I always thought she was.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | August 26, 2020 4:37 AM |
I'll resurrect Lucy Maud Montgomery and ask.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 4, 2017 5:53 AM |
OP is most definitely not a kindred spirit!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 4, 2017 5:55 AM |
[quote]Shirley married actor John Payne August 22, 1937, in Montecito, California.[5] They had a daughter, former actress Julie Payne. Her second husband was film producer and screenwriter Adrian Scott. When he was blacklisted and decided to move the family to Europe, at the last minute she wrote him a "Dear John" letter saying she'd rather stay behind and divorce him.[6] Her third husband was Charles Lederer, nephew of Marion Davies. They had a son named Daniel Lederer. Shirley had also a brief relationship with younger western star Rory Calhoun and another with French movie star Jean-Pierre Aumont.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | January 4, 2017 5:57 AM |
Not that Anne Shirley, R3.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 4, 2017 6:22 AM |
She and her bosom friend, Diana, definitely would have been lesbians today.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 4, 2017 6:33 AM |
Wasn't Anne of Green Gables just an obvious rip-off of Annie? I mean, the red hair, the name, and the fact that the adoptive families wanted a male orphan and ended up with a girl instead?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 4, 2017 6:36 AM |
Little Orphan Annie was written in 1924.
Anne of Green Gables was written in 1908
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 4, 2017 6:40 AM |
I never understood the appeal of Anne of Green Gables. Poorly written and boring. I guess you have to be Canadian to appreciate it.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 4, 2017 6:43 AM |
The first book was OK, and has enormous opportunity for parody, which I am shocked no one has really capitalized on.
The rest of the series was dull as dishwater.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 4, 2017 6:59 AM |
That Anne Shirley always referred to Diana Barry as her "bosom" friend, which I always found highly suspicious. Everyone knows that Anne got Diana drunk off of Marilla's currant wine so that Anne could have her way with Diana's bosom, and that's the real reason Mrs. Barry didn't want Anne around Diana.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 4, 2017 10:16 AM |
Don't forget her jealous butchery when Diana got engaged.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 4, 2017 10:20 AM |
*Bitchery! BITCHERY, DAMNIT.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 4, 2017 10:21 AM |
She did end up fucking the hot Gilbert Blythe. Lucky cause he was damn good looking.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 4, 2017 11:36 AM |
The Anne series was written for girls of 9 or so. So, it's no wonder adult men would not find them stimulating.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 4, 2017 11:54 AM |
I have no idea if Anne had wet dreams about Diana.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 4, 2017 12:26 PM |
[quote]Anne Shirley always referred to Diana Barry as her "bosom" friend
In my version of the book she says they're "Tit Friends"
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 4, 2017 12:31 PM |
I always figured there had to be something more behind her being able to turn down Gil so many times. One session of us painting the outhouse together would have broken me.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | January 4, 2017 1:47 PM |
R14 But she put it off for decades. The guy almost dies and she made him wait another decade after that.
Although, maybe Gil was in on it. Maybe Gil had his own preoccupations at medical school.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 4, 2017 1:51 PM |
[quote]Little Orphan Annie was written in 1924. Anne of Green Gables was written in 1908
Actually, Annie was the one who was always getting touchy with other girls.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 4, 2017 1:53 PM |
R15 Thank goodness, the masculinity trolls have arrived to be sure we don't discuss any subjects that haven't been pre-approved by them first. Back to stoic anti-intellectualism, anyone. Thinking is for little girls.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 4, 2017 1:53 PM |
We were forced to read it in school. I hated it and couldn't relate to some girl living in Prince Edward Island over 100 years ago. I remember thinking that the writing was too over the top, especially the dialogue. Plus, it was a story about an ugly orphan, what kid wants to read that.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 4, 2017 3:51 PM |
Gil would NOT have fuck a red haired, he hated carrots of all kinds and you know Anne would not bath properly so she'd smell REALLY bad down there.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 4, 2017 3:59 PM |
Was Shirley from [italic]What's Happening!![/italic] a lesbian?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 4, 2017 4:06 PM |
I hate you!! You're a sour old gossip, R11!!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 4, 2017 6:05 PM |
The actor who played Gilbert died.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | January 5, 2017 6:33 AM |
Anne Shirley was never convicted of putting strychnine in the well.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 5, 2017 6:44 AM |
R31, do you suppose that Anne poisoned Matthew and that's how he died?
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 5, 2017 7:54 AM |
The actor that played Gilbert was gay too. Sad he's gone.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 5, 2017 9:44 AM |
Jonathan Crombie was his name. He died of a brain hemorrhage
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 5, 2017 9:49 AM |
The writer did a great job describing the "smash" between the two girls, which is what teen same sex relationships were called in those days.
Young ladies were expected to outgrow them, as Anne and Diana did.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 5, 2017 11:50 AM |
For R10, from Newfoundland comedy troupe Codco
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | January 5, 2017 1:12 PM |
In Japan, they call her "Ahn."
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 7, 2017 9:38 PM |
The bully from [italic]A Christmas Story[/italic] was in it too, and isn't he also gay?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 7, 2017 9:41 PM |
Aunt Hetty pinged off the charts.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | January 7, 2017 10:12 PM |
Then why was she called Hetty?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 7, 2017 10:13 PM |
R39, my sister used to think she was called "Hattie" because she always wore hats like in that photo.
Also, Aunt Hetty was not a character in the Story Girl books, she was specifically created for the Avonlea TV series, I'm guessing they wanted a Marilla Cuthbert type spinster character.
So my question is -- did Hetty take over teaching the school after Anne left?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 8, 2017 11:07 AM |
In the books, beside her relationship with Diana, Anne had a big crush on the young minister's wife.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 8, 2017 3:16 PM |
R42, I remember that. I also remember she had a crush on her teacher Miss Muriel Stacy. Anne loved that they both wore puffed sleeves. Anne had such a fetish for puffed sleeves.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 8, 2017 6:01 PM |
[quote]So my question is -- did Hetty take over teaching the school after Anne left?
Yes she did, but then after Anne's old teacher came back she bought a hotel and succeeded where the Golden Girls failed, as the show survived two or three years without Sarah Polley.
They had some impressive guest stars from both sides of the US/Canada border (Madeline Kahn, Ned Beatty), and they even managed to get Colleen Dewhurst right before she died and Jonathan Crombie, but not Megan Follows.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 8, 2017 6:04 PM |
Why wouldn't Megan Follows guest star on "Avonlea"?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 9, 2017 3:09 AM |
Meagan Follows wasn't famous enough to snub Avonlea
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 11, 2017 2:31 PM |
I never understood why someone as cool and pretty as Diana would want to even be acquainted with someone as ugly and vulgar as Anne, much less her tit pal.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 11, 2017 2:50 PM |
[quote] The actor who played Gilbert died.
And I'm still here.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 11, 2017 3:18 PM |
[quote] Why wouldn't Megan Follows guest star on "Avonlea"?
In the actual episode with Marilla's death (where Colleen's role was put together from outtakes and from other Sullivan productions), Gilbert returns for the funeral and says Anne has cholera or some disease that's easily treatable today.
[quote] Meagan Follows wasn't famous enough to snub Avonlea
That's why she took [italic]Facts of Life[/italic] when they offered it to her. Norman Lear actually is partly responsible for discovering her as she was cast in [italic]The Baxters[/italic] after T.A.T. sold the rights to a Canadian company.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 11, 2017 3:26 PM |
Aww . I used to watch it when I was a child. Loved it.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 12, 2017 3:43 AM |
Ilse in the Emily books always struck me as a power lipstick lez. She and future-politician Perry clearly had a lavender marriage of convenience.
Dean Priest was clearly into little girls: Thank God Emily shut that creepy shit down.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 23, 2019 6:23 PM |
Marilla and Matthew always seemed like depictions of what gay people’s life would have been like in rural turn of the century Canada.
Aunt Hetty was surprisingly the most robustly heterosexual character on Road to Avonlea, she had at least one new male love interest every season. Sarah Stanley was way gayer.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 26, 2020 2:42 AM |
As a kid I loved Anne. I rewatched it as an adult and Marilla was my favorite. She is a real gem.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 26, 2020 2:44 AM |
Jealous Butchery would have made it a whole different book. Maybe even a better one!
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 26, 2020 2:48 AM |
If Anne lived in 2020, she would most certainly be bisexual, perhaps non-binary because of gender dysphoria resulting from Marilla not wanting her because she wasn’t a boy, and she would hate Gilbert because he represented the patriarchy. Her teacher’s pets would be little latent gay boys like Paul Irving from the second book.
Also, I’m pretty sure Anne’s son Walter who got killed in World War I was a closet gay.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 26, 2020 2:58 AM |
Remember, OP: there's a reason she went to live At the Rim of the World.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 26, 2020 4:37 AM |
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