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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈

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Writer, YouTuber, small mammal. I tell fun stories about pop culture history. He/him. > Videos: youtube.com/mattbaume > Bonus videos: patreon.com/mattbaume > Book: gaysitcoms.com > Podcast: sewersofparis.com > Hedgehog: 🦔

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 6h

Oh I haven't, gotta track that down!

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DozingUnicorn 🔜 LVFC @dozingunicorn.bsky.social · 7h

If you're not already following @mattbaume.bsky.social's work, you should

youtu.be/m9OswGSHgwM?...

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

A few years ago I went to the NYPL to do some research on Little Shop of Horrors, and got to flip through their file on Kyle Renick, who ran the theater where the show got its start. This photo was tucked in toward the back. No explanation.

Kyle Renick posing at a grave marker with Ed Gein’s name

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking if Bruce knows the name of the woman he's running against, or if he never bothered to learn it and now it's too late to ask

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I'll have lots more details about this handsome rogue's spicy history (and that of his indulgent wife, who you know as the Bride of Frankenstein and Katie Nanna from Mary Poppins) in my next bonus video. Join at Patreon.com/mattbaume and you'll get a notification when the video's live!

B&W photo of Charles in a suit from The Island of Dr. Moreau

Elsa Lanchester looking striking as The Bride of Frankenstein (with incomplete makeup, lacking the scars around her chin as seen in the film)

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

The bio is "Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor" and that does seem to be an accurate description

the book "Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor" by Simon Callow book stood up and propped open

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know the voice of Disney's Prince Charming was gay? Neither did I, but according to this biography of actor Charles Laughton, Laughton and the actor Bill Phipps were having a not-apparently-secret affair during the making of Cinderella. Good for them!

Text from a book:
Brecht and Laughton also seem to have done the casting them-
selves: a few emigré actors, like Hugo Haas, as the Pope, quite a
number of serious young Hollywood actors, acquaintances of
Laughton (Frances Heflin, sister of Van, for example), but for the
most part, in James Lyon's phrase, 'both Laughton and Brecht
wanted unspoiled, teachable, younger people.' Many of these they
found in the recently defunct Actors' Lab, including one, Bill Phipps,
who, as it happens, became Laughton's lover, a troubled but none the
less sustaining relationship. He played Andrea, though Eric Bentley,
for one, reckons he was overparted. In general, the company they
assembled was young, eager and talented.

a photo of bill phipps in a suit, and a screengrab of prince charming at the ball

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

Krillin has decided you look good enough to eat

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🍁 DireDireDocks 🍂 @dirediredocks.bsky.social · 2d

Kate Mulgrew really is THAT bitch. Goddamn I love her.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

A Very Serious Creature

A husky with her tongue out and zero thoughts

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

It's the withering glare you really have to look out for

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Lulu spotting some trouble to get into

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering the good old days

screengrab of a youtube video from 2014 titled "assaulted and robbed at molotov bar on haight st for wearing google glass" with an outstretched hand and the caption "get outta here bitch."

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Literally what is he talking about!!!??? This was him just a few weeks ago:

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Bonkers. What is he saying, that there's no connection between progressive policy and taxes? He's literally campaigning on progressive taxation.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 2d

Krillin asked me to tell you hi

Me and a terrier sitting around looking at trees

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 3d

THE OLD DARK HOUSE is one one my favorite horror films because it is so genuinely funny. Going live with a watch-along right now over on Twitch! twitch.tv/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

A large enough pile of gravel dumped in the middle of the road ought to do it

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

From the YouTube Home Screen, click the three dots and there are options to block there.

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

Time for another obscure media hunt: Does anyone know where I can find the 1940 Vincent Price film Green Hell? The only versions I can find are low-res with Russian subtitles or homemade bootlegs.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

I suppose it could just be kind of a weird house. But why even have the door????

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

The Invisible Man has the Police Squad door gag!

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

Carl Laemmle presents a Twitch livestreaming of the original THE INVISIBLE MAN from 1933! Going live now, part of our monthlong livestream of classic queer horror films: twitch.tv/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

The Invisible Man is an iconic horror film but I'd argue it is, in its weird dark heart, actually a comedy. We're watching this classic on Twitch today, going live in one hour at noon pacific/3pm eastern! Come join us: twitch.tv/mattbaume

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday to Buster Keaton, seen here exhibiting two of his greatest stunts

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