Shopping with Marlene Rosoff on April 5th 2000
Added 2025-07-30 07:40:53 +0000 UTCA shopping trip with my good friend Marlene Rosoff (1967-2006). Not a day goes by that I don't think about her. She was a force. Too funny. Too nice. You either loved her or hated her. Marlene was a transgender woman in a very tough world. There wasn't a cheering squad for trans people 25 years ago. We teamed up and supported each other. Life wasn't easy at all. People were awful. Marlene couldn't handle the stares and taunts and cruelty and numbed herself with drugs and alcohol. She died of an overdose in California in 2006. I wonder what she would think of the world today. Things have changed but nothing has changed. In our little bubble it didn't matter. We loved each other and that's all that matters. I loved working on movies with her. She was an amazing talent. We had plans to do a movie where she plays a male character. She was up for anything that turned heads. Too bad we never got to do it. She's an angel now looking out for me. I can still feel her presence sometimes. God how I miss her. Enjoy!
Comments
Driving around those days with that fantastic music, just the best. Thanks Dan.
Keith Smith
2025-08-03 00:49:59 +0000 UTCDang that guys newports were 3.60 cents smh I’m currently paying 14.92 for a pack of newports in Seattle area lol. Wish you could have gotten to do that movie with her. After just this video I can tell she would have been fantastic!
Michael Rose aka HighrangeMike
2025-08-02 08:08:06 +0000 UTCSeeing Marlene in this video truly resonated with me—it brought back memories of my own experience in 2000, when I was just 14 and my mom was battling cancer. That year changed me. Watching this truly transported me, wrapped in the nostalgia of that time—the sounds, the energy. I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for letting us see Marlene through your eyes.
Fiona G
2025-08-01 07:51:11 +0000 UTCIt is such a gift to have video of someone who is gone. There are so many I wish I had on film.
Jenny Randall
2025-08-01 03:34:23 +0000 UTCThis was such a nice tribute, Dan. It's always a trip watching footage of a person who is no longer with us. Thank you for sharing your friend with us. She seemed like a lovely person. What a tragedy she exited the world at only 39.
Natasha Westenberger
2025-07-31 04:22:25 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this!
Roemi Lo
2025-07-31 03:21:44 +0000 UTCIt’s interesting that you captured a small sliver of 2000. I found it interesting that there was an interaction with the guy who was buying cigarettes. I wonder where he is now. Felt like such a long time ago although I was only 2 haha
Ron Shchemelev
2025-07-30 22:19:27 +0000 UTCI loved this I’ve always heard about her when you’d tell story’s, I was 1 year old when this was filmed lol 😭
Hunter Waldroup
2025-07-30 19:09:49 +0000 UTCI adore this Dan. And your foreword is so touching. Thank you for this gem and giving us a chance to know Marlena. She seemed like a wonderful person and I’m so sorry what this world did to her.
Ak
2025-07-30 18:19:04 +0000 UTCYou have such an interesting past. Thank you for choosing to share it with us.
Jimbo
2025-07-30 12:38:30 +0000 UTCImagine just being in traffic and then getting roasted 25 years later for having a blown taillight lmao. I loved this! What a time capsule.
Jim
2025-07-30 12:16:48 +0000 UTCDan you're an amazing videographer, thank you for sharing this experience with us. Marlene has been mentioned a few times throughout the years and it's good to get a face to a name.
Wimmer33fan
2025-07-30 12:15:38 +0000 UTCI appreciate you sharing this Dan. It's rare to have those people you can have such a good time doing literally anything (driving, shopping) whatever. She seems like she was so fun, I love her style.
Levi Hall
2025-07-30 11:52:14 +0000 UTCI remember those days buying cigarettes that were that cheap
theoriginalKat
2025-07-30 10:50:56 +0000 UTCIt's great to see a video of your friend Marlene. I've heard you talk about her many times. Though for some reason I always imagined she was blonde!
Deborah Raphael
2025-07-30 10:44:00 +0000 UTCMarlena seems like she was just a pleasure to be around in general. The casual exchanges you have on this video really highlight how great of a friendship you both had. The early 2000s built in camera FX (quantize, mosaic, and Invert) will take any 2000s kid back (I had completely forgotten about how the early digital camcorders had those FX). Has the general feel of a "Dan Bell Film It" video of today, but I have to remember "wow he was probably carrying around a huge (small by early 2000s standards) dvcam or mini camcorder and not an iPhone (yeah. No iPhone in 2000 lol). Glad you have such a wonderful angel looking down on you (sorry you lost her so early).
Greg Aluise
2025-07-30 09:05:43 +0000 UTCSeriously. It’s crazy watching this.
Dan Bell
2025-07-30 08:47:47 +0000 UTCThis was beautiful
Katherine Vilaire
2025-07-30 08:46:48 +0000 UTCRIP Marlena. Rest in power. Thank you for being authentically you. Thanks for posting, Dan. I am getting emotional having seen this.
DJ Metzler
2025-07-30 08:21:57 +0000 UTC2000 seems as far back as the 80s for some reason. thank GOD for captured memories. 🤍
𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚
2025-07-30 07:58:02 +0000 UTCLove the ambient soundtrack too...
Charles Easton
2025-07-30 07:51:50 +0000 UTC23 year old Dan! What a great little moment in time captured with Marlene.
Charles Easton
2025-07-30 07:48:17 +0000 UTCCigarettes were $3.60. :-(
Dan Bell
2025-07-30 07:43:23 +0000 UTC
