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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Audrey (and Katharine)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:36:00 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1jr4iqINNdhv@mizar.usc.edu> <PC.93Jan27183852@bacon.linus.mitre.org> <mattm-280193094747@mcmelmon.apple.com>
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- In article <mattm-280193094747@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon), getting the attribution
- wrong, writes:
-
- > In article <PC.93Jan27183852@bacon.linus.mitre.org>,
- > pc@linus.mitre.org (Penny Chase) wrote:
-
- Sorry, *X*, but I was the one who wrote:
- > > Au contraire! Katharine Hepburn is as convincing
- > > a Southern grande dame as I would be. She's pretty
- > > good in Summertime, now that I think of it. The
- > > rest of the time, though, it's all variations on
- > > the one character she *can* play convincingly: herself.
- >
- > You are saying that "Bringing Up Baby," "Long Day's Journey Into
- > Night," The Lion in Winter," "Summertime," "Rooster Cogburn,"
- > and "On Godlen Pond" are all variations on *one* characterization?
-
- Yes. I'm also saying that "Alice Adams", "Pat and Mike",
- "The Philadelphia Story", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner",
- and "African Queen" are all variations on the same
- characterization.
-
- > Nonsense.
-
- The truth hurts, don't it?
-
- > Katharine Hepburn is a great movie star
-
- Yes, one of the greatest.
-
- > *and* a great actress,
-
- I keep forgetting that when you're not dancing yourself
- to a frenzy at Cybele's (= Madonna's) shrine, you're
- busy admiring Meryl "Frank Gorshin" Streep.
-
- > and is fulling deserving of the recognition she has received.
-
- Yes, she is. It still doesn't make her a great actress, though.
-
- Arne
-
-