Category Archives: Female performers
Rue McClanahan
Walk the Angry Beach (1968)
Belinda Carlisle’s Lips Unsealed
The Go-Go’s (circa 1978) At school, kids called her “Belimpa” and mocked her for having only one outfit. She dreamed of being Marcia Brady but obsessed over Charles Manson. This pull between light and dark continued through high school, where she was both a cheerleader and a shoplifter — not that those are necessarily opposites. [...]
Dixie Carter (1939-2010)
Lily Tomlin, Richard Blair, Madeline Kahn, Robert Rovin, Dixie Carter (1966)
“the angry orca”
Charlotte Rampling in Orca (1977) Related: Does Mark Jude Poirier have special psychic powers? Here’s an excerpt from his story of February 4, weeks before the recent events at SeaWorld Orlando: We drove to Wildwood Aquarium, left Alice at her apartment, even though it had been her idea to go. The week before, a German [...]
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The Group
It begins with shoes. Shots of women’s shoes. Oxfords, pumps, heels. I find this very auspicious. The whole thing is off to a promising start. The theater at the 92nd Y’s annex in Tribeca is small and so it feels a bit like a private screening. Hilton Als gave a charming introduction, and you can bring alcohol [...]
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Bea Arthur, 1922-2009
I really assumed she’d live forever. Such amazing delivery and timing. Bea Arthur, star of ‘Golden Girls’ and ‘Maude,’ dies at 86, LA Times Golden Girl Bloopers, YouTube
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Patricia Neal, 1926-2010