Sightings

Maw Maw on the drive home

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What is interesting in this episode of Raising Hope is when they have Maw Maw wearing animal print. I have been pretty used to seeing this character in various degrees of leopard, last week taking the cake with her head to toe pajamas, and expected nothing less this week. However, she wore another pattern, a more subdued pattern, and I thought I had to let go of my projected analysis that envisioned stylist meetings that actually picked out animal print as a signifier of sexuality for Maw Maw and all that this implies for her. However, this reading stays as in this episode, the Chance clan travels to Hollywood where subplot, Maw Maw wants revenge on her dead husband’s (dead” mistress by sleeping with the dead mistress’s alive yet very elderly, husband. Guess what she was wearing afterwards?
Also, Spoiler Alert.

Cameron Diaz kidnapped in leopard print


Cameron Diaz is kidnapped for the 3rd time (3rd in character’s lifetime, 2nd time in movie) while wearing a leopard print dress in A Life Less Ordinary, 1997 that I think she borrowed from her estranged-from-her-father, mother. Here she is playing cards with one of her kidnappers, in the trunk of her father’s car when he tries to get the ransom money back from Ewan McGregor, and finally, drawing down on her father and her father’s assassin who is threatening to shoot McGregor, the first kidnapper (in the movie, not Diaz’s character’s lifetime). Spoiler Alert.

Canadian Superbowl commercials


We don’t get the crazy Superbowl commercials unless companies have bought air time in Canada. Here are a few that featured animal print.
Gildan t-shirt commercial with leopard handcuffs
Zebra jacket at Amir’s

Hot Buns leopard print complements big hair


In this Hot Buns commercial, leopard print complements big hair. “The secret is in the shaft” < -- actual line from ad. Michael Scott would be proud.