rave, I've been enjoying the run so far, especially her early stuff.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> TCM is running a Natalie Wood film festival this month. Back in my sane and
> sober youth I loved me some Natalie Wood. For little boys of color she was
> the ethnic "it" girl. Russian descended Natasha Zacharenko played
> white-girl-turned-Native-American ("The Searchers"), Hispanic ("West Side
> Story"), Jewish (Marjorie Morningstar) and Italian ("Love With the Proper
> Stranger").
>
> Wood had this ineluctable quality of being able to play both the tomboy
> ("Gyspy" and "Inside Daisy Clover") and the vixen ("Gypsy" and
> "Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice"); the ingenue ("West Side Story") and the full-fledged
> woman ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"). She was Annette Funicello and Marilyn
> Monroe rolled into one. And, for this child of the sixties and seventies,
> that was a heady combination.
>
> I felt as if I had suffered a personal loss when Wood accidentally drowned
> while filming "Brainstorm" in 1983.
>
> ~rave!
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wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
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