for what it's worth, I always hated Max de Winter
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 5:01:47 am PST #18189 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Fred Pete - Feb 15, 2012 5:07:42 am PST #18190 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
He isn't a very likable person. Or at least, he doesn't treat his second wife very well when she needs him.
Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 5:21:20 am PST #18191 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
He didn't treat either wife well. For the first one, he went looking for a very specific type of person, met and married her, and then decided nope, not what he wanted at all.
DavidS - Feb 15, 2012 7:40:15 am PST #18192 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
People tend to forget that Anjelica Houston had a long modeling career before she was in movies. This collects some of her modeling from the late sixties and early seventies.
Some really amazing and gorgeous shots in there, and so different from how you think of her.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 7:49:39 am PST #18193 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
so different from how you think of her
You sure you don't want to say so different from how *you* think of her? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thinks of her as a highly gorgeous woman capable of assuming many different personas.
Not that I think everyone thought that, but I doubt it's an insignificant number.
DavidS - Feb 15, 2012 8:00:16 am PST #18194 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Clearly it's just my deficient imagination. Mostly though I was referring to her youth and the era of 70s fashion when she was modeling. Though she had other roles, she didn't really breakthrough in film until Prizzi's Honor in '85 when she was in her mid-thirties.
Atropa - Feb 15, 2012 10:00:54 am PST #18195 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Do what now? I've never seen that movie. Uggh. At least Samantha (Bewitched) never fully gave up on hers. Also, my tag seems especially appropriate at this juncture.
Yep. She loses her powers, and that's how he knows she's Really In Love With Him, She's The Girl For Him! She also becomes kind of insipid. The movie is great up until the last 10 minutes or so.
Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 10:52:50 am PST #18196 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And her cat deserts her!
Atropa - Feb 15, 2012 11:06:22 am PST #18197 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
And her cat deserts her!
Pyewacket!
The first time I watched Bell, Book, and Candle, when I was a tiny gothling of 9 or so, at the end of the movie I turned to my Dad and said, "That's DUMB. When I'm a witch and I fall in love, I'm not going to lose MY powers."
My Dad, being who he is, said of course I wasn't going to.
Beverly - Feb 15, 2012 11:11:38 am PST #18198 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Agree so hard with Jilli on BB&C. That one and Rear Window I had seen when I was little and remembered fondly. They disappeared into a vault somewhere for decades and I was all clappy-hands and eager to watch when they brought them out again. Rear Window is dated, but charming, still. But despite Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester, Ernie Kovacs, and Hermione Gingold, not to mention Novak actually manages a smolder and Stewart is adorable and stubborn, and the gorgeous, gorgeous 50s interiors, the lose-their-powers-when-they-fall-in-love of it all just leaves a bitter, bitter aftertaste.