{"id":1066,"date":"2003-10-02T03:15:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:01:07","slug":"alma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/02\/alma\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, October 2, 2003, 8:15pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/08\/almamargiecar_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2468 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/08\/almamargiecar_1.jpg\" alt=\"almamargiecar_1\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Ruth Leitman in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cEveryone I\u2019m related to is some weird, comical pervert,\u201d observes Margie Thorpe of Atlanta, and the rest of this edgy, intimate documentary bears her out, sometimes hilariously, sometimes with horror.\u00a0 Take mother Alma for instance \u2013 a working class Norma Desmond who spins tall tales out of tragic memories, but whose obsessive devotion to her daughter masks a bitter secret.\u00a0 Charismatic nightclub performer Margie is something of a Southern diva, but she moves from persona to person after purging this story, as Alma glides from character study to an unnerving tale of mental illness, redemption and forgiveness.\u00a0 As Margie questions her mother about the true details of the past and enlists filmmaker Leitman in the process of uncovering, the film pushes the boundaries of the filmmaker\/subject relationship. Also screening: excerpts from Leitman\u2019s work-in-progress, <em>Lipstick and Dynamite<\/em>, about the pioneers of girl wrestling (Jim Trainor). 1998, Ruth Leitman, USA, 91 min, 16mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 2, 2003, 8:15pm Ruth Leitman in person! \u201cEveryone I\u2019m related to is some weird, comical pervert,\u201d observes Margie Thorpe of Atlanta, and the rest of this edgy, intimate documentary bears her out, sometimes hilariously, sometimes with horror.\u00a0 Take mother Alma for instance \u2013 a working class Norma Desmond who spins tall tales out [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/02\/alma\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Alma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[423,450,481,518,615],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-portrait","tag-saic-faculty","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}