Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

3. Actress(es) you'd happily watch reading the phone book?


Like for the guys, this is in two sections. Old time i.e. ladies who were acting before I was born, and modern day.

First up has to be Lauren Bacall. Total class and such a terrific actress. Her and Bogey are one of the best love stories ever :)

Bette Davis (although she'd probably throw the phone book at me and claim she was being insulted), because, well, Bette freakin' Davis. If that isn't enough go watch Little Foxes or Now, Voyager or All About Eve. At once.

Doris Day, because she'd sing the phone book and make you feel like she was singing it for you alone.

And bridging the gap between old and new, the incomparable Angela Lansbury. Seriously, she could read the phone book, sing it, solve its murder.....

Of the new:-

Angelina Jolie - not just a pretty face (but that doesn't hurt). She'd make love to that phone book.

Helen Mirren - because dammit she'd make reading the phone book the most brilliant thing you've seen all year.

Angelina Jolie - one of the rare breed who can do action movies and romance and dramas. And would read the phone book in the style of all three.

Keira Knightley - who'd probably make the phone book the star of a costume drama. Wish she wasn't so skinny though: denial of eating disorder bedamned, being that thin isn't healthy.

Angelina Jolie. What?

Jodie Foster - First saw her in Candleshoe, a Disney thing, when she was a child star. And she outshone the entire cast of Bugsy Malone, so yeh, I've been a fan a long time :) Will always give her movies a watch. And she'd probably convince the phone book to give up secrets about the yellow pages and where it was burying the bodies. Effortlessly.

Angelina Jolie. Fiiiiine, I'll stop now.

Tracie Thoms - oh come ON! Like I wasn't going to list her :D She'd read the phone book but I prolly would be too distracted to notice :P Which is an excuse for a gratuitous picture.

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Edited because for some reason, the lines about Angela Lansbury got cut. Harrumph!!

4. First movie you remember seeing at the cinema as a child?

I remember being totally and utterly terrified by the Witch/Wicked Queen in Snow White to the point my Mom had to take me outside. I seem to recall hiding behind the seats a fair bit and peeking nervously over the top :D I couldn't have been more than 4 or 5? *checks* OK, it was re-released in 1975, so I was six. Hmf. Clearly I was a wussy kid :)

Another early movie I remember is seeing Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too with my friend Rosalyn Knott. It wasn't a full movie though, so it was bundled with a live action movie, which meant we had to sit through "Island at the Top of the World"*. Not exactly a movie to enthrall two six/seven year olds :P I think we were fairly well behaved but man, it seemed to last forever! It says something as to the level of trauma that I can remember what movie it was to this day, even though I've never seen it since! Winnie the Pooh almost made up for it though. "Ooh the wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one! *bounce-bounce*"

One of my very favourite early movie memories though is seeing Robin Hood (Disney's animated version) with my Mum. Watching it now, it's dated rather badly but it tickled our funny bones back then. In fact, it made Mum laugh so hard (it was the bit where Sir Hiss is sleeping at the end of Prince John's bed and his tongue keeps tickling Prince John's feet) that I actually disowned her and moved several seats away :D She was enjoying the movie more than the kids in the cinema!! We used to laugh about that a lot and when RH came out on video finally, we pounced on it. We were a little disappointed, it just wasn't as funny as we remembered it. But we had the memory of it anyway :)

* - just poked imdb and looked this movie up, mostly to make sure I really WAS remembering it correctly. And guess what? The screenplay was written by Joss Whedon's grandfather, John Whedon. That family owes me for movie trauma inflicted :P