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Cookie Mueller, Another Boring Day

COOKIE MUELLER | 1981 PHOTOGRAPHY: TOBI SEFTEL

Born on this day 76 years ago: vivacious bad girl, writer, go-go dancer, advice columnist, art critic, drug dealer, globe-trotter and avant-garde New York scene-maker Cookie Mueller (née Dorothy Karen Mueller, 2 March 1949 – 10 November 1989). She’s a fiercely charismatic presence in John Waters’ early “gutter films” like Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Her close confidante, photographer Nan Goldin would describe Mueller as “the most fabulous woman I’d ever seen ... She was the starlet of the Lower East Side: a poetess, a short-story writer, she starred in John Waters’ early movies. She was sort of the queen of the whole downtown social scene.” (Unsurprisingly, Goldin has an eye for vivid detail. In the wrenching 2022 documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, she recalls that the first time she met Cookie in Provincetown in the 1970s, Mueller was wearing vintage Springolator heels held together with safety pins!). I highly recommend investigating Mueller’s wry and elegant autobiographical musings like Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black or Garden of Ashes (recently reissued) – or Chloe Griffin’s excellent 2014 biography Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller. Pictured: portrait of Mueller by David Armstrong.

Cookie Mueller by Don Herron

villagers on my acnh island :)

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but on the other hand i think productions that cast him as older makes it a little more sinister. well-meaning but ultimately he still sees a 16-year-old through her bedroom window and decides he’s going to “steal” her. i think it drives home that nobody really gives a shit about johanna as a person but rather as a thing to be obtained or avenged. i like that reading a lot too.

Sweeney Todd wigmaker sequence if Johanna was a redhead

Obviously this isn't supposed to be historically accurate to whatever time Sweeney Todd is supposed to be in, but I was inspired by old print ads.

any sweeney todders out here

Johanna…

this game has so much good advice expressed in the most wholesome way i love it so much