Comments on actresses and movie roles
by Robert Hedges ©
Comments on actresses and movie roles
by Robert Hedges ©
I recently caught "Wolf" with Michelle Pfifer, who has struck me
as adorable ever since that role in "The Witches of Eastwyck" in
which she played a gorgeous mother who got pregnant at the drop
of a hat (or the drop of her knickers or . . ). It is a movie
you can revisit, and enjoy a second time . . . and a third . .
or a fourth - I JUST saw Tequilia Sunrise . . . .oh that was erotic . . .a mixture of hot-scene and hot-tub . . . .Now there is a good movie for a date. But the romance of "one Fine Day" is impressive, even memorable.
I saw Kelly Preston in "The Letter" (did I really write FootLoose?) - WOW - that was such a
true-to-life roll - really SO high-school. Ever after I liked
Kelly Preston. Then she took time to have a family - a positive
roll model, making sure her "genes" survive. Now I hear that George Clooney found her to his "taste" for a few years.
Remember the girl in the RoadHouse movie with the security guard
who was "on his break" thinkin' about a regular Saturday night
"thing". Who was she? Brittany w/out a last name ? I hoped she'd get some larger parts after
that. Right away I started looking for a "bouncer's position" or
gig .
I saw Shannon Wilsey on a box cover and spent hours going through
box covers high up on a ladder trying to find more of her movies.
She was Silver Kane at the time.
Then I discovered that she had created"Savannah", that character
which finally consumed her. Sad. . . . . . I found her E True Hollywood Story interesting enough to watch again. And her contribution to erotica far exceeds both Paris Hilton and Pam Anderson (though I have not seen the latter). Again her figure exceeds Marlyn Monroe. I'l be clear though, she never should have gone for the plastic enhansement, for it was not subtle.
Vivian Leigh made that role of Scarlett O'Hara come alive in Gone
With The Wind - that spirit of rising from the destitution and
always keeping the land. Does she exist in real life ?
Marilyn Monroe represented much to many, but in "River of No
Return"
she portrayed a dance-hall singer turned surrogate mother for a
dirt-farmer.
That was a fantasy too rich to ignore.
Mary Hart has beauty, brains, and ambition, followed later by a
family. And she likes motorcycles and gets grimy also.
Jaclyn Smith was/is the classiest Angel, proving that brunettes
have fun also. And now we see her sense of style in retail
stores. But she also took time for a family, and four husbands.
Remember the New Avengers, with Purdie kicking her gorgeous legs
up in those wind-furled outfits. ?
I included Jamie Sommers because she represents a fresh face in
the sordid movie industry, with a figure which genuinely
surpasses Marilyn Monroe's.
Did anybody catch Ewa Aulin, Miss Sweden, in Candy, (1968), with
James Coburn, Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Richard Burton, Ringo
Starr, John Huston, John Astin, and other stars. That was an excellent "first" racey
movie. Now on DVD. This still was captured from Start the Revolution without Me." Gene Wilder and . . .
Well, maybe Barbi Benton never got movie offers, but she was Hugh
Hefner's squeeze for a few years, and I would not say that the
extra "uncoverage" he gave her was unwelcome among us adolescents.
Jeannie was every fellow's fantasy -a devoted beauty, who never
got angry without cause, and could solve any problem.
I must admit that the movies Closer with Natalie Portman and Showgirls with Elizabeth _______ have gotten me to look closely.