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- From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- Subject: Re: Actors as Rand Characters (Re: Fountainhead: The Motion Picture)
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- In article <C1AGwA.1pL@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, pjnelson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (nelson peter j) writes:
- >What I find unbelievable is that Ayn Rand wanted Raquel Welch
- >to play Dagny Taggart! I don't see that working at all.
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- SG If we can ignore Welchs body (hah!) she does have a good sense of life
- (which may have been Rand's point) but she's not a profound actress
- >
- >I agree with a posting from a few days ago; Katharine Hepburn
- >would have been the best Dagny. Too bad she was too old to play
- >her even before "Atlas Shrugged" was even written.
-
- SG I think you are right about Hepburn. She was better than most people
- know in _Trojan Women_, an emotionally draining tragedy.
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- "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- AYN RAND
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- Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASSD.EDU>
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