Frock Flicks is back, & this time, we visit the small screen, plus we add a special guest! All this & more can be yours in an hour of audio madness.

demode, sarahbellem, & trystbat invite zoccolaro for a far-ranging discussion of the first episode or so of "The Borgias" -- Showtime's sexed-up look at how Jeremy Irons gets to be Pope in the 15th century. Hmmm... what's he got underneath those red & purple robes???

Warning: Not for the easily offended, totally sober, or honestly, anyone under 21. This one finally went over the top & we gave it an "explicit" tag in iTunes for frequent discussion of male body parts. Give us a break, there weren't a ton of costumes to look at. Just pope-y stuff, so we kinda went south fast.

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Let us know what you think!

Omg, can you believe it, we have another podcast -- and rumors say we'll have another one soon after this!

Check out demode, sarahbellem, & trystbat's rantings & ravings about lushly costumed & perhaps weakly acted "The Affair of the Necklace" in our latest Frock Flicks podcast.

Warning: Not for the faint of heart, underage, totally sober, & otherwise easily offended. In addition to discussing frou-frou 18th-century gowns & wigs, Adrian Brody's towel gets a fair number of mentions ;-)

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If you listened to Episode 4, "Wait, Wait, Don't Frock Me," & maybe you wondered what the heck was going on or who all these crazy people are, well, now you can see pictures!

In the official Costume-Con 26 photo gallery (a vast & growing treasure trove of pictures), I found this set of 7 photos taken during recording. Oh & here are a few more pix of your original recording cast.

demode is the one in green wearing a little hat with papers stuck into it (her Dickens Faire outfit), sarahbellem is the one in a sparkly tiara, & I'm the one in black & white. Those pink papers were our script.

Note: We don't usually podcast in costume or with a script. And that ep., we didn't have Pink Drinks. Shocking!

Can you believe it's been a year since we did our first Frock Flick podcast? We haven't exactly posted a year's worth, by other podcast standards, but hey, we do our best :-)

Submitted for your listening pleasure is our latest episode: Mira Nair's Vanity Fair. A Victorian novel set in Regency England imagined thru Bollywood. And somehow, it works! At least we thinks so. Let us know your opinion after you listen to our take.

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Cheers!

But we didn't watch a movie this time. Yep, this is finally our Costume-Con 26 episode (sorry it took me a while to recover & edit this ;-). If you're familiar with the NPR show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," you'll recognize the format.

We quizzed the live audience about costume movies & TV shows & related history. Listen for everything from Star Trek to Marie-Antoinette to Showtime's 'The Tudors' references!

Thanks to good sports sweetladykt, myladyswardrobe, bauhausfrau, lindseyerin37, & others for playing our trivia games!!!

Let us know what you think -- maybe we'll do another one at a future event. But next up, a proper movie, promise :-)

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Join us to help us record a special Costume Con edition of the Frock Flicks podcast, with audience interaction! Friday, 12:30-2pm in the Gateway Foyer.

As we hinted at in our last episode, yes indeed, we're recording at Costume-Con 26 in San Jose, California!

We are hard at work on a Frock Flicks edition suitable for a live, studio audience -- which means you!

Instead of reviewing a movie, we'll quiz you about costume movie trivia, historical costumes, & related topics -- but in a light-hearted fashion. If you listen to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me news quiz, you have an idea of what we're going for. Very silly, very fun, we hope :-)

If you're going to CC26, join us! We're recording on Friday, April 25, from 12:30-2pm in the Gateway Foyer. That's on the second floor of the Doubletree Hotel, right above Convention Registration & the Coffee Garden restaurant.

Advance registration for the convention closes tomorrow, April 15. After that, higher at-the-door prices will apply. More info about the con is at http://www.cc26.info/

Hope to see you there!

For those who want to look at images of the costumes we discuss in the latest episode of the Frock Flicks podcast, on the Other Boleyn Girl, here are links to the discussed costumes in the other we discussed them.

Major shout-out to the fabulous Costumer's Guide to Movie Costumes for being such a great resource for movie costume images! Here's the main page for Other Boleyn Girl images.

The Circle dresses - Anne's and Mary's

The headdresses - early (see the Circle dress images), court (Anne's green dress), Marian (see Mary's orange dress), Gable (see Anne's trial gown and Catherine of Aragon and her ladies)

Sari fabrics - the badly applied trim was on Anne's peacock dress

Henry's copper and blue brocade fabric

Henry's chenille robe (maybe?)

Morning after marriage - crazy printed couch robes

Billaments on court gowns - see, for example, Anne's green gown and Mary's orange/red gown

Bodice fitting - Catherine of Aragon

Chemises - see for example Mary's orange robe

Jewelry, partlets, and hair - you can see these throughout most costumes

Execution scene - sadly no stills showing the coif, but here's the dress

Favorites:
Kendra's: Anne's green gown
Sarah: Mary's orange robe
Trystan: Anne's trial dress, gowns with overpartlet like Anne's brocaded gown

Least favorites:
Kendra's: the Circle dresses - Anne's and Mary's
Sarah: Anne's Cranach (riding) dress
Trystan: Mary's black patterned gown

Men's hair: Dad's dorky hair, Henry's crop

Anne's Calla Lily dress

Sorry it's been ages since an episode, but we've made this one extra special. We went to an actual movie theater & saw a film currently in the theaters -- yep, it's The Other Boleyn Girl.

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This movie has caused great uproar both before it came out & since because *gasp* *horror* the story is historical fiction, not strictly history. But as we've noted in past podcasts, movies are meant to be entertainment, not history, so keep an open mind :-)

Listen & discuss!

We'll post links to the costumes we mention soon.

I was reading a travel magazine & came across this url for film locations of Elizabeth: The Golden Age -- http://www.visitbritain.com/thegoldenage

The site has a nifty PDF map listing historic locations used in the movie, plus general QEI historic sites to visit around Britain.

*adds stuff to travel wishlist*