Tony Bravo is a San Francisco freelancer covering fashion, menswear, lifestyle and entertainment stories. He is a regular contributor to The Bold Italic and the San Francisco Chronicle's Style section.
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Lansbury did both and frequently found herself cast as wives, mothers and general harpies, until breaking through as the worst mother of all time in John Frankenheimer's Cold War assassination masterpiece \u003ci>The Manchurian Candidate\u003c/i> in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, if you think Faye Dunaway's \u003ci>Mommie Dearest\u003c/i> or Mo'Nique's Mary in \u003ci>Precious\u003c/i> were bad parents, Lansbury's Mrs. Shaw will leave you reaching for the Xanax quicker than you can say \"Medea made me do it.\" Mrs. Shaw not only taunts her son with gems like \"Raymond, why do you always look as though your head was about to come to a point?\" (delivered so casually you feel like a casualty), she also brainwashes him into becoming a sleeper Commie assassin with a vague connection to North Korea! How contemporary is that? Lansbury received another Oscar nomination for the role. 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That Bea Arthur!) and the duo's duet \"Bosom Buddies\" became a showstopper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1znyr0QQGE&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1974, Lansbury won a third Tony for her portrayal of Mama Rose (another bad mother, but with singing) in \u003ci>Gypsy\u003c/i>, where she reinvented the stage mother from hell, originated by Ethel Merman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gF51IQiLbQ&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lansbury was just getting started on the stage. In 1979, she created the role of human pie chef Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's \u003ci>Sweeney Todd\u003c/i> and won her fourth Tony for her dangerous, wicked portrayal of the maker of the \"worst pies in London.\" Thankfully for fans, unlike her three other Tony Award winning roles in musicals, this one exists in its entirety on film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Bedknobs, the Nile, Unicorns and Wolves\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rRPU_cvGg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't think during her most fruitful years in the theater that Lansbury was neglecting the world of film. Highlights of these years include her appearance in \u003ci>Death on the Nile\u003c/i> as the fabulously named Salome Autobahn (opposite Bette Davis and Maggie Smith, which is a lot of grand white lady in one film) in 1978, her beloved Disney musical \u003ci>Bedknobs and Broomsticks \u003c/i>(as a witch who fights off a Nazi invasion while singing) in 1970, as the voice of another witch in \u003ci>The Last Unicorn\u003c/i> in 1982 and as a fierce fairy tale grandmother in the adaptation of Angela Carter's \u003ci>The Company of Wolves\u003c/i> in 1984. We can safely say that Lansbury conquered both stage and screen by this point, but that wasn't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"I do believe our guest was...murdered!\"\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL2zVQBciUM&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, Lansbury soared to her greatest pop culture heights when she started her 12 year stint as mystery writer/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the television series \u003ci>Murder, She Wrote\u003c/i>. While the show brings up problematic questions now (how many people had to be murdered in Fletcher's town of Cabot Cove before someone declared a state of emergency? Why did anyone ever invite her to dinner when they knew it meant there would likely be a murder before dessert?), it was a mega-hit and continues to run forever in syndication. With her sensible sweaters, accuracy on a typewriter and great detective skills, Jessica Fletcher won a place in the pop pantheon to the point where whenever I hear the clattering of typewriter keys (not often), I think of Dame Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Tale as old as time\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ0ODCMC6xs&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you \u003cem>still \u003c/em>need a reason to appreciate all that is Lansbury, I offer my trump card. In addition to all that's come before, Lansbury is also your favorite talking teapot. Yes, children of the '90s, I'm talking about Mrs. Potts in \u003ci>Beauty and the Beast\u003c/i>. I'm still disappointed when my French press doesn't offer me sage advice in motherly tones because of this performance, and, whenever I hear her rendition of the title song, I want to waltz with a hairy man in a CGI ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, run, don't walk, to the stage door of the Golden Gate to pull Dame Angela's carriage through the streets! \u003cem>Blithe Spirit\u003c/em> runs through February 1, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">Dame Angela Lansbury, she of the gentle consonants and quintuple Tony Awards, has landed in San Francisco! The beloved, 89-year-old star of stage, screen and television is starring in Noël Coward's \u003ci>Blithe Spirit\u003c/i> at the Golden Gate Theater, reprising her award-winning turn as madcap spiritual medium Madam Arcati. For anyone who only knows the monumentally talented Dame (literally and figuratively: in 2014, Queen Elizabeth appointed Lansbury a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) from her 12 seasons as sleuth Jessica Fletcher on \u003ci>Murder, She Wrote,\u003c/i> here's a necessary tutorial on the star's greatest moments throughout the years that should send you right to the box office for a chance to breathe the same air as the Hollywood and Broadway legend.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eboy64Aqa9k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eboy64Aqa9k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Young Lansbury\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to English politician Edgar Lansbury and Irish stage star Moyna Macgil in the Regent's Park area of London in 1925. When Lansbury was nine, her father died. While still a school girl, she fell in love with her mother's life onstage and those fleeting images of actors in the new talking movies. In 1940, teenage Lansbury escaped the London Blitz with her mother and siblings to study acting in New York. By the time she was 16, the Lansbury family had made it from the East Coast to Hollywood, where she landed a contract with MGM Studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Early Hollywood\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yyEtKpplmjQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yyEtKpplmjQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's where you should start paying close attention: At 16, Lansbury landed the role of scheming maid Nancy in George Cukor's suspenseful \u003ci>Gaslight.\u003c/i> The film is about a man (Charles Boyer) who psychologically manipulates and tortures his wife (Ingrid Bergman) to the point where she nearly goes mad. It was such a popular film that we now have the term \"to gaslight\" in the lexicon, meaning \"\u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">to\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">cause\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">(a\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">person)\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">to\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">doubt\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">his\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">or\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">her\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">sanity\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">through\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">the\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">use\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link\">of \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">psychological\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">manipulation.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lansbury's nasty little domestic is such a far cry from her current image as Earth's favorite grandmother that you have to see it, if only to watch her inflict torment on the gorgeous Bergman, a far more experienced actress than the teenage ingénue. Lansbury got her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the role and immediately followed it up with another nomination for her turn as music hall singer Sybill in \u003ci>The Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, Hollywood didn't quite know how to use the versatile young performer. Although she worked steadily through the '40s and '50s, she was always the supporting player. But what support: The sexy young blonde (I know! She was a dish!) played good girls, bad girls, frumps, social climbers and everything in between, usually cast years older than her actual age.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B_ksZ6bQFZg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B_ksZ6bQFZg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>For highlights from these years, be sure to check her out as old West saloon hussy Em (who lives to insult Judy Garland's good girl Susan) in \u003ci>The Harvey Girls\u003c/i> (1946), as Elizabeth Taylor's older sister in \u003ci>National Velvet\u003c/i> (1944), singing a dirty ditty (on a swing!) in \u003ci>Till the Clouds Roll By\u003c/i> (1946) and as a hard-boiled news publisher opposite Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn in \u003ci>State of the Union\u003c/i> (1948). Extra credit if you watch her scantily-clad role in Cecil B. DeMille's \u003ci>Sampson and Delilah \u003c/i>(1949), where she meets her spectacular end via a spear to the gut in the falling temple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Wives, Mothers and General Harpies\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LCjBOZ4r9Ck'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LCjBOZ4r9Ck'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>By the 1950s, Hollywood's old studio system was collapsing and dependable contract players like Lansbury were let go and either fled to television or looked for movie roles as free agents. Lansbury did both and frequently found herself cast as wives, mothers and general harpies, until breaking through as the worst mother of all time in John Frankenheimer's Cold War assassination masterpiece \u003ci>The Manchurian Candidate\u003c/i> in 1962.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, if you think Faye Dunaway's \u003ci>Mommie Dearest\u003c/i> or Mo'Nique's Mary in \u003ci>Precious\u003c/i> were bad parents, Lansbury's Mrs. Shaw will leave you reaching for the Xanax quicker than you can say \"Medea made me do it.\" Mrs. Shaw not only taunts her son with gems like \"Raymond, why do you always look as though your head was about to come to a point?\" (delivered so casually you feel like a casualty), she also brainwashes him into becoming a sleeper Commie assassin with a vague connection to North Korea! How contemporary is that? Lansbury received another Oscar nomination for the role. When better roles didn't follow, she decamped for the musical theater and old Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Light the candles!\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ilV5K8tw_6o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ilV5K8tw_6o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you have a gay uncle of a certain age obsessed with Lansbury, I'm about to explain why and it'll all make sense. Dependable movie character Lansbury rocketed to theater stardom in 1966 in the title role of the musical \u003cem>Mame\u003c/em>, where she played the lovable, free-spirited Auntie Mame, who inherits an orphaned nephew and sets out to teach him to \"Live! Live! Live!\" As Mame, she cakewalked, shimmied, belted and razzle dazzled her way to her first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, followed in 1969 by her second as the Madwoman of Chaillot in \u003ci>Dear World\u003c/i>. While doing \u003ci>Mame\u003c/i>, Lansbury became close friends with co-star Beatrice Arthur (Yes! That Bea Arthur!) and the duo's duet \"Bosom Buddies\" became a showstopper.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/F1znyr0QQGE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/F1znyr0QQGE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1974, Lansbury won a third Tony for her portrayal of Mama Rose (another bad mother, but with singing) in \u003ci>Gypsy\u003c/i>, where she reinvented the stage mother from hell, originated by Ethel Merman.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_gF51IQiLbQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_gF51IQiLbQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But Lansbury was just getting started on the stage. In 1979, she created the role of human pie chef Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's \u003ci>Sweeney Todd\u003c/i> and won her fourth Tony for her dangerous, wicked portrayal of the maker of the \"worst pies in London.\" Thankfully for fans, unlike her three other Tony Award winning roles in musicals, this one exists in its entirety on film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Bedknobs, the Nile, Unicorns and Wolves\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z0rRPU_cvGg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Z0rRPU_cvGg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Don't think during her most fruitful years in the theater that Lansbury was neglecting the world of film. Highlights of these years include her appearance in \u003ci>Death on the Nile\u003c/i> as the fabulously named Salome Autobahn (opposite Bette Davis and Maggie Smith, which is a lot of grand white lady in one film) in 1978, her beloved Disney musical \u003ci>Bedknobs and Broomsticks \u003c/i>(as a witch who fights off a Nazi invasion while singing) in 1970, as the voice of another witch in \u003ci>The Last Unicorn\u003c/i> in 1982 and as a fierce fairy tale grandmother in the adaptation of Angela Carter's \u003ci>The Company of Wolves\u003c/i> in 1984. We can safely say that Lansbury conquered both stage and screen by this point, but that wasn't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"I do believe our guest was...murdered!\"\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/GL2zVQBciUM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/GL2zVQBciUM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1984, Lansbury soared to her greatest pop culture heights when she started her 12 year stint as mystery writer/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the television series \u003ci>Murder, She Wrote\u003c/i>. While the show brings up problematic questions now (how many people had to be murdered in Fletcher's town of Cabot Cove before someone declared a state of emergency? Why did anyone ever invite her to dinner when they knew it meant there would likely be a murder before dessert?), it was a mega-hit and continues to run forever in syndication. With her sensible sweaters, accuracy on a typewriter and great detective skills, Jessica Fletcher won a place in the pop pantheon to the point where whenever I hear the clattering of typewriter keys (not often), I think of Dame Angela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Tale as old as time\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/uQ0ODCMC6xs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/uQ0ODCMC6xs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you \u003cem>still \u003c/em>need a reason to appreciate all that is Lansbury, I offer my trump card. In addition to all that's come before, Lansbury is also your favorite talking teapot. Yes, children of the '90s, I'm talking about Mrs. Potts in \u003ci>Beauty and the Beast\u003c/i>. I'm still disappointed when my French press doesn't offer me sage advice in motherly tones because of this performance, and, whenever I hear her rendition of the title song, I want to waltz with a hairy man in a CGI ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The past few years have seen a Tiki revival of sorts, as \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> has brought all things '50s and '60s new attention. And now a \u003ca href=\"http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/programmation/exhibitions/last-exhibitions/tikipop.html\">new exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris\u003c/a> and a companion book \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popculture/all/02897/facts.tiki_pop_america_imagines_its_own_polynesian_paradise.htm\">Tiki Pop: America imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise\u003c/a>\u003c/em> by Sven Kirsten are casting a new light on the artificial jungles and faux Easter Island decor that are Tiki's signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiki, named for the Maori mythological \"first man,\" is a romantic vision of tropicalism that traces its roots in Western culture as far back as the first Pacific Island expeditions of James Cook. Hollywood brought hibiscus flowered exoticism to the United States in the '30s with the popularity of nightspot Don the Beachcomber (credited as the first Tiki bar in the US) and a series of island themed films starring saronged actress Dorothy Lamour with titles like \u003cem>The Hurricane\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Her Jungle Love\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Tropic Holiday\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's own Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 was one of the first official mainland celebrations of authentic Polynesian culture and even included an 81 foot tall statue of \"Pacifica: Goddess of the Pacific\" as a kind of Tiki Statue of Liberty (since destroyed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The returning GI's of WWII's South Seas conflict brought back with them not only an appreciation for the look of the islands but also a sort of mixed nostalgia for their time there. James Michener's Pultizer Prize winning \u003cem>Tales of the South Pacific\u003c/em> and its Pulitzer Prize winning musical adaptation, \u003cem>South Pacific,\u003c/em> are perhaps the greatest examples of mid-century high art Tiki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, there's the so-called \"low\" Tiki art that took hold post WWII: restaurants, themed motels, dinner plates, living room furniture...\u003cem>Gillian's Island\u003c/em>. Once the castaways were stranded after their three-hour tour, Tiki hit a kind of pop pinnacle that meant it could only go down from there. Once plentiful, Tiki destinations have been de-jungled for the most part, but here in the Bay Area, a few classics manage to hold out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://tradervicsemeryville.com/\">Trader Vics\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> - 9 Anchor Drive, Emeryville\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original Trader Vic's, which spawned the hugely popular chain, opened in Oakland in the late '30s, but this location has been around since the last blooming of Tiki in the early '70s. The drink and food menus have been crafted into a well-tuned formula and the decor is still gleaming fresh, with the signature Vic's Tiki masks plentifully displayed. The fact that the Emeryville location offers a slight view of the bay from the bar as the sun sets at happy hour makes it even more authentic. If you squint, it could be WWII in Honolulu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tongaroom.com/\">\u003cstrong>The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> - The Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This San Francisco institution first opened in 1945 when the Fairmont Hotel decided to turn their aging indoor swimming pool (added to the hotel in 1929) into a Tiki dream destination. A noted San Francisco landmark, there have been threats of the Tonga Room's closure for years, but, between the tourists staying at the hotel and curious locals, it manages to keep slinging Mai Tais and Singapore Slings night after night. The crowd tends to be a little bachelorette-partyish on the weekends, but after losing yourself in the sound of the indoor rainstorms that happen at regular intervals over the \"lagoon\" (also home to the house band's floating bandstand), it really won't matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://smugglerscovesf.com/trapdoor/\">\u003cstrong>Smugglers' Cove\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> - 650 Gough Street, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Tiki purists, Smuggler's Cove might better be defined as a Caribbean bar, but the Chi-Chis here (a coconut/vodka Tiki signature) can't be beat. The Prohibition era Havana themed spot is rightly famous for their rum cocktails and selection of tasting rums, but anything on the menu is a worthy choice. The vaguely private/rum-running/bootlegger decor is heavy on ropes and barrels more than fake jungle, but they get extra points for their indoor waterfall downstairs in the cave-like basement. The smell of chlorine and pineapple in the air are two Tiki standards, so Smuggler's gets a mention for that alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://tikihavensf.com/#!home\">\u003cstrong>Tiki Haven\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> - 1334 Noriega Street, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This \"vacation destination in the Outer Sunset\" is what I'd call a neighborhood Tiki joint. The drinks tend towards the sweet side and the decor is a little more \"generic beach Tiki\" than some of the more elaborate spots on our list, but the small bar has the advantage of being a Tiki spot off the beaten path where you could potentially walk to the ocean after a few frozen slurpee machine rum drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/tradr-sams-san-francisco\">\u003cstrong>Trad'r Sam's\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> - 6150 Geary, San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Baylon's 1937 bar actually pre-dates Tiki proper and was arguably San Francisco's first tropical bar destination. The rattan bar and seating are mostly original, but the place has definitely seen a little wear over the years. Still, the slight fraying at the edges only adds to the decrepit island charm. There's a full Tiki drink menu, but the neighborhood crowd is more of a beers and shots crowd last time I was there. The bartender seemed a little startled when a friend ordered a Mai Tai, but then zipped right to work serving up the rare specialty the bar was once known for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.forbiddenislandalameda.com/\">\u003cstrong>Forbidden Island \u003c/strong>\u003c/a> - 1304 Lincoln Avenue, Alameda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both decor and menu are extremely imagineered in Alameda's first (and so far only) Tiki lounge in the old shopping district: The bar's website even favorably mentions its frequent comparison to Disneyland, and the glowing puffer fish and velvet paintings are a little \"Jungle Cruise meets Dirk Diggler's house.\" In addition to hosting live surf bands, the bar is also known for hosting annual events, including luaus. Where else on the mainland can you attend one of those? If you go on your birthday, you get a free flaming Mai Tai, but you have to drink it fast before the alcohol burns up.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain.jpg\" alt=\"apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big thank you is due to whomever keeps green-lighting all these \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/21/once-in-a-lifetime-new-made-for-tv-camp-classics/\">splendiferously kitsch telefilms on Lifetime. \u003c/a>The MacArthur-worthy minds that brought you \u003cem>Anna Nicole\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret\u003c/em> and the entire incest opus that is \u003cem>Flowers in the Attic\u003c/em> have now gifted us with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-unauthorized-saved-by-the-bell-story?mkwid=sadwvsVYG%7Cdt_pcrid_42286122032_pkw_the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story_pmt_e&utm_source=ltd_tune_google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story&utm_campaign=The+Unauthorized+Saved+by+the+Bell+Story_Show&paidlink=1&cmpid=PaidSearch_ltd_tune_google_The+Unauthorized+Saved+by+the+Bell+Story_Show_the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story&gclid=Cj0KEQjwveufBRDlsNb3kb-twMIBEiQASNH0xmWlCNePz8G4HfIsCH9BPohKbyhrAxXkWlZD-ot_y4kaAk_n8P8HAQ\">The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Yes, readers; that Saturday morning hit that defined the non-grunge, bubblegum side of the '90s and made cellular phones the size of bricks popular is now getting a completely necessary behind-the-scenes treatment. So what if none of the actors look like the actors they're playing and who cares if this is in no way approved of or endorsed by the creators of the original show. They recreated the Max in all its geometric, Memphis design glory and that's all the counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we head back to Bayside High, let's take a time-out and look back on some of the lessons Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen) A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez), Jessie Spano (Nomi Malone, I mean, Elizabeth Berkeley), Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies) and Screech Powers (Dustin Diamond) taught a generation of millennials in after-school syndication. Sure, there were always official messages the show endorsed (don't drink and drive, don't smoke pot, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bell-Dustin-Diamond/dp/0981239692\">don't let Screech ever write a book about the show\u003c/a>), but the subtext of \u003cem>Saved by the Bell\u003c/em> was always so much more attuned to what kids really needed to hear to survive high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/tumblr_m653pbsk7f1qzjqiao3_250.gif\" alt=\"sbtb prom 2\" width=\"245\" height=\"180\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/tumblr_m653pbsk7f1qzjqiao4_250.gif\" alt=\"sbtb prom\" width=\"245\" height=\"180\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Prom \u003c/strong>(Season 2, Episode 1)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Plot:\u003c/strong> It's prom time at Bayside. Yes, apparently Bayside sophomores get to go to prom, which is held in the fall! Zack gets his dream-come-true when Kelly chooses him over Slater as a date, but his heart is shattered when she suddenly backs out. You see, Kelly's dad is some kind of weapons dealer and, with \"peace being declared,\" business is down! Kelly forks over the money she was going to use on a dress and tells Zack prom is off. When Zack finally finds out why, he makes a prom for two and squires Kelly away to a dreamy crepe-papered picnic bench. Meanwhile, all the \u003cem>Moonlighting-\u003c/em>type verbal foreplay between Jessie and Slater comes to a head at the big dance. Surprise: They're attracted to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intended Lesson:\u003c/strong> It is better to give than receive? No, wait... how about love don't cost a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> Zack and Kelly's counter-prom was way more private and a thousand times more romantic than actual prom. If Kelly was ever going to let Zack skip a few bases, that would have been the night. The lesson here is clearly that, if you ditch prom for an alternative venue, you'll get to spend way more unsupervised time together and who knows what will happen. Also, poor girls are apparently easily impressed, since it doesn't look like Zack put that much effort into the set-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 394px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-13327\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/Screen-shot-2014-08-29-at-11.49.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Busted!\" width=\"394\" height=\"292\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Busted!\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fake I.D.'s\u003c/strong> (Season 3, Episode 9)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot:\u003c/strong> Zack and Kelly have broken up because...Tiffani Amber Theissen wanted to expand her good-girl range before playing resident tramp Valerie on \u003cem>90210\u003c/em>? It's not exactly clear. To get over Kelly, Zack gets Screech to make fake IDs for the guys so they can sneak into the Attic, an 18+ club. Once inside, Zack meets a college girl \u003cem>and\u003c/em> spots Kelly's new college boyfriend cheating on her. When Zack warns Kelly, she doesn't believe him. The episode ends in a boys vs. girls under-age off at The Attic and Zack's mom raids the place because these kids are not 18!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intended Lesson:\u003c/strong> A true friend is the one who tells you the news you don't want to hear. And also, we assume: don't use a fake ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> Here's a lesson all high schoolers should have taken to heart. When it came time for the cool kids to get fake IDs, where did they turn? To the other cool kids? Wrong. They picked the biggest geek in school. Nerds often have superpowers they are willing to use for cool kids that don't bully them. The lesson here is clear: never pick on the seemingly uncool smart kid; if you're nice to them, they'll help you get into clubs. Lesson 2 is for the Screeches of the world: learn how to do useful stuff for popular kids and they'll let you hang out with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/bflYjF90t7c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessie's Song\u003c/strong> (Season 2, Episode 9)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot:\u003c/strong> Type-A queen bee Jessie Spano wants to have it all: a perfect 4.0, intellectual fulfillment as the show's token third-wave feminist, and now, a musical extracurricular for those college applications in the form of her new girl group Hot Sundae. But there's so much studying, so much rehearsal needed and so many Camille Paglia articles on women in media to read! The solution? Caffeine pills, duh (this was apparently before kids made a habit of selling their Ritalin at finals time). Because this is \u003cem>Saved by the Bell,\u003c/em> Jessie becomes a hopeless addict, who is eventually saved, not by the expected bell, but by childhood pal Zack who soothes the Pointer Sister out of her with memories of sneaking off to \u003cem>E.T.\u003c/em> as disobedient children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intended Lesson:\u003c/strong> There are a couple here. Just say no! and Don't over-commit! are easily the top two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> Jessie's out-of-control meltdown makes any drug scenes in \u003cem>Sid & Nancy\u003c/em> look freakishly underplayed by comparison. The real lesson behind the lesson though is that Elizabeth Berkeley had a flair for camp that would eventually be realized in her career-defining role as Nomi Malone in \u003cem>Showgirls.\u003c/em> Jessie's manic song and dance routine heralded fantastic things to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 360px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13328 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/love_triangle02-360x300.jpg\" alt=\"love_triangle02\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">🙁\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Bayside Triangle\u003c/strong> (Season 4, Episode 5)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot:\u003c/strong> When walking hormone Zack decides to help Lisa put on a fashion show, it's only a matter of time before he ends up making out with her. 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But at last, after four years of his antics, the gang fights back and sabotages him. All is resolved at the end with Zack's friends yet again forgiving their buddy's psychopathic tendencies because that's what friends are for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intended Lesson:\u003c/strong> Cheaters never prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> You can only push people so far before they fight back. It took four seasons, but Bayside eventually stood up to the reign of terror that was Zack Morris, even neutralizing his ability to freeze time. Also, how natural was Jessie in the role of the saboteur in this episode? Yet more proof that the high school valedictorian runs away to become the stair-pushing dancer in \u003cem>Showgirls.\u003c/em> Even if you can't entirely prove SBTB and \u003cem>Showgirls\u003c/em> are part of the same universe, you also can't entirely rule it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/9UreyTaVWm0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rockumentary\u003c/strong> (Season 3, Episode 22)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Plot:\u003c/strong> In a \u003cem>VH1: Behind the Music\u003c/em> type episode (which we hope inspires the tone of the upcoming telefilm), Casey Kasem tells the story of the gang's garage band \"The Zack Attack\" and the eventual rise, fall, and rise of the six friends as they shoot to fame. Naturally, there's some kind of misunderstanding and they go their separate ways in anger before eventually reuniting to sing their hit \"Friends Forever\" at a big benefit concert at Bayside. Then Zack wakes up. Years later, we're gifted with this \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9juow_zack-morris-mark-paul-gosselaar-200_news\">classic bit on Jimmy Fallon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intended Lesson:\u003c/strong> Friendsssss for evvvvvvaaaaaaahhh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> Once you get famous, ditch your dead weight friends, who have stuck with you during your rise. Don't worry, if you ever have a crisis, they'll always come back. That's sort of the overall lesson of the series: No matter how poorly Zack treats his friends, they're all terrible codependents and will always return for his abuse. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain.jpg\" alt=\"apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/apa_saved_by_bell_jt_130125_wmain-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big thank you is due to whomever keeps green-lighting all these \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/21/once-in-a-lifetime-new-made-for-tv-camp-classics/\">splendiferously kitsch telefilms on Lifetime. \u003c/a>The MacArthur-worthy minds that brought you \u003cem>Anna Nicole\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret\u003c/em> and the entire incest opus that is \u003cem>Flowers in the Attic\u003c/em> have now gifted us with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-unauthorized-saved-by-the-bell-story?mkwid=sadwvsVYG%7Cdt_pcrid_42286122032_pkw_the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story_pmt_e&utm_source=ltd_tune_google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story&utm_campaign=The+Unauthorized+Saved+by+the+Bell+Story_Show&paidlink=1&cmpid=PaidSearch_ltd_tune_google_The+Unauthorized+Saved+by+the+Bell+Story_Show_the%20unauthorized%20saved%20by%20the%20bell%20story&gclid=Cj0KEQjwveufBRDlsNb3kb-twMIBEiQASNH0xmWlCNePz8G4HfIsCH9BPohKbyhrAxXkWlZD-ot_y4kaAk_n8P8HAQ\">The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Yes, readers; that Saturday morning hit that defined the non-grunge, bubblegum side of the '90s and made cellular phones the size of bricks popular is now getting a completely necessary behind-the-scenes treatment. So what if none of the actors look like the actors they're playing and who cares if this is in no way approved of or endorsed by the creators of the original show. They recreated the Max in all its geometric, Memphis design glory and that's all the counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we head back to Bayside High, let's take a time-out and look back on some of the lessons Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen) A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez), Jessie Spano (Nomi Malone, I mean, Elizabeth Berkeley), Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies) and Screech Powers (Dustin Diamond) taught a generation of millennials in after-school syndication. Sure, there were always official messages the show endorsed (don't drink and drive, don't smoke pot, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bell-Dustin-Diamond/dp/0981239692\">don't let Screech ever write a book about the show\u003c/a>), but the subtext of \u003cem>Saved by the Bell\u003c/em> was always so much more attuned to what kids really needed to hear to survive high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/tumblr_m653pbsk7f1qzjqiao3_250.gif\" alt=\"sbtb prom 2\" width=\"245\" height=\"180\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/tumblr_m653pbsk7f1qzjqiao4_250.gif\" alt=\"sbtb prom\" width=\"245\" height=\"180\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Prom \u003c/strong>(Season 2, Episode 1)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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No, wait... how about love don't cost a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Real Lesson:\u003c/strong> Zack and Kelly's counter-prom was way more private and a thousand times more romantic than actual prom. If Kelly was ever going to let Zack skip a few bases, that would have been the night. The lesson here is clearly that, if you ditch prom for an alternative venue, you'll get to spend way more unsupervised time together and who knows what will happen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg\" alt=\"carrie\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/carrie1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good news for anyone who loved the Oscar-winning film \u003cem>Shakespeare in Love\u003c/em>: the \u003ca href=\"http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/shakespeare-in-love-adapter-revels-in-rave-reviews-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent musical adaptation\u003c/a> of the story of Shakespeare and his muse for \u003cem>Romeo and Juliet\u003c/em> is getting rave reviews in London. 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This time, the witches were led by Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with the devilish role portrayed in the film by Jack Nicholson going to \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> actor Ian McShane. Problems surrounded the new production with rewrites, cast changes and special effects challenges, but the show has gone on to tour Europe and Australia (although never really becoming a hit with U.S. audiences). A musical about a polyamorous arrangement of witches and a gossipy small town chorus sounds like a good place to start. Unfortunatley, supernatural/horror elements never really worked in a musical setting, and don't even get us started on the infamous \"cherry-pit puking scene\" that made it into the show. 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Temperamental \u003cem>Phantom of the Opera\u003c/em> star Michael Crawford apparently insisted on changes to his Count character, and the horror or spoof question surrounding the tone of the show was never resolved. In the end, the musical looked and sounded like a Meatloaf music video and audiences stayed away. In addition to \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires, \u003c/em> adaptations of \u003cem>Dracula\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Interview with the Vampire\u003c/em> have also famously flopped on stage. Theater makers, take the hint; the undead are not musical material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Heathers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/Gpad8LUEwsg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1988 mean teen classic starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty first found its way to the stage in a 2010 concert and is closing off-Broadway this August after a five month run. 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When the show finally opened in 2011, it had the distinction of having the most previews in Broadway history (182, to be exact) and was also the most expensive show ever produced for the Great White Way. While critics were dazzled by the stunts and Eiko Ishioka's costumes, everything else was blasted. 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This time, the witches were led by Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, with the devilish role portrayed in the film by Jack Nicholson going to \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> actor Ian McShane. Problems surrounded the new production with rewrites, cast changes and special effects challenges, but the show has gone on to tour Europe and Australia (although never really becoming a hit with U.S. audiences). A musical about a polyamorous arrangement of witches and a gossipy small town chorus sounds like a good place to start. Unfortunatley, supernatural/horror elements never really worked in a musical setting, and don't even get us started on the infamous \"cherry-pit puking scene\" that made it into the show. 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Temperamental \u003cem>Phantom of the Opera\u003c/em> star Michael Crawford apparently insisted on changes to his Count character, and the horror or spoof question surrounding the tone of the show was never resolved. In the end, the musical looked and sounded like a Meatloaf music video and audiences stayed away. In addition to \u003cem>Dance of the Vampires, \u003c/em> adaptations of \u003cem>Dracula\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Interview with the Vampire\u003c/em> have also famously flopped on stage. Theater makers, take the hint; the undead are not musical material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Heathers\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gpad8LUEwsg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Gpad8LUEwsg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The 1988 mean teen classic starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty first found its way to the stage in a 2010 concert and is closing off-Broadway this August after a five month run. The show kind of works because it \u003cem>gets\u003c/em> that turning a story about murder via Draino, faked gay suicide pacts and the sinister side of adolescence into a bunch of chipper show tunes is kind of ridiculous; composers and lyricists Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy are totally in on the joke. The original \u003cem>Heathers\u003c/em> was almost operatic in its insanity and songs like \"My Dead Gay Son\" make good use of some of the most quotable lines from the film. 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If this is the first you're hearing of it, sorry, tickets sold out in a record six hours. The Peabody Award-winning program has never before undertaken an extended residency in any city outside their native Chicago, but as host Peter Sagal summed up backstage after the show, \"How could we not want to be here? It's San Francisco!\" It was acknowledged throughout the night that Northern California, and San Francisco especially, is fertile ground for public radio listeners, as evidenced by the NPR devoted groupieship in attendance. There haven't been so many tote bags in one place since the last National Archivist Association picnic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hour-long show, hosted by Sagal and announcer Bill Kurtis (the narrator of every A&E true crime program worth its salt) features a rotating panel of three who are quizzed on a variety of topics in the news that week or are occasionally called to the aid of phone-in guests from around the country. Last Thursday's panel consisted of the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>'s Roxanne Roberts, humorist Roy Blount Jr. and comedian Bobcat Goldwait. The Not My Job guests for the next few weeks will be pulled from the local luminary population. Last week, Chef Thomas Keller (The French Laundry) filled the slot, dressed in what Sagal remarked were \"the most pristine chef whites ever...even for radio.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights and behind-the-scenes dish on the premiere taping and a look ahead to what's coming up in the next two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>The Audience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing about any game show is sitting in the audience. If any contestant or panelist contemplated the question for a moment too long, the crowd at Nourse was ready to help them. 80 percent of the time they were right, which I suppose speaks well of our local news habits. A tip for anyone attending: Study up before the show so you can get the nuances of the joke about the Iranian election. Even at the taping of brainy NPR game shows, people get extremely excited, so watching the fervor amp up as we get to the fill-in-the-blank round or as a panelist struggles to recall the name of the head of the CIA's kitchen is something to behold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Local Humor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sagal and the show's writers are tailoring some of the humor to the temporary SF locale. Real estate references, jokes about start-up culture (\"so you all have a million dollars of app starter money in your pockets tonight, right?\") and the availability of medical marijuana peppered the night, and Sagal is looking forward to getting to explore the city for more material. \"It's this really interesting time for the city,\" Sagal said after the taping. \"A lot of the old chakra, hippie stuff is dying out so the jokes from 10 years ago don't work.\" Addressing both the housing crisis and the overall changes to the city in recent years, Sagal commented that in spite of the current climate \"tech billionaires, from what I've seen, have yet to stamp out the real San Francisco.\" He sure knows how to reassure listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Fun with Foodies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Sagal's on-going targets of the night was the Bay Area's foodie culture, so imagine how much fun he and Chef Thomas Keller had playfully sparring. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/07/01/movies-that-will-make-you-proud-to-be-an-american-4th-of-july/michelle-williams-kirsten-d/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12697\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12697\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/michelle-williams-kirsten-d.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Columbia Pictures\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/michelle-williams-kirsten-d.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/michelle-williams-kirsten-d-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Columbia Pictures\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forget \u003cem>The Patriot\u003c/em> and other faux Revolutionary War pastiches. 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That said, you've never seen patriotism on display with such gusto until you've witnessed the \"Proud to be American\" pageant opener that comes in the middle of the story. The epic monument themed hats actually do make me feel proud of my country, especially the four-headed Mount Rushmore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/GD-lFCsYOPs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there were a Mr. America in classic Hollywood, it would have been Jimmy Stewart. Everything about the bashful, stammering every-man was apple pie and old glory, and his roles reflected that. Stewart and director Frank Capra were a dream team of wholesomeness in their collaborations (especially Christmas favorite \u003cem>It's a Wonderful Life\u003c/em>), but \u003cem>Mr. Smith\u003c/em> also has a certain amount of bite when talking about the political process. When former scout ranger Stewart heads to Washington as the hand-picked replacement for a deceased Senator, business as usual in the corrupt capital is expected. The way Smith turns the halls of government on its head, including his famous \"liberty is far too precious a thing to be buried in books\" speech, will make anyone want to turn on CSPAN and pay attention to the legislative process, even if it is for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Norma Rae\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/45CX8W9peTs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there's nothing more American than fighting for your rights, there's something extra American about fighting for the rights of others. Sally Field's Academy Award winning performance as factory worker turned activist Norma Rae sparked a conversation about work conditions and the importance of labor unions that bled over into real life. Years before Julia Roberts played \u003cem>Erin Brockovich,\u003c/em> Sally was our citizen activist movie heroine that we aspired to be. Instead of waving a flag this 4th, stand on a table and hold up a sign that says \"UNION!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Grapes of Wrath\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/i2JR3FmvVAw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Steinbeck's eternal story of a Oklahoma Dust Bowl family searching for a new life in California ends with one of the most American speeches in all of movie history, lifted straight from the novel. Henry Fonda sells Tom Joad's monologue about brotherhood, injustice and the rights of man like no one else; it's impossible to imagine any other actor in the role. \"Well, maybe it's like Casey said, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul.\" Just try and sit through it without shedding a tear for your country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lincoln\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/qiSAbAuLhqs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many biopics of Abraham Lincoln (\u003cem>Young Mr. Lincoln \u003c/em> starring Henry Fonda and \u003cem>Abe Lincoln in Illinois\u003c/em> with Raymond Massey are among the best), but this Steven Spielberg film (from a screenplay by Tony Kushner) is by far the most intimate yet encompassing story that shows Lincoln the president and Abraham Lincoln, the man. Daniel Day Lewis rightly won the Academy Award for his masterful performance as Lincoln, but the entire cast deserves praise, especially Sally Field as Mary Todd and Joseph Gordon Levitt as the Lincolns' eldest son. Hearing Lincoln's speeches in Lewis' majestic voice makes all your high school history text books come to life in a way they never did when you were cutting fourth period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/33ALTtt4SIY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people look at the Nixon/Watergate scandal as a shameful period in American history. Thanks to Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in the movie \u003cem>Dick,\u003c/em> I look at it as a period of great comedy. Before the identity of Deep Throat was revealed, \u003cem>Dick\u003c/em> floated the theory that two high school girls (Dunst and Williams) were actually the source that exposed the greatest scandal in presidential history. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gay Pride month is about so much more than just waving rainbow flags, dancing on boxes and trying to keep drag from melting in midday sun. Every June, it's a good idea to remind ourselves of the cultural contributions our LGBT brothers and sisters have made to society, the plays, novels, poems and works of nonfiction that continue to challenge readers and change minds every time someone picks up a book (or downloads it directly into their eye or however the cool people are reading these days).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some classics written by LGBT authors. Some of these works expressly deal with gay identity, some of the earlier works allude to LGBT themes and some of these don't explore gay subject matter at all; they're just brilliant pieces of writing that were created by LGBT authors who, regardless of the subject matter, always wrote from that unique gay experience. 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Lorde's words are so rich and layered that you could read the same poem over and over each day and still find deeper meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Resident Alien\u003c/em>, Quentin Crisp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Englishman, wit and self described \"naked civil servant,\" Crisp is at his very best and brightest when describing the wonders of his new life in New York City, undertaken when the author was in his seventies. Crisp ogles skyscrapers and the accepting culture of the United States, which he describes as a world of relief after seventy plus years as an outcast in England for both his homosexuality and his indiscreet femme style of dress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A man saw me on the street today and said 'My, haven't you got it all on today,' \" Crisp related in one story, letting readers know the approach included a smile and a good natured laugh. In England, Crisp tells us, the comment would have included a sneer and an accusation of \"Who do you think you are?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Selfish Giant\u003c/em>, Oscar Wilde\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can't go wrong reading anything by Oscar Wilde. The plays are flawless, the novels brilliant, but for me Wilde was at his truest with his fairy tale \u003cem>The Selfish Giant\u003c/em>. The lonely giant, whose greedy heart is melted by the goodness of a child playing in his garden, always seemed to be a metaphor for the way LGBT people had to outwardly harden themselves to not to be persecuted for their same-sex desires in a time where \"the love that dare not speak its name\" wasn't just frowned upon, it was criminal. If you can read the story's conclusion without shedding a tear, you've got a harder heart than the selfish giant himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>White Girls\u003c/em>, Hilton Als\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're not familiar with \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> contributor Hilton Als' work, \u003cem>White Girls\u003c/em> is the perfect introduction. The essay collection explores subjects as varied as silent film icon Louise Brooks and author Truman Capote, while never keeping silent about what it means to be a bold queer man of color in the 21st century. Among the best (and most surreal) essays: an imagined critique of Virginia Woolf by Richard Pryor's sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em>, Tony Kushner\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning, epic two-part play \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> is like watching gay history being written across the sky in lightening. Set in the early, fatal days of the AIDS epidemic, \"Millennium Approaches\" and \"Perestroka\" straddle heaven and earth in a story about humanity, divinity and survival. Read the play so you don't miss any of the great gay cultural references in the dialogue (from \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> to \u003cem>A Streetcar Named Desire\u003c/em>) and then see the HBO film version since plays should always be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To the Lighthouse\u003c/em>, Virginia Woolf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bisexual author's best works, \u003cem>To the Lighthouse\u003c/em> frequently takes a backseat to \u003cem>Mrs. Dalloway\u003c/em> when it comes to popular culture recognition. The story spans a number of years at the Ramsay family's summer home on the Isle of Skye and concludes with a journey to the titular lighthouse. The characters of Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe take much of the author's focus, as Woolf compares and contrasts the attitudes of the \"domestic angel\" Ramsay to the more liberated artist Briscoe. For me, the character of Lily Briscoe has always had a strong lesbian undercurrent, her insecurities as a painter have always mirrored Woolf's own struggle with her art, and the character's admiration of the quietly feminine Mrs. Ramsay spoke to the author's own complicated feelings towards her sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Palimpsest\u003c/em>, Gore Vidal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of literary lion Gore Vidal's two memoirs (followed by \u003cem>Point to Point Navigation\u003c/em>), \u003cem>Palimpsest\u003c/em> focuses on the writer's early life in Washington D.C. and his first literary successes in the '40s, '50s and '60s. The acerbic, prolific and highly political writer (best to catch his views on American politics in this volume rather than some of his later essays) also details his early affair du coeur with St. Albans prep school classmate, Jimmie Trimble. Trimble, the undisputed star of his school's baseball team, who was scouted by the Washington Senators, was killed in action in 1945 during WWII, but Vidal kept a photo of him on display at his homes in Ravello, Italy and Los Angeles the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Conundrum\u003c/em>, Jan Morris\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Welsh travel writer James Morris began transitioning into life as a woman in the 1960s, it was still a pioneering time for transgender people. Jan Morris's frank, colorfully written memoir tells the story of her transition in a funny and candid way, while still reminding us of the great personal fight she had to wage to be the person she was meant to be. 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Walt Whitman's 1885 masterpiece is not only an epic ode to the wonders of the natural world and manifest destiny, but also celebrates (or \"sings of\") the sensual qualities of \"the manly love of comrades.\" \"\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We Two Boys Together Clinging\u003c/span>\" from the Calamus section of the collection is one of the greatest examples of the overt sexuality and beauty in Whitman's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We two boys together clinging\u003cbr>\nOne the other never leaving\u003cbr>\nUp and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,\u003cbr>\nPower enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,\u003cbr>\nArm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,\u003cbr>\nNo law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,\u003cbr>\nMisers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,\u003cbr>\nCities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,\u003cbr>\nFulfilling our foray.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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In England, Crisp tells us, the comment would have included a sneer and an accusation of \"Who do you think you are?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Selfish Giant\u003c/em>, Oscar Wilde\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can't go wrong reading anything by Oscar Wilde. The plays are flawless, the novels brilliant, but for me Wilde was at his truest with his fairy tale \u003cem>The Selfish Giant\u003c/em>. The lonely giant, whose greedy heart is melted by the goodness of a child playing in his garden, always seemed to be a metaphor for the way LGBT people had to outwardly harden themselves to not to be persecuted for their same-sex desires in a time where \"the love that dare not speak its name\" wasn't just frowned upon, it was criminal. If you can read the story's conclusion without shedding a tear, you've got a harder heart than the selfish giant himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>White Girls\u003c/em>, Hilton Als\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're not familiar with \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> contributor Hilton Als' work, \u003cem>White Girls\u003c/em> is the perfect introduction. The essay collection explores subjects as varied as silent film icon Louise Brooks and author Truman Capote, while never keeping silent about what it means to be a bold queer man of color in the 21st century. Among the best (and most surreal) essays: an imagined critique of Virginia Woolf by Richard Pryor's sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em>, Tony Kushner\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning, epic two-part play \u003cem>Angels in America\u003c/em> is like watching gay history being written across the sky in lightening. Set in the early, fatal days of the AIDS epidemic, \"Millennium Approaches\" and \"Perestroka\" straddle heaven and earth in a story about humanity, divinity and survival. Read the play so you don't miss any of the great gay cultural references in the dialogue (from \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> to \u003cem>A Streetcar Named Desire\u003c/em>) and then see the HBO film version since plays should always be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>To the Lighthouse\u003c/em>, Virginia Woolf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the bisexual author's best works, \u003cem>To the Lighthouse\u003c/em> frequently takes a backseat to \u003cem>Mrs. Dalloway\u003c/em> when it comes to popular culture recognition. The story spans a number of years at the Ramsay family's summer home on the Isle of Skye and concludes with a journey to the titular lighthouse. The characters of Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe take much of the author's focus, as Woolf compares and contrasts the attitudes of the \"domestic angel\" Ramsay to the more liberated artist Briscoe. For me, the character of Lily Briscoe has always had a strong lesbian undercurrent, her insecurities as a painter have always mirrored Woolf's own struggle with her art, and the character's admiration of the quietly feminine Mrs. Ramsay spoke to the author's own complicated feelings towards her sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Palimpsest\u003c/em>, Gore Vidal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of literary lion Gore Vidal's two memoirs (followed by \u003cem>Point to Point Navigation\u003c/em>), \u003cem>Palimpsest\u003c/em> focuses on the writer's early life in Washington D.C. and his first literary successes in the '40s, '50s and '60s. The acerbic, prolific and highly political writer (best to catch his views on American politics in this volume rather than some of his later essays) also details his early affair du coeur with St. Albans prep school classmate, Jimmie Trimble. Trimble, the undisputed star of his school's baseball team, who was scouted by the Washington Senators, was killed in action in 1945 during WWII, but Vidal kept a photo of him on display at his homes in Ravello, Italy and Los Angeles the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Conundrum\u003c/em>, Jan Morris\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Welsh travel writer James Morris began transitioning into life as a woman in the 1960s, it was still a pioneering time for transgender people. Jan Morris's frank, colorfully written memoir tells the story of her transition in a funny and candid way, while still reminding us of the great personal fight she had to wage to be the person she was meant to be. Beyond the surface question of gender, what \u003cem>Conundrum\u003c/em> really asks is \"Who am I?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Stone Butch Blues\u003c/em>, Leslie Feinberg\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This groundbreaking novel by trans activist Leslie Feinberg became an underground hit upon publication in the 1990s and went on to mainstream success in the 2000s. \u003cem>Stone Butch Blues\u003c/em> tells the story of Jess, a working class Jewish butch, who runs away to gay life in pre-Stonewall NYC. The novel explores constructs of gender, sexuality and identity, while never ceasing to offer a vivid portrait of the butch subculture of the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Leaves of Grass\u003c/em>, Walt Whitman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/antiques-roadshow/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12450\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: PBS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PBS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the 30,000 who requested tickets to a recent taping of the PBS juggernaut, \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em>, 6,000 were given. I was lucky enough to be among them. The scene at the Santa Clara Convention Center was exactly what you would hope. People wandered the halls carrying everything from stained glass lamps to carousel animals, taxidermy bird scenes under glass to Danish moderne secretaries. \u003cem>Dukes of Hazard\u003c/em> lunch boxes vied for attention with Shaker tables, as people from every corner of California (and one couple I met who flew in from Hawaii) tried their best to impress appraisers and producers with their treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week, the Boston-based \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> travels to a new city with a team of staff appraisers and their host, Mark L. Walberg (he was plain Mark Walberg back when \"Marky Mark\" was still modeling jocks), to meet the people. Actually, the people can be slightly incidental, if the object they bring is fantastic enough. Of the 100 or so participants who get taped for the show, roughly ten or so make it onto an episode. Over and over again, I was told by members of the \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> team that the antiques are the real star. So I set forth into the nerve center of \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> and met the pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"My daughter is getting this one day. I want her to have it to remember how important random acts of kindness are.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before mixing with the public, I met Los Angeles-based appraiser Laura Woolley, whose specialty (appropriately enough for this blog) is pop culture memorabilia. Woolley, who started her career at Sotheby's after college and now has her own company, \u003ca href=\"http://thecollectorslab.com/about.php\">The Collector's Lab\u003c/a>, has evaluated everything from production items (a scene painting from the 1960s camptastic film version of \u003cem>Batman\u003c/em> is among her more recent fabulous appraisals) to pop collectables to major celebrity auctions (Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, and Cher, to name a few).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 years, the celebrity auction market has taken off and Woolley has been there almost from the very beginning. Appraising a celebrity item is two fold: there's the value of the item itself and then there's the value the celebrity name brings to it, which can raise the final price far beyond the object value. \"The best example I can give you of this phenomenon was the Jackie O auction,\" Woolley said. The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction in the mid-'90s was among the first major celebrity sales, where the prices of everyday items shot unbelievably high because of the star glimmer. \"There was a tape measure Jackie used at the tailor, a totally ordinary tape measure. It went for something like a hundred times its estimated value. That's when we knew the market had completely changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/20140612-094143-jpg/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12398\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/20140612-094143-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20140612-094143.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Woolley was called off to film a segment, I wandered around the taping, eyes wide open and occasionally agog at some of the items people had brought in. I caught up with Steve and Marion, who had their hands full with an 8 foot tall telescope (in pieces). The antique stargazer, which Steve dated back to 1850, was purchased by the couple 50 years prior from a neighbor in Palm Desert who had taken it when the local school no longer had use for the archaic instrument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It still works,\" Steve said proudly. \"All I had to do was clean the lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, I wandered from telescopes over to jewelry, where I met Maureen and her husband Larry from Berkeley. Maureen had been given a silver Chinoiserie bracelet from the \"Court of the Seven Seas\" at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition by a patient when she was a dental hygienist in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/antiques-bracelet/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12457\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-12457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-bracelet-853x1024.jpg\" alt=\"antiques-bracelet\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This very elegant lady patient of the doctor I worked for was always so immaculately dressed,\" Maureen said. \"And when I admired her bracelets -- this was one of three in a set she was wearing -- she told me her husband had been the curator of Asian artifacts at the expo where it had come from. Then she told me she had no children to pass it on to, she unsnapped it from her wrist and passed it on to me.\" Maureen put the bracelet on, pointing out its pagoda scene and raised detailing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wear it at least twice a week. Now, when someone compliments a scarf or a pair of earrings I'm wearing, I love to do what that lady did and hand it off to them.\" Maureen learned that her bracelet was worth about $200, but she had no intention of selling anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My daughter is getting this one day. I want her to have it to remember how important random acts of kindness are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, I met Larry, who also had a piece appraised with better monetary results. His white 1968 Hot Wheels Camaro turned out to be one of the most rare toy cars from the period. He wouldn't say what the appraiser valued it, but said he was \"very pleasantly surprised.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it might be worth more because it was still in the package but not by \u003cem>that\u003c/em> much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/20140612-094015-jpg/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12396\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/20140612-094015-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20140612-094015.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most popular appraisal fields at any \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> taping is painting and prints. It's almost always the field with the most requests. My eye was immediately drawn to to a woman in line with a large, turn of the century poster from France.\u003cbr>\n\"It's from between 1900 and 1906,\" Sandra said of her piece. \"I collect these French posters, but this is one of the earliest ones I own. My other ones are all more Art Deco and this is very Belle Époque.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I took in her poster, an advertisement for a major exposition/fair in Paris, a number of other people began to take notice of it. Sandra said the item would definitely be staying in her home, regardless of the value (\"it looks perfect on the wall I had to sacrifice so it could hang alone\"), but when word reached us later that Sandra and her poster had been chosen to be taped for the show, we wondered if she might hear that her poster was worth a price that might make her want to reconsider selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's the policy when it comes to buying at an Antiques Roadshow taping? 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