Jessica Lange - Search & Destroy

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This comment on the Broken Flowers thread startled me:

WTF happened to Jessica Lange's face? It looks like she ate a box of Botox.

David Thomson once wrote that Lange had it in her to become "the most dangerous actress in America" thanks to her performances in The Postman Always Rings Twice and Frances. Like most beautiful people she was ashamed of her looks, and except for her marvelous comedic turn in Tootsie she rarely relaxed. She was often better than the movies in which she starred (Country, Sweet Dreams, Music Box). When she won the Oscar for Blue Sky she seemed to lose most of her intensity (something similar happened to Susan Sarandon); the only recent perfs I'd keep are her turns in Rob Roy and Titus.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 March 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Frances is gold gold gold

sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I often cite Frances as a textbook example of a great performance in a bad, bad movie.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Admittedly it's been years since I've seen it, but Frances is so bad that it's tainted my enjoyment of Lange's performance (in any case, when I want Crazy Jessica I prefer Blue Sky anyway.)

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

search: king kong, all that jazz, how to beat the high cost of living, the postman always rings twice, tootsie, frances, sweet dreams, crimes of the heart, country, men don't leave, & night & the city

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I enjoyed Frances, but then I was pretty young at the time and was probably influenced by my parents' liking of said film. It can't be as bad she looks now?

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I forgot about Crimes of the Heart! Sissy Spacek, Diane Keaton, and Lange as sisters!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.amvf.org/Images/Acteurs/Jessica%20Lange%20-%20king%20kong.jpg

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...
Watching Frances now. Boy, is she beautiful.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Hilton Als called her Mary Tyrone a miracle.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 May 2016 03:05 (ten years ago)

so any thoughts on Ryan Murphy's upcoming series Feud, on the disslike between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford - Lane and Susan Sarandon as the two leads recreating the Baby Jane filming?

Not sure if it is only set during that shoot or if it will include their history but am intrigued tho expecting it to be over the top in full-on-Murphy mode - if that serves the story or just makes it ridic, is of course up in the air

H in Addis, Friday, 6 May 2016 16:58 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

man, her Oscar movie is lame

no wonder it sat on the shelf for 3 years

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:01 (nine years ago)

she's fire in it. So is Jones. Here's an actress whose two Oscars are for first-rate perfs in junk.

The movie's drivel, though -- Reflections in a Golden Eye by way of All My Children.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:07 (nine years ago)

Oh never mind -- forgot she didn't win for FRANCES

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 03:11 (nine years ago)

they kept me from turning it off, yeah

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:40 (nine years ago)

Was going to say!

http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/tootsie.jpg

insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:44 (nine years ago)

i had this whole VF photoshoot on my walls when i was a kid. because i was the gayest teenager ever.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7a/35/84/7a3584d4c9ce0b455be6d58ad247645e.jpg

http://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1980/sam-shepard-/009-sam-shepard-theredlist.jpg

scott seward, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:46 (nine years ago)


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