Yeah You Rite! - Thelma Toole Interview episode #11
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- The mother of "Confederacy of Dunces" novelist John Kennedy Toole is interviewed in her home on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans in early 1983. Strong opinions! Part of the YEAH YOU RITE! Archive by filmmakers Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.
I respect this lady, even if she was overbearing, she coulda just been miserable and useless after his death, instead she went on a crusade to get the book published and she won.
Amen.
She was smart enough to know there was money to be made, too.
I really believe within my spiritual observation that this poor woman eventually came to understand that she may have well been a contributing factor in her beloved son's untimely demise. Her eyes are very telling, telling a story of an overbearing burden that she'd carry for the remainder of her natural life. Surely she wanted the best for her only child and I've a feeling that she never forgave herself. I just hope that she eventually found peace, but I must court with the reality that she didn't.💔
I can't believe the footage of Thelma talking about her son's birth was cut. Are you kidding me?
Thank you so much for posting this.
A fascinating quintessentially New Orleanian woman!
This is amazing footage, thank you!
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
What a character !
You can see where Freddie Murcury gets his thing
I don’t get it…
Imagine if JKT was born to a good mother and a stable nuclear family.
He wouldn’t have been half the writer if this woman had been normal.
@@gutenbird 🍻😂
Could he have imagined Miss Trixie or Gus Levy?
Suffering makes for better art
I keep trying to like something about this woman, but her overwhelming Narcissism is utterly repulsive. I think Ignatius is a parody of HER!
I always thought that, too.
Unfortunately, Ken’s genius was as much to do with her as was his suicide.
Nah I mean think about the publishers who strung him along for a few years basically just telling him “keep revising it”
@@voiceofreason2674 I’m not sure they strung him along. The cold reality is that had the book been published during his lifetime, people probably would have thought it was a hack job. But the many years from it’s writing until it’s publication created a nostalgia that couldn’t exist at first. And then the whole story of the suicide. I know someone who read the manuscript before it was published and the consensus was that it wasn’t a good book. That isn’t my opinion. I believe it is brilliant. I just don’t think it would have made it back in the 1960s.
@@gutenbird Makes sense. It was too close and too real.
That piano needs tuning. Or just thrown away.
Thelma got her moment of fame at the expense of her son. It's possible John realized he was just a means to an end for this women.
She loved him though.
Her heart was broken. She channeled it into getting his dream realized. None of us are perfect. RIP
interesting lady. bar stools and bus stops
shame on you woman for smothering a genius
She wasn’t evil until he died, just overbearing. That’s when she had to crusade for the book.
o the damage that nutty moms do to their poor sons...
aint nuttin nutty bout her
Though, she was the force behind bringing the book to the world.
Oh my God !!!
The hoarse dago voice!
Ha!
And the “one lucky Jew”