― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
"don't say anything, hilary. just... go."
my grandfather gave me a bio of her to read - kate remembered. i started but then got sidetracked, but even the first few pages were more entertaining than most audrey hepburn movies.
― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link
http://delirium.lejournal.free.fr/Katharine_Hepburn1.jpg
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I do prefer Audrey but her character in breakfast at tiffany’s did my head in, no guy would put up with that.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Katherine wins... just
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link
You mean dud or Dutch? ;-) I do know that she could speak Dutch quite well. I think her granny made sure she continued using the language so she didn't forget it. I think she's so lovely. Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel. But not really sexy. If I remember correctly she said she was so skinny because of the war: the atrocities made her feel guilty of eating (or something along those lines). :-(
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
it's very telling that so many people prefer audrey.
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel
if i wanted one of those, i'd buy it off the home shopping network.
― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Katherine - knockout ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KH_40s-10.jpg and better actress. Admired for her confidencehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Katharinehepburn1.jpg..which got annoying with old age.
Still, Kate.
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Thursday, 1 December 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Audrey wears me down if I see too much of her. Although I like her more in the abstract.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
College-Aged Female Finds Unlikely Kindred Spirit In Audrey Hepburn
― sleepingsignal, Thursday, 5 September 2013 06:00 (ten years ago) link
Catching up, catching up.
I've been listening to the Julie Ruin's Run Fast in the car for a couple of days. My favourite song is "Lookout"--found this video. Could do without the oversized lyrics blocking out all the images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4id-3mw2hsI
― clemenza, Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
The new doc is not good.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
in fact, it is absolutely terrible
― akm, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 01:33 (three years ago) link
I liked it a lot.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 01:34 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure I just watched my first-ever Audrey this week (The Children's Hour). Probably not the best intro to her allure but she was quite good in it.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
re Audrey - Sabrina, Funny Face, Green Mansions, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Children’s Hour, Charade - she was great in all of them
Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady, and Wait Until Dark are my favorite performances of hers
― Dan S, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 02:13 (three years ago) link
19 years later, still so embarrassed that i got kate’s name wrong in the thread title
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
Katharine has the more impressive career by far.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
Nothing in common, these two.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
I can think of one thing.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
They were into threeways and pistachio ice cream
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:47 (three years ago) link
Beat me to it.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Both Katherine and Audrey were slotted into very particular types of roles throughout their careers. How one relates to them is bound to be largely dependent on how one relates to their typical characters, with a small side order of how one relates to their biographies. I happen to relate better to Katherine than Audrey, just as a matter of my personal tastes.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
Just because I got to watch and hear her for 90 minutes, I thought the documentary was pretty good. The framing bit with the ballet dancers was quite unnecessary, and they skipped over a few crucial films for some reason: Charade, The Nun's Story, The Children's Hour. (Skipping Bloodline, which played when I was an usher in 1979, a little more understandable.) I didn't know anything about her war experiences, and if I've ever seen Mel Ferrer in a film, I'm drawing a blank. (Like many, I'm sure, I probably always thought she was married to José Ferrer.) I found that guy who swooped in near the end--"Merle Oberon's companion"--a little suspicious, but it seemed like a important relationship in her life. Her time with UNICEF was moving.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
Charade is fun. But so is To Have and Have Not.
I see no necessity to choose.
― calzone layer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Wait, fuck, did I really just write that? Not To Have and Have Not. African Queen.
― calzone layer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
(Lauren Bacall vs Rosalind Russell would be just as difficult, tho - To Have and Have Not vs His Girl Friday)
― calzone layer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Would have been KH's birthday today, so I played this clip from Woman of the Year for a grade 8 class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H00_NJtbJY
First time--I should have been playing this clip for the last 20 years! All that eye-play when they first look at each other--amazing.
― clemenza, Thursday, 12 May 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Saw a restoration of Roman Holiday today. Just love it--for me, in the first rank of American B&W sound films, up there with Double Indemnity, Kane, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, a handful more. Not AH's first film--IMDB has it as her eighth, including one famous one (The Lavender Hill Mob), but the roles must have all been small enough that the opening credits say "Introducing Audrey Hepburn." (And "Presenting Gregory Peck.") It's perfect from start to finish, and the last scene, the press conference, is an amazing sustained bit of acting by both of them almost wholly expressed in gestures and glances. In a few of Stanley Kauffmann's books, he would append a "Reviewings" section where he'd go and look back on three or four of his favourite films. (The thing that first prompted me to see Roman Holiday in the '80s.) His Roman Holiday piece is in Before My Eyes--will reread that tonight.
I assume the film primarily (or wholly) springs from the coronation of Elizabeth II the year before, but I tend to view stuff from the '50s as it relates to the arrival of rock and roll in '55. And Roman Holiday feels like a tiny stirring--someone trapped in a stratified life, complaining that "everything we do is so wholesome," dying to break out. Which she does, for 24 hours.
(Must have come out just before Dalton Trumbo getting blacklisted; his name is prominent in the credits twice.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
Audrey in Lavender Hill Mob is a very short appearance indeed...around 20 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mjcfTOJ4Nc
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
Wow--like Richard Dreyfuss in The Graduate.
I might be wrong about Trumbo. Seems that he wrote the script before the blacklist? Maybe his name was restored at some point.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
Yeah first time I watched Lavender Hill Mob I had no idea of the Audrey bit part and it was a real WAIT WHAT moment.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 13 February 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
Audrey Hepburn's accent in My Fair Lady is absolutely excruciating - without even the excuse of being American. New Year, new confession, I can't stand Audrey Hepburn.
― The Italian Yob (Tom D.), Monday, 1 January 2024 16:56 (three months ago) link
Audrey is at her best and worst in Charade, on Amazon now and one of my comfort movies.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:23 (three months ago) link
Oof -- scanning the thread spoiled it a bit to find out they were actually related, but only distantly. I rather liked the possibility they were identical twins but were in a real life Parent Trap situation.
Anyways, Kate Mulgrew (and Dana Carvey) are always shoe-ins for a Kathere-inactor but who could credibly be Audrey?
Because it's not Jennifer Love Hewitt!https://static.wixstatic.com/media/021143_1601fe32acb64d36834548c7b7a89077.jpg/v1/crop/x_295,y_217,w_1719,h_2322/fill/w_388,h_688,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/heplovex.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 4 January 2024 00:41 (three months ago) link
Tavi Gevinson?
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 4 January 2024 02:30 (three months ago) link
Ariana Grande imo
― he’s an adventurer (derogatory) (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 4 January 2024 04:50 (three months ago) link
chan marshall could have summoned the vibe at one time
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 January 2024 06:24 (three months ago) link
they tried with Audrey Tatou but it never really took
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:38 (three months ago) link
It's curious how Audrey Hepburn suggests a shorter actress when she actually stood 5'7". Ariana Grande is 5'1" and Tavi Gevinson 5 feet even.
― Josefa, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:34 (three months ago) link
Yes I noticed she was pretty tall in My Fair Lady.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:43 (three months ago) link
tavi gevinson is a horrible actress, based on the one half season of revived gossip girl I attempted to watch. that disqualifies her completely
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
but _does it_?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:50 (three months ago) link
yes
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:00 (three months ago) link
deems was having a chuckle.
the fans of a big movie star have such a powerful attachment to their idol that it requires exceptional acting ability to convincingly impersonate them. it doesn't matter how much or little acting ability the movie star may have had.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 January 2024 21:06 (three months ago) link