Pretty Baby

She discovered Brooke Shields.

She put her in Pretty Baby.

She wrote the screenplay for Pretty Baby and other things you've heard of, but she was a glass ceiling breaker in Los Angeles.

So she was Jack's sister.

So Gene got permission to go to Jack to say, we know your sister's in Hollywood.

They'd come over, they'd shake hands and talk for a minute.

Ivan was watching all this, like, who is this lady? Because he certainly would not have known her.

But eventually I did learn that he did know what Pretty Baby was and who, Brooke Shields was, he knew those kinds of things.

I saw...

What's the Jodie Foster movie? Pretty Baby.

Taxi Driver.

Taxi Driver, Pretty Baby.

Little Foxes? Yeah, I know.

I was 13.

But then I also think about Brooke Shields back in the day and how she was a child doing nude scenes.

And then even when she was 12 playing, I think, in Pretty Baby or something like that, which was about a child prostitute and being fully nude in that.

And it was just like, whoa, this is what we do in Hollywood.

And not saying that those two are the same things, but- There's nothing wrong with having more advocacy and safety because you may think that you're doing something safely in the time and then get a little bit down the road and be like, huh, actually.

I rewatched like the first hour or so up until about when she goes to college of the Brooke Shields documentary from a few years ago.

Pretty baby.

Pretty baby.

We

talked about that on the Patreon if you want a full in-depth conversation.

yes well that was a few years ago now I think it was new at the time yeah but it is uh covering basically from her birth to going to college that is the period of this that I rewatched because I wanted to figure it out and there's so many details that I forgot there's so many things that like you know you know and then you're reminded and go oh no you know what do you mean some guy who took photos of her when she was nine years old and in the nude sued and won his case to release them after she got famous what do the calvin klein ads are more psychotic and perverted and horrifying than anything in the blue lagoon somehow

yeah

what do you mean fucking louis maul was making 11 year old brook shields make out with a man on the set of pretty baby what the fuck do you mean this

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it, I just thought of that, or just kinda on this topic, but Pretty Baby, Brooke Shields, right?

Oh.

And she was...

Right.

All the senior people at the film festival would know her because, like for your audience, she wrote the screenplay for Pretty Baby.

She discovered Brooke Shields.

She did the set design for all of Barbra Streisand's com- rom-com movies, and, uh, she's really well-known in Hollywood.

So a fellow author dies at a writers' convention, and this young true crime podcaster, Andrea "Andy" Wallace, played by Amalia Jane Williamson, she suggests that they team up to, yeah, to solve the crime and write a book.

Yeah, I think it was, uh, Pretty Baby, the first role that Brooke Shields was noted for.

That was made in 1978, and she's done various things since then.

Uh, Suddenly Susan, Lipstick Jungle, Jane the Virgin.

They make a point of saying that.

I'm not as jazzed about the fact that she was part of this film called Pretty Baby.

Why is that?

It stars like a 10-year-old or 12-year-old Brooke Shields, and she's like a child prostitute.

Right

... to do the thing that you need to do to get the press, right? And so I, there were these vintage, um, lingerie sets, and one was, like, pantaloons kind of, like, down to here with, like, ribbons, right? Like, kind of Pretty Baby, but at least coverage-

Yeah, yeah, yeah

... you know? So I was like, "Oh, please let me wear those." So I put them on and I'm like, "Please like them," 'cause you know how you had to get everything approved by all the 20 million people there-