{"id":5585,"date":"2016-05-24T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:25:56","slug":"so-much-lizzie-borden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/so-much-lizzie-borden\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much Lizzie Borden!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much Lizzie Borden news since last I posted on Mondo!<\/p>\n

A new Lizzie Borden letter was discovered<\/a>, written to Frances Willard on July 23, 1893, thanking her for her and Lady Henry Somerset’s support during the ordeal of her trial for the murder of her father and stepmother.<\/p>\n

Willard, a leader in the WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union), knew Lizzie through her work with the organization in Fall River. By 1893, the WCTU\u00a0had a membership of 150,000 and was considered a powerful force in social reform.<\/p>\n

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Then it was announced that a new Lizzie Borden movie was in the works and, more recently, that a director had been secured. The new film will star\u00a0Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart. Chloe had visited the Lizzie Borden B&B years ago and fell for the story, vowing to make this into a miniseries or film. Of course, since then, Christina Ricci beat her to the punch with the Lifetime film Lizzie Borden Took an Axe<\/em> and the two season series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles<\/em>. The style of Ricci’s Lizzie story was bold and modern, very much like American Horror Story\u2014loads of slow motion, stop action, slashing and hacking, and, of course, blood. But it was all in “good fun” and the film and the series was quite entertaining as camp.<\/p>\n

Sevigny’s Lizzie will be a lesbian (yawn) and Stewart will portray Bridget Sullivan, which the film portrays as Lizzie’s\u00a0suspected lover and possible accomplice. Sounds like Evan Hunter lives in this story! He wrote about just such a lurid relationship (lurid only because it is connected to the crimes themselves) and in an interview I conducted with him in 2005, and posted on his own website, EdMcBain.com<\/a>, he confessed to not giving the story of Lizzie another thought after writing Lizzie<\/em>, and came upon the lesbian idea after reading news reports about Lizzie’s friendship with Nance O’Neil and Emma’s departure in 1904.<\/p>\n

The director will be Craig William Macneill, who last year made his directorial debut with\u00a0The Boy<\/em>, a horror thriller. Bryce Kass wrote the script and Naomi Desires is producing. Since the film is not tied to a network, it seems this one is to be made for theaters. We shall see.<\/p>\n

\"Kristin<\/p>\n

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In March, Dance Moms, featured a Lizzie Borden solo dance by one of the kids, Maddie Ziegler. Maddie is a ballerina and her rendition of a bloody, psychologically bent Lizzie Borden is well done.<\/p>\n

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