Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Remember that time the motion picture was invented [(and everyone was naked)?]( Okay, so the Oscars are just a weekend away, let’s do some film trivia. Ready? Name that Hollywood “sex symbol” who was also [America’s First Goth](. How did 90% of films made before 1929 [simply vanish](? How many movies were made by [an independent Black American film industry]( that catered to its own segregated audience, had its own African American directors, movie stars and studios? [More, or less than 500](? Name three real-life hotel locations featured in the movies. ([Here’s 10]( if you can’t think of any). Which recently deceased Hollywood bombshell played the [first leading transsexual character in a major motion picture](? Name the city also known as ‘[Hollywood on the Tiber](’, where paparazzi culture was born? Which iconic silent film character donned [cinema’s first catsuit](? Hint: It wasn’t catwoman. How many films copyrighted in between 1911 and 1925 were written by women? None of them or half of them? Happy Women’s History Month by the way. [These are the Gals we should thank for kickstarting Hollywood](. Your weekend conversation starters await … Stay curious, [Nessy]   [Clubhouse Goals with the Red Rose Girls](  [AAA-AAA_oaklviol_28224-Violet-Oakley-Jessie-Willcox-Smith-Elizabeth-Shippen-Green-and-Henrietta-Cozens-ca.-1901-1024x763-1]( “The chief obstacle to a woman’s success is that she can never have a wife.” Anna Lea Merritt (19th Century Artist), Lipincott’s Magazine. Virginia Woolf may have nailed the formula to becoming an independent, creative woman in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, but groups of artistic women had been testing this formula…  [Continue Reading](   [Isn’t it About Time We Rediscovered The MiniDisc?](  [2k6oev5pkhv11]( This one goes out to Generation Y. Part of being a collector means taking a bit of risk and making a prediction that something might appreciate in value. The key is often to find something that’s cheap and rare, and buying it before everyone else discovers they want it too. I was in the car…  [Continue Reading](   [The Manifesto Dedicated to all those B*tches Out There](  [f84c2a27302337.563635c849ade]( “Whom callest thou ‘slut’, scabbed bitch,” was supposedly the first recorded reference of anyone ever getting called a bitch, it was of course not the last. It might have been uttered in Middle English, but the message was clear, it was an insult. We’re in the 1400s and the Chester plays, which portrayed biblical scenes,…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCXXXIX)](  [73118938_182031706269714_5511281581083340675_n]( [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.