March 30, 2024
Charlotte Rampling: Still smoldering in three languages.
Great gifts, persistence and drive are hard to beat. If you don't know who Charlotte Rampling is, do find out.
Ah, Charlotte. You made up for many of the rest of us.
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March 27, 2024
Mary Harris Jones, "Grandmother of All Agitators"
Big ones. School teacher, seamstress, businesswoman, community organizer, Chicago girl and Ireland-born, Mary Harris "Mother Jones" (1837-1930) had big ones. What a resume, most of it built after she turned 50.
Denounced on the U.S. Senate floor as the "grandmother of all agitators."
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February 13, 2024
Catherine Deneuve, 1995.
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Catherine Deneuve, 52, in 1995.
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February 02, 2024
Bring back real dames.
Bring back real women and girls: Annabelle Wallis, English, b. September 5, 1984
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January 08, 2024
Charlotte Rampling. Still Smoldering in 3 Languages.
Bring back real women. Please.
Below: Cannes Film Festival 2001.
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October 31, 2023
Pantheon: Charlize Theron
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August 02, 2023
Ms. Ross
You may have dramatic cheekbones, pouty lips, Chiclet-white teeth, the neck of a gazelle, four feet of legs, a French manicure, and a serious rack of mamm. But if your insides aren't pretty, your outsides don't really mean that much...and there's no time like the present to go in for soul surgery.
--Andrew Creighton Stone, Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Confidential
Katharine Ross
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May 16, 2023
Bring Back Real Women: Annabeth Gish
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April 21, 2023
In Praise of Real Girls: Parker Posey
They're picking up prisoners--and putting them in a pen. All she wants to do is dance.
--Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. ASCAP (1984)
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Get "Party Girl" (1995) and watch her dance in the last scene. Add Ms. Posey to our Pantheon.
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April 20, 2023
Bring Back Real Girls: Audrey Tautou
b. Beaumont, France 1976
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February 20, 2023
American Pantheon: Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu Vogue China April 2009
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February 18, 2023
Charlotte Rampling: Still smoldering in three languages.
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February 13, 2023
Happy Birthday, EJB.
My friend Ellen Bry, an actress and prime time television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The Closer) for decades, also known as this blog's in-house photographer, usually works in television. A few years ago she played Ester Hobbes, a Chicago socialite who suddenly loses everything, in The Lost & Found Family, a Sony Pictures release. In the film, we meet a strong and spiritual woman who is surprised to learn that she has inherited just one thing from her dead businessman husband: a run-down old house in Georgia, and the turbulent foster family living in it. Taken from the story Mrs. Hobbes' House, The Lost & Found Family is a remarkably powerful family film set in the American South. It was filmed in Jackson, Georgia, a town between Atlanta and Macon, with a population of about 4000, in Butts County. I was there once years ago. No, it's just not a movie for this stereotype: people who go to church, sing, say "golly", watch lots of TV, eat a lot, and are afraid of virtually everyone and everything all the time. There are artful, and moving, performances by Ellen and her younger cast members, who include teen heartthrob Lucas Till and Jessica Luza, a film and television actress. Ellen's other movie credits include Mission Impossible 3, Deep Impact, and Bye, Bye Love.
Original post: February 13, 2018
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January 03, 2023
Bring Back Real Women: Lucy Liu.
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January 02, 2023
In 2023, Bring Back Real Women.
Let’s bring back Real Women. Women with Everything.
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November 09, 2022
Bring Back Real Women: Sigourney Weaver.
I need a woman about twice my height.
Statuesque.
Raven-tressed.
A goddess of the night.--John Barlow and Bob Wier, "I Need a Miracle"
Patrician. Five foot eleven. Stanford and Yale. 72 years old.
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Susan Alexandra Weaver in 2008
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October 10, 2022
Bring Back Real Women: Annabeth Gish.
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August 02, 2022
Real Women: Elizabeth McGovern.
Elizabeth McGovern in 2012.
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December 17, 2021
Real Women is what we want for Christmas: Charlotte Rampling.
Still Smoldering in 3 Languages.
Cannes Film Festival 2001
Circa 1975
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September 08, 2021
Women We Love: Catherine Deneuve
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June 20, 2021
Dutch Medusa 1617
PETER PAUL RUBENS AND FRANS SNYDERS, “HOOFD VAN MEDUSA,” 1617
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December 31, 2020
Pantheon: Janus Blythe
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October 10, 2020
Dutch Medusa 1617
PETER PAUL RUBENS AND FRANS SNYDERS, “HOOFD VAN MEDUSA,” 1617
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February 29, 2020
Bring Back Real Women: Parker Posey
Got sand? Parker Posey does. Rent "Party Girl" (1995). Watch her dance at the end. She's among the first in our Pantheon.
Pretty Bohemian Girl Next Door
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February 18, 2020
Seven
Happy Birthday today to the most beautiful seven-year-old girl in the World.
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January 18, 2020
Bring Back Real Women.
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton (born January 9, 1982)
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June 04, 2019
American Pantheon: Nico (1938-1988)
Born Christa Päffgen in Cologne (1938-1988)
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April 09, 2019
American Pantheon: Dame Alice Krige.
I have not met South Africa-born movie, television and stage actress Alice Krige but have admired her and her movies for almost 30 years. I would like to see her on stage some day. I am in awe of working dramatic actresses based on the difficulty of their craft alone--and have been lucky to spend a lot of time with one in particular. To be noticed and hired, to keep working in serious paying roles down through the years, to make a living, to endure, even for the very gifted, is not a reality for most. You must be more than pretty, more than mega-hardworking, more than resilient, more than cheerful, strong, tough, well-regarded, respected and liked. You must be Lucky, too. Uncommon and shining talent is a prerequisite. All your competitors have it. A tough, unforgiving profession you must love deeply and almost unconditionally to merely stay the course in many, many moments during a long career.
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December 13, 2018
Zelda, where are you?
I would walk ten miles on my hands and knees
Ain't no doubt about it baby it's you I aim to please
I'd wrestle with a lion and a grizzly bear
It's my life baby but I don't care
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
For you baby I would swim the sea
Nothing I'd do for you that's too tuff for me
I'd put out a burning building with a shovel and dirt
And not even worry about getting hurt
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd work twenty four hours, seven days a week
Just so I could come home and kiss your cheek
I love you in the morning and I love you at noon
I love you in the night and take you to the moon
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
I'd lay in a pile of burning money that I've earned
And not even worry about getting burned
I'd climb the Empire State Building, fight Muhammad Ali
Just to have you baby close to me
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Ain't that tuff enuff
Songwriters: Kim Wilson
Tuff Enuff lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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June 12, 2018
Women We Love: Annabeth Gish.
Annabeth Gish has long resided our Pantheon. She is a versatile artist and human.
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April 30, 2018
Real Women: Catherine Deneuve
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December 18, 2017
Pantheon: Elizabeth McGovern.
McGovern in 2012.
Her dad was a Northwestern law professor. Born in Chicago 56 years ago, she has malleable, ageless looks. At the age of 22, she played both teenagers and 65-year-olds in my favorite movie, Once Upon a Time in America. In 1980, she dropped out of Juillard and American Conservatory Theatre work on Robert Redford's first directing project, Ordinary People. In 1981 she finished {schools} and in same year earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime.
In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic interest Deborah Gelly. In 1989 she played Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill.
She now lives in London--since 2010, she has played Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the British TV series Downton Abbey. Add this Eternal Total Betty to our Pantheon.
Another wonderful fact: Since 2008, she’s fronted the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road, London.
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Circa 1984.
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March 26, 2017
Law Business Protip of the Week: The Receptionist.
Stunning thin smart personable young female receptionists are hands-down the most important development in brick and mortar business in the last 100 years. Spread the word. Beautify the Americas and Europe.
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January 30, 2017
Pantheon: Sarah Silverman.
"I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it."
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December 17, 2016
Rebecca Bricker's new novel: The Secret of Marie.
"The Secret of Marie" is a new novel of art history set in Claude Monet's Giverny, France. It is two love stories set in the same village: a modern-day romance between a French architect and American writer in 2004, and one between storied American impressionist painter Theodore Robinson and his Parisian model, known to this day only as "Marie," 100 years earlier. "The Secret of Marie" is the third novel by my friend Rebecca Bricker, an American expat based in Florence, Italy.
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March 29, 2016
Anna Marie Duke (1946-2016)
Today we lost someone authentic and great. Patty Duke, 69, was way more than an Oscar winner, television icon and child film star. Gifted, hardworking, prolific, smart, tough, brave. First-rate stage and movie actress her whole life. She could sing, too. Survivor, endurer, winner. Real class with no apologies. And too young. This news bothered me.
Patty Duke & Helen Keller circa 1960. Photo: Nina Leen. Thanks Charles Lieurance, Betsy Munnell
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June 12, 2015
Pantheon: Ms. Mulligan.
Two weeks ago, London-born actress Carey Hannah Mulligan turned 30. She's already a stage and screen standout internationally, and a national treasure in England. Mulligan was nominated in 2009 for an Oscar as Best Actress based on work she did at 23. She is now making audiences smile, laugh, disapprove, gasp, and fall in love with her--together with her three fictional 19th century suitors--in yet another new film version of Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far From The Madding Crowd. His fourth novel, this is probably Hardy's best story, and the work that made him famous. If you haven't read it, you're an asshole. Just kidding and making sure you're still reading. If you haven't read it, you're missing something. If you were assigned to read it, and actually did read it in high school or college, read it again. It is at once a study of love, adversity and sudden changes beyond our control or skills.
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October 26, 2014
Pantheon: Kim Bassinger, 60.
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October 11, 2013
Pantheon: Lisa Kudrow.
A 40-something Vassar grad (B.A. Biology) who can still play youngish lovable ditzes on nighttime TV and in feature films, Kudrow already has won or been nominated for a lifetime worth of Emmys and SAG awards. She comes from a talented and interesting LA-based family (music and medicine) with Russian-Jewish roots. Kudrow's ancestors emigrated from Belarus and lived in the village of Ilya, near Minsk. Her great-grandmother was murdered in the Holocaust. She got into acting late; she worked first as a researcher, and as an anchor/reporter for an ABC affiliate in Texas. For us, her HBO series "The Comeback" was a revelation. Watch for her to soar in the next two decades in dramatic roles. Do add her to our Pantheon. It needs a few more Blondes with Brains, Comedic Timing and Big Moxie--all three out the wazoo.
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August 25, 2012
Heiresses: And Talented, Too.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Louis-Dreyfus Group, France.
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January 29, 2012
Pantheon: Vanessa Anne Hudgens. Charisma, legs and talents beyond her years.
Born December 14, 1988. American actress, singer. We were very, very wrong about her. She's not too young for The Pantheon. She got legs, legs, charisma and talent. She can act. We salute her--and stand corrected.
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August 27, 2011
Pantheon: Lena Calhoun Horne.
1941 photo by Carl Van Vechten
Lena Horne died last year on May 9, 2010. She had natural class and confidence. She lived her life as a work of art. She could sing, dance, act. She could, and did, stand up to talentless arrogance, straight-up bullies and inelegance in all its forms--both before and after she became powerful in her own right. If you're of the greatest generation, you think of her as glamorous. If you're a Boomer, she's the best of the Civil Rights movement.
And if you were born after 1970, you might be curious about a New Yorker who begins life in a rapidly-changing Bedford–Stuyvesant, moves South without parents, heads back up to Brooklyn, becomes a Cotton Club mainstay at 17, breaks records in more than walk of life, and lives to be 92. Start here, here or here.
Add Ms. Horne to our Pantheon.
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