alright, i am watching this for the first time in ages, and im making notes in real time, so it will be garbeled)

• the jokes about anaylsts (esp my pyschatrist(sp) only told me to trust him), is it a 50s thing, has there ever been a time where freud was ever so promient. (the constant reference to motherhood, to marriage as a rite of adulthood, does this connect--cf rock hudson and who ever played jon or even brad--the much noted irony of jon being played by the str8 actor and rock being gay) (then an agressive stare down b/w jon&rex--a thesis couldnt unpack this scene)
• ive decided to give her up on the advice of my pyschatrist
• adults again--i couldnt ask you, could you ask, oh rex we are all over 21--day is as or more agressive then hudson, making mockery of oscar levants i knew doris day b4 she was a virigin)
• when she sings darling posses me, there is this almost literal melting, with her blonde hair, whie fu, the diamonds, she becomes snow pure debauched (but not really, as the scenes afterwords esp. in the dinner)
• there has to be a first time,
• disappointed by the whole love ending
• the african american woman as greek chorus, weird minestrel moment
• can we talk about how it popularzes(sp) modernist aesthetics (esp. abex paintings)--esp. how design takes such a large part of the plot (exciting to work w. al those colours and fabrics, this is the one qouted as the largerst queer signifier (cf celluiod closet) but this scene ends with a kiss--so a str8 boi can play w. colour ?
• the painting i told you about, the end table is coming at 4 oclock, not wearing white again in the movie--the first scene after the fuck up in crimson and leopard skin (rwor)
• the colour is amazing, the costumes, the sets, the skin tones, etc--perfect for a defense of cinemascope. (an old gq had a terrence raffety article, that mocked cinemascope, that thot it vain and useless, the formalist arguements about cosmetics that baetchlor makes can be here)
• she decorates apartments, you have an apartment, you hire her to decorate your apartment
• comparing brad allen to the mumps (droll)
• the scene where they walk thru new york, like ghosts, so the city shines thrui them, from day to nite, from the un and liberty to times sqaure theaters, from purity to sin--or is that going to far?
• the bath tub scene, sexy and pure in a way no one else can be--a mirror of monroes innocence--by screen split they are naked together (doris day and monroe are much closer then we think--or the personae, against taylor of course but also mansfield and van doren)
• who did the costumes ?
• doris days hats should be considered national monumets
• somehow it reminds me of sex and the city--was that an update ? (esp. in how they treat ny--a tourist; i knew it, if you married him you would have to lvie out there--that whole monolouge)
• the shot in shot, the matching and failing to match monolouges, how they make isolation formal--or is that too intellectual
• is there an aesthetic connection to this and the rise of romance comics (some of it looks like panelling)
• i miss sophiscated comics w. booze jokes.
• is the queer signifers i see all over the place cannonical now, or did they always exist in the text ? (can we even answer that question?) (i mean the obsterics office, the upset stomach, "very devoted to their mothers, you are sick", "a little club called the hidden door") rex and allan, a mirror stage, a closet case, a question of performance, going back is there a batman/brucewayne/robin thing happening
• doing a little scoring up there
• the music that tells of the big discovery (the big discovery scene is told entirely by music) makes it as insanely dramatic as hitchcock, veritgo, etc---the high drama used for the domestic, the hi/lo is the best example is camp. (but camp is poltical and this v. much isnt---the xylophone afterwords, the tears, the preistly collar on john, the phyiscal distance, a different kind of melting)
• i want a montage of movies from the 50s, with hidden little clubs that turn to be decadent (esp. w. connection b/w race--its what made in heaven spoke the best of)
• i want a montage of smarmy desk clerk scenes (alan cumming in ews)
• broadway--are there any connections b/w doris day in this and lana turner in imitation of life? (or rock hudsom)
• could this be remade, w. whom ?(has it been--down w. love/the nathan lane bette middle one--the only problem, of course is the party line)
• its more ribald then i thot it would be.