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Sinead was the true embodiment of a punk spirit. She did not compromise and that made her life more of a struggle. Hoping that she has found peace.

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By: Tim Burgess

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The Charlatans singer Tim Burgess wrote on Twitter about Sinéad O’Connor, who passed away at the age of 56 on July 26, 2023, only 18 months after her 17-year-old son Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor's tragic death.

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He loved to make women look good. I have never seen any of the gals in his films look bad. And the men in his movies were always incapacitated in some way. They were either in a wheelchair or on crutches or short of a full deck. He liked to make women strong, make them feel that they were empowered.

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By: Tura Satana

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Tura Satana said this during a 2004 interview. Satana stated she felt that, regardless of the nudity and sexual themes of his films and female characters, Russ Meyer was a feminist at heart. Satana is famous for her role as Varla in Russ Meyer's cult classic Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill!

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I saw Pinocchio and Frankenstein very close to each other, and they melded in my head... I love the idea that Pinocchio and Frankenstein are primal experiences of what it is to be human. Because you are thrown into a world that you don't understand, that is wrong for you and you're a wrong fit for it, and you have to figure yourself and the world as you go along. You either change the world or the world destroys you. And those two movies do that.

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By: Guillermo del Toro

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro spoke to The Academy Museum's A.frame Journal about what director James Whale's 1931 adaptation of Frankenstein meant to him growing up, having first seen the movie on TV while growing up in Mexico. Del Toro relates the film to Pinocchio, another important movie in the budding filmmaker's early life.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio won Best Animated Feature Film at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. He is writing and directing a Frankenstein adaptation that will reportedly star Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth.