Good morning everyone,

Hope your day is off to a good start. I set myself up for success last night by watching Clueless, which remains a perfect movie. It does all the things you want it to and in only 90 minutes. Let's enjoy some time together this morning thinking about and reading about this classic film.

We start with an oral history of Clueless in Vanity Fair. What a charming description of Cher by Alicia Silverstone below. "ridiculous and lovely"! Those are exactly the words. Anyway, this is a really long piece that you can enjoy sipping throughout the morning:

I loved how seriously she took everything. That’s essentially how I played it… I felt like that was [who] Cher was. She was so sincere and so serious. And that’s what I think makes her so ridiculous and lovely all the time.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/06/clueless-oral-history-20-anniversary

Obviously the costume design is incredible and the clothes are so much fun to look at. I was happy to find an interview with the costume designer, which is illustrated with a very cute photo from the set:

'She’s in the quad, there’s going to be a lot of green and a lot of people crossing so she needed to pop, and the blue just wasn’t popping. We also tried a red one but it felt like it was trying too hard and not quite right. You get this almost visceral feeling and you can see them changing into the character and that was the case of the yellow suit, we were all like "Yes! This is it! She’s a ray of sunshine, she’s the queen!"'

https://www.tatler.com/article/clueless-costume-designer-mona-may-interview

Maybe I just fundamentally really like things that are or are based on Jane Austen's Emma? I remember the last time I watched a film of Emma I did a Fem Fri about it as well. There's no bad time to reread this delightful book:

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/158/158-h/158-h.htm

whateverrrrrr,

Alex.