S&D: Rosanna Arquette

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Rosanna Arquette: once a colossus astride the silver screen in 1985 with Desperately Seeking Susan and After Hours. Now her films don't even seem to be reaching the UK.

Search: Pulp Fiction (small but perfectly formed role), After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan

Destroy: most of the rest, though perhaps mainly due to an overwhelming ability to choose unsuccessful film

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Search Baby It's You, a John Sayles movie from '82 that used to show incessantly on Showtime, along with Beastmaster and Lunch Wagon Girls.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

And don't forget Crash. If you have the stomach for that sort of thing.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Rosanna Arquette may have been my first famous-woman crush ever when I was six or seven, at least in the "I'd like to be alone with this person" sense rather than the "you're cute" sense.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 2 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a HUGE fan of "After Hours". Beyond that, I can't say she's ever made that favorable an impression on me. "Desperately Seeking Susan"'s okay...as a period piece, I suppose. Her "role" (more like a cameo) in "Pulp Fiction" was so fleeting it hardly mattered.

Is "Baby, It's You" the stalker film?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

She does kooky better than almost anyone else (The pantheon of kookiness? Goldie Hawn,Diane Keaton,Lisa Kudrow,Mary Tyler Moore?)
And she still looks terrific.

Her performance in After Hours is terrific.

So there's still chance of a comeback.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

hello! carole lombard!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 January 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby It's You is a romantic comedy-drama with Vincent Spano, and it's '83, not '82. (thanks, IMDB!)

as far as the kooky pantheon goes, Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve gets mad, mad props. would Melanie Griffith make it in there, too?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget Nowhere To Run with JCVD ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

melanie griffith gets a conditional, time-limited pass

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Kooky as a curse: Liza Minelli in Arthur.

Way, way too kooky.

― andy, Friday, 2 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

She was good in The Executioner's Song (made-for-US-TV movie about Gary Gilmore) and it's a good movie (but get the European version).

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Adrien Shelly, who appears in a lot of Hal Hartley movies, is kind of a new Rosanna Arquette. But much as I try I think I've only liked one of his movies.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 2 January 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Kooky as a curse: Liza Minelli in Arthur.
Way, way too kooky.

-- andy (and...), January 2nd, 2004.

Well, there's good kooky (Goldie Hawn) and there's bad kooky (Liza Minelli). Good kooky is rare. As is good Liza. (I confess to liking Cabaret, for instance.)

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Saturday, 3 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

This is the only place I know to announce to the world the following exciting factoid: Rosanna Arquette has braces. Like, she has old fashioned metal braces on her teeth. I saw her on lol Oprah talking about her brother and was like whaaaaaaaa.

Pleased to report Patricia has not made a similar decision to remove her snaggletooth. I love her teeth.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

i remember watching the van damme movie she was in. even then, as a 13 year old or something, i thought "why rosanna why?"

― tylerw, Friday, 25 February 2011 20:22 (fourteen years ago)

I like Rosanna Arquette. Am alternately pleased that she went on Oprah with braces and didn't even mention it, and sad that she felt the need to get braces.

People mag circa 86:

NOTHING PERSONAL: Rosanna (Desperately Seeking Susan) Arquette has turned a deaf ear to the critics. Although her latest movie, Nobody's Fool, got its share of pans, Arquette says she's learned from past experience not to read reviews anymore. "I've had one or two scathing ones, that's for sure," she says. "When I first got a TV series with Shirley Jones (1979's short-lived Shirley), the Hollywood Reporter said I won 'this year's burnt tire award.' I also read that 'Rosanna Arquette runs the gamut from A to A and never was a trip so long.' Whew!" Rosanna says it really hurts when they "come after you for looking ugly." Remembers Arquette: "Once I was criticized for having buck teeth. What am I supposed to do? I sucked my thumb, okay? I never had braces, all right?" All right.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

I should start a poll for the following songs, all of which can be sung (+/-) with interchangeable titles:

Amanda (Boston)
Rosanna (Toto)
Joanna (Kool & the Gang)

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

Joanna ftw imo

― Trip Maker, Friday, 25 February 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Baby It’s You still incredible.

― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:32 (three years ago)

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