Jacqueline Bisset
The English-French actress has aged very gracefully.
Her first film was Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac in 1966 and she has not stopped working since. Casino Royal, Bullitt, Airport, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Day for Night, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deep, The Greek Tycoon, Under the Volcano, Forbidden, Rossini! Rossini!, La Cérémonie, Joan of Arc, Latter Days, Death in Love, and Birds of Paradise.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 108 | December 2, 2023 11:42 PM
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Now (thanks to the two threads) I just realized I never knew the difference between Jacqueline Bisset and Genevieve Bujold. Is there one?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 3, 2022 9:36 PM
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She broke my heart on Nip/Tuck. I couldn’t forgive her character for befriending the homeless guy on Christmas, only to murder him and sell his organs.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 3, 2022 9:36 PM
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I think she could use a much better hairstylist and color.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | July 3, 2022 9:37 PM
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She hasn't aged very gracefully. She has aged badly. Maybe that's graceful to you.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 3, 2022 9:48 PM
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Yeah, she hasn't looked like the photo in at least 15 years. I don't think her face looks bad for a woman her age. At least she isn't a plastic surgery monstrosity. But she looks really unkempt and sloppy these days. She was gorgeous in her youth and very talented.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 3, 2022 9:51 PM
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Well perhaps she can throw herself in front of a bus, R5. Would that make you happy?
Seriously, you can't win.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 3, 2022 10:01 PM
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Nip/Tuck was where I first noticed she was allowing herself to age. And yet looked quite good.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | July 3, 2022 10:02 PM
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She looks great for 77 which is why it is so baffling that she won't use a comb and hair conditioner. Her hair has looked like shit for 10 years.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 3, 2022 10:06 PM
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R1, Jacqueline Bisset was an exquisite beauty in her day. Genevieve Bujold was a pouty, baby-faced gamine in the style of Leslie Caron. Cute if you're into that look.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | July 3, 2022 10:07 PM
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I thought her acting improved a lot from the mid-80s, but maybe she just got some interesting roles.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 3, 2022 10:10 PM
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Bond girl. Giovanna Goodthighs, and uncombed even then
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | July 3, 2022 10:18 PM
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Love her. Always comes across well when interviewed. Seems pretty no nonsense. My favourite film of hers is “day for night” by Truffaut.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 3, 2022 10:18 PM
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Any dirt, R11? Or just anything at all, really.
She did a movie with Candice Bergen and there were rumors that they got it on off set. That's a Lesbian fantasy set up right there. My goodness.
She has always seemed alright to me. Had a nice long run as being just downright gorgeous. Never seemed to really harm anyone.
Hopefully she'll go in for a wash and set at some point since there's no shame in naturally aging and we don't know if she has arthritis in her hands or something. Hell, I'll wash and condition her hair even now.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 3, 2022 10:21 PM
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Didn't she have a long romance with a female acting coach? Some European.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 4, 2022 2:52 AM
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She had a long relationship with with the ballet dancer Alexander Godunov. He died from complications of alcoholism.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 4, 2022 7:33 PM
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sheesh he drank himself to death at age 45 after having the body and training of a world class dancer.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 4, 2022 9:56 PM
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He just didn't do godunov dealing with his problems
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 4, 2022 10:22 PM
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OP- She's aged into Collen Dewhurst.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 4, 2022 10:49 PM
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Day for Night is such a good movie. I love the mess that her character is.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 5, 2022 12:09 AM
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R20 Better than Colleen Camp
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 5, 2022 5:19 PM
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I admire her for having the guts the age like a real human being. I did notice they attempted some of those de-aging filters on her during her season of Nip/Tuck, but they always looked like someone blurred the part of the frame with her face on it with a lot of vaseline and everything around her looked clear. I don't think they'd mastered that effect yet. Or maybe they couldn't afford it. They did something similar with Jessica Lange during a flashback in the first season of American Horror Story and it looked equally bizarre.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 5, 2022 6:33 PM
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she was the very best thing in that "Latter Days" gay film
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 5, 2022 6:35 PM
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R25 the sexy husband Stacy was
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 5, 2022 6:37 PM
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She seems like a perfectly normal, albeit sophisticated, person.
Incredible natural beauty, but not a lot of personality onscreen until she aged out of the thinly written, “generic girlfriend” category. I guess she started showing more life in the early 80s with CLASS. And RICH & FAMOUS.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | July 13, 2022 6:58 AM
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In this late in the 60s and 70s she was in a relationship with Michael Sarrazin
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 13, 2022 7:02 AM
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Yes. A string of long term relationships. Never married - which is maybe smart for an actress with a demanding career and lots of travel.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 13, 2022 7:30 AM
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She didn’t do a lot of televised interviews. They made her nervous. Which I think is kind of touching.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | July 13, 2022 7:40 AM
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She's lovely, but a woman. never a girl. Very beautiful and self possessed on the surface. Like Dixie Carter and Faye Dunaway - Bissett was never the ingenue. Funny that people don't take to her more. Her underplayed kind of acting and personal style doesn't stand out but doesn't date much either. I don't think she thought she was any good and her way to deal with that was to never go for big effects or too much emotion. Bissett was a great looking person - beautiful voice and body and movements.
Really fun interview with Joan Rivers. Joan of course tries to bait her as a wild slut or hedonistic sophisticated woman, but Jackie rises about all that and displays this lovely, kind of reticent, iconoclastic woman that everyone would like to know better. Charm.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | July 13, 2022 7:58 AM
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Andrew McCarthy never mentioned Kim Cattrall's name when talking about "Mannequin" in his new autobiography, but he did talk about making his first move "Class" and having his co-star Miss Bissett inviting him to move to LA from NY and live with her and Godunov.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 13, 2022 9:09 AM
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Jacqueline had gorgeous thick wavy hair, her now thin crispy looking hair is, of course, due to aging. This doesn't always happen to all women, an aunt is 88, she still has a full head of thick hair, her hairline hasn't even receded. Of course, my aunt now keeps her hair short, but her hair is still thick and healthy.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 13, 2022 9:33 AM
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I just watched The Mephisto Waltz where she looks gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 12, 2022 12:57 AM
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She's tremendous in Francois Ozon's fairly recent thriller DOUBLE LOVER.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 12, 2022 1:08 AM
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She is like Candice Bergen in that while they can suggest an intelligent person they can't really act much.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 12, 2022 5:14 AM
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R33 why didn't he mention Kim's name?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 12, 2022 8:56 AM
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It's Bisset...like kiss it.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 12, 2022 10:50 AM
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Candice Bergen was terrible in that rich and famous movie. So annoying playing that southern belle. She made Jacqueline look like meryl Streep by comparison.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 12, 2022 1:49 PM
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She was meant to be annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 12, 2022 2:52 PM
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Class act. Is there anyone like her in Hollywood anymore?
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 12, 2022 3:12 PM
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She's due for a resurgence of popularity, like Diana Rigg had on Game of Thrones playing the badass Olenna Tyrell.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 12, 2022 3:41 PM
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R43 I don’t know why she’d accept such an annoying character. Aren’t actors supposed to bring some like-ability to their roles… I mean she played it like a cartoon person. I like her in other things but in this she completely put me off. Okay so she’s annoying but she didn’t have to play it full annoying.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 12, 2022 7:48 PM
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Yes her hair is fue to aging , probably trying to make it look fuller. Its either that or wear a wig.(gross) aging steals from all of us, our looks , our hearing our minds . I think she looks great for her age.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 12, 2022 8:37 PM
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Did she get Andrew McCarthy in his prime?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 12, 2022 8:47 PM
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R46 - you have to put the blame on George Cukor for her performance. He sometimes enjoyed having characters go over the top , especially in comic roles. See Rosalind Russell in The Women. Plus Candice seemed interested in playing more comedy after Starting Over.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 13, 2022 12:22 AM
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R49 But that part is kind of comedic - see Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 13, 2022 2:45 AM
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Pauline Kael wrote that Bergen tried too hard to be funny in the film. "Overdressed in the manner of a younger American version of Barbara Cartland, she heaves in sight like a ship in full sail. Bergen is a good sport rather than an actress, though she probably does as much for the role as anybody could. .. Cukor uses her almost as if she were a big goosey female impersonator."
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 13, 2022 4:50 AM
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R32 Bisset with the costar she slept with and had a 6–7-year relationship with
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | August 13, 2022 5:16 AM
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In Casino Royale 1967 one of her early roles but it doesn't sound like her voice
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 54 | August 13, 2022 5:24 AM
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also, in 1967 Two for the Road
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 55 | August 13, 2022 5:31 AM
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I like when Jac.kie tells Joan to just cool it when she asks if she had an affair with Paul Newman.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 13, 2022 5:33 AM
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I met her once, she was very charming and friendly. Had a great house behind some hotel (don’t remember which) in Beverly Hills or near there.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 13, 2022 5:36 AM
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You were invited to her house r57?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 13, 2022 6:16 AM
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Just picked up an envelope with money and chatted with her briefly. It was a LOOOOONG time ago.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 13, 2022 6:26 AM
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She was in Bullitt...McQueen's girlfriend in the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 13, 2022 6:40 AM
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R59 - are you an esc5ort?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 13, 2022 9:29 AM
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Her and Michael York were hot in Murder on the Orient Express
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 13, 2022 3:41 PM
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She made Nick Nolte what he is today.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 13, 2022 4:24 PM
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She's not the least bit interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 13, 2022 4:44 PM
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Well, yeah. Aside from being beautiful, sexually independent, kind, and internationally successful, she’s not the least bit interesting.
Just an ordinary little nobody, like most people.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 66 | August 13, 2022 7:07 PM
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One hot Saturday afternoon, I was having a pitcher of sangria with my husband (then boyfriend) at a restaurant off Park Ave South. The place had these huge windows and we were seated at the bar right near them.
We were just shooting the shit, people watching. After a bit, two women walked up arm in arm. They stopped in front of the restaurant to look at the menu, as if deciding whether or not to come in. They looked very nondescript but it dawned on me after a second that one of them was Jacqueline Bisset.
I kinda freaked out and so did my husband. We are both movie geeks and we were so excited. We just stared at her with these huge (probably dumb) smiles on our faces until she looked up and noticed us. Her and her friend started walking away but as she passed outside, she looked right at us and flashed the most BEAUTIFUL radiant smile. OMG - it totally made our day.
I know, lame story. But just the way she met our adoring gaze and smiled right back so sincerely - you could tell she was a super-cool, appreciative person.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 13, 2022 7:44 PM
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[quote] Pauline Kael wrote that Bergen tried too hard to be funny in the film.
Pauline Kael should kiss my hole. A more self-absorbed cunt I've never heard of.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 13, 2022 7:45 PM
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[quote] Her and her friend started walking away
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 13, 2022 7:46 PM
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It might also be noted Jacqueline Bisset started the Wet T Shirt craze.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 71 | August 13, 2022 9:38 PM
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Trivia:
Costume designer Edith Head considered Bisset to have one of the “great bodies of all time.”
Irene Sharaff’s ideal was Marisa Mell, who she believed had “perfect proportions.”
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 13, 2022 9:43 PM
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Anyone seen her Anna Karenina w/ Christopher Reeve? Is it worth a watch?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 13, 2022 9:55 PM
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she had a good part in the French Claude Chabrol film La Ceremonie (1995).
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 14, 2022 9:42 AM
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1984 interview. Don't call me pretty!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | August 14, 2022 10:16 AM
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Bisset is Angelina Jolie's godmother.
In Bullit, she was not given very much to do except look gorgeous.
She was a beautiful brunette, just the type of woman McQueen went crazy for.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | August 14, 2022 12:26 PM
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Here she is with Letterman promoting Class.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 78 | August 14, 2022 1:12 PM
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The 1980s perms altered her hair texture
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 14, 2022 1:18 PM
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Does anyone else get any sexual tension between the interviewer and Jaqueline in R75?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 14, 2022 7:38 PM
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I think Jackie Bisset had sexual tension with everybody.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 14, 2022 8:05 PM
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r80 it felt more like whatever tension there was, was coming from Steve Edwards the interviewer than from Bisset.
Edwards is a creep and was working at KTLA in Los Angeles until 2017 when he was "me too'd" out of his job. Not surprising to anyone that had watched him on Good Day LA, at least it wasn't to me.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 14, 2022 8:46 PM
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I love this film of Bisset’s
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 83 | August 14, 2022 10:03 PM
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No sexual tension with Charlie Rose.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 86 | August 15, 2022 12:44 AM
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Maybe she knew he was a perv who’d get fired for gross sexual harassment.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 15, 2022 12:51 AM
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trailer for Le Ceremonie.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 88 | August 16, 2022 1:01 AM
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A real beauty, but in such a natural way. Even to this day, you get the idea that, if someone were to mention her looks, she'd just shrug them off. She never made a big deal about them and appears to have aged into a well adjusted, beautiful, mature woman.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 16, 2022 1:05 AM
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Yes she is modest about her looks in the interviews.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 17, 2022 11:06 AM
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Just watched her arc on Nip/Tuck season 4. Unusual role for her playing a kidney harvester and she gets to slam a girl in the face, nearly have operation goo get on her that is in her car, and has her face bashed by thugs. But still looks beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 31, 2022 2:41 AM
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My introduction to her was opposite Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy - and Cliff Robertson - in Class.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 31, 2022 3:32 AM
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She still possesses a very sexy aura to me as a gay bloke. Same with Jane Seymour. I don't know how they do it, but I suspect it's much more than appearance. They both have a particular grace in how they move, and how they look at people when they're having a conversation. They both have beautiful smiles as well.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 31, 2022 3:43 AM
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Jackie always looked like her hair needed a hot oil treatment.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 1, 2022 12:54 AM
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She has a very warm and open in person vibe.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 1, 2022 1:04 AM
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R94 Not in disagreement with you, but some people have that frizzy texture no matter what.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 1, 2022 2:39 AM
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God, I miss Michael Sarrazin!
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 1, 2023 12:48 AM
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Bitch's career died with moi.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 100 | December 1, 2023 12:55 AM
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She was a prettier, less interesting Charlotte Rampling...
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 1, 2023 5:47 AM
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[quote]Did she get Andrew McCarthy in his prime?
C'mon did Andrew McCarthy ever really have a prime? If he wasn't a movie star (he's no actor) no one would give a him a second look.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 1, 2023 10:20 AM
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I recently watched La Cérémonie and had no idea prior to seeing it that she was fluent in French (she apparently studied it from a young age). She’s great in the film, which is a bit disturbing (Isabelle Huppert brings the warped darkness as she does so well).
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 1, 2023 10:58 AM
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[quote]had no idea prior to seeing it that she was fluent in French
In 1973 she made "Day For Night" for Truffaut.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 105 | December 1, 2023 5:15 PM
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Andrew was cute and appealing but never Hollywood-level good-looking. He did give gayling-me funny feelings as depicted in the film poster for Class.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 1, 2023 6:15 PM
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I watched a film with her and Candice Bergen recently. It looked like they meant for the two to be lezzies but decided against it.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 2, 2023 2:56 AM
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Liz Hamilton: Merry, do me a favor. Merry Noel Blake: What? Liz Hamilton: Kiss me. Merry Noel Blake: After all these years are you trying to tell me there's something strange about you? Liz Hamilton: [shakes her head no] It's New Year's Eve. I want the press of human flesh - and you're the only flesh around. Kiss me.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 2, 2023 11:42 PM
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