Sounds like a guy who has been praised to the heavens for being male and knowing a spatula from a sauce pan. As ridiculous as it is in the 21st century there are still too many men who consider microwaving something 'cooking' or have a recipe repertoire that consists of spaghetti, scrambled eggs and boiling potatoes.…

I'd do some research into whether it could actually harm someone with epilepsy or similar. I occasionally come across a post on tumblr warning people that a certain scene in a new movie might trigger an episode and it's often something I wouldn't have recognized as potentially harmful, because it doesn't concern me…

Shouldn't advertisements appeal to the demographic that's supposed to buy your shit? I know that not every JB fan is really young and female, but the majority is. How many 15 year old girls spend money on men's underwear?

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When a young man passing by eyed us up and down, he wrapped his arm around my waist...

YES! This. I never could bring myself to watch the movie. I saw the trailer in theatre and it made me actually a bit (physically) sick to see it. It was obvious that their characters were supposed to be the same age, but they also very obviously weren't.

I know. :) I know way too much about that musical. All that precious brain space.

Yes, the musical is extremely popular in Japan. The Vienna revival cast even did a tour there.

Okay, thanks. I expected it to be something like that. (The comparison may be true for the movie character Sissi, but not for Romy Schneider who was haunted by that specific role all her life. Only in France did she manage to leave Sissi behind and be recognized as a versatile and very skilled actress. The most…

It gets way less wacky after the opening scenes. Give it a try.

I don't get the reference. (A culture thing, I suppose.) Could you explain? (Fair warning: I feel very protective of Romy Schneider. ;) )

Spoilers! ;) I'm not sure she actually does surrender to him. She still insists (in her last line) that she's her own person and belongs only to herself, when he claims her as his own. I also believe that instead of staying with him in his dark kingdom (or wherever he spends his spare time) she moved on and found…

He changes into something less rhinestoney and cowboy-ey after the first song. (Thank goddess!) I used to wonder what on earth the costume department was thinking putting him into that shirt. Then I came across the original libretto from 1991-ish where it says when Death first appears that he looks like a rock star.…

The families intermarried so often the Wittelsbachs practically were Habsburgs and vice versa. The marriage of Elisabeth and Franz Joseph was the 20-somethingst between their families. They were first cousins, as you mentioned, and their second daughter Gisela was married off to a Wittelsbach guy yet again.

My favourite picture of her (and favourite dress). She was utterly gorgeous.

There are some very interesting (spooky) parallels between her life and that of Romy Schneider who'd portrayed her in three movies. Both were very unhappy women, both lost their only son and both spent their lives fleeing from a part they'd taken on as teenagers that people used to force them into a certain role and…

It is, but I'm actually glad the Broadway adaptation didn't happen. They wanted to make Lucheni and Death the same character, which would have destroyed the show. Michael Kunze, the man behind the libretto, said he didn't want to work with people who had failed to understand either character and what they brought to…

Her father was never king. She came from a lesser line of the Bavarian royal family.

I might be one of the few persons here who understood that reference. That show initially got me hooked on all things Sisi.

Sisi was the spelling her friends and family used. 'Sisi' in Southern German dialects is pronounced like 'Sissi' in all the other dialects. They had to add the second s for the Romy Schneider movies, because without most Germans would have pronounced it as Zee-zee.