The Whole Shebang Minute 65: An Artificial Century

In Minute 65 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike plumb the identities of the Champagne Boys who are singing “Bitters End” by Roxy Music, and look at Brian, Mandy, Curt and the Fripperies’ gold-themed 1930s party, and how the visuals remind Mike of British outlaw filmmakers and visual innovators Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway, and the costuming choices of Curt, Mandy, Shannon, and mostly Jerry. We then talk about how this scene uses Oscar Wilde’s quotes from The Critic As Artist and his conversation in 1891 Paris about artifice vs. nature, and delve a little bit into the résumés of some of the Velvet Goldmine actors and how Todd Haynes harnessed their amateurness into a work of artistic genius.

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