Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.

'Bushwhacked'


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Allyson - Jan 20, 2006 8:03:12 am PST #9987 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Let's talk gay cowboys in love.


Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 8:06:22 am PST #9988 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

De we have any actresses who trade in the "strong woman" role, in comedies?

The only one coming to mind is Diane Keaton.


Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 8:09:07 am PST #9989 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Brigitte Nielsen.

Or do you mean intentional comedies?


DebetEsse - Jan 20, 2006 8:11:37 am PST #9990 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Diane Keaton.

Yeah, but she's, you know, old. It seems like all the comediennes in their 30s are ditzes, or, at least, that's their schtik


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2006 8:15:44 am PST #9991 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Susan Sarandon has played strong all through her career, but it's not her raison d'etre.

I guess Sigourney Weaver is too much of an action hero to count. Although, outside of the Alien movies, has she done another action character?

eta Holly Hunter? Frances Macdormand?

Actually, I'm hard pressed to think of a Coen brothers heroine who wasn't tough in some way.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2006 8:21:51 am PST #9992 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

...see them tumbling down...


erikaj - Jan 20, 2006 8:22:43 am PST #9993 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I don't know... was that whole "America's Sweetheart" thing such a tremendous factor in the Hepburn era, because I've seen lots of actresses give an original performance or two and then get skinny, blonde(er) or winsome really fast.(Not that those are horrific qualities, I have some of them, I think, but if that's all you ever see...)


DebetEsse - Jan 20, 2006 8:25:37 am PST #9994 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I know exactly what you mean, erika. They get bland and cookie-cutter. It usually codes as sying their hair blonde for me, too.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2006 8:26:18 am PST #9995 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Rosalind Russell certainly played tough in a comedy in HIS GIRL FRIDAY, but I don't know if that was her usual type of role.

Granted, for that, they took a male role in the play and re-gendered it while changing as little as they could.


Scrappy - Jan 20, 2006 8:28:30 am PST #9996 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Tough and funny these days? Hmmm. There aren't a lot of those kinds of roles in film, TV is more fertile. Wendy Malick?