Dead and Kind of Famous
The podcast where two friends (one who's a nobody and one who's kinda famous) dive into the life stories of dead folks who enjoyed a touch or two of fame in their time and now reside permanently in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Dead and Kind of Famous
Post Vampira: Maila Nurmi Part 3
Just when Maila’s career was starting to run out of steam, some luck with Liberace kept her in the spotlight for a time. But this was quickly followed by bad decisions, bad boys and a very bad movie called Plan 9 from Outer Space. Pop in those ear buds, friend. You don’t want to miss this.
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go. I was gonna say this is post vampire. This is post vampire myla nurmy, part three. We're going to do this in four parts because she deserves it, baby, she deserves it. Hello and welcome to Dead and Kind of Famous, where we dig into the life stories of dead folks who enjoyed a touch or two of fame in their time and now reside permanently in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Speaker 1:I'm Marissa Rivera and I know nothing, but I do know that LA is awesome and I'm so proud of us as a people, as a city I don't know there was like the fires were crazy, so this is our first post fire episode and my God, it was insane. But the outpouring of community and love and togetherness has been the only silver lining of all this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure, but I mean, like I think that any kind of natural disaster or just disaster, tragedy, whatever, when you know it is, when you start to realize, like what kind of community you have. And so I think that this was a very the community was very strong. Very helpful and beautiful. Yeah, and beautiful, and I know. Yeah, like we were, we were separated during the time that I recorded the last episode. I hated that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hated it.
Speaker 2:It was a bummer and I and I we drove to Utah because because we Courtney and her husband and baby were in utah.
Speaker 1:We were like we need fresher. But you know what?
Speaker 2:it's st george utah. Not bad if you're when you're trying to, like you know, escape from la like kurt russell you go to utah and it's a gorgeous thing. So, um, yeah, but oh, and I didn't introduce myself. I'm corny blomquist and I know way too much, but I don't know, um, I don't know how to function. That's why we're late with this episode that.
Speaker 1:That's why it's going to be four parts.
Speaker 2:No, I there's just. You know, when it rains, it pours, and it should pour. In LA, by the way, it has been raining. It's just great Beautiful beautiful rain.
Speaker 1:Just like just the perfect amount of rain yeah exactly Like it starts and stops. There's enough time to take the dogs out there's, it's not so rough that it's mud slidey. I mean, we'll see. It's about to rain tomorrow again, so we'll, we'll see. We'll see the second rounds, but we shouldn't speak too soon.
Speaker 2:but it's, it's, yeah, Anyway, there's, it's, it's all. So it's just. You know it's a lot. I just want everybody to know, in case it wasn't clear, I don't get paid to do this, Neither do I, and neither does Marissa. And we talk a lot about people getting paid, but we just do this from the goodness of our hearts and I do sometimes have to dedicate time to, you know, the child that I chose to bring into this world and also the job that pays for her life so yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 2:So that's where we're at right now um, so sorry for the delays, but that's just what's up. But oh, that being said, I'm gonna say this at the end. I'm gonna say it again now um, I would love for you to tell me that you're annoyed with me, people. I would love for you to tell me that you love what we're doing, that you're like that I was wrong about saying something. Please write us a review. Yeah, on apple podcasts, preferably. Write us a review and tell us what you think and you know what. I'm not even going to be one of those people who's like leave a five star review. You can tell us whatever you want.
Speaker 1:I want, want to know the truth, your truth, I might bite back but you'll know our truth.
Speaker 2:But but um you know, you'll get a shout out. It'll be fun, It'll be fun.
Speaker 1:It'll be a dialogue. Yeah, It'll be like a a like, a like.
Speaker 2:I'll be like Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 1:Turn it into a rap battle.
Speaker 2:Damn, that was so good that was so good, I know, Can you imagine winning a Grammy for like?
Speaker 1:The best diss track of all time For talking shit about someone. Oh my God, a dream, a dream, anyway. Anyway, speaking of dreams, yeah, myla, let's come back to you, let's go back to my dream, anyway.
Speaker 2:Anyway, speaking of dreams, yeah, myla, let's come back to you, let's go back to you, let's go back to Myla. Okay, when we last left Myla she was contemplating an offer from infamous B movie director Ed Wood to appear in his next film. But Ed would have to wait for his answer because Myla had some more pressing opportunities to partake in.
Speaker 1:Oh, she had options, baby.
Speaker 2:She did. First off, khjtv had expressed interest in doing the vampire show for their network Because, remember, the vampire show had gotten canceled, and so this is a new network being like. We want to. We want to buy the rights, yes. And as soon as that discussion began, milo was granted even more gifts from the gig. Gods, oh, work begets work, baby, that's right. First she was chosen to do a two-day stint in vegas promoting a film from the fast and cheap production company aip called it conquered the world, starring peter graves and beverly garland I love that they it was known as if fast and cheap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure they were like let's turn it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's go, let's pump it, okay, um it's also funny that she beverly garland, beverly, garland, we don't know.
Speaker 2:And peter graves, we don't know. No judy garland family no, I'm pretty sure this was a b movie yeah, but no, no family association to judy I have no idea. I'm not gonna lie, but I doubt it highly. I'm gonna look it up right now. She's like the. She's like the lesser garland that's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look it up, beverly garland that sounds like just an intersection it sounds like a neighborhood beverly garland, beverly garland. There's a bever Beverly Garland hotel Family. No, beverly Garland was not related to Julie Garland. Beverly Garland was born Beverly Lucy Fassenden, but took the name Garland after marrying actor Richard. Garland Was Richard related to Julie Garland Richard. Garland, richard Garland, let's see. No, richard Garland and Judy Garland were not related.
Speaker 2:They were not related.
Speaker 1:Richard Garland was an actor who was married to Beverly Garland, but Julie Garland was born. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Frances Ethel Gumm, that's right. Gum, that's right, that's right. I forgot a terrible name. Goodness, that gum with two m's, by the way, if you didn't know that gum yeah it's terrible, um, but the funnier thing is not that it like honestly okay. So Peter Graves and Beverly Garland we haven't heard of them, we don't know, but Myla wasn't even in this movie.
Speaker 1:But you got paid to promote it, promote it.
Speaker 2:Um yeah, that's the shit. None of the people were available, so they decided to use her to stir up some attention, and she did. For two days she was chauffeured around in a hearse to appear on cooking shows exercise shows, hosting horror films and doing cameos throughout the city of san francisco and I just find it really funny to be like and here's vampire on this cooking show, plugging a film that she was not in.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. I love like the fish out of water-ness of it all too. Yeah. Especially the cooking show thing, yeah, yeah. That's great. What a brilliant marketing scheme. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2:She was paid $350 for her efforts and given a lovely hotel suite during her stay. But AIP was so pleased with the press that Myla drummed up for them that they doubled her pay After the fact.
Speaker 1:Yes, that never happens, I know.
Speaker 2:They were very grateful. Right after this, myla teamed up with an artist who loved candelabras just as much as she did. Liberace himself, liberace. Oh my God Behind the candelabraace.
Speaker 1:Oh my God.
Speaker 4:Behind the candelabra, oh my.
Speaker 1:God what a film Anyway.
Speaker 2:Liberace himself had called upon Myla to perform in his Vegas variety show Come as you Are, and Liberace was the highest paid entertainer in show business at the time. Wow, so the gig came with some serious clout seriously, that's amazing I know right, like the vegas show of the biggest performer of that, like the highest paid performer of your time. That's a big deal yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, who would that be right now? Maybe like adele, before she like took some time off? I don't know. She like just was, like I gotta take some time off you know, a few months ago, taylor.
Speaker 2:Swift, she didn't do a Vegas residency yeah, but she could, and she's the highest paid performer, right?
Speaker 1:oh, I guess yeah, so imagine like just being invited onto Taylor Swift's show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, would be the equivalent. She probably will have a Vegas show at some point. She's just going to wait until she's like 10 years old.
Speaker 1:Give it another 10 years, yeah, yeah yeah, she's like I don't want to travel anymore. All these planes, my private jet.
Speaker 2:She's been a busy lady. Anyway. I don't know how, I do know, but anyway I'm moving on. So her fortune came at the misfortune of her beloved bella legosi. No, he had been scheduled to perform with liberace, but when he got seriously ill, milo was chosen to take his place. Yeah, and this is there's just like a lot of overlap actually with her and um and bella, yeah, but so it's it's. You know, I'm sure she felt a little bittersweet about it.
Speaker 1:But who else would he have preferred to take his place?
Speaker 2:It's the highest compliment. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:Listen, if Taylor Swift invites me onto her show, let's bring it back to Taylor Swift and I get deathly ill. I will say you know who you need instead.
Speaker 2:Courtney Blum oh, my God, yes yes, she should take my place that's a true friend I can't like. What would we be doing in taylor swift's show?
Speaker 1:what would we even be doing?
Speaker 2:no idea.
Speaker 1:Swifties don't come for me, but like I am, such I'm so neutral about her same, I I don't just I miss that boat, but like I, you know, appreciate some of her songs, but like I'm not, you know, I just I can't.
Speaker 2:I'm a swifty neutral. I can't be a super fan because I'm an adult right, I don't have time.
Speaker 1:I'm not a super fan of like anyone or anything.
Speaker 2:No, if you're a super fan, you're willing to like go to you're. You're a super fan, you're willing to like go to your, your groupie, essentially. You're like, willing to like, shell out money. I am not there. Lots of money and time For me. It's the time, it's the time.
Speaker 1:No, you got to be like a college a college student, that's it yeah With like parents money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, except I. Parents money. Yeah, except I was like I was a groupie for like a band. No, what? No, I wasn't. But like I was, I was into, I mean, I was just like I was. I I made effort for um tv on the radio which was like early 2000s. I were tens 2010s. Yeah, so I, or maybe just anyway somewhere in there.
Speaker 1:I listen. We're millennials, so 2000 and between 2000 and 2010. That's it's. It's the same thing, okay. Yeah, but like that decade has been lost.
Speaker 2:Right, that and the COVID years. Yes, they are lost, but I remember like I found out about the secret concert that they were doing and I was under age and I had a fake ID and I walked around the block under age, like under 18 or under 21, under 21 okay, and I was walking around the block and like there's a security guard and he's like, oh, there's a guest list.
Speaker 2:If there's an opening, I'll let you know and let you in and then I kept circling the block like seven times and then he would like, let me like. He was like there's a spot you can come in. But then he looked at my ID and he was like girl, give that back to whoever you got that from. But then he let me in.
Speaker 1:That guy's a peep. He's like, wow, these, they, they. She tried she tried, and these people deserve true fans in the audience. Yeah, no, so it was, but and it's funny because was it a good show?
Speaker 2:yeah, and then I met. I met them afterwards because it was so small you were a groupie.
Speaker 1:I was a groupie.
Speaker 2:I was a little bit oh my god, cute yeah it was cute. Um, that was yeah. You can only be into bands in that kind of way when you're in your 20s. There's just if you beyond that, I don't know too tired, too tired, it's just yeah you got a bad time um, okay. So myla rolled into vegas prepared to perform with labarachi with her ride or die. Jack sim Simmons, all right, he is the third wheel of the.
Speaker 1:James Dean trio right.
Speaker 2:So she was powered by the steam of being booked and blessed and saw her name displayed boldly on the marquee of the Riviera. It said Liberace come. As you are featuring Vampyra.
Speaker 1:That's a really big deal. That's a huge deal. And the Vegas lights and the marquee oh, that's so exciting.
Speaker 2:It's very exciting. The show consisted of a series of musical numbers. I just want to pause and go back.
Speaker 1:This is my ADHD ass, I know we all. We just talked about like not being, you know, whatever Groupies or fans or whatever. But if you want to be a fan of ours, we'll take you. Okay, we'll take you, we'll welcome you with open arms. Don't be fucking weird, you know. But right, you'd be a little weird, but don't be fucking weird you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean don't be creepy.
Speaker 1:Don't be creepy weird. That's what I mean. Okay, yeah, no stalkers or anything. No stalkers, don't ask me for pictures of my feet. It's funny. Oh well, don't be creepy weird. That's what I mean. Okay, yeah, no stalkers or anything, no stalkers, don't ask me for pictures of my feet it's funny, oh well don't we both have a?
Speaker 2:wiki feed, it's true we have talked about that enough, where we're like, don't talk about our feet, but talk about our feet I'm just flattered that I have a wiki feet because, honestly, like I broke my fifth metatarsal in college like which is the side bone on your foot and it's just like there's a lump you know, and still she's got a four, four. That's probably like three and a half. I haven't looked in a while, but I'm gonna look right now, I don't think it's.
Speaker 1:You know, this is supposed to be a short episode and here we are just yapping.
Speaker 2:I know, it's because we know that we have the time to burn let's make sure these people have an hour and a half episode to listen to every fucking week browse all celebs who started this? If you are the person who started my wiki feed, I would like to know please stand up here you are.
Speaker 1:How many photos does? It change three and a half there's three photos yep, that's so, nothing's changed three and a half, and one of them is of me and one of them is marissa. Two photos of you. One of them is on me, high off my ass, on mushrooms, on my 30th birthday.
Speaker 2:Um, and the other two are of me like posing with a statue and sitting in a chair by a lounge chair. Yeah, three and a half stars.
Speaker 1:Three and a half stars Nice feet, it says in in.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's what. Three and a half stars, three and a half means nice feet.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:No, I still want to know who you are if you started it, because it definitely wasn't me. Oh my God, amazing. Yes, back to Liberace. Was he a foot man? We don't know Anyway the show consisted of a series of musical numbers that allowed the audience to travel across the cities of the world through the ages, with Liberace at the helm.
Speaker 1:What a fun captain, totally.
Speaker 2:Captain, my captain, sparkles glitz fringe.
Speaker 1:Take me, take me on a trip, liberace Take me, take me, take me away.
Speaker 2:And it was Vampyra's job to speak to the audience in between acts as a 500-year-old undead corpse, and she actually rose from a coffin to do each of her segments iconic. Yes, basically, her quippy monologues helped allow for liberace's multiple elaborate costume and set changes throughout the show so it was very important.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you need a good transition. Yes, a great transition, a great transitional act.
Speaker 2:Right, Priceless. Yeah, I mean they could have like they could have been stuck with like a trained dog that like went around in circles. They could have had a juggler.
Speaker 1:Oh for.
Speaker 2:God's sakes not a juggler. They could have had a bad comedian oh.
Speaker 1:And instead they got Myla, nurmi, amazing, amazing, and instead they got Myla and Hermie Amazing.
Speaker 2:Amazing, there seems to be one remaining clip of film showing Myla and Liberace in rehearsals. He is dressed as a jester, and they are waltzing but no sound exists to go with the footage.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to show you anyway.
Speaker 2:But so this is it. Like you can see, he's bowing, she comes out, she's got her little like. The stage is smaller than I thought it would be. I think it's just a rehearsal and I don't know if it's this. It's like, yeah, rehearsals, and he's like dressed as a jester oh my gosh, and then they waltz, oh yeah and she's so fun.
Speaker 1:And her, she's so glamorous, her nails are so long yeah, I remember that she made her own nails.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she like molded plastic onto her fingers she's like got her eyes rolling back in her head while she's like waltzing with liberace as a jester.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she's mugging at the camera and also like, and he winks and he just winks at the camera. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's the only footage that exists from it, but it's kind of fun, it is fun.
Speaker 1:Hell of a lot of fun. Not kind of fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of fun yeah.
Speaker 2:Leading up to Liberace, and joining him and his entourage as they attended shows across the strip. One of those shows was an early performance from Elvis Presley himself. Ooh fun. According to Myla, he was wearing teal eye makeup to match his teal blazer and the older crowd he was performing for ended up booing him. Wow. Because they're like you're a man wearing makeup what?
Speaker 1:No, boo, get off the stage. I don't understand. I don't understand how you like to match your clothes.
Speaker 2:I don't understand how you have style and pizzazz. I don't understand pizz clothes. I don't understand how you have style and pizzazz.
Speaker 1:I don't understand pizzazz. I don't. What is this voice? I don't know this voice, but it's boo.
Speaker 2:I've had a few drinks and I can't speak anymore, and I won't speak one tone. I want to go back to the craps table.
Speaker 1:This teal eyeshadows make me feel like crap.
Speaker 2:Dumb Getting super dumb, getting some fresh air out by the pool. After the performance, myla saw Elvis wander outside and called him over to her. She made sure to tell him that the audience that booed him were all sheep. True, yep, she said.
Speaker 1:They've never seen anyone like you. Life magazine is going to discover you and then everyone will want to kiss your shoes, and then Elvis informed her that to her point Life magazine would be coming out next Thursday then he said yes, were you prepared to do an Elvis impression?
Speaker 2:because here you go.
Speaker 1:I know you're older and all ma'am, but you've been awful kind. If you care to come back after the second show, I'll be proud to take you to my place and play a song for you, or something, or something, or something.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh something, and Myla did go back to his room to find out what he meant by that. It was crowded with groupies, which we were just talking about and band members and she decided upon, looking around, that she was, quote wiser than all of the female competition put together. Elvis, I like that assessment.
Speaker 4:I am wiser, I am not older Wiser.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Elvis grabbed a guitar and swooped.
Speaker 1:Not mutually exclusive. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:We're just going to say wiser. Elvis grabbed a guitar and swooped out of there with Myla in tow to head back to her own realm.
Speaker 1:Yes, spicy, and he took the guitar.
Speaker 2:Yep. He was like I'm going to do what I do.
Speaker 1:That reminded me of this one date that I went on. Yes, this one date that I went on. Yeah, this one date that I went on. Okay, something to know about me is that I don't like romantic gestures. I don't like them, they make me uncomfortable and they're cheesy. So my first reaction is always to laugh, and men don't like being laughed at and men don't like being laughed at. So so I've learned to uh temper that for my own safety, um, but I um, before I did, go back to a gentleman's uh um room and we were just like sitting on his bed chatting and then, apropos of nothing, he pulled out his dusty guitar case from under the bed and pulled out his guitar and just started strumming and singing.
Speaker 1:I don't even. We weren't talking about music, we weren't talking. He just started strumming and singing and I couldn't hold it together. I just started laughing and I was like. I was like oh wow. I was like this is the move.
Speaker 1:This is the move, isn't it? This is your closing move. I'm seeing it unfold in real time and I said that all to him in his face and I was like laughing I want to push you around and I will, and I will. Yeah, it was very much giving that it was, and I was just like I can't take it seriously anymore um that is really funny.
Speaker 2:I I had a guy in college who was like he knew, kind of like in his mind anyway, that he could, like he's like I can get, I can get men, I can get women, I can get whoever I want. So he like took it into this moment of um where, like me and this other guy thought that we were just like working on stuff that night, and then he pulled out the guitar and we both realized that he was hitting on us at the same time and I don't know if, like in his mind, he wanted us all together or if he was just like whoever breaks first, I'll take you Whoever's into this guitar solo whoever breaks first, whoever breaks
Speaker 1:first I'll take ya whoever's into this guitar solo. It was a little it was.
Speaker 2:That's. Yeah, I can say that's the only time that's happened to me. Did you laugh? What was your reaction? I, me and the other guy, just like we side eyed each other and we were like, and then we talked about it afterwards we definitely talked shit about it afterwards.
Speaker 1:Afterwards, you're like so we were both getting hit on, right like at the same time. That's what was happening, right? No, we were just like what that was yeah anyway, it was funny, okay, so, um, okay.
Speaker 2:So there, let's go back. Myla and elvis are. They're going back to myla's room. He's grabbed a guitar. That's what's happening. The only problem was that jack simmons and her had been sharing a hotel room, and when she came back with Elvis he was in there sleeping. So Myla played it cool by saying Jack, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1:Go back to your own room.
Speaker 2:Oh, he has no room. She karate, chopped that cock block in half. She sure did no time cock block in half. She sure did no time. She told Elvis that Jack was her quote assistant and chauffeur as he shuffled away to go sleep in his car. She then said you know what? That's a?
Speaker 1:bro, that's a peep. He's like that's a good friend yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, he's there for her gig anyway. He basically got like that's true, you know, yeah, he's been partying.
Speaker 1:He's been there.
Speaker 2:He kind of just has to roll with whatever happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:He's like sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 4:I'll see you in the morning ma'am.
Speaker 1:But she said you'll have to excuse him. He gets confused when he drinks. I love it.
Speaker 2:And then Elvis serenaded Myla, but it was an odd choice of song for the quote or something she was anticipating. He strummed the guitar and sang a church hymn called the old rugged cross no, I know that song.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, my religious trauma just smacked me in the face. That is not what the fuck? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, I guess that's like his roots and everything, but just like also, you could do better. You're Elvis, yeah, you're Elvis about to explode on Life Magazine. I'm pretty sure you got something else up your sleeve, bud. Anyway, what a choice. What a choice. It was awkward, but it didn't stop them from doing what they could to make the Lord blush. Myla wrote in her journal.
Speaker 1:Oh God, okay, what did she write? She wrote Awkwardly. We began to make real music together. The overture was thrilling, the crescendo was breathtaking, the climax fell flat. Elvis, for all of his great beauty and magnetism, was sexually inexperienced. When I knew him, Was I to believe his onstage, pelvic swivels and thrusts were only a tease? He made love like an adolescent schoolboy. No Scathing, no scathing review. Okay, I realized he was not yet a man, still a boy, with pimples, barely 21. Nonetheless, he had this alluring energy about him, indefinable really, but an undeniable presence. I knew he was going to be a big star, that the world would recognize him as a musical genius. God sent me to cheer elvis and I did.
Speaker 2:Mylon ermie is nothing but a great sexual cheerleader.
Speaker 1:She sure is. I love her. Listen. She's racking him up at this point. She is how old is she?
Speaker 2:She's like in her 30s I would say like mid-30s at this point.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, as someone who just slept, as someone who's a woman in her mid-30s who slept with someone in their early 20s recently. I didn't know, yes, you did. I didn't know how early 20s, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:I mean, yes, you did, I didn't know how early 20s, I didn't know, I didn't know I, I know, I know it's a fling, I know it's a fling, but also I, I just want I want it to be more, just so that I can like never let you live it down.
Speaker 4:I can like never let you live it now.
Speaker 2:But like it would just be like, oh like, do you have a serious problem or like issue in your relationship that you want me to take seriously with that?
Speaker 1:That's the thing. That little boy like I could never I could never seriously date. I was like ugh. So when I say I connect with Myla Nervy, I know this woman intimately.
Speaker 2:I am her. She is me as intimately as she knew Elvis. Oh yeah, I have to say my joke, though, that I said when you told me you slept with a 23-year-old.
Speaker 1:Say it to the crowd, say it to the masses.
Speaker 2:Just when I was peaking in high school, he was playing peek-a-boo.
Speaker 1:Oh God, it makes me think of that SNL sketch. Oh yes, meet your second wife, meet your second wife your second wife and one of them's like a fetus yes, yeah, oh god, disturbing except it's you, it's you know.
Speaker 2:Oh no, oh no, okay. Um so myla didn't stop cheering elvis there. She continued to hang around and cheer him on. There's a picture of him pretending to choke her that was taken during his photo shoot with movie mirror. And hold on a second.
Speaker 1:I need to see this.
Speaker 2:I know I can't find the. I couldn't find the book just now, so I've got to find it. Hold on, all right, you see this. Oh, that's so fun. Yeah, so he's like kind of looks like, he's like playfully wait, what's the one right next to?
Speaker 1:it I want that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's sweet yeah, so this was during like his rehearsals um and yeah, so it's just like they like movie mirror, whatever that is like came and she was in the photos with him a little bit, and Myla also tagged along with Elvis and his band to the desert around Las Vegas to hear them mess around with their own rendition of Hound Dog for the very first time.
Speaker 1:Wow, it was like when he heard the original song and then was like playing with it. I want to do something with this yes, and that was like.
Speaker 2:So that was a big moment. But towards the end of their time in vegas, elvis started to ignore my love. And when elvis ghosting her in real time, real time, in her face, yes, and. And when Elvis came over to Liberace's table at the Sands Casino, where Myla was also seated, she pulled, no pun intended, an unusual stunt to get back at him.
Speaker 1:Elvis came over and I grabbed his. What Say it?
Speaker 4:say it.
Speaker 1:Elvis came over and I grabbed his divining rod. His fury knows no bounds. Elvis made a speech to me about the next time I go out with you, etc. All the times we were together he never let me see his pee-pee. So I told him he had no guts. He now hates me and is proclaiming it loudly. So she sexually harassed him. Yeah, she sexually assaulted him. Yeah, excuse me, that was clear assault. You're right.
Speaker 2:Just grabbing someone's genitals, just clear assault Grabbing someone's genitals, just clear. Assault, grabbing someone's genitals In the middle of a casino, just like with. Liberace at your side. And Liberace's probably like. I've done that, I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1:All the candelabras I've grabbed. That's what he said Damn, all the times we were together, he never let me see his pee pee, so he was like secret.
Speaker 2:He was a weird guy. Did you see, priscilla?
Speaker 1:no, because as disgusted as I am with myself, with the whole age gap thing, that whole grooming situation, yeah, it's disturbing so disturbing, but the movie is really good.
Speaker 2:Well, it's sofia coppola.
Speaker 1:But the movie is really good. Well, it's Sofia Coppola. I know she's the right person. Yeah, I expect nothing less. Yes, but there are certain things like I don't. There are certain beautiful things that I can miss.
Speaker 2:That's fair, because it's just, it hits you in the wrong place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it. It hits too close to home. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I myself. He was legal, he was legal I myself have never been groomed, and that guy was legal by quite, not quite, a few years, by a few years by a few years.
Speaker 2:A few meaning like what? Three to five, shut the fuck up undisclosed years it. This is all really just a big humble brag, like you realize that really?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't think it is. I was just making fun of myself I.
Speaker 2:I mean it's true like you could. You're just like it's. I still got it is what it is. I better, I'm only in my mid thirties. I know, but like I still got it for like, for you know, like you you have your, your thing where you're like oh, I'm not in my twenties anymore, no, no, no woman you can go outside right now, it's true, and catch a dick.
Speaker 1:it's true, in in your teeth, in your teeth in 10 seconds or less. It is, it is, it's not, it's. I don't want to say, it's not hard, it's. You know, I don't know what I want to say, but I I know what you mean. I'm not, it's not a humble brag, I'm making fun of myself. But I will say, you know, ali Wong just came out with her new, not just but her new special, and she talks about, like the spread of ages that she is, that she discovered after her divorce, like she also went, you know, I think think she it was like 25 to 55 or 65 yeah, yeah, interesting yeah interesting no, I love it honestly.
Speaker 2:I'm here for it. I love it.
Speaker 1:I just love to make fun of you oh, yeah, same, yeah, yeah, for sure love you, you love you um okay.
Speaker 2:So coming back to los angeles, myla wasn't worried about elvis's wrath because she had re-signed a contract to reappear with liberace on broadway whoa the following november back to new york that's right, and the vampire show was soon to launch at khj. Although they were less popular than KABC, they paid Myla more, giving her $3.50 per week.
Speaker 1:Well, as we established before she gave away. What was it?
Speaker 2:It was nothing 45% of the Of the rights. Yes, crazy. But Myla was unhappy that the props and set pieces for her show were all cheap imitations and claimed that the show writers were inept idiots who were unfamiliar with her character. So she started off the show by going off book and making her own joke. This is live television mind you. And the joke Myla led with was I must tell you about my sister.
Speaker 1:She's dead now. Lucky girl it seems. She was lynched for raping a snake.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a oh my. It sent the censors off, to say the least. To say it just sent me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know I'm shocked.
Speaker 2:Now I'm trying to oh my it sent the sensors off, to say the least, to say it just sent me yeah. Oh, my God, I'm shocked. Now I'm trying.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to. What is the joke?
Speaker 2:I know it was. It's. It's just a lot. It's like a shock value thing. Yeah, you know it's raping a snake. I don't get it. I guess, like the snake is the, is it supposed to be a penis, I guess you know? Oh, my god, I have to tell you this when I worked at like okay, so this is another odd job I had. I was a cocktail waitress in my early 20s at a blues bar in chicago yes yes, I know this.
Speaker 2:Yes, and there was a guy there, um, named leslie something, and he was like one of the musicians and he had a song called blind snake and it was like I got my blind snake ain't got no eyes, ain't got no teeth, and then he would be like he's like you better watch out, my snake gonna spit on you and you tell me this man never got a record deal no, he was a lecherous old man one time one of the other waitresses was like leslie, let me just check your like search history.
Speaker 2:And she just like checked it real quick to see what the last thing he looked for, and it was definitely porn like while he's you just while at work? Yeah, oh my god leslie, where are you, leslie?
Speaker 1:leslie, where you at, also myla. What is this joke? Girl I'm, I'm on, I'm on team myla but what the fuck?
Speaker 2:I know, I think it was a little bit of a desperate reach yeah, like trying to be like I hate this so I'm gonna go even farther into a weird direction. And it's a weird direction, it just is so. Milo wrote ouch censorship.
Speaker 1:Seems I said a dirty word Rape, fcc. A watered-down vampire follows. Question mark.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's like, but were you ever making rape jokes before? I know the thing like I'm not sure it's. It's maybe they didn't, maybe making here's the thing. I think back then it's like if you were gonna have shock value, maybe there was just like not it like. Now it's like the shock value is more honed, I suppose where it's kind of like that is something that we can reach for and feel like that we're shocked a little bit, but it's fun. And then there's the stuff that's just like not fun.
Speaker 1:Or funny, right, it's just not. Yeah, because here's the thing If she would have done a rape joke and it landed Mm-hmm, I think it would have been a different story.
Speaker 2:It would have been a different story. That's really hard to do, though, and I think most people know that Especially back then. Yeah, and I mean People didn't even make jokes about like people being pregnant back then.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know like it's it's just it's.
Speaker 1:It's a it's a hard reach.
Speaker 2:Hard reach Bad all around, bad, all around. Not her best moment.
Speaker 1:Where's the wise woman that was in Elvis'?
Speaker 2:after party.
Speaker 1:Where did she go?
Speaker 2:You're wiser than this, Mila. Yes. So she was fearing that she'd be watered down, and that's exactly what happened. So the network covered up her cleavage with a scarf after this and made the writing safe and sterile. The ratings floundered, but somehow Myla got a raise and started earning $425 per week.
Speaker 1:Way to fail your way upwards. Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 2:But it all quickly fell apart. Sponsors started pulling away and the Vampire Show ultimately only completed 12 of its 13 episodes. And that was the wooden stake in the Vampire Show's heart. All right, Courtney.
Speaker 1:I see you, I see you. I see you, I hear you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. By August 3rd 1956, it was dead and gone bye show. Through this time, myla had been involved with a young lover speaking of young lovers named chuck, beetles with a d with a d, beetles, beetles. Chuck idolized jimmy dean and tried to mold himself in his image, but his attempts weren't impressing anyone. Still, he managed to reel in Myla. She was 33 and he was 22. Cute, he never got a real job.
Speaker 1:He was a house boyfriend. I'm like cute, he never got a real job.
Speaker 2:He never got a real job. He stayed out late and hung out with musicians who Myla referred to, as you say this Gutter punks who drank codeine. Somehow he had money, but Myla never used it, even when she was low on cash, because she suspected it came from sketchy sources such as drug dealing. So she was hardly surprised when he got arrested.
Speaker 1:Myla writes of this time it distresses me that Chuck has adorned himself with Jimmy's image, for I assume I am to Chuck, then, only a symbol. I have mixed feelings. For Chuck reverence for his idealism, philosophy. For Chuck, reverence for his idealism, philosophy and tenderness, and disgust for his moral schism and his hero worship of Jimmy, which seems to me irreverent coming from a pipsqueak. Like him, chuck has those same mixed feelings. For me, reverence and or adulation because I am a motherly celebrated heroine, and disgust because I am a holier than thou victorian prude whose tempered bar is heroine so she's basically like I draw the line at heroine and and, and you think I'm like a prude for that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I don't think Milo and Ermiah was a prude.
Speaker 1:I don't think she was. But you know you are always a prude to someone else, that's true, she does have like moments of it actually, but she wasn't of course, but like she has moments of it, but like yeah.
Speaker 1:Like also I just want to tell everyone you're not approved because you you can't do heroin um, I think or don't know, or don't want, not, can't or just don't want to do that or like, or entertain that life in the least. Never once have I been like you know what I want to try just once yeah, that's because have you no, no god, what do you do? I feel like there are some people out there who are like I will literally try anything once no, you don't do that with heroin.
Speaker 2:Everyone knows you don't do that with heroin yeah yeah, you've definitely done more drugs than me. What are you even talking about? Why did you think that I would have done here?
Speaker 1:I have not done more drugs. Yes, you have. You have done ayahuasca I would never.
Speaker 2:That's like a spiritual journey that I did in Hawaii.
Speaker 1:Some people would say so is heroin no.
Speaker 2:There was a shaman, was there a? Shaman when you did heroin when you shot up in a freaking flog house.
Speaker 1:That makes it sound like I did, heroin no.
Speaker 2:To be clear.
Speaker 1:I have, have never, nor do I ever want to do heroin in a flop house or any house courtney.
Speaker 2:Neither do I. It's no, no, I can't believe. You asked me if I would eat a dog treat. She sent me this link about like petri dish meat or whatever. Yeah, meat grown in a lab and I was like oh, would you, because Courtney's vegetarian.
Speaker 1:So I was like would you ever eat this? Meaning like lab grown meat? But I just I didn't read the whole article. It was like in the headline.
Speaker 2:It was like dog treats made from lab-grown meat. And you texted me and said would you ever try this? And I said would you Did? You just ask me if I would eat a dog treat? And now you just asked me if I would do heroin. Who do you think that I am? What's wrong with you? Oh my God, I'm so insulted. Do you know me at all Like? I have some sort of like standards. You know Some sort of self-respect? Marissa doesn't think so, but I do. I do some sort of self-respect.
Speaker 2:Marissa doesn't think so, but I do, courtney has standards, oh my god, oh yes, I'm boundaries, my temperance also bars heroin and dog treats mylon the relationship only added stress to myla's life with chuck beetles. If we have to keep, just keep doing, these really yeah, that relationship with chuck beetles with chuck the heroin drug dealer, addict.
Speaker 1:Uh, we don't know. Maybe both.
Speaker 2:We don't know either both, but it just yeah. He was no good for her, just like heroin is no good for you if you're doing it. Um, the relationship only added stress to Milo's life and she once again shaved her head in distress.
Speaker 1:This is like.
Speaker 2:Brittany, she's such a Brittany. This is the second time that she's cut off all her hair. Her good friend Marlon Brando implored her to go to therapy, and he even paid for it. Wow, an enlightened man. Marlon. Back then an enlightened man, marlin, and he back then mr brando. Say what you want about marlon brando, but he was a man who believed in therapy in the 50s.
Speaker 1:That's a goddamn miracle um, however.
Speaker 2:So she goes to therapy, but how? Her diagnosis was unhelpful and vague. The therapist said she was emotionally disabled. That was the diagnosis, wow.
Speaker 1:So myla stopped her treatment because the sessions were too painful and the bus ride too long.
Speaker 2:Fair, fair yeah, you know what everyone does remote therapy. Now myla, and like we couldn't deal and we goodness gracious you had to get on a bus for therapy, like you need therapy just for the bus ride. No, anyway, for Halloween that year. Myla and Chuck attended a masquerade party at the home of astrologist Carol Ryder. Chuck's costume what a fun Halloween. Yeah, for sure I would love to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah or like any astrologists out there that want to invite me to your halloween party.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, a hundred percent we'll come as a really fun couple's costume. A medium, oh yeah. Like can you imagine if the long island, that's a whole other thing anyway, yes, yes, but I would go that I would do so. Chuck's costume drew attention to them in the worst way, as Myla said.
Speaker 1:I went as Veneria, the name I gave to Chaz Chaz.
Speaker 2:Adams, little girl girl. Yeah, like Charles Adams, like the, the guy who wrote the Adams family oh, yeah, so I think that it's supposed to be Wednesday, but like he didn't had at this point, none of the characters had names oh, okay yeah.
Speaker 1:I went. I went as Veneria, the name I gave to Chaz Adams' little girl. Chuck insisted on satirizing the latest James Dean is not dead madness which was then sweeping the nation. He's not dead, only maimed somewhere. After plastic surgery he will return, so the rumor legend went. So Chuck got into a rebel without a cause outfit and got bandaged out of sight all but unruly hair and horn-rimmed glasses. All evening he did a sulking. I want to be a lone thing in the corner. People were terrified. They pretended to ignore him, but of course they were uncomfortably aware of him at all times. Yeah, I'm gonna see if she basically went as wednesday adams and he went as an undead james.
Speaker 2:That's what she said like this, actually this photo she looks like she's wearing like a blonde wig and a witch hat, so I don't know who she was going as, but he, that's what he did. It's in taste. He has bandages all over his face and he's got glasses on over it, but other than that, he's like wearing the James Dean. You know, get up. And he went with her. Yeah, they were. He was her date and she was, and she had that relationship with him. No, she lost all of her judgment at this time, cause that's just. No, she lost all of her judgment at this time Because that's just no.
Speaker 1:I guess she had to wear a wig because all of her hair was shorn off. Oh, that's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but why the blonde wig? Maybe that's all she had. Courtney, that's not all she had. She dressed as vampire all the time. I guess that's true. Yeah, maybe that was too close to her own thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2:Yep, she's trying to branch out but not really so. For taking part in this poor taste costume that mocked her friend's death, Myla was added to the Hollywood's worst taste list of 1956.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I mean kind of rightfully so. I mean, it's not like taste and we still have like we don't have that. We have a worse dressed. Yeah, we're still worth, but worst taste is I kind of.
Speaker 2:Is that it's kind of yeah it's like like Jerry Springer show yeah, that's wild, yeah, and it didn't do her public image any favors. Shortly after this, myla made a career decision that was just as dastardly as throwing her film contract in a wastebasket in front of howard hawks like she did.
Speaker 1:That was back in episode one. Guys, yep, yep, yep, go back, go back. Part one, part one, not episode one.
Speaker 2:Part one part one she reneged on her tour with, she did not yet to go to broadway. There is no explanation for this other than the fact that her mother wouldn't be able to take care of the cats for while she was away performing on broadway. It's like, girl, your friends, you got friends, girl, as I once had somebody who I worked with, like at universal take care of my cat and like stay in my apartment and I didn't really know him that well, but like I just pretended I was like an Airbnb situation yeah, you know, you do what you gotta do, you guys yeah, the show must go on.
Speaker 2:The show must go on if you're on Broadway like with Liberace.
Speaker 1:Come on, and the first time around went so well too. Like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:oh girl, this was a very weak excuse. So it's more likely that Chuck probably had something to do with it. Chuck, the fuck, the fuck, chuck, because he served no other purpose in Myla's life than ruining things. This was a very, very low point for Myla, but she still managed to squeeze a few more jobs out of the Vampira oeuvre to make ends meet. Oeuvre, oeuvre, oeuvre, oeuvre. She did a what is that word?
Speaker 1:Okay, just so you know. It's spelled O-E-U-V-R-E, it's pronounced Oeuvre and it means it's like the canon, mm canon, the vampire canon, the vampire character, the vampire, je ne sais quoi yeah, the vampire essence yes, she did a convention, a home show what does that mean?
Speaker 2:a home show a show in someone's home, no, probably like the hgtv of their time oh, okay, okay, okay okay, like, probably like a homemaker show okay, which is also funny.
Speaker 1:I was like that's hilarious, but I was like a home show. She just showed up at like like a private, like party, like what okay, yeah, no, I think that.
Speaker 2:I think that's what that means and a safe driving campaign for the national safety council with a hack comedian named doodles weaver wow, yeah. So other than this, her income was largely from unemployment checks. Girl, we all been there. However, one of the gigs myla got during this small potatoes period proved to be one of her most fascinating and on brand. She was hired as the live action reference model used by Disney animators to create the character of Maleficent for Sleeping Beauty.
Speaker 1:I did know this, you did. Yes, I did know this from one of the many animation documentaries like I've watched that that, yes, that this was. It's coming back to me that that, yeah, she was, she modeled. That's so cool super cool.
Speaker 2:So she just did one day of work doing her signature scream and dramatic twisting motion. Though myla did not supply the voice, her body movements and facial expressions were used to create the character. So I want to stop here and look at this, because this is like a little clip of Maleficent from the original Sleeping Beauty and we can play this. It's not her voice, but you know just. We'll describe. There she is, there she is. She's got the eyebrows, for sure.
Speaker 4:What does she? Want here it's a first appearance royalty nobility the gent, the hands, I feel like the hands are hers, yes, hands and eyebrows, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1:It's there definitely, the eyebrows definitely the hands.
Speaker 2:I feel like the hands are hers. Yes, hands and eyebrows yeah, so it's. It's there definitely, the eyebrows definitely the hands um, basically like, because this is pretty much her in drag, I do feel like disney, this isn't. You know, they use divine to inspire ursula, like yeah they like people who have the dramatic look to play an evil person. It's just like it. Just you know it makes sense for like creating a dramatic villain yeah, and villains are the most dramatic. For whatever their faults are many of them, I guess.
Speaker 1:Anyway, and now they're. They're like no villains are just normal people like in frozen.
Speaker 2:It's just like the guy that caught me off guard. Oh, it's not coming from a mile away I was watching it with iris, to be fair, that's when I started. That's I saved that movie for her.
Speaker 1:You did we watched it together. How did I watch?
Speaker 2:I watched it with the kid too, first time yeah, I I never had that, so I was like I'll probably watch it when it makes sense, and then it, yeah, and then we watched it together, that's cute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I knew that guy. I was like this guy he's too, he's too eager, he's too love bombing love bombing red flag red flag. So yeah, now they, they, they dress them, they, they animate them to look like just normal people. Because that's what evil people are just normal people, it's true.
Speaker 2:It's true.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, that was a good one, but, but just one day of work. Yeah, but cool it's cool.
Speaker 2:So now that the last droplets from her career faucet had dribbled away, it was finally Fun fact. Yep, it was finally time. Time to dust off that old script from Ed Wood and take that B-movie moolah. Let's do it. As luck would have it, wood had finally secured financing and the film was a go.
Speaker 1:God damn it. It takes so long for films to happen, especially bad films.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But sometimes good films too, it's true it's like, yeah, between someone getting the script and saying this needs to be a film or a, the book, the source material and saying this needs to be a film and it actually getting done it could be five, ten years, yeah films just take so long.
Speaker 2:Totally it's a lot of money. However okay, so like the financing is a go, but a very interesting donor had stepped up to fuel Wood's latest piece of shit. The benefactor was, of all people, a pastor. What, yes, why? I don't know his name was, why I don't know? His name was j edward reynolds and he was the pastor of the first baptist church of beverly hills. Okay, reynolds had agreed to fund the film, but he had a few conditions.
Speaker 1:Oh, here the here we go yeah what what pastor reynolds?
Speaker 2:first of all, he wanted to change the name of the film to grave robbers from outer space. From grave robbers from outer space to plan nine from outer space I, I guess honestly better title. Yeah, I mean, motivations for that are unclear, but uh, you know, maybe he was offended by the grave robber, maybe it was sacrilegious I don't know, I don't know, but uh, it's a, it's a better title, it's a better Okay. I'm with the Reverend on this one. Plan nine from outer space.
Speaker 1:Yep Is it?
Speaker 2:a Reverend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, pastor, yeah, pastor.
Speaker 2:I'm with the pastor on this one all of the actors to be baptized together in a total immersion. Can you imagine that's part of like your contract, Like we just do this one little thing. Um, myla was furious. Yeah, I would be too, she told her friend and soon to be cast mate Criswell bring me to him, bring me to wood right this minute.
Speaker 1:He will know that I am already baptized and confirmed. My name is in a time capsule buried in the cornerstone of the Finnish Lutheran Church, and if he insists on pursuing this travesty and force me into a baptism, I will sue him for stealing my goddamn immortal soul. Whoa.
Speaker 2:Metal. I love too that. She's just like I'm mad because I'm already baptized. I do feel like this is one of her like pure moments, one of her like demure, but didn't she never didn't.
Speaker 1:She never lived in, she never lived in finland. No, no, but it was like a finnish church like remember everything her family did was like was finished.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay so that was what it was, oh my gosh yeah um, and so myla was not required to participate in the baptism, but she swore that if she were forced to, she'd wear her dominatrix cat suit.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen yeah.
Speaker 2:On November 27th 1956,.
Speaker 1:Myla headed to Quality Studios Yep, which I would put money on it, not, not. Yeah, being quality, you're right, you're so right. The film studio.
Speaker 2:it was the film studio equivalent to a budget, yeah.
Speaker 1:Pretty much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, and she headed there to begin filming plan nine from outer space. She dressed herself and she did her own hair and makeup. Of course, there was no budget for those departments Right before she left the house, by the way, she did all of this, and her dress was so restrictive that her deadbeat young boyfriend had to oh, my God, she's still with him.
Speaker 1:Yes, jesus.
Speaker 2:Christ. So he had to carry her on and off the bus because she couldn't walk.
Speaker 1:Well, you know what? He wasn't good for anything. Yeah, make him do something, something.
Speaker 2:Something so Bella Lugosi had already filmed scenes with wood. He's coming up again Long before the actual production had begun. Hmm. Sadly he had since passed away. Oh, bella, so Mila would be sharing top billing with a dead man. Okay, that seems correct. That seems right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:However, he was a dead man. She nearly, she dearly loved, so perhaps there was some consolation in that I love that for her yeah. Ed would always went after has been actors with recognizable names to add clout to his crap. And for that top billing Myla didn't even have to say any lines, she had insisted upon it.
Speaker 1:She writes I truly believed my only saving grace in making this film was that nobody would see it. I'd received permission to perform mutely. My lines were so insipid, so inane, I couldn't even speak them privately to myself in my own home. Scathing Girl, I've been there. I have been there, girl.
Speaker 2:Where you just quietly change the dialogue.
Speaker 1:You're like maybe it was better because this is so bad. I love that she just refused to say anything. Quietly, change the dialogue. You're like maybe it was better because this is so bad. Yeah, I love that she just refused. She's like no, if you're getting my name. You're getting nothing else, nothing else. Yes, my name, my image, not my voice, that's right.
Speaker 2:The set was a hazardous maze, and the carpet that was intended to look like grass was was something that Myla had to navigate in platform heels.
Speaker 1:Listen, navigating anything in platform heels is crazy.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then just the real grass Lumpy, insane.
Speaker 1:Fake grass.
Speaker 2:It's like all lumpy.
Speaker 1:A death trap yeah.
Speaker 2:Like, like hasn't been laid down properly. No, like all rushed and like shitty All rushed yeah.
Speaker 1:Like a non-union crew oh yeah, for sure doesn't know how to do anything for sure, safely, or right?
Speaker 2:right. So plan nine from outer space is a terrible movie, but it's definitely in the so bad it's good category so I want to play at least a couple examples of its terribleness, in addition to a scene with myla, at least one okay, so let's start. She start First of all, she looks amazing. Yeah, this is like a freeze frame of her, just like looking like she's going to like clutch your throat and take your soul.
Speaker 1:Um and and, and I'm looking at her and I'm saying, take it girl take it. This is the whole movie, the whole movie's on YouTube. I'll include a link, but alright, so this is where find the link to this terrible movie in the show notes.
Speaker 2:This is just to show you the production value. Wait, hold on a second. Here we go. Look at these flying saucers.
Speaker 1:They're just like little they look like they look like and this sound. It's just like.
Speaker 2:Honestly, they're just hovering it's just shit. It looks like they're like look at these flying they look like little tin sombreros yeah they look. I'm trying to think what they look like. Yeah, they're made of tin foil tin foil sombreros floating okay, so now I'm gonna show. Oh yeah, so this scene, this is great. This does not have myla in it, but it's really good.
Speaker 2:So I just want to show you this to like give you an idea of of this movie and the dialogue because, she wouldn't say the lines, okay, but other people had to, and this is what it was like he understands the difficulties of the earth race.
Speaker 3:what do you think will be the lines? But other people had to, and this is what it was like. He understands the difficulties of the Earth race. What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way? Well, as long as they can think, we'll have our problems. But those whom we're using cannot think. They are the dead brought to a simulated life by our electrode guns. You know, it's an interesting thing when you consider the Earth people who can think are so frightened by those who cannot the dead. Well, our ship should be regenerated. We better get started.
Speaker 2:It's so bad, what the fuck? It's just like really bad, just really bad. Really like circular dialogue that, like it's just all burned over place. Okay so let's see myla. Now let's see her. Um, hold on, this is like a little. I think I'm starting this. Oh, so this is like a little bit of bella lugosi.
Speaker 2:Oh, I want to see him but also like I don't know if this is bella lugosi or when they start um, like they have to like do all these shots with him, so like he died before they finished making the movie. So they just have someone I think it is edward walking around like covering his face with his sleeve, just like it's like he's like in a dracula-like way kind of, but so you can't see his face, but he's supposed. So I yeah let's.
Speaker 2:so that's, I believe, what you're about to see at the start here. So she's just like going to bed, da-da-da-da. This is my laugh. No, no, no, this is just like the boring joke. So here he comes, yeah, so I think this is Ed Wood pretending to be the one. He's just fully covering his face, oh my God. And she's like, oh, oh, like, bad acting, like, oh no, I won't even scream. There's a man who just entered my room and I'll scream like so much later. What hell?
Speaker 1:yeah, so then he just slowly follows her out the door, and now they're in a cemetery Immediately, and this is Bella.
Speaker 2:I think so yeah.
Speaker 1:So here's Myla. She's peeking through some some brush Hedges, yeah, dead hedges, yeah, just the girls running away in the nightgown, bella Lugosi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wandering through the graveyard, Something's coming away in the nightgown, bela Lugosi. Yeah, wandering through the graveyard, something's coming up from the earth.
Speaker 1:Is she supposed to be an undead brought back to life? Yes, of course. Of course. I don't even know why I asked that question.
Speaker 2:So there's that.
Speaker 1:So that's pretty much her throughout this entire movie she's just looking and watching and, yeah, and turning on sexily, yes and then I was gonna show, okay.
Speaker 2:So this is chris, well, her friend, that like is in this movie, but his beginning monologue is better, because the end is bad and so is the beginning, but I think the end is bad and so is the beginning, but I think the beginning is better, bad, um, so this is, like, famously, one of the famous bad parts of this movie. Okay, okay, and this is how it starts.
Speaker 4:Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here and now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, I just don't understand.
Speaker 1:Is he supposed to be a news anchor?
Speaker 4:he's like dressed in a full I think, a tuxedo, my friend and it's a very can your heart stand?
Speaker 2:it's so unnecessarily long my friend, um. So I just want to like, I want to I want to pause on this guy for a second. That was chris. Well, so that when we talked about her being angry about like having, yeah, yeah, about being baptized.
Speaker 2:This is who she was talking about so I believe that he was like the amazing chris well, that was his stage name. He was an american psychic and he was known for his wildly inaccurate prediction. So like full movie full of has-beens and hacks. And so he's like. That's why. That's why they got him to be like the future, the future, the future the future I, the amazing chris, well know about the future the future.
Speaker 1:I am a psychic and we're all gonna be living in the future. Yeah, it's, that's so. It's like a crazy bad movie.
Speaker 2:But she was right to just like be like, I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna speak, but I will say no one's gonna see this.
Speaker 2:We're gonna get to this in the next part, but like this is I mean because we talked about this like the. The footage from her show is like lost pretty much in most ways this is the thing that most people have seen her in. So this is like no, this is like I know no, her cult. She has an entire cult following, just where she says nothing and just wanders around a graveyard slowly, just looking iconic, I know, kind of amazing what I know.
Speaker 2:So oh, I love her yes but she was like she was embarrassed to be doing this, so, anyway, I would be too. Yep, myla's stupid boyfriend. Chuck, chuck the fuck as we refer to him made a scene on set uh and threatened edward a couple of times when he'd used his bullhorn, one time too many if you've seen the movie edward like they're. They kind of show it him being like action like just in a bullhorn all the time just being like over the top.
Speaker 2:So I guess he was annoyed by that rather than be embarrassed by him. Myla was pleading with him on the night of the last shooting day and saying him on the night of the last shooting day and saying, why don't you love me?
Speaker 1:she even said herself that night that once she got home and out of costume, I was washed up.
Speaker 2:I was no more myla continued to desperately try and gain chuck's affection why, girl, I know it's just like what the heck?
Speaker 1:what? Yeah, I don't even making him. Do you think she was doing drugs? At this point? I really don't think she was I think she just like then what is it like? I just don't think dick can't be that good, he's 22.
Speaker 2:I just think that, like I just think that I he's 22, I think she's in a, I think her self-esteem is is tanked and yeah, it's not good right now and you do bad things when that happens she's in a totally toxic relationship and can't get out. Yes, oh my so Myla continued to desperately try and gain Chuck's affections, even making him donuts at one point and accidentally causing a grease. Fire Chuck, oh, no, chuck immediately.
Speaker 1:I was going to say donuts are hard to make, yeah they are.
Speaker 2:I've never even attempted. I can't boiling oil, no, no. Chuck immediately fled the apartment because he's a fucking coward.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And Myla stayed behind to stomp out flames and rescue her cats.
Speaker 1:Well, she better rescue those cats that she didn't do Liberace's show for. She better stay and rescue those cats.
Speaker 2:Shit. Chuck had chosen himself, as he always did, and Myla's arms were badly burned and had to be fully bandaged. In fact, let me find this photo again. Here it is. She's got her cat whose name was In fact, let me find this photo again. Here it is. Yeah, so she's got her cat whose name was Rat Face. Her cat's name was Rat Face. Hell, yeah, and her arms are completely bandaged.
Speaker 1:This is a Getty image, guys, yeah. They're completely bandaged and she's just like trying to give her like creepiest vampire smile, trying to give her like why does she have Vampire smile, creepiest vampire smile, but no Vampire wig or makeup, so it's just her hair growing back From when she shaved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because this is just Because this photo, just so you know, this is just because the how Like there was a fire.
Speaker 1:So they took a photo. So there's news. Yes, for like the news about it.
Speaker 2:So that's the only reason.
Speaker 1:I was like why is there a photo of her Like, okay, that's why.
Speaker 2:Okay. So even though a doctor had told Myla not to use her arms because, as you can see from the photo, they are completely bandaged, yeah, from fingernails to shoulder. Yeah, chuck had insisted that she clean the apartment or he would leave her. What a fucking dick.
Speaker 1:I don't fuck Chuck, I fucking hate this. I know, I know he's the worst, and so Myla swept no girl With her bandaged arms, and Chuck left shortly after that anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what? Good riddance, goodbye yeah.
Speaker 1:No girl.
Speaker 2:With her bandaged arms, and Chuck left shortly after that.
Speaker 1:Anyway, Well, you know what? Good riddance, goodbye. Yeah, no, he's the fucking worst.
Speaker 2:But then he came back to break in and steal her things. What?
Speaker 1:He was truly that's true addict behavior. It is, yeah, this dude was a heroin addict. I mean, like she's implied it, that's addict behavior. She, yeah, this dude was a heroin addict. I mean, like she's implied it behavior.
Speaker 2:She didn't even imply she basically just said it like he is so um. By this point, sophie myla's mother had moved back in and had seen chuck fleeing the apartment, and the newspaper wrote an article about the instance and, true to form, they listed myla's full address in the piece uh like, just they doxed her yes, they did and they did that when she got like attacked in her apartment in new york too yeah, they like keeping like and this is where she lives, like she's not making any money for her fame.
Speaker 2:They're just being like, but you might have some creepy stalkers, so let's make sure that they know where you live. Oh, the media yeah terrible, but Sophie didn't stay for long. In fact. She sadly passed away, supposedly of exhaustion. What she had like only recently stopped working because she was not able to and very shortly after that she died.
Speaker 1:This is why you retire, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you rest.
Speaker 1:Although I don't ever plan on retiring, I plan to Betty White, that shit.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you like what you do, so it's different Than cleaning a hotel If I was cleaning a hotel day in and day out.
Speaker 1:I would retire as soon as possible. As soon as possible, or die at the hotel and haunt it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, there you go, that's a good one, that's good, I'll retire. Yeah, because then you could just be like I'll live here now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for free. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea. Um so, myla was a really devastated. She was very close with her mother obviously, um, and the funeral was the point at which myla next saw her brother and niece, who is aka the author of this book. Thank you Again. Thank you, sandra. She would see Sandra again in later years, but she would never see her own brother again. This, this was the last time, just at their mother's funeral, that's awful yeah. I think she was just like the black sheet. I mean, she definitely was the black sheet yeah.
Speaker 2:Her family, so it was just like they did. Yeah, I don't think he had much to say to her after that, but that is where we are going to leave Myla for now. I didn't want to leave her here because it's a sad moment, but I think you know you get a taste of where we're going.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's're going, yeah it's not great.
Speaker 2:Great, but I think you know there's also other things worth talking about for sure.
Speaker 1:So we will get to that Well, hopefully Chuck is gone for good. Oh Chuck, oh yeah, but next time the final Vampyra installment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like we might call it Vampyra installment, yeah and I feel like we might call it Punk Vampyra.
Speaker 1:Ooh, I've got my reasons, okay.
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Speaker 1:Dead and Kind of Famous is written, researched and produced by Courtney Blomquist. It is co-hosted by Marissa Rivera. We tag team on socials Jesse Russell and Courtney Blomquist. It is co -hosted by Marissa Rivera. We tag team on socials, jesse Russell and Courtney.
Speaker 2:Blomquist, do our editing Until next time. You might not be famous, but you got a story to tell and you're not dead yet.
Speaker 1:Okay, bye, bye.
