I had another fun night at work last night, checking on patients while serpentining my way through various thought patterns, leaving temporary files in my wake.
One of the reasons I find Elizabeth Moss, who plays Peggy on Mad Men, so charming (never saw a single episode of West Wing) is that I remember her from that movie with Keitel and 'Ru' Balk, "Imaginary Crimes". Oddly, considering her role in Mad Men, this movie was also set in 1962, although the much younger Moss was playing a little girl. Also oddly, she was playing a little girl whose father, a con man, often leaving his daughters alone, received visits from angry clients, and her best line was a rehearsed response, her tiny angelic face at the door, tremulously reciting, "Ray Weiler is a very busy man and needs to be away quite frequently!" Her 1962 roles seemed to be married in a strange way.
So Imaginary Crimes was written by the late Sheila Ballantyne, who wrote another short bio/story giving all praise for her start to former mentor Leonard Wolf, whose daughter is Naomi Wolf.
There is a Walter Matthau movie on right now called The Laughing Policeman. Irritating plot, but one good line: "He's so good he could get sodomy knocked down to following too closely."
Matthau's co-star was Bruce Dern. When they made Coming Home, back in the 70's, whose plot is about Jon Voight stealing Bruce Dern's wife, do you think they would have guessed some 20 years later, that Jon Voight's daughter would steal Bruce Dern's daughter's fiance? If Jane Fonda's son had been available...? Naw.
I was reading about Revolutionary Road being made into a movie with Leo and Kate, and Kathy Bates, all from Titanic. I am very ignorant on Richard Yates, the author.
After looking him up, I learned that the Seinfeld character of Alton Benes, played by Lawrence Tierney (of Reservoir Dogs!), Elaine's famous literary father, was based on Yates, since Larry David had dated Monica, Yates' daughter.
Any other good daughter stories?
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...is hotter than Laura Dern, I'll give her that. But if being surrounded by third-world children is the price you have to pay for having her as your steady schtupp-mate, I'd rather not. Now, if Angelina wanted to spend her spare time keeping my apartment clean, instead...
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She was halfway hot in that one. And I'm guessing she's easier to get along with, tho really I've no idea. I still say Angelina looks like a RealDoll. But somehow LD just doesn't do it for me much. Maybe it'd be different in person.
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LD has two natural kids, too.
They are both lovely women with minds of their own.
And, I know, you like (point to AJ) lesbians. That's so unusual of heterosexual men, to fantasize about lesbians. You should go on Howard Stern and shock the hell out of everyone. Funny haven't heard her get any crushes lately since she became International Earth Mom.
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If I'm comparing, I would say Jeff Goldblum would require a little stronger pillow talk than Jonny Lee Miller, but I don't know either one, so pfff.
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...it was that men fantasize about lesbians - it's just that then there are double of everything. A lesbian alone...not so hot. Two women making out...Hot. For me the subtext is always where my penis would fit into the fun, which sort of precludes true lesbians.
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...something about her is so relaxed and sexy without being SEXY. She seems like a woman you could just hang with.. Languid is a word that comes to mind, but not the classic definition - sort of lazy, natural, and lovely.
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there are four in my family which has led me to agree with Berenice Sadie Brown: [paraphrasing] "I don't go around with crowds of wimmens."
Daughter movies. First one that came to mind was "One True Thing" (funny how Renee Zellweger can look gross or cute - often at the same time). I liked William Hurt in that movie, but I always like him ("The Accidental Tourist" being my favorite).
Was/is Susan Cheever a sex addict, or was she talking about her father? They did a funny riff on him on "Seinfeld" (George's fiancee's father had a long-ago affair with a famous writer).
I ordered "Rebecca" for the plane. I want something old-fashioned I can get lost in. My sister Dolores told me that in the book Max actually does murder Rebecca - yikes! I guess that was too much for a audience in the '40s.
Speaking of murder, I watched a few minutes of the "Psycho" remake with Vince Vaughn. Not so great, and weird in color! The first hour of "Psycho" is so great, & the music! Gah! Love it. I guess Marion was someone's daughter (& she did have a sister).
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That Seinfeld sub-plot about Susan's father having been
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John Cheever's secret lover was hilarious and an example of something uniquely and bizarrely Seinfeldian that you'd never find on conventional sitcoms these days.
The scene where he grabbed the box of Cheever letters with this hurt look on his face was priceless.
By the way, I sampled True Blood on HBO last night and it -- wait for it, here comes the pun -- sucked. (Although Anna Paquin is very appealing.) HBO's glory days are long gone. I don't think they'll ever again recover the excitement and freshness of the Carolyn Strauss era, exemplified by The Sopranos.
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Usually we have a good night crew but tonight we have a spy on the staff, and she just stuck her head around my corner to see those 5 pictures of JRI ...and got chatty, pretending to give me a copy of the new schedule. Ick.
So, no can read addict stuff online right now but thanks for link!!
will read 'tmorrow
Goo I liked Diane Lane in Unfaithful but hardly in anything else, and she seems like a nice woman so I hate to say that...it..feels like she is too aware of the camera. Whatever.
Another good daughter story!
One of my favorite, well, imho the best, reigning western ever, Once Upon A Time in the West...Jane Fonda said it was the first time she ever wrote her dad a fan letter. (the only time I could say I got hot from watching Henry Fonda, ...well. The Lady Eve does rock tremendously. The train scene during the Honeymoon. I should find it and post it....)
And Goo, I c'mzrates, we had 7 daughters in my family and guess whose the smack dab Jan Brady of Ol Shoetown? Meeeoi.
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