Episode 7: Nobody's Got No Class

In case you were wondering, yes, 2003's Chicago holds up (more or less), and we're every bit as delighted to see Christine Baranski as we were 14 years ago. Here are a few notes about the movie and the real-life events that inspired it:

Once again, we have a movie that won the Oscar in a year of CONTENDERS. This movie beat out Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Pianist and one of them li'l Hobbit movies y'all seem to like.
Did you know Chicago the musical is based on a play written by Maureen Dallas Hopkins, who was basically Xtine Baranski's character IRL? When Maureen Charleston'd off this mortal coil, she was worth $31 million in today's money.
To piggyback on that, Velma and Roxy were also based on real women. Read up on Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan (Velma and Roxy respectively) on Wikipedia. It's a wild ride, sug.
Actual words from Belva (Velma): "No woman can love a man enough to kill him. They aren't worth it, because there are always plenty more. Walter was just a kid—29 and I'm 38. Why should I have worried whether he loved me or whether he left me? Gin and guns—either one is bad enough, but together they get you in a dickens of a mess, don't they?" Your fav couldn't and wouldn't ever.