This, because I NEVER would have guessed she was 38. Happy agent, indeed!
Seriously, look at her hands some time. They definitely age her up.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
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lisah - Jul 19, 2007 8:10:12 am PDT #286 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2007 8:16:43 am PDT #287 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JZ - Jul 19, 2007 8:54:48 am PDT #288 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yeah, she's aged very very well, but she's breathing down the neck of 40. The first time I saw Tank Girl, I just assumed that either it was some other Naomi Watts or she was just a wee little oddly-mature teen actor at the time, because how could the same person have been in King Kong and Mulholland Falls and an old, old, long-ago thing like TG. And yet, there she was and is.
After Mulholland Falls, I'm willing to believe she can do just about anything, and that Narcissa's jangly brittle misery will be a snap for her.
lisah - Jul 19, 2007 9:01:45 am PDT #289 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Yeah, she's aged very very well, but she's breathing down the neck of 40.
or getting ready to kick 40's ass??? (signed, feeling old old old as I approach this year's b'day)
After Mulholland Falls, I'm willing to believe she can do just about anything, and that Narcissa's jangly brittle misery will be a snap for her.
I hate Mulholland Falls but I totally agree.
P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2007 9:19:42 am PDT #290 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
or getting ready to kick 40's ass??? (signed, feeling old old old as I approach this year's b'day)
She's a gazillion months pregnant. Suspect despite likely enlistment of nannies, getting ready to kick 40's ass will soon take a back seat to surviving the late 30s.
I swear, I didn't have this many grey hairs or wrinkles pre-baby. This whole lack of sleep thing, it ages!
Glamcookie - Jul 19, 2007 9:20:14 am PDT #291 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Mulholland Falls
You mean Mulholland Drive? Love that movie and her in it!
DavidS - Jul 19, 2007 9:21:27 am PDT #292 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
feeling old old old as I approach this year's b'day
Let me fix that: feeling old old old hot hot hot as I approach this year's b'day
A.O. Scott at the NY Times likes John Travolta's performance in Hairspray:
What is missing from “Hairspray” is anything beyond the faintest whisper of camp. The original “Hairspray” may have been Mr. Waters’s most wholesome, least naughty film, but there was no containing the volcanic audacity of Divine, who created the role of Edna Turnblad. Divine, who was born Harris Glen Milstead and who died shortly after the first “Hairspray” was released, belonged to an era when drag performance still carried more than a touch of the louche and the dangerous, and was one of the artists who helped push it into the cultural mainstream.
Perhaps wisely Mr. Travolta does not try to duplicate the outsize, deliberately grotesque theatricality of Divine’s performance or to mimic the Mermanesque extravagance of Harvey Fierstein’s Broadway turn, choosing instead to tackle the role of Edna as an acting challenge. The odd result is that she becomes the most realistic, least stereotypical character in the film, and the only one who speaks in a recognizable (if not always convincing) Baltimore accent. (“Ahm tryna orn,” she complains when she’s trying to iron.)
amych - Jul 19, 2007 9:24:51 am PDT #293 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What is missing from “Hairspray” is anything beyond the faintest whisper of camp.
God, that's sad. Expected, but sad.
JZ - Jul 19, 2007 9:32:13 am PDT #294 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
You mean Mulholland Drive? Love that movie and her in it!
D'oh! Yes. I blame my own nearing-40ness and the tiny human and accompanying catastrophic sleep dep. I am tired and gray and stupid before my time and I can no longer tell the difference between a fall and a drive.
Glamcookie - Jul 19, 2007 9:34:55 am PDT #295 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I am tired and gray and stupid before my time
Nuh and uh! Well, at least on the gray and stupid part. I'm sure Mommyness makes you tired.