Resurrection and Rage: Why Pfeiffer's Catwoman STILL Stands Out in Batman Returns

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Jamie Benson, proclaimed “one of the strongest, hottest contemporary dancers of his generation" by LA Times critic Lewis Segal, and “crazy” by Dance Enthusiast’s Christine Jowers, is a choreographer and comedian. Benson's lowbrow meets highbrow dance work has been presented at the Park Avenue Armory, Luckman Arts Complex, Bootleg Theater, NY Transit Museum, and Proctor’s Theater. Called "Chaplin-like” by Backstage and “insightful and irreverent” by LA Weekly’s Ann Haskins, Jamie Benson has been featured in the New York and LA Times, the Phaidon Press book Wild Art, and was awarded funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council.

As a comedian, Benson has performed for Broadway Comedy Club’s Yaaas Fest and Thoroughly Gay Thursdays. His video sketch Avenue WTF was an official selection for Philly Sketchfest, Battle of the Sketches, Portland Comedy Film Festival, NYC Short Comedy Film Festival and NYC Independent Film Festival. As a producer spotlighting LGBTQIA+ talent, Benson has presented 50+ stand up, sketch, dance, and cabaret acts with The Straight Man at Peoples Improv Theater.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Rage is Revelatory
3:09 - Doing Death Right
5:25 - Good at Being Wrong
7:43 - Daniel Waters
9:30 - Burton's Favorite
9:51 - Vacuum Packed Story
10:46 - Nastiest Action
11:19 - Dark Magic
14:15 - Closing

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CORRECTION: A. Luxx Mishou's name is pronounced "Me-Shoe".

SOURCES / CREDITS:
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Freitag, Lee. “Tim Burton Explains Why Catwoman Is His Favorite Batman Character.” CBR, 21 June 2022, www.cbr.com/tim-burton-explains-catwoman-favorite-batman-character/

Manning, Shaun. “The DC Comics Origin of Catwoman’s Michelle Pfeiffer Costume Is, Well, Interesting.” CBR, 3 May 2018, www.cbr.com/dc-comics-catwoman-michelle-pfeiffer-costume-origin-story

Jenkins, Jason. “‘Batman Returns’ Writer Claws into the Unmade ‘Catwoman’ Spinoff Movie Starring Michelle Pfeiffer.” Bloody Disgusting!, 11 Mar. 2022, bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3706735/batman-returns-writer-claws-into-the-unmade-catwoman-spinoff-movie-starring-michelle-pfeiffer

Mishou, A. L.. "Holy Stitches Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am" (2020). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/q5jq-4c76 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/englis...

Shonna. “Lessons from Grimm: Death and Resurrection.” Shonna Slayton, 13 June 2020, shonnaslayton.com/lessons-from-grimm-death-and-resurrection

“Tim Burton’s Fairytale Worlds.” ACMI, www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/tim-burtons-fairytale-worlds
Accessed 9 Sept. 2023.

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Is Catwoman’s costume pleather or latex? Catwoman and Michelle Pfeiffer are forever synonymous with each other. With Catwoman in the movies more often, you could do a multiverse story. Let’s not do that type of Catwoman movie. If ranking Catwomen, the Catwoman in Batman Returns is the best Catwoman. Catwoman and Batman were the will they won’t they way before Sam and Diane in the Cheers TV show.