"The bathroom--it's perfect! You'll be able to live in decency and cleanliness...and no one will know."
This is so much fun. A made-for-TV classic adapted from the above Jack Vance novel, BAD RONALD stars Scott Jacoby (who would play the teen magician in THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE a few years later) as a nerdy outcast who accidentally murders a snotty little girl for making fun of him. His overbearing mother secrets him away within the walls of their house, where he's meant to live until some undefined future date when it's safe to come out. This day will never arrive, as his mother dies and leaves him all alone--that is, until Dabney Coleman moves his cute teenage daughters into Ronald's house. He decides to make one of them his bride, absorbing her into the fantasy world he has created in his mind.
I really wish the internet had more pictures of Ronald's deco-y fantasy art, which is pretty interesting! Genre film luminary Kim Newman suggests that novelist Jack Vance could possibly have drawn on the Parker-Hulme murder case for inspiration, which later provided the basis for Peter Jackson's HEAVENLY CREATURES. I can't vouch for exactly how likely that could be, but it's an intriguing notion. In any case, Ronald's outsider art career adds a cool splash of color to this weird, brisk little movie. I dug it.
Oh but PS if you're a certain kind of person you may have noticed that there is a new unscripted Lifetime series called Phrogger: Hider In My House, and if you've been on the fence about watching it, I can at least tell you that the first episode features one of the weirdest stories I have ever heard.
It’s time we accept that Percy Jackson is an unreliable narrator. He’s not dumb. He’s just insecure. He’s not clueless about his and Annabeth’s feelings. He’s just in denial. He’s not clueless about Rachel’s feelings. He just doesn’t want to do anything about them. His mother isn’t perfect. He just loves and respects her more than anyone in the world. That boy contradicts his own inner monologue all the time. Do not trust him!!
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Nina, a middle-aged affluent art dealer, has just returned from a long business trip. Settling back down into her own nature morte decked home, Nina pampers herself with a hot shower, a glass of wine, elegant music, and a soak in her open aired, backyard hot tub as she relaxes before for her masseur, Doug, a handsome young man she finds…
and i LOVE how they showed little percy hesitant to want to learn how to swim. not only is it such a natural kid thing to do but it also highlights even more how much he trusts sally and how distant his relationship to poseidon really is