Reposted by ciara moloney
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
ciara moloney
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film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis. ciaramoloney.net | thesundae.net
![Screenshot from wikipedia which reads:
False claims circulated that Temple was not a child, but a 30-year-old dwarf, due in part to her stocky body type. Temple claimed in her autobiography that the Vatican dispatched Father Silvio Masante to investigate whether she was indeed a child; no further evidence was given to corroborate her claim as newspapers of the time simply reported that she was interviewed by the priest who worked as a correspondent for the L'Osservatore Romano.[74] The fact that she never seemed to miss any teeth led some people to conclude that she had all her adult teeth. Temple was actually losing her primary teeth regularly through her days with Fox—for example, during the sidewalk ceremony in front of Grauman's Theatre, where she took off her shoes and placed her bare feet in the concrete, taking attention away from her face. When acting, she wore dental plates and caps to hide the gaps in her teeth.[75] Another rumor said her teeth had been filed to make them appear like baby teeth.[76]
A rumor about Temple's trademark hair was that she wore a wig. On multiple occasions, fans yanked her hair to test the rumor. She later said she wished all she had to do was wear a wig, bemoaning the nightly process she had to endure in the setting of her curls as tedious and grueling, with weekly vinegar rinses that stung her eyes.[77]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zsgk52kbfrncob3ypc6astp6/bafkreigx4gfkxd253otaastkqygries4qh2sday2vkt4cf7fz3fbiklm5m)
![Best of Dolly Parton [RCA Victor, 1975]
In her productivity and devotion to writing Parton is like a nineteenth-century woman novelist--a hillbilly Louisa May Alcott. What's best about her is her spunkiness and prettiness (Jo crossed with Amy); what's worst is her sentimentality and failures of imagination (Beth crossed with Meg). And this is the best of her best. At least half of these songs have an imaginative power surprising even in so fecund a talent--images like the bargain store and the coat of many colors are so archetypal you wonder why no one has ever thought of them before. The psychological complexities of "Jolene" and "Traveling Man" go way beyond the winsome light melodramas that are Parton's specialty. And even when the writing gets mawkish--"I Will Always Love You" or "Love Is Like a Butterfly"--her voice is there to clear things up. A+](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4kp46csqgvegknx353n6gfja/bafkreihu4qp66iqdnlthqvnxvc26ke37q6745vtdy7x3qgh5xeyuvdet5m)
