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Credit for this genius idea goes to iknowwhatyoudidlastmidsommar on Instagram

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@patrickswayzeblog Hey, so I've probably already sent you this, but just in case I somehow haven't...

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Dir. Beeban Kidron

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My hottest Ghost take that isn't Carl-related is that "With You" is one of the weakest songs in the musical

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So, for a long time I've been thinking about how, while Ghost the Musical has some amazing songs, it also has a lot of weird/filler songs and was plagued by technical issues in its initial run. And then I remembered that one of my all-time favorite musical cast recordings, the 2012 Off-Broadway Carrie the Musical, was actually from a revival of an older show with a lot of similar issues to Ghost. They revamped the set list, keeping some songs and replacing/rewriting others; reworked a key scene to avoid technical issues*; and cast some phenomenal singers who could really bring out what makes the musical numbers so special. Wouldn't it be great if they did something similar with Ghost? I really hope that happens sometime in the next few years.

*Originally, the iconic blood drop scene in Carrie the Musical was done with a bucket of actual fake blood being poured over the lead. This, however, messed up her microphone badly, so they spent most of the initial run trying to figure out how to get around that — throwing the blood from the side worked better with the mic, but it looked strange, had the potential to miss the target, and STILL sometimes screwed up the audio. In the revival, they eliminated the issue by using a light effect instead of a practical one, more clever lighting for the rest of the scene, and then a quick change into a blood-stained dress and painting her face/hair with fake blood for the following scene.

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I know that this blog is dedicated to Carl and Ghost, and at first this will seem unrelated, but... okay, so one of my other all-time biggest on-screen crushes is John Kramer/Jigsaw from the SAW series, played by the immensely talented Tobin Bell. For those of you who don't know him, here he is in SAW II:

Anyways, so I always knew Tobin as a silver fox. I didn't really think of what he might have looked like back in the day. Then one day he shared a photo of himself at 17 on social media and, well...

I guess I've got a type? 😂 😂 😂

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"are u ok" i crave the touch of a fictional character whose hand I'll never hold

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A little late for Pride Month, but yet another of my favorite movies turns out to have been created by a queer person! (Interestingly enough, all the ones I'm thinking of — Ghost, Scream, Child's Play, and Hellraiser — have either a heavy supernatural aspect, a horror aspect, or both, and I doubt that's a coincidence. There's a discussion to be had sometime about the LGBT+ community's fascination with morbidity and the supernatural in media, but now is neither the time nor the place...)

Highlights of the article (for me): ▪️ It sounds like his wife isn't exactly a beard; they apparently had "a good sex life," and he also mentions what he calls a "conjoined relationship" with another man, which I think is probably what most people nowadays would call a poly relationship. ▪️ Being a closeted gay inspired the themes of being an outsider looking in in Ghost; while Sam experiences the sense of otherness, of not being part of the human race, very literally as a spirit, it sounds like Rubin was using Sam's story to talk about his "hidden lifestyle." ▪️ Other parts of the film were also inspired in part by Rubin's sexuality; the lesbian vibes in the scene where Sam possesses Oda Mae in order to touch Molly one last time were intentional, and the iconic "Ditto" line was how Rubin himself responded to a college girlfriend when he felt unable to be honest about his sexuality. ▪️ I also just love the freedom and joy in his words about embracing his sexuality. LGBT+ elders living their lives openly and honestly is such a beautiful thing, and gives me so much hope for the future.

Anyways, happy (belated) Pride (and hopefully I'll be posting here a bit more often again in the future)! 🏳️‍🌈 💖

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Sharing from my main blog for the Ghost-related pics

Josefina and Makena had a great time sleeping over at Samantha’s 🛏️! 

They did makeovers 💅…

…sang karaoke 🎤…

…told spooky stories 😱 (Samantha’s telling “The Legend of the Mistletoe Bough,” a horror story where a newlywed couple’s playful game of hide-and-seek goes gruesomely wrong. Josefina’s so scared she’s hiding under her blanket!)…

…and watched a movie 🎞️ (Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, which is my own favourite film)!

What’s a movie without popcorn? 🍿

Josefina was really moved by the film, it reminded her of her mom 🥲 (also, I made that mini tissue box myself out of a real one!)

(The “tears” were made with hot glue and affixed with double-sided tape… yes, I did work far too hard on this 😅)

(I put way too much work into getting this image printed onto transparent plastic to NOT have it show up in the photos)

(If anyone’s wondering where I got the movie, it’s a custom from donkavitch on Etsy)

They didn’t get to sleep until sunrise. 💤

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Lookie what I got! A doll-sized version of my favourite movie!

(It’s a custom from donkavitch on Etsy, if anyone’s wondering)

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Get you a girl who can do it all

get you a girl who can do both

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Had to share these musings from my main blog, including the tags

Me: I don’t really have a “type”

Also me: *lusts almost exclusively for greedy, corrupt businessmen who are all flash and showmanship in public and insecure messes in private*

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@patrickswayzeblog I was watching the new Chucky TV series and saw ya boi in the background, thought of you immediately

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I had the most random idea the other night: what if Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice the Musical) and Oda Mae Brown (Ghost the Musical) ran into each other in a professional capacity? Like, Oda Mae is hired by the new owners of a haunted house to help put the spirits to rest, only to discover that Beetlejuice was hired by the deceased original owners of the house to scare the new tenants away. They’re both just such charismatic con artists and I want to see them aggressively sing at each other trying to get the other one to leave.

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Okay, so I adore Caissie Levy, but after (finally!) seeing Hamilton, I have to say that Phillipa Soo is my dream casting for Molly Jensen.

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Ghost (1990), dir. Jerry Zucker