ANDIE Macdowell is her generation's Ali MacGraw.

She is a robot.

[quote] She is a robot.

It's robut.

I've never seen her come to life on screen, but she's been better in some stuff than others. She's at least tolerable in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

Her voice and William Hurt's voice can lull monkeys to sleep.

I saw her coming out of my building with some friends of hers, and hardly anyone in the lobby, yet she covered her face with her hand as if afraid of being recognized or afraid of the non-existent paparazzi.

Andie has worked much more than Ali has. Andie has also been in the beauty business much longer. Ali had sort of given up by the time she did "Dynasty." Glamour wasn't really her thing.

What's more to say OP? You've said it all.

She's very likable in Groundhog Day, and is pretty good in Green Card and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Moreover, she has the type of bone structure the camera loves. Like Ava Gardner.

On the line we have genius grant recipient and all round good sport Angie Dickinson.

Tell us Annie, do you think you ever met your father's Great Expectations?

A natural beauty.

I read Robert Evans' biography but it was a longtime ago. Did Ali owe much of her success to Evans?

Did Nolan Miller hate Ali MacGraw? This is the sort of outfit you give a great big fat person.

She's incredibly beautiful and I LOVE her voice

Andie is very pretty, graceful, and has a similar natural beauty to Ali, but lacks the same sex appeal IMHO. Some things cannot be adequately quantified, or perfectly explained. Andie has a patrician thing going on, so it may be that, which prevents me thinking of her more sexually. Ali favoured more miniskirts and clingy knits when she was happening, boots and miniskirts as well... Andie didn't seem to work any particularly sexy styles. She seemed more like a respectable church lady, hats, long dresses, nothing too fitted or tight. Rarely wore her hair down too.

Well their acting skills (I use that word loosely) are on a par, that's for sure.

I was a colorist in a high end salon and got to do her hair. She’s very gracious in person and I admire she likely has made more money off L’Oreal ads over the decades than acting.

Andie always reminded me of all the southern church moms I knew as a kid. Pleasant, pretty, but not much there. Sorta flat and boring. You knew she'd probably leave the party before playing spin the bottle or watch that R rated movie her parents forbid her to watch.

Ali and an old queen.

My Asheville friend went to the same salon as she did. She got her hair dyed in a special room as she was doing the hair dye commercials at the time. M friend's hairdresser spilled the tea.

R4 you should watch ‘Michael’.

"Love Story" made Ali MacGraw is a pop culture icon, something Andie Macdowell will never be.

R21 The L'Oreal ads, plus Groundhog Day and Four Weddings has made Andie rather a pop icon.

Sometimes bad actresses can be very right for certain roles. I think she was very effective in sex, lies and videotape, 4 weddings and short cuts.

Love Story is dreck and will be forgotten very shortly, r21.

She’s charming, beautiful, and has restraint. That was the fantasy for the gruff Fraus stuffed into their denim skorts in the 90s, she possessed a feminine demure character they could never attain. She also appealed to the blue collar man, because she kept her mouth shut at the right times and was gorgeous, but had that nerdy aspect that made her seem attainable. She was the perfect girl to pair with fugly actors in the 90s. Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Bill Murray, Michael Keaton, William Hurt all hideous and all paired with Andie.

R24 interesting and astute sum up - an angle I never noticed.

I would hardly call William Hurt or Michael Keaton hideous.

[Quote] Love means never having to say you' re sorry.

Is it raining? I hadn't noticed.

Andie's had a few good movies, including Short Cuts. Ali's had nothing but schlock. Even her Peckinpah, "The Getaway", isn't anything special.

[quote]Love Story is dreck and will be forgotten very shortly,

LOL. Love Story will be forgotten "very shortly"?

Uh...the film was released 40 years ago.

OF COUSE it's dreck. No one disputes that. But it was a cultural sensation in a way that none of Andie Macdowells films were.

[quote] Ali's had nothing but schlock

He's gay. Ali has not "had" him.

Di-tent you KNOW? Di-tent YOU know?!

Disagree. "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was massive. They even made a TV version only a couple of years ago.

[quote]Did Ali owe much of her success to Evans?

Yes, she had read the script and wanted to make the movie. She needed Evans to get it done. He was then production chief at Paramount. He didn't think much of the story, but was in love with her, so, ta-da!

Is she a Trumper? AndIe blocked me on Twitter after I posted Trump memes. I guess she follows people who follow her.

Hilarious R31!

I had been a fan since the Ralph Lauren days, but lost all interest after she shaded Gerard Depardieu as “ugly.” Later, I thought the SNL sketch that depicted her as someone so dumb she’d eat paste were hilarious.

They didn't have to shade Sally Kirkland like that.

She was phenomenal in 4 Weddings. Also, related note, that funeral scene is one of the saddest scenes I've ever witnessed.