Today we’re discussing Lisa Frank, the artist behind the eponymous brand Lisa Frank Inc. If you were alive in the 80s and 90s, the psychedelic, neon airbrushed designs of unicorns and teddy bears and dolphins had a chokehold on your childhood. From stickers to binders to pencil cases, Lisa Frank merchandise was what divided the cool from the broke. Lisa Frank was one of the first fine artists to gear her designs toward children rather than wealthy art collectors. And her gamble paid off big, at the peak of her popularity, Lisa Frank Inc was taking in more than $150 million dollars a year.

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This week is part two of our two parter on Cass Elliot. Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass's life after the break up of The Mamas And The Papas and her vindication as a solo singer.

Once money started coming in, Cass hosted artist salons at her large Laurel Canyon estate. She was kind and charismatic, easily making her the most popular one of the group. Joni Mitchell wrote several songs in her living room. At a soiree at her home one night, she urged her friends David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash to sing together at her place, thus forming Crosby Stills and Nash. She was also the only other person to sing on the first Crosby Stills and Nash album.

David Crosby described her life, “She had possibly the nicest house of any of us, and she liked having people over… I remember an afternoon when I took Eric Clapton up there and he and Cass and Joni Mitchel played tunes.”

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Fiege, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me : The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. Pan Macmillan, 2005

Elliot-Kugel, Owen. My Mama, Cass. Elm Streeet Books, 2024.

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 1. Mar 31, 2021. https://youtu.be/pMD56G93XsQ?si=sT601sB5QK48uktZ

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 2. August 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/_lvmohdhHgE?si=3DM5RIyOWQSrGHsR

CassElliot.com

Pochocki, Regina. Don’t Call Me Mama Anymore: The Story of Cass Elliot. Stinger News, May 5, 2021.

"Biography" Mama Cass. Directed by Joan Owens, featuring Cass Elliot, Tom Smothers, Dave Mason, and Leon Bing. A&E Network, 2003.

Kloman, William. "Sink Along with Mama Cass." Esquire Magazine, June 1969.

This week on the podcast, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling talk about Cass Elliot, in our opinion, the most important member of The Mamas and The Papas.

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Fiege, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me : The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. Pan Macmillan, 2005

Elliot-Kugel, Owen. My Mama, Cass. Elm Streeet Books, 2024.

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 1. Mar 31, 2021. https://youtu.be/pMD56G93XsQ?si=sT601sB5QK48uktZ

AutumnBay. “Make Your Own Kind of Music: A Cass Elliot Documentary Part 2. August 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/_lvmohdhHgE?si=3DM5RIyOWQSrGHsR

CassElliot.com

Pochocki, Regina. Don’t Call Me Mama Anymore: The Story of Cass Elliot. Stinger News, May 5, 2021.

"Biography" Mama Cass. Directed by Joan Owens, featuring Cass Elliot, Tom Smothers, Dave Mason, and Leon Bing. A&E Network, 2003.

Kloman, William. "Sink Along with Mama Cass." Esquire Magazine, June 1969.

In the flash of the paparazzi's cameras, Anna had gone from stripper, to Playmate, to Playmate of the year, to the face of Guess Jeans. A contract rumored to have been worth millions of dollars. Anna’s beauty, sex appeal and supernatural charm had carried her to the edge of the finish line, all she had to do was cross it. In this week's episode, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling conclude the story of Anna Nicole Smith's life.

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https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2007/04/04/anna-nicole-smith-anatomy-of-a-feeding-frenzy/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/02/rack-and-ruin.html

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/02/02/it-s-very-expensive-to-be-me/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_K._Stern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Nicole_Smith

https://people.com/parents/all-about-dannielynn-birkhead-anna-nicole-smith-larry-birkhead-daughter/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannielynn_Birkhead_paternity_case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_v._Marshall

https://people.com/celebrity/how-anna-nicole-struggled-with-her-weight/

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2007/04/04/anna-nicole-smith-anatomy-of-a-feeding-frenzy/

https://www.chron.com/culture/main/article/assault-suit-against-smith-called-an-attempt-at-1821969.php

https://documents.latimes.com/anna-nicole-smith-case-appellate-court-decision/

https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/11/02/Seven-drugs-found-in-Daniel-Smith-autopsy/88821162492420/

https://people.com/celebrity/pathologist-meds-killed-daniel-smith/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=canEzXo5pE0&t=38s

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/03/04/the-billionaire-the-playboy-bunny-and-the-tangled-affairs-of-the-marshall-family/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/j-howard-marshall

https://www.bankruptcylitigation.blog/us-supreme-court-cases/the-courtship-of-anna-nicole-smith-part-ii-pierce-marshalls-appellate-arguments-reviewed/

In part one of a two parter, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling delve into the origins of a 2000s icon.

Anna Nicole Smith was a polarizing, misunderstood figure. Often remembered for being an absolute trainwreck. Her rise to fame, from the girl next door to supermodel, made her a media darling, her campy, over the top persona, and ditzy girl humor on one of the earliest reality shows made her a queer icon, and her slide into addiction and despair made her a tragic figure of mythic proportions. I mean, she’s become a trope in rap songs alongside the likes of Donald Trump and Monica Lewinsky. Iconic.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/anna-nicole-smith-netflix-doc-claims-her-tragic-life-story-was-a-fraud

https://nextwaving.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/the-strange-case-of-anna-nicole-smith/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN26300814/

https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-brands/guess-paul-marciano-sexual-misconduct-accusers-sue-board-members-harassment-335114/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Howard_Marshall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Nicole_Smith

https://fortune.com/2023/09/29/guess-settlement-marciano-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/reading-playboy-for-the-articles-13-must-read-journalism-literature-pieces-from-playboy-magazine

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/18/lkl.01.html

His transition required thirteen operations and took place over four years, with no one the wiser. Dillon went on to be a surgeon himself, and traveled the world with various naval vessels for six years, living life as a man, with no one suspecting his origins.

He was ultimately outed because of his nobility. There are peerage records that are made of everyone's descendancy and changing one’s names in those had been impossible and eventually someone noticed the discrepancy.

After living as Michael Dillon for fifteen years, he was onboard a ship when he got a cable from England. It was from The Daily Express as said “Do you intend to claim the title since your change-over?”

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Out of the Ordinary by Michael Dillon

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Today, we are taking on our first man. Because sometimes men do important stuff for women. Like creating the field of plastic surgery. He’s a saint that changed the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers during WWI and pioneered many of the cosmetic procedures that are used today…primarily on women. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. Harold Gillies

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The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies

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