Lolita Podcast

On the next to last episode of Lolita Podcast, Jamie takes a look at the lives and careers of the four women who played Dolores Haze in the four major adaptations to date.

Natalie Portman Women's March Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWHO14c88c&t=84s

Mara Wilson on Millie Bobby Brown: https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/matilda-mara-wilson-millie-bobby-brown-stranger-things-1201897682/

An Open Secret documentary: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/01/an-open-secret-hollywood-child-abuse-documentary

Q Anon's negative affect on reporting child abuse: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/politics/qanon-child-welfare/index.html

Refinery29 on the Millie Bobby Brown blowback: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/01/189107/media-sexualization-young-girls-millie-bobby-brown-backlash

Bridgette Bardot and the Lolita Complex: https://classic.esquire.com/article/1959/8/1/brigitte-bardot-and-the-lolita-syndrome

Sue Lyon's NYT obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/sue-lyon-dead.html

Sue Lyon 1980s interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLtXhPYxoM

The Dark Side of Lolita by Sarah Weinman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7843491/Cursed-Lolita.html

Nona Harrison Gomez's website: http://www.nonatruthseeker.com/truth-seeker

Yes, They Tried to Make a Broadway Musical of Lolita: https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/yes-they-tried-to-make-a-broadway-musical-out-of-lolita.html

You're a Dum Dum by Annette Ferra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ksh_DyW6Mw

The "Baby Doll" marquee: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/412572015835952732/

Protests around the Edward Albee Lolita: https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0303/030320.html

Dominique Swain in Face/Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKYc7OirQk

Dominique Swain Interview 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6ibVvQ_VA&t=5s

Dominique Swain Interview 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHFpYsd9VYk

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This week, Jamie dives down the rabbit hole of Lolita blogs and fan communities, beginning in the early 2000s and through now, and a look at the non-sexual nymphet fashion movement that Nabokov's book inspired. It's... complicated.

Ms. Lola on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MsLola/videos

Lolita in the Afterlife: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612244/lolita-in-the-afterlife-by-edited-by-jenny-minton-quigley/

Ways of Seeing, E1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&t=3s

The Parasocial Phenomenon (Nova): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/parasocial-relationships/

Grooming: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/types-of-abuse/grooming/

The Revisionist History of the Nymphet Community (corrected by someone who was actually there) by Nilijah Myeesa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mytlvx1TepY&t=67s

Why Black Girlhood is Not Valued in the Coquette/Nymphet Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfHhL56g3g

Sarah Kathryn Cleaver on Lolita Tumblr: https://showstudio.com/projects/girly/essay_lolita

When Dolores Haze Gets a Tumblr: Online "Nymphet" Culture and the Reclaiming of Lolita by Mishka Hoosen: https://blog.pshares.org/when-dolores-haze-gets-a-tumblr-online-nymphet-culture-and-the-reclaiming-of-lolita/

Schyler Reign on Non-Sexual Nymphet Fashion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76k9UWO7_f4&t=307s

Watch This Before You Get Into Nymphet Fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9n7_xVZJUo

Criticism for Nymphet Fashion & The Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OlMdiqCfw&t=8s

Are You a Nymphet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1j0XFKXlkk&t=1002s

The self-- harmed, visualized and reblogged: Self-iinjury ono Tumblr: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444816660783?journalCode=nmsa

Rachel Davis's Lolita Tumblr thesis: https://scholar.utc.edu/honors-theses/94/

Nerdymixedpan on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGPHvV5/

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In Part 2 of our episode on the Lolita 1997 movie adaptation, we dig into America in the 90s -- a wave of movies full of teen girls as sexual demon, how The Long Island Lolita redefined Dolores to a new generation, and dive into the complex production and release of Adrian Lyne's Lolita.

The Crush (1993): https://variety.com/1993/film/reviews/the-crush-2-1200432089/

Jon Stewart interviews Alicia Silverstone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ic3nRa1J8

Long Island Lolita News Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ic3nRa1J8

Jeremy Irons Weird Apology Conference: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/02/jeremy-irons-berlinale-press-conference

The Child Pornography Protection Act of 1996: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-105shrg44512/html/CHRG-105shrg44512.htm

History of Child Pornography laws in the US: http://www.stobbslaw.com/blog/2014/05/a-brief-overview-of-child-pornography-laws-and-key-problems/#:~:text=In%201990%20Congress%20passed%20the,mere%E2%80%9D%20possession%20of%20child%20pornography.

Lolita comes up in Supreme Court: https://greensboro.com/the-truth-about-lolita/article_25b3325b-b54b-555b-b794-b5f16a8dbced.html

1999 MTV Movie Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VaPXMC6jYc

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How long have we been judging Lolita by its cover? To be fair, they're not much help. This week, Jamie guides you through a crash course on Lolita/nymphet aesthetics -- when we say 'Lolita,' what are we really talking about? We take a look at the visual legacy of Lolita's book covers, persistence in advertising and how misreads of the text have been haunting pop music for generations.

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Playlist of Music Discussed in today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wRWB0GKjMapop7HLeWA4Z?si=ax1y7kR4TMyuy7WR-D17HQ

Ms. Lola's "we need to talk about Lolita": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPANXxV1iFo&t=2975s

Dakota Fanning in the 'Oh Lola!'

https://www.businessinsider.com/dakota-fanning-marc-jacobs-lolita-daily-mail-2011-6

Lolita Lempicka with Elle Fanning, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmE9bCz-Cw

Love's Baby Soft: https://piimages.parfumo.de/9/6/10980_594cdc64d8d8c6e819dc7043c8dab1f6_love_s_baby_soft.jpg

Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse Daily Mail story: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2403281/Bradley-Cooper-38-reads-Lolita-Suki-Waterhouse-21-sprawls-Parisian-park.html

Lolicon: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25434

Nerdymixedpan TikTok about Lolita, Lolicon and Lolita fashion: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJGPHvV5/

Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lolita-The-Story-of-a-Cover-Girl/John-Bertram/9781440329883

Moi, Lolita music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbHdIrtpNo

"Men Explain Fiona Apple to Me": https://www.nylon.com/fiona-apple

Rolling Stone: Britney Spears 1999 profile: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/britney-spears-teen-queen-rolling-stones-1999-cover-story-254871/

Rolling Stone Reflecting on this profile, 2011: https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/70792509009/spears-and-lachapelle-both-say-they-knew-the-photo

Dave LaChapelle's celebrity photography: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/david-lachapelle-paris-hilton-grandma-hiltons-house

"Surviving R. Kelly" Full Series: https://www.netflix.com/title/81069393

"Why Has R. Kelly Been in Jail for the Past Year?" 8/2020: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/legal-and-management/9430230/r-kelly-why-in-jail-for-year#:~:text=The%20singer%20was%20re%2Darrested,that%20included%20kidnapping%2C%20forced%20labor%2C

R. Kelly: The History of Allegations Against Him 8/2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526

Surviving R. Kelly': Threats and New Abuse Details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/arts/television/surviving-r-kelly-2.html

R. Kelly Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage Speaks Out, Saying She is a 'Victim': https://variety.com/2019/music/news/r-kelly-joycelyn-savage-speaks-out-victim-1203414308/

The True Story of R. Kelly and Aaliyah's Relationship: https://www.biography.com/news/aaliyah-r-kelly-relationship-true-story

R. Kelly Paid Bribe So That He Could marry 15-Year-Old Aaliyah, Government Alleges...

Trigger warning: this episode contains discussion of child sex abuse and pedophilia.

"Who is that viper that likes them post-diaper?" This is just one of the objectively terrifying lyrics in a botched Broadway musical of Lolita -- the first an expensive, campy musical from the writer of My Fair Lady in the 70s, and another gritty reboot from Edward Albee starring Edward Albee in the 80s. We speak to the actors who played Lolita about the public pressures put on by the productions and the public, look at the many stage failures from the inside and out, and listen to lighthearted Broadway tunes about the worst crime a human can commit.

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Discussed in today's episode:

"Lolita My Love" -- a recording from 1971 in Boston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7GUnjiGtMo

Sarah Weinman's "Yes, They Once Tried to Make a Musical Out of Lolita", 2018: https://www.sarahweinman.com/writing/yes-they-once-tried-to-make-a-broadway-musical-out-of-lolita/

"You're a Dum Dum": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ksh_DyW6Mw

Blood Pageant from Chris Gilmore: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7184122/

"Thank Heaven For Little Girls": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTM40o3WgZo

Edward Albee's Lolita (1981): https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/87221

NYT Review of Albee's Lolita: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/20/theater/stage-albee-s-adaptation-of-lolita-opens.html

"Who's Afraid of White Fragility?" Hyperallergic, 2017: https://hyperallergic.com/381406/whos-afraid-of-white-fragility-edward-albee/

"Albee Estate Clarifies Position of Casting Controversy of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Playbill, 2017: https://www.playbill.com/article/albee-estate-clarifies-position-on-casting-controversy-surrounding-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf

The Edward Albee Foundation: http://www.albeefoundation.org/

"Jewishness as Literary Device in Nabokov's Fiction": https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vladimir-nabokov-in-context/jewishness-as-literary-device-in-nabokovs-fiction/3782DCBACEA7BADFAE31A54F018565BE

"Wrestling with a Lolita Opera and Losing" NYT, 2005: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/arts/music/wrestling-with-a-lolita-opera-and-losing.html

Rodion Schedrin on his 'Lolita' opera: https://web.archive.org/web/20120329063800/http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=27516

Michael Walsh on Schedrin's Lolita opera: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982502,00.html

Cathy Marston 2015 Lolita ballet trailer (Denmark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7z5xRqma5k

Hiroko Mikami on Michael West's 2003 'Lolita' adaptation: https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=bluefox2000&logNo=221158934098&categoryNo=112&proxyReferer=&proxyReferer=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Victor Sobchak's Lolita, 2003: http://www.theatrecollection.net/lolita.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gWy7ALbcI

Davide Bombana's Lolita ballet excerpt, 2003: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNgIOIfF3Q