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Sunday, March 05, 2006

QT: Lesbians in the ‘30s & Clea DuVall

…have these writers seen the extremely poor hygiene standards of the men in Carnivale? That alone would have turned at least a few women gay. Throw in all the swearing and spitting, and Clea DuVall's strange effect on women, and I'm surprised the human race propagated at all during that decade. --Toni Graphia

So it’s been awhile since I’ve done a “Quoted” post. Not because there hasn’t been a slew of funny, odd, and hilarious happenings to take snippets from. Why, Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting incident provided a slew of fodder; but I’ve been resistant to the obvious. So, it is my pleasure to come back with a, not-so-obvious, “Quoted”.

I’m reading, Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever over at AfterEllen. Inevitably, Battlestar Galactica comes up (because you can’t avoid it this year). With the topic of Battlestar Galactica comes the topic of it’s not so out lesbian writer and co-executive producer, Toni Graphia. Anyway, Graphia mentions how writers are often resistant to the introduction of gay and lesbian characters. Then she tells the story of her work with Carnivale (HBO)—a 30’s depression, period drama about carnival performers struggle between good, evil, free will, and destiny. “When Graphia suggested a lesbian story line for Carnivale (HBO), which chronicled the lives of a group of traveling circus performers in the 1930s, she said she was met with ‘some homophobia in my own writers room.’ ”

It was like this big wall of resistance,” she said. ‘’This actually got said to me: ’Back in the ‘30s, they didn’t have lesbians.‘
Um, putting aside this assertion’s complete historical inaccuracy, have these writers seen the extremely poor hygiene standards of the men in Carnivale? That alone would have turned at least a few women gay. Throw in all the swearing and spitting, and Clea DuVall’s strange effect on women, and I’m surprised the human race propagated at all during that decade.

If I had been drinking coffee or any beverage, I would have spit it. As it is, I struggled with the urge, even though my throat was parched. So, I’m not alone in noticing Clea DuVall’s effect on other women. She’s no Angelina Jolie, but she seems to rack up a more than satisfactory number of women who would go gay for an hour or two with with her. O’ and of course, that truly the lack of male hygiene in various decades and centuries really should have produced a population drop, but apparently women are verrryy adaptable.

Three Faces of Clea

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On 03/16/2006, says:
Great post; who wouldn’t appreciate Clea’s charms?? I actually ran into her in old town Pasadena a few years ago. I was with my ex-girlfriend Amber; we were headed to a movie. Amber let out an audible “eep!” as we came upon and walked past Ms. Duvall on the sidewalk. Mine was more of an inner eep.

On 03/17/2006, allgood2 says:
Clea’s yummy, though admittedly she only makes my top 5 list, when I’m looking at a picture of her. But I admit to watching a large number of her films—and looking at IMDB, does confirm, yes a lot of them were teen movies (sigh).