I haven't finished thinking this through, but maybe a work's creator has installed precisely as much backstory as is necessary to understand a character, which is why prequels mostly* don't work—though sequels can be fun.
*Jean Rhys excepted.
Though when it comes to storytelling variants, nothing is better than a really good DC imaginary novel.
I always preferred DC comics growing up, because they were 100% devoid of psychological insight. Marvel comics perturbed me.

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Happy birthday to the divine Barbara Barrie! ImageImageImageImage
She was walking toward me one afternoon on a UES sidewalk and I tripped on one of those low metal tree railings because I was too busy gawping at her, and she was very sweetly concerned for my well-being and probably I told her that I worshiped her.
In 2014 I saw her as teenage Katrin in I Remember Mama, and it was a superbly lovely performance. Image
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Happy Audrey Hepburn's birthday!
In 1991 I sent a note to Audrey Hepburn c/o Lincoln Center to tell her that a friend of mine who was to have attended her Film Society gala was too ill to attend, and she wrote him a note on her UNICEF stationery and sent it from Switzerland.

That's my Audrey Hepburn story.
"I missed you at Lincoln Centre [sic]! Get well soon!"

Goddess.
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This is a supremely important moment that fully works only if you’ve been, to this point, watching the film in sepia rather than in b/w.
If I'm remembering it all correctly, that's Judy's stand-in, Bobie Koshay, in sepia dress and makeup (in the sepia set), making way for Technicolor Judy's entrance.
BTW that long pan (or is it a tracking shot, I can never remember which is which) across Munchkinland was snipped out of the print most of us remember watching on TV in the 60s.

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Always happy to point out to Wizard of Oz watchers that the WWW's skywriting is addressed not to Dorothy (i.e., "Surrender, Dorothy") but to the citizens of Emerald City (i.e., give Dorothy to me). It originally read in full "Surrender Dorothy or die."
Also always happy to brood over the fact that the Witch's head monkey gets better billing than Aunt Em.
How many viewings did it take me to figure out what the Munchkin barrister says after "This is a day of independence / for all the Munchkins and their descendants"?

Many.
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Rewatching Doubt, and noticing the way Father Flynn uses his maleness, not merely his authority as a priest, to attempt to keep Sister Aloysius in her place.
Also noting that Amy Adams tells her students to turn to p. 683 in a textbook that most certainly doesn't have 683 pages in it.
Plus there's some confusion (perhaps it's mine?) as to whether the sugar that Sister Aloysius serves Father Flynn is in a sugar bowl or a paper bag.
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