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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Keeping the Bath Water
Keeping the Bath Water
by Zach Clark
The star of The Baby is Baby (played by David Manzy), a grown man who is also a baby. You have to see it to believe it. He wears infant clothes. He wants to play with toys and breast feed. His food is pureed and gets all over his face. But, he is not chasing the modern adult baby's dream of permanent regression. Baby has nothing to regress to. He's not pretending because he is a baby. From this central contradiction springs the world of the film. Duality abounds. Everyone lies, deceives. Things are presented matter-of-factly most of the time, but every now and then, outright strangeness calls everything we've watched into question. 
Baby's condition stems from his family keeping him that way. How? Mother's love and a cattle prod. Sometimes his sister fucks him, but Baby probably doesn't understand. After all, he's not an adult. Mrs. Wadsworth, Baby's mother, is shrewdly aware of this but she's fucked up?and so are her two daughters, Alba and Germaine. All three of Mrs. Wadsworth's children were fathered by different men. None of them are around anymore. It's postulated that Mrs. Wadsworth is hurting Baby because of his gender, but she isn't. She loves him so much she doesn't want him to grow up just to be fucked up like everyone else. While she is protective of Baby, she does not shield him from the outside world. She goes to play bridge and comfortably leaves him with a babysitter (that is, until she finds him suckling at her literal teat). On Baby's birthday, Mrs. Wadsworth throws him a big party, a sequence that stylistically and thematically turns the whole world of the movie upside-down and contextualizes the Wadsworths as part of a society, not fringe dwellers. 
Ann loves Baby, too. She's his social worker and has taken a special interest in his case. The Wadsworth women don't trust her. Her supervisors constantly question why she's so concerned. Why Ann's taken this interest, and the lengths to which she'll go to "save" Baby from his family are what drives the plot. Ann wants to help Baby but she's fucked up just like everyone else and so, in the end, everything goes sour. Isn't that how these things always go? Maybe The Baby is about love, specifically between mothers and children, and "mothers" and "children." It's likely this uniquely maternal instinct was nothing more than a device for Post and screenwriter Abe Polsky to get from Sleaze A to Shock B, but historically, it's worth noting that the movie was released just a couple months after Roe V. Wade. A year or so later, the great Larry Cohen's It's Alive was released. That celluloid atrocity tells the story of a mutant infant who runs amok immediately after its birth. Considering the times and both directors' track records of crafting genre work with political subtexts, both may ultimately be pro-choice allegories, though their arguments seem to be inverted. It's Alive makes a case for abortion saving the life of the mother from damage caused by the child. Conversely, The Baby makes the case that abortion can save a child from its mother. 
There is a strange, murky line between what is normal and abnormal in The Baby. The Wadsworth family is extreme, violent, camp. They are unapologetic and unashamed of their eccentricities. Their wardrobes match their personalities. They dress Baby in a caricatured fashion, Little Lord Fauntleroy chic. Performance is everything to them, and through which they show the world who they are. Ann is normal. She is calm, rational, composed. She dresses conservatively. But it's all a front. There's some inexplicable situation going on with her husband, who we never see. She lives with an older woman named Judith whose relationship to Ann is never explained. She's not her relative or her lover; who is she? Secrets lie in Ann's house. Terrible, terrible secrets. In the end, we find out she might be worse than the Wadsworths but plays her life closer to the vest. Performance is everything to Ann, too, with which she hides her true self from the world. 
When the end credits roll, it's unclear how to feel. Do we sympathize with the openly fucked-up Wadsworths or for the closeted deviant Ann? Whose crimes are worse? How far can too far go? And what was the point? The lack of a clear moral stance may be equal parts oversight and sign-of-the-Seventies, but intentionality be damned, The Baby's ambiguities are more subversive than its salacious subject matter.
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David Duchovny and Tea Leoni Separate Again
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni announced that they have once again separated, his rep confirmed to PopSugar. David and Tea last split in 2008 but reunited soon after and have seemed to be going strong since early 2009.
David and Tea tied the knot in 1997 and have two kids together, Madelaine, who is 12, and Kyd, who is 9. According to reports, David and Tea have not decided to divorce at this point. In the meantime, David is working on the fifth season of Californication in LA.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Chuck Liddell Takes HUGE HIT In Custody Fight
Chuck Liddell got smacked around by his baby mama in court today -- when an L.A. judge ordered the fighter to pay $6,000 per month in child support after Chuck no-showed to the hearing.�
Liddell has been going toe-to-toe with his ex Lori Geyer for months -- in an effort to gain custody of their 12-year-old son.�
But today in L.A. County Superior Court, the judge came down hard on Liddell -- because in addition to the child support, Liddell was also FINED $2,500 for failing to produce financial documentation requested by the court.�
TMZ contacted Liddell's lawyer, who told us Chuck didn't show because "[Lori's] attorney failed to provide notice in an attempt to obtain favorable decision."
But Lori's attorney, Brian Kramer, tells us he has proof that Chuck received notice -- adding, "[Liddell's lawyer] had no valid excuse to boycott these proceedings."
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Can't Keep a Good Ho Down
Submitted by Bjork You on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 8:11pm.
Submitted by becky n sydney on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 8:06pm.
Submitted by Bjork You on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 8:04pm.
Where the fuck is the evening crowd.
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Busy ducking the gunfire.
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I just got here, had a great bath (I know, that's pretty gay), and am sitting here all relaxed, ready to light up. Dare I go back and read the other threads? Wait. Let me toke.
Wait...
Okay, going back. Wish me luck.
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Good luck, especially on the breast milk post. Apparently anyone who is enjoying Jack's post is a ticking time bomb of sexual frustration and angst, but able to release the sexual tension with a mere comment from Jack. Or something.
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Well-behaved women rarely make history
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The Most Important People on The Internet: Volume 33
Welcome to the 33rd installment of The Most Important People on The Internet and I?d just like to say a special thanks to the comments that really made me laugh this week, but got lost in the mix on account of the Ryan Dunn flame wars. I?m talking about you, Steven Spielberg conspiracy theorists on the Megan Fox post with your wacky talks of eugenics and claims of colluding with George Lucas and James Cameron to propagandize America into accepting our new Chinese overlords. I saw what you did there.
Tip of the hat to New York for stepping out of the Dark Ages,
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