top ten things winona ryder has done in life

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1. "jump in the saddle, hold onto the bridle" move while float-dancing to harry belafonte
2. welcome home roxy carmichael
3. turning out to be a robot in alienseses: resurrectionseses
4. dr katz episode
5. only ever showing her boobz in rotoscope
6. casually un-hanging herself in heathers
7. shoplifting
8. being named horowitz
9. having a go at the crucible, bless her
10. hahaha "corky" in night on earth

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

so what do we do now

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

11. Dave Pirner

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

pray

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

1. [s]"jump in the saddle, hold onto the bridle" move while float-dancing to harry belafonte[/s] HEATHERS

― jh0shea, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

DELETE NUMBER 11 PLZ

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

1. "jump in the saddle, hold onto the bridle" move while float-dancing to harry belafonte

1. that rolling stone cover

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

haha strike fu

― jh0shea, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

honorable mention: being responsible for johnny depp having a tattoo that says "WINO FOREVER"

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

no, i think that nabisco was correct in his #1 entry, and should've possibly just stopped there (esp the aliens one should've been left off, dude)

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

but dude, if she hadn't turned out to be a robot, then her acting would have been HORRIBLE, do you see?

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

#6 is my favroite

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I think her voice is really her problem.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm partial to her (trying to?) make out with and displaying the upper portion of her cleavage to Sir Anthony Hopkins in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Her cleavage has portions?

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

alien resurrection is one of the worst movies ever made, nothing you can say is going to redeem it, nabisco.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

12. cause johnny depp to deface himself. twice.

13. manage to include references the Replacements, specifically Paul Westerberg, into heathers

14. be the subject of the line '...we started a band so we could date winona ryder.'

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

It did in that corset!

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

11. those deleted Zoolander scenes!!!!

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't she like basically stalk westerberg?

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Or whoever's on the cover of Paste, nowadays.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

15. stalk paul westerberg

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

WATCH OUT NEKO

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

waht

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

why is this not a poll thread

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

strong question.

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

JTM: read my last 2 posts back 2 back to get my "joek".

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

she told my friend that when she met lindsay lohan, lindsay loudly referred to her as a dinosaur as she was walking away. poor winona!

― lauren, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

OH NOES :(

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

1. Pete Yorn
2. Dave Pirner
3. Johnny Depp
4. Paul Westerberg (attempted)
5. Beck
6. Jack White
7. Page Hamilton from Helmet
8. Matt Damon
9. Gary Oldman
10. Rhett Miller

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

TS: Dave Pirner vs. Wilmer Valderamma

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

LOL

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

PAGE HAMILTON?

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

rly pete yorn over johnny depp? he's so hot right now.

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

that was not a ranking, but rather more a listing

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

God, her & PH explains why Helmet went to shit.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

oh ok xp

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Ha - I like that Kingfish needed an addendum for Page Hamilton, as if just listing RHETT MILLER is enough.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

she told my friend that when she met lindsay lohan, lindsay loudly referred to her as a dinosaur as she was walking away. poor winona!

Jeez, Winona's only like 33 or something. She had birthday recently and I was kinda shocked she was so young. I can barely rember a time when she was not around (I'm 24 BTW)

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

as if just listing RHETT MILLER is enough.

dude had some solo stuff going on, plus i prefer the old 97s to helmet anyday

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Rhett Miller is always enough. Rowr.

― Laurel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

tom's friend ran into her and was convinced she was checking him out. i'm convinced she was wondering who the fuck the asshole was pronouncing her name as "wee-ona"

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Rhett Miller (of swoony blogcrush fame)

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

And I think the last ish of Chunklet had some list of all the muso & actor types she's been affliated with. The article was not written in the most congratulatory tone.

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

haha winona took decades to wind up in mr deeds -- lindsay practically started out there! and it's not like even mean girls is going to have the longevity of heathers or those burton movies.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Wait a minute, Chunklet was being ... sarcastic?

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

yes, nabisco. my friend was totally outraged. she said w. was extremely nice, btw, but completely deranged.

― lauren, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

pop roffles aside, The Age of Innocence

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

I wd love to see La Lohan in a period drama. Aside from Mean Girls.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

that movie is bad, but she was perfectly cast.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I would eat a whole bag of "pop roffles" by myself

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

(Ryder in Age of Innocence, I mean. Mean Girls is brilliant.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

More discussion of Corky in Night on Earth, please.

Most awkward "you are not that character" performance in movie history.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

no, that movie sucked

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I love Winona Ryder.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I like that movie, I just don't see how anyone expected that character to be remotely workable, particularly as played by Winona Ryder.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I mean who casts Winona Ryder as a MECHANIC?

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Asia Argento.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Jeremy Toback.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

DIRECTOR JON TURTLETAUB

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

I gotta stop killing threds.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't like roxy carmichael - was another one of those films where the interesting outsider got the sandpaper treatment.

16. being godchild to timothy leary.

― koogs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Tara Reid as ... scientist
Winona Ryder as ... mechanic
Jeffrey Tambor as ... Suge Knight's bodyguard
and Jake Busey as ... President Thompson

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not really sure what your problem is but those all sound ok to me.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

And middle-named after Aldous Huxley's wife! Her given name is pretty hardcore with the assonance: Winona Laura Horowitz. It's like a tongue twister. Winona Laura Horowitz.

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. Is she related to James Salter?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

ok dude seriously? in what way is that a tongue twister? it's pretty easy to say.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

um, i think he might have been projecting a little

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

maybe less a tongue twister than a poem! the assonance, the rhythm -- it's a tripling up of internal O + schwa, and in perfect iambic tetrameter, if you say it fast enough:

winOnA lOrA hOrAwitz!

the stress drops on the O every time, and then immediately comes down to the schwa!

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

her name is practically "oh-ah oh-ah oh-ah!"

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Being too ill to be in Godfather 3, thusly causing the role to be played by a cross-eyed dead dwarf on stilts with the skill and conviction of a fax machine.

Quite an uncanny replacement actually!!!

― JTS, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

ok fuck you

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

cool monochrome cover of THE FACE (1993?)

― pisces, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

maybe my response was too harsh

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

wi
nona lora hora
witz

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

nice nabs. maybe you should now change your screenname to naboskov

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

o snap

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nona Lora Hora Witz isn't coming out for the Wii until December dude

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

shoot me in the face with a bazooka please, is the subtext there

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

you, dave and nabisco should start a terrible jokes team

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Nona Lora Hora Witz isn't coming out for the Wii until December dude

can't wait to see their booth at E3, or at least to see chaki's reaction to it

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey now we have the fantastic four!!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think we found our captain.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

says the silver surfer

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

i have no idea what that is even supposed to mean but if you are calling me the silver surfer i am totally ok with it, just fyi

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

I am so not joking about the name!

I think horseshoe's right about her voice, by the way: the timbre and cadence of it were perfect for a kind of unformed teenage quality, but then then just ... never really changed. A lot of her acting tics are kind of the same, these awkward teenagey uncomfortable moves that seem increasingly odd in stuff she's done recently.

Hopefully someone will cast her for some kind of smaller-movie her-age character that would actually benefit from that quality. Like I could see her using those traits really well in a Nicole Holofcener film!

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

I guess we know who Mr. Fantastic is.

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Off-stage, Miller is known for his affable personality, love of comfortable slacks and kind nature.

― stevie, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

"11. Dave Pirner"

ahhahahahah DUMPED him, that was great about it

― nathalie, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

in winona, lindsay confronts her mortality

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I CRY DURING AUTUMN IN NEW YORK

― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

also, nickalicious otm - i think maybe the only good things she's ever done were in heathers. though i suppose she did help introduce the hawke to the world.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

also

http://www.blavish.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/Cheers%20Norm%20Cliff.jpg

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

PUMP UP THE VOLUME.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

she wasn't in pump up the volume, maybe you are confusing her with christian slater.

― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Uh.

Um, yeah, reality never squares with my memories.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

She fucking should have been.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after her the town in which she was born, Winona Minnesota.

wtf?

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

That was Samantha Mathis.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

TS: Bram Stoker's Dracula vs. Rob Lowe's Salem's Lot

― David R., Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Can someone please explain the stalking Westerberg thing? I've never heard about this before and was probably too young to notice any Replacements lyrics in Heathers the last time I saw it. I'm intrigued!

― ENBB, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

From an interview in the san fran chronicle with Paul Westerberg.

Q: Speaking of which, did Winona Ryder steal anything from you when you were seeing her?

A: Steal anything? My time.

Q: I guess that's worth more than $5,000 at Saks.

A: Yeah, I guess so.

S!monB!rch (Carey) on Wednesday, January 5, 2005 2:40 PM (2 years ago)

― Yerac, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

winona should NOT have been in pump up the volume, she should have been in the Matrix instead of keanu reeves. that movie would have been AWESS. basically, if she had replaced keanu in every movie he was ever in post-Bill &Ted's Bogus Journey we would be talking about a much cooler world.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

gene hackman would not have been very believable trying to convince winona ryder that winners always want the ball when the game is on the line

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

ENBB, they all attended Westerberg High in Heathers!

― ghost rider, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

To be fair, Samantha Mathis' character in PUTV was pretty similar Winona's Heathers character. She even had the same hairdo.

― ENBB, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ben Harp: Special agent Utah! This is not some job, flipping burgers at the local drive-in! Yes! - your surf board bothers me! Yes! - your approach to this whole damn case bothers me! And yes! - YOU BOTHER ME! And Pappas! Oh, for the love of Christ. How the hell did I even let you talk me into this whole bone-headed idea to begin with.
Pappas: Harp! We are working under-cover. It takes time. We've produced a few...
Ben Harp: NO! No no no no no no NO! Let me tell you what you've produced... Over the last two weeks, you two have produced exactly squat! SQUAT! During which time the ex-presidents have robbed two more banks. Now for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me?
[brief pause]
~~Johnny Utah~~Winona Laura Horowitz: I caught my first tube today... Sir.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

don't tell me winona in shoulderpads is not doin it for you

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

[strike]Jack[strike] Winona: Harry! Tell me good news, man.
Howard Payne: Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. He didn't make it.
[strike]Jack[strike] Winona: You, FUCK!
Howard Payne: It was the watch that lead him to me, wasn't it? Huh? It seemed a little hammy to me to build a bomb out of my precious retirement gift, but, you know, I figured a sign that said "Howard Payne" would be pushing it.
[strike]Jack[strike] Winona: I'm gonna rip your fucking spine out, I swear to God.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

DAMINT

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha nick exactly! whatever happened to that red-headed jimmy-olsen's-evil-twin dude anyway? he was so reliable

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

not to mention point break

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think her voice also fails to match up to how pretty she is, which is just inevitably disappointing. but yeah, it's mostly that it hasn't changed since she was 13.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

also, what are you talking about, Tracer Hand, Keanu Reeves was born to play Neo!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
~~Neo~~ Winona: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
~~Neo~~ Winona: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
AD LIB BY WINONA: Whatever.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Have you people forgotten Mermaids?

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I remember liking Mermaids when I was 13, but I doubt it would hold up. also didn't a 6-year-old Christina Ricci steal that movie from Ryder + Cher?

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

oh shit, mermaids

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

RUN

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Reynolds: [KEANU thinks he is pregnant because he kissed Joe] Has your mother ever talked to you about sex?
~~Charlotte Flax~~ KEANU: Uh... oh yeah! All the time. We talk about everything. She's a wonderful mother.
Dr. Reynolds: So you do know how babies are made?
~~Charlotte Flax~~ KEANU: Oh, yeah.
Dr. Reynolds: Then why did you think you were pregnant? You're still a virgin.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

NOT REVERSIBLE

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

plus it's pre- bogus journey

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

~~Don John~~WINONA: I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and claw no man in his humour.
Conrade: Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
~~Don John~~WINONA: I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

ahahaha okay I didn't realize Keanu was going to play all of Winona's roles. that would rule.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, you've ruined "Heathers"!

― HI DERE, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

this makes A Scanner Darkly even more difficult to understand, though

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

To be fair, Samantha Mathis' character in PUTV was pretty similar Winona's Heathers character. She even had the same hairdo.

Thanks for this.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

both of those things are wrong, tho

― gabbneb, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

WAI U BRAEK HART?

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

they were both in Little Women. Mathis has always struck me as a bit Ryder manque.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Winona Ryder....Neo
Christian Slater...Trinity
Samuel L Jackson...Morpheus ("I said DON'T take the red pill god damn IT!")
Mel Gibson...Agent Smith

― nickalicious, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Mathas is normally blonde but had short dark hair in PUTV which is v Winona so I could see, many years later, how they might be confused. Esp with Christian S. thrown in the mix. I realize they weren't exactly the same.

― ENBB, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

I suggest a gender-reversed Edwina Scissorhands with Winona as Scissorhands and old-school Harrison Ford in her role. Just to underline that fleeting moment where you're like "wait, why exactly did Vincent Price make it look like that, and what exactly is he planning to do with it after he gives it real hands???"

― nabisco, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Making out with Jake Ryan while Baby Ricci drowned has to be on the list.

― lindseykai, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

that is true!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

have you forgotten HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT? unforgivable.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

that might be my least favorite movie of ever. Mathis is in it, too!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

then again, the GIS proved that she managed to look pretty cute in that movie. i take it back. it was a terrible movie, though.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

nabisco otm with a chainsaw

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

Do I really need to be the first person to say "be in Edward Scissorhands?" I mean, how the fuck many of you have been in Edward Scissorhands?

― Sundar, Friday, 2 March 2007 07:19 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Had Forgotten About This

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

is that giovanni ribisi?

also i always hated that video because jon spencer is hot and i had a v big crush on him and quite frankly i found winona to be a v poor substitute.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

5. only ever showing her boobz in rotoscope

so emphatically not otm

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 3 May 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

i love the story about the crowd at the hard times cafe booing her when dave pirner brought her there. it's probably mpls apocrypha but whatev!

― gff, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― ghost rider, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know, it seems plausible

― ghost rider, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

ghost rider u been to hard times?

turkish breakfast is pretty awes. dave pirner, less so.

― gff, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

from mpls, spent a shitload of high school at hard times instead of high school

― ghost rider, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

o sweet. i had no idea. and i ignored most of the "who is ghost rider" controversy so i DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO etc anyway.

a strange and very small ethiopian guy gave me a printout of his poem to john paul II the last time i was there!

― gff, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

rewatched BEETLEJUICE recently and remember how totally in love w/ this girl i was ca. 1988–1992. first very popular new wave-influenced mainstream movie heroine? also was impressed by how cute she was but also how very totally jewish she looked as well (this was in the years surrounding my bar mitzvah, so i pretended to care about such things).

although if i'm being honest she was hottest during her trial.

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 08:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htm6rmBW2fc

forward to about 3:50

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 08:53 (fifteen years ago)

I think her voice also fails to match up to how pretty she is, which is just inevitably disappointing.

i always liked her nasal, sort of viscous-sounding voice.

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEEfW7NzN8k

OMG at 0:09

sorry if i'm being a little weird, just reminiscing that's all

― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

are you on 77 am?

whole thread for this kind of TOTALLY LEGITIMATE ACTIVITY there, though not winona-specific

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Monday, 8 March 2010 10:05 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

welcome home roxy carmichael

does this hold up after (gasp!) 22 years??!

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:10 (thirteen years ago)

22 years?!!!

I instinctively want to FP you for just saying that

;_;

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:24 (thirteen years ago)

FP?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

flag post

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:46 (thirteen years ago)

Fudge pack?

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:48 (thirteen years ago)

fist pump

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:48 (thirteen years ago)

face punch?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:49 (thirteen years ago)

French pastry

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

ferris pueller?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:53 (thirteen years ago)

Fap podcast

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:55 (thirteen years ago)

Fish pants

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

Fashion pose

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:09 (thirteen years ago)

fickle pickle?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:17 (thirteen years ago)

Frog paste

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

fancy poodles

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)

Travelling? Need a Gift? Try our Fudge Packs

http://www.fudgelady.ca/specialoccasions/images/FAB4PACK1%20(324%20x%20243).jpg

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:23 (thirteen years ago)

Travelling? Naw. I'm staying right here. But mmm yes please.

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:24 (thirteen years ago)

Young women in flimsy summer dresses that leave little to the imagination: classic or dud?

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:33 (thirteen years ago)

Reality Bites is getting a weekend Museum Rep run here soon--lol Houston pride.

― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:36 (thirteen years ago)

Doily dress + no bra, yay!

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:41 (thirteen years ago)

there should be a reboot of the parent trap starring winona ryder and winona ryder where she's trying to get her parents christopher walken and alice krige back together, but not if her wacky half-brother adam sandler has anything to say about it. jonah hill co-stars as an imaginary attorney only winona and winona can see.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

are you having a stroke y/n

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:05 (thirteen years ago)

fist pump?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 3 May 2012 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

how does reality bites hold up? i mean, not that it was really very good in the first place. but is it possible to watch it today without cringing?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:04 (thirteen years ago)

my 100% nostalgia for it prevents most of my cringing, so I'm not a good judge lol

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:05 (thirteen years ago)

ts: winona vs. cat power

― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:08 (thirteen years ago)

can't I have them both?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

not if i get them first

― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

MINE DAMN YOU

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:17 (thirteen years ago)

except reality bites somehow already felt nostalgic in 1992.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:06 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/aoannnamhuigvhjdd.jpg

“I was wearing an old Salvation Army shop boy’s suit. As I went to the bathroom I heard people saying, ‘Hey, faggot’. They slammed my head into a locker. I fell to the ground and they started to kick the shit out of me. I had to have stitches. The school kicked me out, not the bullies.
“Years later, I went to a coffee shop and I ran into one of the girls who’d kicked me, and she said, ‘Winona, Winona, can I have your autograph?’ And I said, ‘Do you remember me? Remember in seventh grade you beat up that kid?’ And she said, ‘Kind of’. And I said, ‘That was me. Go fuck yourself.’”

seems kinda like a made-up story, but how cute is she

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)

HALP

― Jopy's on a vacation far away (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)

So cool.

Seeing her in Beetlejuice inspired my first crush on the most goth-looking girl in school the next day. I think i was 7 or 8.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 17:33 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

omg these pictures!

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/nonawisus.jpg

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 21 October 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago)

<3 <3 <3

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 October 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago)

<3 candid snapshots of famous ppl but her especially

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 21 October 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago)

those kill me x 1000

― Admin is dead, e/t is permitted (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 October 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago)

eleven months pass...

i found myself wondering recently what winona ryder does with her time
what does she do all day?

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 19:57 (ten years ago)

sit around being awesome

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:00 (ten years ago)

yeah but specifically how does she pass the time in 2014?
i'm really curious.

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)

did she get bored and start studying anthropology or something?

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:01 (ten years ago)

maybe she's on tv shows -- i didn't check imdb, just found myself idly wondering what she was doing with her time

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:04 (ten years ago)

does she live on the west coast? I bet she's finishing lunch now. I wonder what she would eat for a lunch.

― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:06 (ten years ago)

looks like she works just enough to cover her expenses and stay out of the spotlight
so what does she do all day? i always thought of her as someone who would spend her time in a productive and interesting way but that could be a total illusion/projection

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:09 (ten years ago)

She's about 3/4 of the way through season 4 of The West Wing at the moment. And she's been spending a lot of time trying to master her new tandoor oven, with mixed results.

― Chewy Chunks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:17 (ten years ago)

Seems legit.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:18 (ten years ago)

i hope she's happy/satisfied, whatever she's doing
maybe learning a new language

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:21 (ten years ago)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10667269/Winona-Ryder-I-dont-have-an-interest-in-being-a-movie-star.html

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)

drawing in a notebook while drinking some tea

― ⌘-B (mh), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:22 (ten years ago)

maybe she has a book club with d'angelo

― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:28 (ten years ago)

hm i guess they like boomer classix
She also prefers to spend her time unearthing Philip Roths and John Updikes at her favourite San Francisco bookshop, City Lights, than waste time reading populist fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey.

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:30 (ten years ago)

whatever she does, she does it while having very nice hair, as the photo above that article reveals

― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:57 (ten years ago)

huh how come I've never seen her around town I wonder

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 20:58 (ten years ago)

i found myself wondering recently what winona ryder does with her time
what does she do all day?

I have this thought constantly abt Tom Verlaine FYI. How does he pass the hours. It bothers me.

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:57 (ten years ago)

She was a very vocal supporter of my boys the West Memphis Three, so for that I have to give her respect.

― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:59 (ten years ago)

hilarious on drunk history

― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 04:54 (ten years ago)

nabisco otm

― syro gyra (get bent), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 07:11 (ten years ago)

'The Ten' might be one of the top ten things Winona Ryder has done in life. Or at least one of the Ten things.

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:10 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

Does Roxy Carmichael have any kind of a cult following? Found it in a bargain bin a couple of months ago, threw it on tonight, and thought it was surprisingly, gratifyingly good. Reminded me of Demme in the '80s--one of those rare box-office concoctions where no one's made to look stupid. Even Francis Fisher, who comes closest to a one-dimensional villain, gets a nice moment right at the end.

― clemenza, Sunday, 16 November 2014 04:34 (ten years ago)

i remember liking it a lot, though i can't remember much about it. probably time for a revisit.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 16 November 2014 06:59 (ten years ago)

Please post if you do. I'm not sure if I was just in the right frame of mind (I saw the Godard film in the afternoon--typically difficult and discursive--so I may have been extra-susceptible to something soft and light) and would like to hear from someone else. It's the kind of film that seems made for Ebert, and he didn't like it, although he did have good things to say about Ryder. I agree with him that the Roxy backstory could have been handled better. But I really was surprised by how much I liked almost every character (the would-be boyfriend, adoptive father, and guidance counselor especially--and Ryder, of course), loved the atmospheric score, and thought the requisite happy ending was fine.

― clemenza, Sunday, 16 November 2014 14:56 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

a NYC retrospective!

https://quadcinema.com/program/utterly-winona/

The Age of Innocence is a strange omission.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:03 (seven years ago)

it's not like even mean girls is going to have the longevity of heathers or those burton movies.

nabisco NOT otm?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:07 (seven years ago)

may catch both heathers and mermaids in 35mm

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:10 (seven years ago)

and yeah nabisco def did not see the future there

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:11 (seven years ago)

perhaps i'll see you there!

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:12 (seven years ago)

i myself am strange and unusual

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:31 (seven years ago)

i found myself wondering recently what winona ryder does with her time
what does she do all day?

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:57 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sit around being awesome

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:00 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

― antisocal (rip van wanko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:48 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

As her NY retro draws closer, has anyone seen 1969? A hippie bath with the writer of On Golden Pond as the auteur, i can't imagine how atrocious it must be, even w/ Bruce Dern and Joanna Cassidy in support.

Apparently there's a recent Olive Films DVD of Mermaids... didn't know it was well regarded enough for that.

btw The Age of Innocence appears in the series now, and in 35mm.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:57 (six years ago)

i saw 1969 when it came out and it was terrible iirc
i don't remember anything about it beyond it sucking

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:00 (six years ago)

Mermaids has a modest cult, appropriately befitting a film featuring a family made up of Cher, Winona, and Christina Ricchi.

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:24 (six years ago)

Also the Olive Films release happened simply because MGM is farming out 95% of their catalogue DVD/BluRay reissues to 3rd party boutique labels.

― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:26 (six years ago)

for whatever reason i have rewatched mermaids twice in the last couple of years. it's not bad, winona and cher's performances are the centre of the film and they're pretty good. bob hoskins' american accent is terrible and there's a couple of extremely o_0 elements

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:27 (six years ago)

My local theatre is doing a mini Winona-fest: Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Reality Bites, and Dracula. I saw Scissorhands last night - most enjoyed the dinner table scenes and any time Alan Arkin has a line.

― jmm, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:42 (six years ago)

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