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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Audrey
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:00:27 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <mattm-210193161807@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- > In article <C17tM0.6t0@cs.vu.nl>, fjvwing@cs.vu.nl (FJ!!) wrote:
- > > I'm not sure if we can call Audrey Hepburn a great actress, I think I
- > > can say that she was certainly adequate, and almost always a pleasant
- > > actress.
-
- Audrey Hepburn was one of the great movie stars, from the
- days when movie stars were still movie stars. Her acting
- abilities are beside the point, although I think you sell
- her short by saying that she was "adequate".
-
- > > `Roman Holiday' may be cotton-candy, but it feels like
- > > cotton-candy made with love.
- >
- > There are very few "great" actresses, and the name was already
- > taken by one.
-
- It must be because I've been hideously sick with the flu
- for the past few days, but I don't get the allusion.
-
- > Certainly Audrey Hepburn was as talented as
- > most (much like, oh, Marlene Dietrich...)
-
- Well, yes. And, like Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn created her own
- reality on screen. I can think of few, if any, performances
- more charming than Hepburn's in "Roman Holiday" and "Breakfast
- at Tiffany's" and "Funny Face". And what about her performance
- in "Wait Until Dark"? She's *wonderful*. Or how about in
- "Two for the Road"? *Fabulous*. She's good even in dreck,
- like "Green Mansions".
-
- Audrey Hepburn was one of the last true *movie stars*,
- and we won't ever see her like again.
-
- Arne
-
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