Today, on what would have been Shelley’s 76th birthday, Texas Twiggy returns with a retrospective and a reflection on Shelley’s mark on the world. 

In the very early stages of production, Emma connected with Sarah Lukowski. At the time, Sarah was a fellow Shelley admirer who ran a collection of fan pages called the Shelley Duvall Archive. In the years that followed the release of Texas Twiggy, Sarah and Shelley became close friends. Featuring exclusive clips from their time together, this episode looks back at a deep friendship and a life well-lived. 

Follow the Shelley Duvall Archive @shelleyduvallxo on Instagram and TikTok, and at shelley-duvall.com

From the team that brought you Texas Twiggy comes Gooned, a podcast about the Troubled Teen Industry.

Gooned is a deep dive into an industry with blood on its hands. 

The Troubled Teen Industry (TTI) is a network of profit-incentivized behavior modification facilities for youth, ranging from wilderness programs to therapeutic boarding schools. The decades-old industry uses predatory tactics to capitalize on families in crisis and victimize hundreds of thousands of children and teens every year. 

Gooned is available now wherever you get your podcasts.

Find Gooned at goonedpodcast.com and on TikTok @goonedpod. To support the show and its creators, see exclusive content, and get early access to episodes, head to patreon.com/goonedpodcast. 

Gooned is researched, reported, and edited by Emma Lehman. Original music for the show was created by Olivia Springberg. This trailer was produced by Grayton Newman . Episode artwork was created by Sam Doe. Sarah Lukowski and Avery Erskine copyedited and consulted on the show. 

So, the big question: Why? What happened? Do we get to hear from Shelley? Tune in to the last episode of Texas Twiggy to answer the remaining burning questions –– and honor for one last time the spectacular career and influence of Shelley Duvall!

After her retreat from the public, where did Shelley go? Who does she know, and who knows her? What is Shelley doing now? Where is she? Learn about Shelley’s community and life as she lives it today.

It was the infamous appearance that catapulted Shelley back into the public eye –– that 2016 Dr. Phil interview. Learn about the show and its titular “doctor,” and why Shelley’s personal life and re-emergence are so much more nuanced than how she was portrayed.

Shelley’s claim to fame was acting. But what you may not know is that she was an extraordinarily prolific producer, creating and hosting Emmy-nominated shows for children, which she calls her best work. She’s even responsible for the television originals format! Listen to dive into Shelley’s impressive and elusive career behind the camera.

Hope LaMond

Instagram @citvgirl1998

Youtube.com/queenofvhs

Go inside the community surrounding Shelley Duvall, from her family to her friends to her fans, and everyone who blurs those lines.

Xavier Hamel

Xavierhamel.com

Instagram @catdaddddddy

Ryan Obermeyer

Ryanobermeyer.com

Etsy etsy.com/shop/RyanObermeyer

Instagram @ryanobermeyer

Once upon a time in a magical kingdom called Hollywood, there lived a fair maiden named Shelley Duvall, who loved fairy tales… So begins the story of Shelley’s empire of children’s shows, movies, albums, and other content that should be widely recognized as her magnum opus. Learn how Shelley revolutionized the genre of TV, got started as a director with no experience, and, of course, why Faerie Tale Theatre is a very gay show.

Wyatt Fenner

Instagram @wyattfenner  

Twitter @wyattfenner 

Gay Card Revoked

linktr.ee/grevoked

Patrons

Cathleen Ax

holly 

Justine Springberg

Liz Wheeler

Duane Lehman

Kelly Elsasser

Dan Travis

José Armenta

cavid dassidy

Sharon

Xavier Hamel

Ken Lehman

Sarah Elizabeth

Sophia Pulido

Examining Shelley through the lens of the “final girl” horror trope, talking about feminist film theory, and questioning the popular perception of Wendy Torrance and Shelley’s portrayal of the character. Want to learn about the filmic phallus and castration anxiety? Tune in!

Robert Hickerson

roberthickerson.com

Instagram @roberthickerson

Bilge Ebiri

Twitter @BilgeEbiri

vulture.com/author/bilge-ebiri

Further reading on The Shining and the final girl:

Bilge Ebiri, The Discomforting Legacy of Wendy Torrance vulture.com/2019/11/the-discomforting-legacy-of-wendy-torrance.html

Rebecca McCallum, Sympathising With Wendy: The Overlooked Heroine Of The Shining

evolutionofhorror.com/blog/sympathising-with-wendy

Jillian Cheney, It’s Okay to Scream: In Defence of the Weeping Mothers of Horror

thefinalgirls.co.uk/bloody-women/shelley

Theresa Baughman, The Shining’s Final Girl: Wendy Torrance & Vulnerability

whatsleepsbeneath.com/movieblog/the-shining-wendy-torrance

Candice Frederick, The Complex Dynamic Between Female Muse and Male Filmmaker slashfilm.com/556519/male-directors-and-actresses

Amanda Gowin, The Misunderstood Perfection of Shelley Duvall in Kubrick’s The Shining

thisishorror.co.uk/the-misunderstood-perfection-of-shelley-duvall-in-kubricks-the-shining/

Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, 2012

Jason Hellerman, A Deep Examination of the Final Girl Trope

nofilmschool.com/final-girl-trope

Emily Gagne, [Final Girl Fashion] Anything But A Dull Girl: Why We Can’t Overlook Wendy’s Wardrobe In The Shining (1980)

nofspodcast.com/final-girl-fashion-anything-but-a-dull-girl-why-we-cant-overlook-wendys-wardrobe-in-the-shining-1980

Patrons:

Ken Lehman

Duane Lehman

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José Armenta

Justine Springberg

Kelly Elasser

Liz Wheeler

Cavid Dassidy

Sharon

Sarah Elizabeth

Dan Travis

Sophia Pulido

It’s the film we all know so well: the renowned horror classic The Shining. Uncover the secrets and backstories behind this movie, from the original terrible reviews, to Kubrick’s temper, to a particularly tasteless breakup at the airport. 

Why the name? The infamous typewriter scene where Jack types and re-types reams of paper with the phrase “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” was reshot with different translations for several languages. The Italian version saw Jack writing “Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca,” or "The morning has gold in its mouth."

Patrons:

Ken Lehman

Duane Lehman

Xavier Hamel

José Armenta

Justine Springberg

Kelly Elasser

Liz Wheeler

Cavid Dassidy

Sharon

Sarah Elizabeth

Dan Travis

Sophia Pulido

Regular Bob, Cocaine Bob, figurative tons of cocaine and literal tons of bricks and lumber, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger come together to create the insanity that is Popeye (1980). On the small European island of Malta, Shelley’s magnum opus is born. 

Patrons:

Ken Lehman

Xavier Hamel

José Armenta

Kelly Elasser

Cavid Dassidy

Sharon

Dan Travis

Sarah Elizabeth

Sophia Pulido

In which Shelley throws and attends some life-altering parties, models a swimsuit for disaster relief, dates a Beatle, and sells her boyfriend’s “unremarkable” paintings to two directors in disguise. And, I write and send some old-fashioned snail mail.

CORRECTION: Seth Abramovitch's article on Shelley was published in 2021, not 2018. Find it here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/

Patrons:

Ken Lehman

Xavier Hamel

José Armenta

Cavid Dassidy

Sharon

Sarah Elizabeth

Sophia Pulido

Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7th, 1949 in Fort Worth, Texas to an insurance broker and one of Houston’s first woman real estate agents. 70 years later, I would stumble across one of her films on Amazon Prime and Google her name. 3 years after that, and I am sitting in the passenger seat of her brother’s car, 1,500 miles from my own apartment, idling in front of her childhood home. How did it all come to be, and what is Texas Twiggy?

Shelley Duvall is most known for her portrayal of Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, a performance that launched her into the public consciousness and furthered an already prolific career. But after decades in film, production, writing, composing, and the release of two musical albums, Duvall seemingly dropped off the face of the earth... Until a disastrous 2016 appearance on the Dr. Phil show, so maligned that it never aired. Texas Twiggy dives deep into the life and work of Shelley Duvall, with plenty of twists and turns along the way.

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