In Minute 111 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at the history of the legendary green pin (and our awesome pins available on Patreon), take a side trip to Mike’s intimidating leather jacket-wearing college years, talk about the problems of provenance in Mike’s Museum Corner, especially when it comes to alien artifacts, our return to the beginning of the film through the pin, memories of the fairytale narrator who’s never appeared again, and how that fits Velvet Goldmine’s postmodern aesthetic, how Mike doesn’t like The Neverending Story, how cute Ewan McGregor is as 1984 Curt, how Curt’s dual flashbacks to his lovers Brian and Arthur use the same film stock and how that signifies nostalgia, Curt’s peeing off the side of the Rainbow Theater and the role of urine in gay and in transgressive art from Warhol to Mapplethorpe to Serrano, how the pin represents something Arthur still cannot access within himself, and how the pin represents handing on an artistic, musical, and cultural legacy.
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The Whole Shebang Minute 60: Whoa We're Halfway There
The Whole Shebang Minute 59: The Twittering of the Fripperies
The Whole Shebang Minute 58: All The Babies
The Whole Shebang Minute 57: The Bottom of the Costume Box
The Whole Shebang Minute 56: Strange Sister Bonding
The Whole Shebang Minute 55: That’s Me!
The Whole Shebang Minute 54: The Earring of Destiny
The Whole Shebang Minute 53: Time, Places, People
The Whole Shebang Minute 52: A Tempest of Identity
The Whole Shebang Minute 51: A Goth Meet-Cute
The Whole Shebang Minute 50: Do You Jive?
The Whole Shebang Minute 49: The United Nations of Gay Slurs
The Whole Shebang Minute 48: A Shipwreck of the Streets
The Whole Shebang Minute 47: Smeared In Vaseline
The Whole Shebang Minute 46: When Mandy Met Brian
The Whole Shebang Minute 45: Left Bereft
The Whole Shebang Minute 44: The Divine Miss Mandy
The Whole Shebang Minute 43: Birmingham Is A Code Word For Space
The Whole Shebang Minute 42: The Topsy-Turvy World of Heavy Rock
The Whole Shebang Minute 41: The August Gentlemen
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