September 5, 2010, 2:22 pm : My Women (II)

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More to come, because as I said there are more like twenty than five and please remember there’s no ranking. Two of my absolute top ones were in the previous post: Streep & Anderson. Now, let’s see about this post. We start with someone I adore to pieces, someone I find absolutely and ultimately smoking hot.

Lena Olin

She plays the wonderful and deadly and simply amazing Irina Derevko. The one where people go ‘you will love her’ before you start watching Alias, the one where you will go ‘that lying bitch? Never’ for a few episodes until you’re like ‘oh, that one, I get it now.’ Best character ever on TV (next to Sheldon Cooper, because Sheldon Cooper is my little geek hero) and the way she played it was just smashing. I have seen her in nearly everything else she did, only a couple of films are missing. She was great in Hollywood Homicide along with Mr. Ford. She played the Devil next to Johnny Depp in the 9th Gate. And she had a small role in The Reader. She’s 55 years old and one of those women that were beautiful when they were young but simply beyond words now. She’s Swedish and the trace of accent she has in her English is for me reason enough to melt on my couch. I do hope somebody will end up doing something with that Lady in the coming years. There wasn’t enough Alias, did you hear me JJ? There wasn’t enough Alias. She also delivered a great performance on Romeo Was Bleeding, however that movie was many different kinds of strange.

Elizabeth Mitchell

Oh, how I loved thee. She jumped onto my TV years and years back, must have been 10 years ago, playing Dr. Kim Legaspi on Emergency Room at the side of Kerry Weaver and I fell for the blonde psychiatrist head over heels. When the channel let her go I actually wrote them, that’s how much I loved her during my teenage years. Then she came back to Lost and the flatmate will tell you that I squeed for a full 5 minutes when she finally showed up and I was like it’s Mitchell, squeee, it’s Mitchell, oh my God, I love her. It was quite pathetic. I will have to start watching V now. I went to see Santa Clause in theatres because of her. That’s how pathetic this got.

Mary McDonnell

Yes, she was on Donnie Darko. Yes, she was Carter’s mother on Emergency Room. But mostly she was President Roslin on Battlestar Galactica. A clever science fiction show that I loved like no other show in that genre and mostly because of the characters. She was brilliant. She was beautiful. She was strong. She had power, she had attitude and she wasn’t afraid to airlock anybody. In fact Mrs. Airlock was quite scary sometimes. 58 years old and also one of those women that were quite pretty young and turned absolutely stunning a few years later. There are a few scenes and episodes where she reduced me to a pathetic sobbing mess that needed tissue after tissue after tissue.

What’s that you say? I might have something with older women? Oh. Didn’t know that. Thank you for pointing it out.

Crystal Chappell

Does it need words? Does it need explanations? Does it need anything? She created Venice, she was half of Otalia and she’s my most beautiful Goddess. She currently has a role on Days Of Our Lives and sometimes I must admit I have troubles catching up. (I’m like 6 months behind, I think but I am watching.) But she’s brilliant and she was brilliant on Guiding Light where she played the wonderful Olivia Spencer. Her bench slide might have nearly made me faint. And the eye-sex that was going on? Hot. Love her commitment to her work and to her fans. Wonderful Lady.

Tarja Turunen

Oh, that voice. The first voice that has managed to make me cry. She has sung the first songs that have made me cry. Of course it was Tuomas that wrote them and it was Nightwish as a whole that delivered them but it was her and her voice that made my stomach turn and my tears flow. (If one reads these posts, one might start thinking the author is crying quite often, which might or might not be the truth.) When it was announced that she was leaving Nightwish my world crumbled for a few seconds (until I realised that the world does not revolve around a band) but it did make me, you guessed it, cry that she left and Nightwish in my humble opinion has never been the same again. I follow her solo career and I quite liked her first album and I will buy the second one that just came out, too. But it’s not the kind of music I listen to for hours, not like Nightwish.

Tags: Actress: Crystal Chappell, Actress: Elizabeth Mitchell, Actress: Lena Olin, Actress: Mary McDonnell, Music: Tarja Turunen, TV: Alias, TV: Battlestar Galactica

September 3, 2010, 6:31 pm : My Women (I)

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Originally I wanted to present my top 5 women only to find out that it was really a top 28 and that even to get to that top 28 I’d have to cut some. At first I was positive I could cut them down to at least 7. You know, make a list of 5 and then mention 2 more, because they deserve it. But there’s simply too many women and when I try to kick one off the list she comes up with several good reasons for me to keep her on the list and when I tell her she can stay, you bet another one shows up and jumps up and down and demands to be on the list and who am I to refuse her the right to be on my list?

So, I decided to do a series of posts on my women and there won't be any ranking, because to rank them would be, oh dear Lord, impossible. But you will notice that there are the 10 most important ones, I will gush on and on about them and the 10 I wouldn't die without, even though really I would.

Without anything else to add I present you the first 5.

Meryl Streep

She's my one and only that I will always reserve the first spot for, simply because she's all kinds of brilliant. Whether it be during her interviews where she's marvellous and most of the time bloody hilarious or as an actress, where she's simply brilliant, I love that woman to bits. She's also beautiful, 61 and keeps on going making films, receives nomination after nomination and even proved several times that she can sing. A nice little jewel, you should watch, if you like her is Prairie Home Companion. And of course, my favourite role is her as Miranda Priestly, the Devil wearing the Prada. Of course Miranda Priestly is part of my fetish revolving around strong, cold and dominant women. She's all kinds of perfection. Other recommended films: Sophie's Choice, The Hours, Death Becomes Her, Julie & Julia and also everything else she was in.

Lauren Graham

I think she plays into the same fetish as Miranda Priestly. Since Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls is a woman that keeps people at a distance and that spends most of her time not letting people close. However she is a tad less dominant and a tad less dragon-like. Gilmore Girls is all kinds of wonderful, love the humour, the closeness between mother and daughter and the wit in the dialogue. She hasn't really done anything else that I'd recommend or that I've seen to be honest but Lorelai Gilmore has always had a place in my heart.

Tina Fey

She is not only beautiful but she might also be the funniest person the world has ever seen and that's saying a lot, since I've just degraded a lot of people I find to be hilarious beyond words. But what she created with her show 30 Rock is simply brilliant. Her and Alec Baldwin on screen? Sizzling. But mostly I just keep on cracking up and the insanity and the creativity that is to be found in this show? Marvellous. Watch it in English if you can, because I doubt they managed to translate any of the wordplays in an accurate manner. Before 30 Rock she was a writer for SNL (Saturday Night Live) and must have been pretty good at it from what I've heard. So, what can I say? I admire that woman.

Rachel Shelley

She played Helena Peabody on the L-Word and while being introduced as quite the bitch during the second season, I could never ignore her, since her English was a perfect British and as we all know I'm a sucker for British. She rocks a suit and high heels combined with money and power like the perfect Brit she is and plays straight into my fetish with all these things.

Gillian Anderson

Was Dana Scully my first love? Or was it Xena? I don't quite remember, but one of these two ladies sure was and I'm pretty certain it was Dana. Of course, you've guessed it by now, cold, powerful, owns a gun, has an attitude and therefore feeds my fetish like the good agent she is. I love the X-Files. One of my favourite shows, if not in my humble opinion the best show there ever was. And Dana Scully was perfect in every way. Especially when she was rocking those shoulder pads during the first season. Those were the days. Together with Duchovny she was part of a perfect couple and I love watching them interact on screen. I was very little when I caught the first glimpses of the X-Files and I must admit it always scared me, still does sometimes. She kicks ass.

Tags: Actress: Gillian Anderson, Actress: Lauren Graham, Actress: Meryl Streep, Actress: Rachel Shelley, Actress: Tina Fey, TV: Gilmore Girls, TV: The L-Word, TV: X-Files

July 25, 2010, 2:20 pm : Crystal Chappell

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Sometimes going to the mailbox pays off!

Tags: Actress: Crystal Chappell

July 23, 2010, 9:28 pm : Cold Case

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Since I recently forced somebody to start watching Alias, it was only fair that I then did the same. Start watching a TV Show I had never seen before. Except for TV commercials which only alerted me to the fact that the main character is a cute blonde.

Cold Case. The cute blonde being Lilly Rush. I like CSI, Bones, Law & Order and other shows that solve a mystery every week. But, I am never obsessed with them. I don’t watch them on a regular basis and usually they lose to other shows.

However, Cold Case might have swept me off my feet.

So the show’s main character Miss Rush runs after Cold Cases. Buried cases which she digs up and solves. So far the show has made me cry, cuss, curse, scream NO amongst other things (mostly WHAT? and ZOMG).

The flashbacks are presented in a different saturation than the present. I love the cinematography. Also the effect of showing the characters as their younger selves for seconds now and then when Lilly questions them is quite marvelous.

Also I’m most certainly a montage-whore and at the end of each episode a song plays from the year of the case and they use a montage during which the victim appears, seeing that justice is finally served.

Besides that Rush might be the most adorable character ever to walk over my big ass screen. I am completely smitten.

Tags: TV: Cold Case

March 24, 2010, 2:57 am : 2012

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Remember the trailer? I waited for several months for this movie to come out. It was the movie I was most looking forward to in 2009. I’ve watched that trailer a billion times. I think, I’m responsible for approximately half the hits it got on YouTube. No kidding. So, I figured I need to tell you what I thought about Emmerich’s newest movie.

To be honest, I’ve never been more disappointed. Of course, I went to the movies with the highest expecations (the world collapses, everything goes boom and a great soundtrack, what’s not to expect?) and what happened? The world collapses somewhere in between a lot of crappy dialog, the soundtrack is boring and going boom is only happening during half an hour of the two hours. Two hours packed with action is what I hoped to get, 30 minutes I got in the end. The rest is garbage. And the action? Well, seen in the trailer.

I could have cried. I’m serious. That’s how disappointed I was. I could have cried. I literally sat there and thought about crying.

Five minutes ago I was browsing through my blog to check if everything was still up and running (something to do with my cat sleeping on my keyboard while my FTP account was running and everything being deleted) and found my post about the trailer. So, I watched it. Immediately I wanted to watch the movie again and then remembered how crappy it was. And now? I feel like crying again and I am not kidding you. Why couldn’t they have used the soundtrack from the trailer?

The movie doesn’t touch anything, most certainly not a human being. The characters are shallow, there are no goosebumps, there is no flow and most of all there is no realism. Of course, I do not epxect REALISM. But for 2 hours having to watch how the plane just takes off as the runway collapses, just passes through a building while it goes boom, just… just… just… a few just’s are fine, good tenseful moments, a movie only made up of just’s is not worth watching. At least the acting wasn’t bad, you know, all they had to do was run and JUST get away from something going boom, A LOT. Even I could have done that.

More?

No, actually no need to say more, except for: I want to cry.

Tags: Director: Roland Emmerich, Movie: 2012