Brigitte Nielsen.
Or do you mean intentional comedies?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 8:09:07 am PST #9989 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
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?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2006 8:34:02 am PST #9997 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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?
I think of Sigourney first and foremost in Ghostbusters rather than the Alien franchise, and she's also played comedic roles in Galaxy Quest and arguably Working Girl. I'd say she's a fair example.
erikaj - Jan 20, 2006 8:35:56 am PST #9998 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Melissa Leo(even if she only got to be sly-funny once in a while and her big movie role is a giant tragedy, she could play anything.) That one woman on CSI with the funny name I never remember.(I like her much better than that sounds.) Second the Sarandon and McDormand emotions... Gina Torres