES, ORANGE AND BLUE HATS & CANES and a dog costume. All outfits copied from the movie and great fun.\" Only downside: As of this writing, the author is still waiting on the custom license plate -- \"Shagy,\" with one g.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/5741422910.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mannequin Torso with Heads for Art Projects\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>From the wording of this title, I was initially disappointed that I could not purchase one large mannequin torso with many heads, but my sadness was quickly quelled by the knowledge that there are \u003cem>flats \u003c/em>of mannequin upper bodies lying around in Oakland, just waiting to be picked up and used in various terrifying ways. Also: \u003ca href=\"https://www.mannequinmadness.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mannequin Madness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/00M0M_3DPN2jDRn9s_600x450.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/00M0M_3DPN2jDRn9s_600x450.jpg\" alt=\"00M0M_3DPN2jDRn9s_600x450\" width=\"253\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/5747070194.html\" target=\"_blank\">BURNING MAN YURT 8X8\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong> There are many yurts and geodesic domes for sale around Burning Man-time. I chose this one because the ad does not feature a photo of the yurt, opting instead for a minimalist line drawing of the yurt. You will just have to trust that it is worth the $450.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/for/5746616849.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Pickle Burning Man?\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>For sale: One giant plastic pickle that appears to be wall-mountable, which its current owner rightfully thinks could be a thing someone would require at Burning Man. The suggested price is $75. I am not going to lie to you; I want this pickle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/5744957569.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Hot Mess Burning Man Special Tune Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \"We think you're all idiots, but, if you want to give us $50, we can help you not die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tix/5747653253.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Females, lure my dad to go to burning man.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> This baffling listing promises a \"free\" ticket to the playa, if you can convince the author's father to go. Our author (I can't for certain identify the gender here, but referring to women as \"females\" provides a hint) is vehement, without explaining why, that going to Burning Man would be very beneficial for both his/her relationship with said father (whose OkCupid info is provided) and also just in general for said father's health. I've read this post many times and only become more concerned. Does the word \"lure\" give anyone else pause? Doesn't giving out another person's dating profile info seem not-okay? \u003cem>Misguided matchmaking attempt or elder abuse?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/com/5747333445.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Need Cannabis for BurningMan\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. This guy doesn't know how to buy weed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did I miss? I'll add to this list, if anything spectacular comes my way. In the meantime: Be safe out there, kiddos! Drink water! And be sure to tune in late next week, when we'll be discussing some very dusty Missed Connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a Bay Area native, Burning Man has always existed at the edge of my plane of awareness. I don't remember exactly when it shifted in my mind from \"culty hippie pseudo-spiritual druggie art party that I definitely don't want to go to\" to \"culty hippie pseudo-spiritual druggie art party that roughly one-third of the people I know go to and also talk about incessantly for the rest of the year that I also still definitely don't ever want to go to, please stop telling me how much I'd like it because you are wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do clearly remember one summer after college, when I worked at a Berkeley co-op bakery favored by hippies -- remind me to tell you the one about the guy who came in wanting to trade a few of his pot brownies for our regular brownies, in lieu of payment -- and business crawled to a standstill come Burning Man week. The soy milk carton at the coffee station remained full; wheat-free vegan banana oat bran muffins sat sadly, rejected, behind their glass. \"Wow,\" I remember thinking. \"This Burning Man thing is really, well, a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years later, it's an ever-bigger thing. Most people you talk to -- even people who love it -- will tell you it's \"over.\" Ticket prices now require second jobs and mortgages; \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/fashion/at-burning-man-the-tech-elite-one-up-one-another.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">tech moguls have run amok\u003c/a>. I am fully aware that for many this is very sad, and if you are one of those people, I'm truly sorry for your loss. To each his or her own. For people like me -- who, I readily admit, have only ever experienced the superficial perimeter of the Burning Man mushroom cloud -- it means only that the hallmarks of Burner culture that used to make us skeptical at best and queasy at worst have been eliminated and replaced by new and different elements that make us want to throw up in new and different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, there are those things that, thankfully, never change. Like this: Every year, as 50,000 people descend on Black Rock City for a life-altering experience, San Franciscans experience something maybe even weirder: a city that doesn't feel overcrowded. Parking spaces proliferate over night; lines at popular brunch spots seemingly dissolve into the thin, fragrant air. It's beautiful, but almost eerie, not unlike the eye of a storm -- the latter half of which in this case is all your friends coming back from Burning Man, posting nonstop photos of it, wanting to talk about it, and making everyone else deal with their\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-car-wash-owner-spills-the-dirt-on-Burning-Man-6476792.php\" target=\"_blank\"> dust-covered crap\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other pure Burning Man-related joy to which I treat myself every year around this time is simpler: Burning Man Craigslist. That's right, for a couple weeks every year, no matter the section -- \"for sale,\" \"community,\" \"personals\" -- entering the words \"burning man\" into the search bar yields some incredible results. Gently used rainbow booty shorts abound, as do fake fur coats that, I gather, are are best paired with assless chaps. (As my esteemed colleague \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/shotchkiss/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hotchkiss\u003c/a> just wondered aloud, what would happen if a recently-landed alien were to try to piece together an idea of Burning Man based solely on Craigslist? Hilarity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Built by a Florida-based \u003cem>Dumb and Dumber\u003c/em> superfan, it includes extras that are so exciting they must be typed in all caps: \"ORANGE AND BLUE TUXES, ORANGE AND BLUE HATS & CANES and a dog costume. All outfits copied from the movie and great fun.\" Only downside: As of this writing, the author is still waiting on the custom license plate -- \"Shagy,\" with one g.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/5741422910.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mannequin Torso with Heads for Art Projects\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>From the wording of this title, I was initially disappointed that I could not purchase one large mannequin torso with many heads, but my sadness was quickly quelled by the knowledge that there are \u003cem>flats \u003c/em>of mannequin upper bodies lying around in Oakland, just waiting to be picked up and used in various terrifying ways. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tori Tatum is a Demi Lovato superfan. The twentysomething has been to a dozen or so of Lovato’s shows, including two on the pop star's current tour, “Future Now,” with Nick Jonas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Her voice is just amazing,” says Tatum. It's a couple hours before Lovato and Jonas take the stage at the SAP Center in San Jose on August 18. “I love her shows. You never know what she is going to sing. She does a lot of surprises on her tours.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tatum's hardly alone. More than 200 others like her have lined up in front of the venue today for a chance of glimpsing the former Disney Channel stars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Tatum and her line of friends haven't shown up just for the spectacle. They've been handpicked to attend a “wellness workshop” before the show, a session led by the personal development coach -- Mike Bayer, CEO of the Southern California-based CAST Centers -- who helped Lovato through her battle with eating disorders, drug addiction, and the day-to-day trials that come with bipolar disorder. CAST Centers is a counseling and rehabilitation organization that works with people on personal development, addiction and psychiatric disorders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I first met [Mike Bayer] under circumstances where I had asked for help, but I didn’t really want it,” Lovato tells me after the workshop, surrounded by her hair and makeup team. “We’ve gotten in so many heated arguments and debates over the years, but he ultimately knew what was right for me. Because of that I was able to get sober.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lovato wants to remove the stigma around discussing mental health. And it must be said: For a pop star who's come out of perhaps the shiniest pop star-generating machine in the business, the pairing doesn't feel quite like the usual \"celebrity with a cause.\" The campaign’s marketing materials feature neither starving children nor malnourished animals with compelling music in the background\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">-- just a group of young people admitting they have issues.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up for the pre-concert workshop. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up for the pre-concert workshop. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, it feels personal, with good reason: Lovato, at 24, has lived through the same self-deprecation, pain and anxiety that many young people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">deal with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This was something that helped me get sober... it's one of the reasons why I’m alive today,\" Lovato tells me. \"So [CAST counselors] being on tour, I knew it would provide an opportunity for other people to get resources so they can get the help that they need.” \u003c/span>CAST is paying for all the workshops. Even still, the benefit is clear; with Lovato endorsing the events, the company is getting boatloads of advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two hours before the concert, this gaggle of fans files into a side room at the stadium. The workshop starts out high-energy: The MC pumps the crowd up with audio from Lovato’s album, \u003cem>Confident\u003c/em>, and questions like “How many of you spend an hour a day working out your body?” A majority of the hands in the room shoot up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then he asks “How many of you spend an hour a day working on your mental health?” Only a few hands go up, including mine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the MC leads a breathing exercise, Lovato walks into the room and the attendees cheer. Lovato waves, smiles and then sits down on a leather couch with her band. She's there to take part in the workshop, just like the fans behind her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s when Kevin Hines takes the stage. He is, to be blunt, the guy who didn't die after \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizzwarner/this-guy-jumped-off-the-golden-gate-bridge-and-survived-to-t?utm_term=.vjKy9VDlb#.uqlVwOBKR\" target=\"_blank\">attempting suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2000\u003c/a>. Hines recounts what went through his mind before he jumped, and how a number of what seemed like divine moments kept him alive, including a sea lion circling him and bobbing him up every time he sank.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was 19 and my life changed dramatically in four seconds,” says Hines, remembering that day. “It was the four seconds it took me to fall from the Golden Gate Bridge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There's something in these testimonials that calls to mind my high school days at Christian bible camp. But when I look around at the fans, they're getting the message. This isn't a place for irony, nor cynicism.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel like him sharing that with everybody opened our eyes,\" participant and San Ramon native Kylie Prentice tells me afterward. “I didn’t expect it to be so deep.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees (and Demi Lovato fans) Tori Tatum and Kylie Prentice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees (and Demi Lovato fans) Tori Tatum and Kylie Prentice. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This avenue of encouraging young people to address their personal needs is, to be sure, not entirely perfect. It’s debatable whether the youth who really need mental health care the most can be adequately reached by a short two hour large-group session tied to a pop show. And, at least in the workshop I attended, there was very little one-on-one or peer-to-peer interaction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bayer concedes that it’s a starting point; he says that getting young people talking about their issues at all is an important first step. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone on this planet, from my experience, wants to be the best version of themselves,” he says. “So what we try to do on tour is give people that opportunity to get some tools to be a better version of themselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the session, Bayer and his crew offer advice to anyone interested about where to find help in their communities, and I find myself wondering if the point of this event will stick. For super fans like Tori Tatum, it has. She’s taking what she learned home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve never had [mental health] conversations at home. It’s like taboo,” Tatum tells\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">me, as attendees file out. “You can talk about physical pain or whatever, but, every time something mental comes up, the conversation is just shut off.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, in Lovato’s dressing room, the singer says it's just that attitude she's hoping to turn around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-800x533.jpg\" alt='Demi Lovato performs at the Boston stop of her \"Future Now\" tour. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demi Lovato performs at the Boston stop of her \"Future Now\" tour. \u003ccite>(Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The key is to make mental health mainstream,\" says Lovato. \"We have to make it as mainstream as physical health. When you take care of your mind, everything else falls into place.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If it seems like something of a messy, complex subject for a pop star who rose to fame on a squeaky-clean image -- it is. But at this point, Lovato says, what does she have to lose?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel like anything is possible, and it’s my responsibility to use my voice as a platform for something more than just singing. If I can do that through mental health care, I want to.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tori Tatum is a Demi Lovato superfan. The twentysomething has been to a dozen or so of Lovato’s shows, including two on the pop star's current tour, “Future Now,” with Nick Jonas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Her voice is just amazing,” says Tatum. It's a couple hours before Lovato and Jonas take the stage at the SAP Center in San Jose on August 18. “I love her shows. You never know what she is going to sing. She does a lot of surprises on her tours.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tatum's hardly alone. More than 200 others like her have lined up in front of the venue today for a chance of glimpsing the former Disney Channel stars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Tatum and her line of friends haven't shown up just for the spectacle. They've been handpicked to attend a “wellness workshop” before the show, a session led by the personal development coach -- Mike Bayer, CEO of the Southern California-based CAST Centers -- who helped Lovato through her battle with eating disorders, drug addiction, and the day-to-day trials that come with bipolar disorder. CAST Centers is a counseling and rehabilitation organization that works with people on personal development, addiction and psychiatric disorders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I first met [Mike Bayer] under circumstances where I had asked for help, but I didn’t really want it,” Lovato tells me after the workshop, surrounded by her hair and makeup team. “We’ve gotten in so many heated arguments and debates over the years, but he ultimately knew what was right for me. Because of that I was able to get sober.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lovato wants to remove the stigma around discussing mental health. And it must be said: For a pop star who's come out of perhaps the shiniest pop star-generating machine in the business, the pairing doesn't feel quite like the usual \"celebrity with a cause.\" The campaign’s marketing materials feature neither starving children nor malnourished animals with compelling music in the background\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">-- just a group of young people admitting they have issues.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees line up for the pre-concert workshop. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees line up for the pre-concert workshop. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, it feels personal, with good reason: Lovato, at 24, has lived through the same self-deprecation, pain and anxiety that many young people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">deal with.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This was something that helped me get sober... it's one of the reasons why I’m alive today,\" Lovato tells me. \"So [CAST counselors] being on tour, I knew it would provide an opportunity for other people to get resources so they can get the help that they need.” \u003c/span>CAST is paying for all the workshops. Even still, the benefit is clear; with Lovato endorsing the events, the company is getting boatloads of advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two hours before the concert, this gaggle of fans files into a side room at the stadium. The workshop starts out high-energy: The MC pumps the crowd up with audio from Lovato’s album, \u003cem>Confident\u003c/em>, and questions like “How many of you spend an hour a day working out your body?” A majority of the hands in the room shoot up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then he asks “How many of you spend an hour a day working on your mental health?” Only a few hands go up, including mine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the MC leads a breathing exercise, Lovato walks into the room and the attendees cheer. Lovato waves, smiles and then sits down on a leather couch with her band. She's there to take part in the workshop, just like the fans behind her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s when Kevin Hines takes the stage. He is, to be blunt, the guy who didn't die after \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/lizzwarner/this-guy-jumped-off-the-golden-gate-bridge-and-survived-to-t?utm_term=.vjKy9VDlb#.uqlVwOBKR\" target=\"_blank\">attempting suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2000\u003c/a>. Hines recounts what went through his mind before he jumped, and how a number of what seemed like divine moments kept him alive, including a sea lion circling him and bobbing him up every time he sank.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was 19 and my life changed dramatically in four seconds,” says Hines, remembering that day. “It was the four seconds it took me to fall from the Golden Gate Bridge.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There's something in these testimonials that calls to mind my high school days at Christian bible camp. But when I look around at the fans, they're getting the message. This isn't a place for irony, nor cynicism.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel like him sharing that with everybody opened our eyes,\" participant and San Ramon native Kylie Prentice tells me afterward. “I didn’t expect it to be so deep.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees (and Demi Lovato fans) Tori Tatum and Kylie Prentice.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Demi-Lovato-7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees (and Demi Lovato fans) Tori Tatum and Kylie Prentice. \u003ccite>(Ezra Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This avenue of encouraging young people to address their personal needs is, to be sure, not entirely perfect. It’s debatable whether the youth who really need mental health care the most can be adequately reached by a short two hour large-group session tied to a pop show. And, at least in the workshop I attended, there was very little one-on-one or peer-to-peer interaction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bayer concedes that it’s a starting point; he says that getting young people talking about their issues at all is an important first step. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone on this planet, from my experience, wants to be the best version of themselves,” he says. “So what we try to do on tour is give people that opportunity to get some tools to be a better version of themselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the session, Bayer and his crew offer advice to anyone interested about where to find help in their communities, and I find myself wondering if the point of this event will stick. For super fans like Tori Tatum, it has. She’s taking what she learned home.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve never had [mental health] conversations at home. It’s like taboo,” Tatum tells\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">me, as attendees file out. “You can talk about physical pain or whatever, but, every time something mental comes up, the conversation is just shut off.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, in Lovato’s dressing room, the singer says it's just that attitude she's hoping to turn around.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-800x533.jpg\" alt='Demi Lovato performs at the Boston stop of her \"Future Now\" tour. ' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-583778170.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demi Lovato performs at the Boston stop of her \"Future Now\" tour. \u003ccite>(Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The key is to make mental health mainstream,\" says Lovato. \"We have to make it as mainstream as physical health. 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"disqusTitle": "Bette Davis v. Joan Crawford: The Hateful History Behind Old Hollywood's Nastiest Feud",
"title": "Bette Davis v. Joan Crawford: The Hateful History Behind Old Hollywood's Nastiest Feud",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED's weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/05/BetteDavisJoanCrawford.mp3\" title=\"Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford, The Shadiest Hollywood Feud of All Time\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fresh off hits like \u003cem>American Crime Story\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The People v. OJ Simpson\u003c/em>, Ryan Murphy recently announced his next project. Tentatively titled \u003cem>Feud\u003c/em>, the 8-episode season will focus on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Susan Sarandon will play Ms. Davis and Jessica Lange will star as Ms. Crawford. If you are familiar with this historic feud, you know the series will be must-see juiciness. But for those of you who aren’t up on your Old Hollywood drama, let me take you on a shade retrospective of Davis v. Crawford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before we get to the barbed one-liners, let's get some backstory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33507 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\" width=\"400\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucille Fay LeSueur was born to a single mother in Texas and spent her childhood moving from state to state, struggling to get a proper education. She dreamed of a better life as a famous dancer. After some time in various chorus lines, Lucille decided to switch gears and landed a $75 a week gig as an actress at MGM. The studio publicist didn't like the sound of her name (too close to \"sewer\") so he organized a \"Name the Star\" magazine contest. And a star (named Joan Crawford) was born!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33505 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg\" alt=\"Bette Davis, slaying in Of Human Bondage.\" width=\"400\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette Davis, slaying in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known early on as \"Betty,\" grew up in New England and had an easier upbringing. She was fortunate enough to attend boarding schools and receive theater training, which led to time on Broadway. Eventually, she made her way to LA, where success didn't seem likely at first. Upon arrival, the driver who was meant to pick her up left without her because he didn't see anyone that \"looked like an actress.\" Hollywood big wigs didn't think she was sexy enough. But Bette persisted and got her big break two years later with a lead role in \u003cem>The Man Who Played God. \u003c/em>Two years after that, her performance as a no-nonsense waitress in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage \u003c/em>got so much fanfare that, when she was snubbed at the Oscars, there was such an uproar that the Academy had to change their voting rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '30s and '40s, both Joan and Bette were at the top of their game. Joan was the movie star, better known for her looks and off-screen hook-ups (she was married to Douglass Fairbanks Jr. and had a thing with Clark Gable, among other notable men), while Bette was considered a serious character actress, intensely focused on her craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, actors were more or less owned by a studio and couldn’t work on any other productions, unless specifically loaned out. Crawford was part of MGM and Davis was part of Warner Bros. so, even though they were competing for America’s attention, they rarely had to compete for the same roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Bette on the set of Dangerous.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Bette on the set of \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things started to bubble in 1935 when Bette was filming \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> with a hot(ish) guy named Franchot Tone. She developed a crush on him. \"I fell in love with Franchot, professionally and privately. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners,\" Bette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33509\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Joan get hot and heavy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Joan, connoisseurs in PDA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for her, Joan got to him first. Rumor has it that she invited Tone to her home and met him naked in the solarium. It wasn't long before Joan started visiting the set, much to Bette's chagrin. “He was madly in love with her. They met each day for lunch. He would return to the set, his face covered in lipstick. I was jealous of course.” Joan and Franchot married once filming wrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Bette would open up about this time in her life to journalist Michael Thorton: \"She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness. I have never forgiven her for that and never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> was met with critical acclaim and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar. Because she was relatively new to the game and didn't believe she would win, Bette wore a simple navy blue dress to the ceremony. The voters proved her wrong and her name was called. According to legend, Franchot got up and embraced her, while his now-wife Joan refused to get up and had her back to Bette. After being called out for her rude behavior by Franchot, Joan allegedly looked Bette up and down and snidely said \"Dear Bette! What a \u003cem>lovely\u003c/em> frock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All was quiet on the western front for a while after that...until Joan left MGM and got hired -- where else? -- Warner Bros! Now Bette and Joan were directly competing for the same roles. Around this time, Bette was considering the titular role in \u003cem>Mildred Pierce\u003c/em>, which she eventually turned down. Joan ended up snagging it and won an Oscar for her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33474 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford twirl gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan is feeling herself.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33473 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette is not here for it.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years of competition and sh*t talk ensued. Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Joan on Bette:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Bette! She looks like she’s never had a happy day... or night!... in her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘art.’ Others might call it camouflage, a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate Bette Davis, even though the press wants me to; I resent her. I don’t see how she built a career out of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford kennel gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bette on Joan:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, due to Hollywood being grossed out by the idea of women over 29, both actors weren’t in such demand anymore. Work was so hard to come by that Bette resorted to putting out an ad in \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Thirty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumor would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood (Has had Broadway).\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In 1961, now in her fifties, Bette was performing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’ \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">The Night of the Iguana\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">. One night, an unexpected Joan showed up backstage, gave Bette a novel called\u003c/span> \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">and proposed that they star in the adaptation. \u003c/span>They would play two has-been child star sisters living together. Bette’s character spends the entire film tormenting Joan’s character, who is paralyzed and can't defend herself, so it's no wonder that Bette said \u003cem>Hell yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Bette to sign on was the first challenge. The more daunting task was getting someone in Hollywood to finance a movie starring older women. Studio after studio, including Bette and Joan's former home Warner Bros, turned down the idea or claimed they would only be interested if the leading women were replaced with younger talent. Eventually, a small production company called Seven Arts said yes and handed over some meager funds. Both women had to take a drastic pay cut, in exchange for a percentage of the profits, in order to get the ball rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-33526\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Joan and Bette on set.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis-960x650.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/crawford-davis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan and Bette on set.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, the petty shenanigans on set were of Biblical proportions. For instance, Joan had been married to the CEO of Pepsi and advocated for Pepsi product-placement in the film. Bette responded by having a Coca-Cola machine installed on set. And it didn't take long for the bad behavior to migrate from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerned that Bette would actually hurt her during a scene that required the two actresses to fight, Joan requested a body double, but there was one close-up shot that required her participation. During this take, whether by accident or not, Bette gave Joan's head such a kick that Joan required stitches. What did Bette have to say for herself? “I barely touched her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33515\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/WHTBJJ.gif\" alt=\"WHTBJJ\" width=\"245\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan wanted revenge and got it while filming a later scene, which involved Bette dragging her across the room. To prepare, Joan, who knew Bette had a history of back problems, strapped on a weightlifters' belt to make herself as heavy as possible. \"There is a way of making it easy on the actor who is doing the carrying, but Crawford wanted Bette to suffer,\" director Robert Aldrich later said. And suffer she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy_1.gif\" alt=\"whatever happened to baby jane drag body joan bette\" width=\"245\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">turned out to be a huge hit. Bette and Joan got rich all over again, thanks to the profit percentages they had agreed to in the budget negotiations. The movie also raked it in with five Oscar nods total. Davis was nominated for Best Actress. \u003ca href=\"http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/gretchencandycanes422.gif\">And none for\u003c/a> Joan Crawford.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan was not happy for her co-star, to say the least. She actively campaigned against Bette during the Oscar season and hatched a secret plan to humiliate her at the ceremony. Bette lost that year's title to Anne Bancroft and couldn't believe her eyes when none other than Joan, herself, waltzed on stage to collect the award. (Joan had called all the other nominees and offered to accept the award on their behalf, should they win.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjO39TX5RY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost dropped dead! I was paralyzed with shock. To deliberately upstage me like that! Her behavior was despicable. I will never forget the look she gave me. It was triumphant. It clearly said: 'You didn't win, and I am elated!'\" Bette later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Robert Aldrich wanted to get the old gang back together again for \u003cem>Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte\u003c/em>. The public's interest in the Bette and Joan rivalry had made them so much money the first time around; why not have another go? Both stars agreed, but the film was immediately plagued by drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the production had to be delayed a month due to Joan wanting to attend a Pepsi sales conference. Once filming did start, Joan complained about no one coming to collect her and her team (a maid, a makeup artist and a hairdresser), after they had landed in Baton Rouge. She also complained about the accommodation, which was too close to garbage cans. Bette snapped, \"Oh, Joan, pull yourself together. This is Baton Rouge, not Beverly Hills!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-crawford-is-embarrassed-for-you-o.gif\" alt=\"Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan misses LA, where everywhere you go has valet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joan also suspected that Bette had too much control over the director and was plotting against her: \"She's practically directing the picture for him right in front of me, so God knows what else she's up to behind my back. I might wind up on the cutting-room floor.\" And Bette's behavior on set didn't assuage that paranoia; Joan would say \"Hello\" or \"Good morning\" every day and Bette would simply ignore her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the shoot continued, Joan began complained of exhaustion and refused to work or speak to the director. The suspicion was that she planned to feign illness to get out of the movie. Insurance doctors and private detectives were involved and the studio's insurance company gave the director an ultimatum: either replace Joan or it's a wrap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film left Joan behind, who promptly checked herself into a hospital. Olivia de Havilland, a friend of Bette's, was selected as her replacement. Back on set, Bette toasted Joan's exit and Olivia's entrance with a glass full of Coca-Cola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/bettedavisamen.gif\" alt=\"bette+davis+amen\" width=\"243\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bette and Joan would never work together again. Joan died first, but even death didn't soften Bette towards her former co-star. \"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was their feud real? Or was it a media creation, which Bette and Joan capitalized on? Most likely a bit of both. They say that what you hate in someone else is what you hate in yourself. Maybe these two women always found themselves at odds because they were just too similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both came from single-mother households. Both were headstrong Alpha leading ladies trying to survive in a world that only allowed for one. Both were Aries (\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/21/will-our-next-president-be-hillary-or-trump-astrologers-think-they-know/\">if you believe in that sort of thing\u003c/a>). Both struggled with love (four marriages each) and parenting (their children wrote tell-alls about them).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just imagine what could have been if they had realized how much they had in common...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BD.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BD.gif\" alt=\":-(\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">🙁\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For even more Bette and Joan thoughts and feelings, get a load of this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264856470&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fresh off hits like \u003cem>American Crime Story\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The People v. OJ Simpson\u003c/em>, Ryan Murphy recently announced his next project. Tentatively titled \u003cem>Feud\u003c/em>, the 8-episode season will focus on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Susan Sarandon will play Ms. Davis and Jessica Lange will star as Ms. Crawford. If you are familiar with this historic feud, you know the series will be must-see juiciness. But for those of you who aren’t up on your Old Hollywood drama, let me take you on a shade retrospective of Davis v. Crawford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before we get to the barbed one-liners, let's get some backstory:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33507 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\" width=\"400\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931-400x574.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan-dance-fools-dance-1931.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Crawford cuts a rug.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucille Fay LeSueur was born to a single mother in Texas and spent her childhood moving from state to state, struggling to get a proper education. She dreamed of a better life as a famous dancer. After some time in various chorus lines, Lucille decided to switch gears and landed a $75 a week gig as an actress at MGM. The studio publicist didn't like the sound of her name (too close to \"sewer\") so he organized a \"Name the Star\" magazine contest. And a star (named Joan Crawford) was born!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33505 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg\" alt=\"Bette Davis, slaying in Of Human Bondage.\" width=\"400\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage-400x495.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette_davis_of_human_bondage.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette Davis, slaying in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known early on as \"Betty,\" grew up in New England and had an easier upbringing. She was fortunate enough to attend boarding schools and receive theater training, which led to time on Broadway. Eventually, she made her way to LA, where success didn't seem likely at first. Upon arrival, the driver who was meant to pick her up left without her because he didn't see anyone that \"looked like an actress.\" Hollywood big wigs didn't think she was sexy enough. But Bette persisted and got her big break two years later with a lead role in \u003cem>The Man Who Played God. \u003c/em>Two years after that, her performance as a no-nonsense waitress in \u003cem>Of Human Bondage \u003c/em>got so much fanfare that, when she was snubbed at the Oscars, there was such an uproar that the Academy had to change their voting rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the '30s and '40s, both Joan and Bette were at the top of their game. Joan was the movie star, better known for her looks and off-screen hook-ups (she was married to Douglass Fairbanks Jr. and had a thing with Clark Gable, among other notable men), while Bette was considered a serious character actress, intensely focused on her craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the day, actors were more or less owned by a studio and couldn’t work on any other productions, unless specifically loaned out. Crawford was part of MGM and Davis was part of Warner Bros. so, even though they were competing for America’s attention, they rarely had to compete for the same roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33465\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Bette on the set of Dangerous.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/franchot-tone-and-bette-davis-in-dangerous-1935.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Bette on the set of \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things started to bubble in 1935 when Bette was filming \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> with a hot(ish) guy named Franchot Tone. She developed a crush on him. \"I fell in love with Franchot, professionally and privately. Everything about him reflected his elegance, from his name to his manners,\" Bette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33509\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg\" alt=\"Franchot and Joan get hot and heavy.\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/BLOG-franchot.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franchot and Joan, connoisseurs in PDA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately for her, Joan got to him first. Rumor has it that she invited Tone to her home and met him naked in the solarium. It wasn't long before Joan started visiting the set, much to Bette's chagrin. “He was madly in love with her. They met each day for lunch. He would return to the set, his face covered in lipstick. I was jealous of course.” Joan and Franchot married once filming wrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Bette would open up about this time in her life to journalist Michael Thorton: \"She took him from me. She did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness. I have never forgiven her for that and never will.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> was met with critical acclaim and\u003cem> \u003c/em>Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar. Because she was relatively new to the game and didn't believe she would win, Bette wore a simple navy blue dress to the ceremony. The voters proved her wrong and her name was called. According to legend, Franchot got up and embraced her, while his now-wife Joan refused to get up and had her back to Bette. After being called out for her rude behavior by Franchot, Joan allegedly looked Bette up and down and snidely said \"Dear Bette! What a \u003cem>lovely\u003c/em> frock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800643-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33472\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif\" alt=\"Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/Bette-Movie-Quotes-bette-davis-33800618-160-160-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All was quiet on the western front for a while after that...until Joan left MGM and got hired -- where else? -- Warner Bros! Now Bette and Joan were directly competing for the same roles. Around this time, Bette was considering the titular role in \u003cem>Mildred Pierce\u003c/em>, which she eventually turned down. Joan ended up snagging it and won an Oscar for her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33474 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_nhk0j1K4DS1rdfgw4o1_500.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford twirl gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan is feeling herself.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-33473 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bette is not here for it.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Years of competition and sh*t talk ensued. Here are some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Joan on Bette:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor Bette! She looks like she’s never had a happy day... or night!... in her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss Davis was always partial to covering up her face in motion pictures. She called it ‘art.’ Others might call it camouflage, a cover-up for the absence of any real beauty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t hate Bette Davis, even though the press wants me to; I resent her. I don’t see how she built a career out of mannerisms instead of real acting ability. She’s a phony, but I guess the public likes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/joan1.gif\" alt=\"joan crawford kennel gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bette on Joan:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it’s because I’m not a bitch. Maybe that’s why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33477\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mp7twaJ6tZ1qaad4ao1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, due to Hollywood being grossed out by the idea of women over 29, both actors weren’t in such demand anymore. Work was so hard to come by that Bette resorted to putting out an ad in \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> that read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Thirty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumor would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood (Has had Broadway).\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In 1961, now in her fifties, Bette was performing on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’ \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">The Night of the Iguana\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">. One night, an unexpected Joan showed up backstage, gave Bette a novel called\u003c/span> \u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003cspan class=\"italic\">and proposed that they star in the adaptation. \u003c/span>They would play two has-been child star sisters living together. Bette’s character spends the entire film tormenting Joan’s character, who is paralyzed and can't defend herself, so it's no wonder that Bette said \u003cem>Hell yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting Bette to sign on was the first challenge. The more daunting task was getting someone in Hollywood to finance a movie starring older women. Studio after studio, including Bette and Joan's former home Warner Bros, turned down the idea or claimed they would only be interested if the leading women were replaced with younger talent. Eventually, a small production company called Seven Arts said yes and handed over some meager funds. 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To deliberately upstage me like that! Her behavior was despicable. I will never forget the look she gave me. It was triumphant. It clearly said: 'You didn't win, and I am elated!'\" Bette later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33469\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_m11mnl6GKq1qj71muo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Robert Aldrich wanted to get the old gang back together again for \u003cem>Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte\u003c/em>. The public's interest in the Bette and Joan rivalry had made them so much money the first time around; why not have another go? Both stars agreed, but the film was immediately plagued by drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the production had to be delayed a month due to Joan wanting to attend a Pepsi sales conference. Once filming did start, Joan complained about no one coming to collect her and her team (a maid, a makeup artist and a hairdresser), after they had landed in Baton Rouge. She also complained about the accommodation, which was too close to garbage cans. Bette snapped, \"Oh, Joan, pull yourself together. 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Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_64857']Ah, idioms—those obscure, frequently-baffling bits of language-within-a-language guaranteed to make learning any foreign tongue that little bit harder. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/02/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-foreign-idioms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As explored on a previous episode of KQED Pop’s \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a>, the world's languages are chock-full of these linguistic puzzlers, but brace yourselves, America: trusty old British English is no less stuffed with idioms just waiting to confuse you in a pub somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re planning a trip across the pond to take advantage of Britain’s natural beauty and/or staggering \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/24/stressed-about-brexit-distract-yourself-with-these-witty-reaction-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-Brexit\u003c/a> currency woes, read on for the sayings most likely to make you come a cropper! (Including that one right there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>“A damp squib”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>a bust; a disappointment, particularly after much anticipation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “After all that planning, Carly’s birthday party was a total damp squib.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pug, possibly disheartened by a Damp Squib Event. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/Allison Michael Orenstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard not to imagine this one rising to prominence purely on the basis that “squib” is \u003cem>really\u003c/em> fun to say. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squib_(explosive)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The word actually means “small explosive device”\u003c/a>—i.e. exactly the sort of thing you wouldn’t want to be damp. Older squibs were un-insulated and needed to be kept dry in order for the gunpowder to ignite, making any “damp squibs” a pretty disappointing display. Fun fact: In the film industry, squibs now often refer to the little explosions of fake blood used to simulate gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: Despite it being a common \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/01/411231029/here-are-100-eggcorns-that-we-say-pass-mustard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eggcorn\u003c/a>, the phrase is NOT \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4799157/Damp-Squid-The-top-10-misquoted-phrases-in-Britain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“damp squid”\u003c/a>, as explored in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnXKVY-_i2c&feature=youtu.be&t=1m5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this delightful clip from cult comedy \u003cem>The I.T. Crowd\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“Have kittens”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>to totally freak out; plunge oneself into a panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “Carly’s having kittens because nobody came to her birthday party.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-768x548.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-2048x1461.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1920x1369.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kittens. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ GK Hart/ Vikki Hart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sorry, friends: This idiom is nowhere near as cute as it sounds. Per our friends at the BBC, this phrase is rooted in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/09/7-british-animal-idioms-will-baffle-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">age-old fear of witchy women\u003c/a>. Apparently, folk of yesteryear believed that witches could place a spell on a pregnant woman by turning her unborn baby into kittens. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it was also believed that these kittens would begin to scratch at the woman’s womb. This superstition led many women who were experiencing the total normal abdominal pains that come with pregnancy to think that they had fallen victim to a witch’s feline spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“Go down a treat”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>to be received or consumed happily (esp. tea or cake).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “At least Carly’s birthday cake went down a treat.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15832542620_9a15bb10d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"A delicious cup of tea that will almost certainly go down a treat. Image: Flickr Creative Commons\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15832542620_9a15bb10d7_z.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15832542620_9a15bb10d7_z-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A delicious cup of tea that will almost certainly go down a treat. Image: \u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/q84VjL\">Flickr Creative Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no great medieval mystery to unravel for this one. All you need to know is that Brits love tea so much that we basically invented a way to describe an exceptionally good cup of tea: “That went down a treat.” The phrase can, of course, be applied to anything that’s just given you pleasure or won your approval. Why not apply it to a sweet gift, a funny joke or a particularly well-constructed Powerpoint presentation? (Incidentally, the sample usage \u003ca href=\"http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+down+a+treat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided by the Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms\u003c/a> is “His animal impressions went down a treat with the children”, which might be the finest exemplar ever.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“To take the piss [out of someone/something]”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning:\u003c/strong> to mock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “Carly couldn’t hide her tears, as the townspeople took the piss out of her pathetic party.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33440\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15216299853_d5332b5f67_z.jpg\" alt=\"Potentially a merciless piss-taking captured on camera. Potentially. Image: Flickr Creative Commons.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15216299853_d5332b5f67_z.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15216299853_d5332b5f67_z-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Potentially a merciless piss-taking captured on camera. Image: \u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/pbBvPt\">Flickr Creative Commons.\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, some sauciness for you patient people! \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Per Professor Will K. Pedia\u003c/a>, this phrase refers to the outdated British expression “piss-proud”, which itself refers to the ... uh, heightened state a chap might find himself in upon waking in the morning with a dire need to pee. This (obviously?) translates into a metaphorical sense of false “pride”, so in this context “taking the piss” out of aforementioned chap would deflate that pride (and more besides). If you’ve ever read a Shakespeare play, you’ll know that we find all this penis stuff \u003cem>really\u003c/em> funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_98046']VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: “Taking the piss” also has a secondary, same-but-different meaning when applied to someone who is outrageously taking liberties, acting in bad faith or behaving in such a way that makes a mockery of something. (“Charging $2,000 for his dreadful painting? He is really taking the piss with that one.”) Delightfully, this usage seems to have its roots in the fascinating field of canal-based chicanery (click \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_the_piss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here \u003c/a>for more on that).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, as promised…\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“Come a cropper”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>to fall or trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “As Carly fled her party in tears, she came a cropper on the croquet lawn.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15343579766_8997e424db_z.jpg\" alt=\"A man, coming a cropper. 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It’s a testament to how much we really love our horses that this hunting term passed into general usage. Tally ho, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ah, idioms—those obscure, frequently-baffling bits of language-within-a-language guaranteed to make learning any foreign tongue that little bit harder. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/02/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-foreign-idioms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As explored on a previous episode of KQED Pop’s \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a>, the world's languages are chock-full of these linguistic puzzlers, but brace yourselves, America: trusty old British English is no less stuffed with idioms just waiting to confuse you in a pub somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’re planning a trip across the pond to take advantage of Britain’s natural beauty and/or staggering \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/24/stressed-about-brexit-distract-yourself-with-these-witty-reaction-tweets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-Brexit\u003c/a> currency woes, read on for the sayings most likely to make you come a cropper! (Including that one right there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>“A damp squib”\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>a bust; a disappointment, particularly after much anticipation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “After all that planning, Carly’s birthday party was a total damp squib.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113618\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-200457906-001-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pug, possibly disheartened by a Damp Squib Event. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/Allison Michael Orenstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard not to imagine this one rising to prominence purely on the basis that “squib” is \u003cem>really\u003c/em> fun to say. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squib_(explosive)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The word actually means “small explosive device”\u003c/a>—i.e. exactly the sort of thing you wouldn’t want to be damp. Older squibs were un-insulated and needed to be kept dry in order for the gunpowder to ignite, making any “damp squibs” a pretty disappointing display. Fun fact: In the film industry, squibs now often refer to the little explosions of fake blood used to simulate gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: Despite it being a common \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/01/411231029/here-are-100-eggcorns-that-we-say-pass-mustard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eggcorn\u003c/a>, the phrase is NOT \u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4799157/Damp-Squid-The-top-10-misquoted-phrases-in-Britain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“damp squid”\u003c/a>, as explored in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnXKVY-_i2c&feature=youtu.be&t=1m5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this delightful clip from cult comedy \u003cem>The I.T. Crowd\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“Have kittens”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>to totally freak out; plunge oneself into a panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “Carly’s having kittens because nobody came to her birthday party.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113619\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-768x548.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-2048x1461.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/GettyImages-10100201-1920x1369.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kittens. \u003ccite>(Getty Images/ GK Hart/ Vikki Hart)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sorry, friends: This idiom is nowhere near as cute as it sounds. Per our friends at the BBC, this phrase is rooted in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/09/7-british-animal-idioms-will-baffle-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">age-old fear of witchy women\u003c/a>. Apparently, folk of yesteryear believed that witches could place a spell on a pregnant woman by turning her unborn baby into kittens. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it was also believed that these kittens would begin to scratch at the woman’s womb. This superstition led many women who were experiencing the total normal abdominal pains that come with pregnancy to think that they had fallen victim to a witch’s feline spell.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left\">“Go down a treat”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meaning: \u003c/strong>to be received or consumed happily (esp. tea or cake).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Example usage: “At least Carly’s birthday cake went down a treat.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-33437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/08/15832542620_9a15bb10d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"A delicious cup of tea that will almost certainly go down a treat. 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