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| billyweeds |
 Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:17 pm |
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| Funny about Jennifer (two n's) Aniston: I think she's sometimes very, very good, but I never really like her. And I hear interesting reports about her and Angelina Jolie. The truth as I hear it is that Jolie (the "siren") is a surprisingly nice person with a very sweet and non-narcissistic nature, and of shockingly short stature. Aniston on the other hand is reportedly rather a bee-yotch. (Not their public or screen images.) |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:36 pm |
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| Aniston is definitely someone that I have never liked and after a year long deluge screaming front page Aniston updates that have made me laugh out loud while in line at the supermarket, have made me certain of my take on her; she's a stupid, egocentric bitch. And she never returns my calls so what else am I to think. Jolie is brainless, but a nice person. I'm not sure about Pitt's intelligence, but he seems like a good guy, and he can act, unlike the other two. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:17 pm |
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| I've never had much interest one way or the other about JenBrAngelina, together or apart. Like Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, and so many celebrities of that film generation, they seem lacking in depth and texture. Now, George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Glenn Close--those are personalities with more than three dimensions. Most of the others I can think of are older--Michael Caine and Angela Lansbury come to mind, among the living of course. Maybe it just helps to get older. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:42 pm |
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| I agree with you and I have amount of interest in those romantic ? adventures as you, none. So many of the 21 to 35 crowd are boys and girls instead of men and women. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:26 pm |
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| I agree with you both. And I appreciate them--those that carrobin mentioned, even more for staying out of the tabloids. Of course in fairness to the others, they might not have had much of a choice. But WTHDIK? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:41 pm |
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I like Angelina Jolie, although she's much better suited for roles that call for her going over the top. (Her role in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was about perfect for her, and I like her take on Lara Croft.) I thought she was fine in The Good Shepherd, but miscast in Changeling. She also seems like a nice person with a good heart. Getting away from Billy Bob Thornton is about the best thing she could have done for herself. Brad Pitt seems like a decent person,too, and they seem happy together, so more power to them.
Aniston I'm thoroughly sick of. It looks to me that she's playing the tabloids as much as the tabloids are playing her, because otherwise people would soon start asking, who the hell is this person? |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:54 pm |
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| Or, a simpler explanation, is that there are some actors that when I see them on the screen, make me smile, at least until I discover the movie is dreck. Mary Steenburgen and Teri Garr (at least in her younger days) have that effect on me, as do ZaSu Pitts, Rupert Everett and Timothy Spall. Jolie has a similar effect on me; when she's on, she's fun to watch. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:43 pm |
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Quote: I didn't realize "State of Play" is based on a British TV miniseries until it was mentioned in a review. I had to look it up on the BBC site to find out whether I'd seen it or not. I hadn't--but it featured Bill Nighy and John Simm (of "Life on Mars"), so I'd be very interested in seeing it now.
I have a friend who has seen it and raved about it. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:31 am |
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Quote: (Her role in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was about perfect for her, and I like her take on Lara Croft.)
Wow, Sky Captain? That's the worst I've ever seen her. It was laughingly bad. It was Madonna bad. She was OK in Lara Croft, but Tia Carrera would have been much better. Of course Tia doesn't have the name recognition that Angelina has so why pick the better performer of roles like that?
I've loved Teri Garr since I saw her the for the first time in that Star Trek episode. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:46 am |
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| Teri Garr is also a fiercely intelligent woman, which I think shows even when she's "doing" ditzy, and only adds to her intense attractiveness. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:49 am |
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| That was one of my favorite episodes of the series, and Garr was funny. It was a pilot for a series that never happened. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:59 am |
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| Terry Garr may not be ditzy anymore. I think, though I wouldn't know for sure, that "ditzy" would be hard to do in her present situation. Still that doesn't stop me from loving her. She carries her MS with humor and grace. She is one of the few actors I wish I knew. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:02 pm |
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Syd wrote: That was one of my favorite episodes of the series, and Garr was funny. It was a pilot for a series that never happened.
I didn't know a potential pilot for a series. When I watched it I kept wondering if she were Shirley McLaine. I knew that it couldn't be.
Garr has never got the credit she deserved for her talent. It seemed that there was always some actress who got most of the credit in movies they were both in. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:08 pm |
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| Gary--Often some of the best don't get the credit they deserve. Sometimes I think their peers and credits think it's just personality or innate talent. Ridiculous! |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:16 pm |
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marantzo wrote:
Garr has never got the credit she deserved for her talent. It seemed that there was always some actress who got most of the credit in movies they were both in.
Even the one time she was nominated for an Academy Award (for Tootsie) she lost to another actress in the same movie. I thought Garr was better (although Lange was fine). |
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