On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:32:17 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
wrote:

>On Dec 18, 6:16 pm, archm...@sfchat.org (Nate Edel) wrote:
>> Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> > On Dec 18, 2:04 am, archm...@sfchat.org (Nate Edel) wrote:
>> > > Dorothy J Heydt <djhe...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>
>> > > > I'll take your word for it. Her Galadriel stunk.
>
>> > > Yes, but I'm not sure there's any other mere mortal who could have done it
>> > > better... especially one who was alive and sufficiently youthful for the
>> > > part when the movies were actually shot.
>
>> > Which mere mortals at earlier junctions along the causeways of Time
>> > might have had a shot at doing so demanding a part as Galadriel
>> > decently, then?
>
>> I'm not saying there was one, just that I'm a lot more familiar with the
>> current crop.
>
>> Done long enough ago, though, Audrey Hepburn or Veronica Lake would have
>> each been an interesting choice for Arwen. I personally found Liv Tyler a
>> more jarring mismatch for that part than Cate Blanchett was for Galadriel.
>
>I was worried you might have been thinking of Katharine Hepburn.

Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can play
Katherine Hepburn...

Both of which roles I think she did passably well, and nobody could have
done more than passably well.


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"John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote in message
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> Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can
> play
> Katherine Hepburn...
>
> Both of which roles I think she did passably well, and nobody could
> have
> done more than passably well.

I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel. But Ms Blanchett is
certainly a better Katharine Hepburn than Jennifer Jason Leigh. [1]

1. In "The Hudsucker Proxy".

Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote:
> > Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can play
> > Katherine Hepburn...
>
> I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel.

Ugh. No.

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In article <dihp35xq4j.ln2@mail.sfchat.org>,
Nate Edel <archmage@sfchat.org> wrote:
>Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote:
>> > Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can play
>> > Katherine Hepburn...
>>
>> I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel.
>
>Ugh. No.

Caveat: I haven't seen her in anything but _Ladyhawke._ But
based on that, she'd be better than Blanchett. She's prettier
and can act. I know full well there are a zillion beautiful
blondes out there who can't act. And sometimes to substitute an
ugly who can act for a beautiful who can't, works. But not for
Galadriel.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@kithrup.com

"Nate Edel" <archmage@sfchat.org> wrote in message
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> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote:
>> > Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can
>> > play
>> > Katherine Hepburn...
>>
>> I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel.
>
> Ugh. No.

Oh, I didn't think of that.

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:11:40 GMT, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote in message
>news:ei8km31kqqn7vsfoq2h0v5f7l6er3kndio@4ax.com...
>> Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can
>> play
>> Katherine Hepburn...
>>
>> Both of which roles I think she did passably well, and nobody could
>> have
>> done more than passably well.

>I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel. But Ms Blanchett is
>certainly a better Katharine Hepburn than Jennifer Jason Leigh. [1]

>1. In "The Hudsucker Proxy".

Cate Blanchett portrayed Jennifer Jason Leigh in "The Hudsuscker Proxy"?

Wierd. I may have to look that one up...


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"John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:11:40 GMT, "Mike Schilling"
> <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"John Schilling" <schillin@spock.usc.edu> wrote in message
>>news:ei8km31kqqn7vsfoq2h0v5f7l6er3kndio@4ax.com...
>>> Well, if Cate Blanchett can play Galadriel and Cate Blanchett can
>>> play
>>> Katherine Hepburn...
>>>
>>> Both of which roles I think she did passably well, and nobody
>>> could
>>> have
>>> done more than passably well.
>
>>I see Michelle Pfeiffer as a superior Galadriel. But Ms Blanchett
>>is
>>certainly a better Katharine Hepburn than Jennifer Jason Leigh. [1]
>
>>1. In "The Hudsucker Proxy".
>
> Cate Blanchett portrayed Jennifer Jason Leigh in "The Hudsuscker
> Proxy"?
>
> Wierd. I may have to look that one up...

Was that ambiguous? Methinks that your way it would have to read
"than *a* JJL".