It’s safe to say that if it were up to her, the video would never have seen the light of day online.”ĭickson attending the Rudolph Valentino Awards in 1992. “There was no way I was voluntarily removing the video. “I knew she would thank me later,” he said. She replied weeks later, demanding that Morrison take the video down immediately. When Morrison decided to share Welcome to My Home with the world, he tracked down Dickson’s e-mail address to let her know. It definitely had as many viewers after it went downhill.”ĭickson, however, was not the one to put the video online. It’s probably more popular than The Young and the Restless.
(“This video would change the face of television, as we all know it,” is how she put it in her 2013 memoir, My True Hidden Hollywood Story.) “It started a different kind of television, an interest in celebrities’ personal lives, but also fashion, diet and exercise, being glamorous. “It was an extremely powerful film, the beginning of all reality shows,” she told me, going on to point out that the 21st-century rediscovery of Welcome to My Home roughly coincided with the premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, in October 2007. Today, Dickson is deeply proud of the staying power of Welcome to My Home, and her own legacy as a tastemaker and path-breaker. Mouth Breather, you can now purchase “well hello.” caps ($26) and T-shirts ($28).
“She seems to genuinely believe what she’s saying.” Sherman still has pictures of Dickson on the wall of her studio in New York, reclining “in the same vampy pose.”Īnd, as of just weeks ago, thanks to video-meme creator Andrew Schwierman (a.k.a. “But rather than hating it or her for it, you have to love her,” she added.
“The entire thing-or what I could bear to watch-is just one hysterical thing after another,” Sherman said in an e-mail.
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Cindy Sherman’s 2008 Society Portraits-in which the artist posed as a series of ghoulish women desperately flaunting their style and sophistication-was inspired by it, particularly the living-room portrait. The ripples of Welcome to My Home were even felt in the art world. “But more specifically,” she continued, “the way she says ‘leggings,’ like she’s kind of slurring her words, in the narration of her favorite outfits, will stick with me until my dying day.”
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Just the idea that Brenda Dickson believed that Brenda Dickson’s advice about how to be more like Brenda Dickson would be welcomed like manna from the heavens by her adoring throngs of devotees is extremely funny to me.” “Like, her unwavering certainty that hers is a lifestyle anyone would want to emulate. “Brenda’s confidence and authority is the overall thing that makes Welcome to My Home a true work of cult art,” said Julie Klausner, who created the parody video called Welcome to Our House with Jackie Clarke.
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