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Is that Fairuza Balk?
Yes!
I LOVE the Fitzgerald picture. I just love the ay their faces look.
This is one of my favorite posts you do Sheila.
Who’s the dude with all the action figures?
Michael Chabon!
Bjork! Huzzah!
Alex –
I know – that Scott and Zelda photo is just so amazing to me. Their personalities just radiate.
Finnuola! Have you gotten the Brotherhood DVDs yet?!
Eric – that’s Dawn French DOING Bjork. ha!! Look at her little buns in her hair!
Dawn French is, perhaps, the funniest woman on the planet – and just looking at her face makes me laugh.
Lisa – my parents have the whole season on DVD at home – maybe I’ll watch it this weekend!
I lurve Fionnula!
Dawn French is my hero. I think the HP movies wasted her on The Pink Lady, she IS Delores Umbridge! (Not that I don’t think Imelda Staunton will be bad, but still.)
(Why do I know this shit?!)
Dawn French of French and Saunders? E-gad, she nailed Bjork. I really thought it was her. The hair, the little rhinestones over the eyes, even the way she is leaning right up into the lens. That’s excellent. Well, I adore the actual Bjork’s face too.
Lisa –
Please notice the 2 people who bookend this post.
There is a method to my madness.
And it is, indeed, madness.
Eric – ha! Yes – French & Saunders!! Brilliant!
Ack! I didn’t even notice!
I skimmed over the Bjork picture because I thought it really was Bjork WHO I HATE. I didn’t even know it was Dawn French until you told us.
Did you know they announced the name of the final HP book today? HP and the Deadly Hollows.
Sheila! Perfect! I’ve been preparing a big spectacular holiday edition of FACES I LOVE to be unveiled probably tonight. This is the kind of coincidence I love! And it was great to revisit your shots– Linda Evangelista and David Ortiz– what a world! Brilliant! Hey, I’m sending out Christmas cards tonight, so e-mail me your address (powser2@earthlink.net)if you want one. It features two faces I love most of all– my little girls!
Lisa – I know, I heard about that! I do believe it is “Deathly Hallows”, however. Which is quite a mouthful!
Deathly Hallows??
dammit, when will that book come out??
And I’m sorry, but I’m gonna hgave to steal Rachel McAdams, Oscar Wilde and Fionnula Flanagan!
Dennis – hahaha You have to steal!!
I don’t know what it is – but I just think Rachel McAdams is so so so pretty. A lot of girls may be prettier – she’s a very common “type” in Hollywood – but her expressions are always very alive, it looks like there’s a PERSON in there, it’s not a mask … it makes her very interesting to watch. Also – it makes her a versatile actress. She can look vacant, or terrifying, or sweet, or cranky (I LOVED her in Family Stone – she almost stole that whole movie) … I love her face.
Sheila, I’m so happy that “Faces I Love” is back! Have you seen the movie Valmont? It’s one of Fairuza Balk’s earlier movies, that’s why I thought of it. It’s such a great movie that people never talk about and I feel like it must have been an influence on Sophia Coppola and Marie Antoinette, because it treats the time period very anachronistically. Fairuza Balk has a great scene with Colin Firth. Oh, and Annette Bening is so good in it too.
Speaking of McAdams, lots of actresses look fake with certain emotions on their faces. but she always looks genuine. Like she is really feeling it… or capable of feeling it. Like Angelina Jolie does not look sad, to me. She looks like she’s trying to be sad. McAdams always looks… real. I’m not sure why that is. But she is gorgeous. I think her and Reese WItherspoon are the most beautiful women in hollywood.
Oh, and who’s the handsome man in photo number 5???
Erik – Valmont was wonderful. I thought it was so much better than Les Liaisons – even though that was pretty good too.
But yeah – Fairuza has always been this dark freaky little actress – I like her a lot.
Sheila,
No kidding about McAdams being versatile. I originally saw Mean Girls just days before watching The Wedding Crashers (hated that movie), and I didn’t even realize the main love interest character in Crashers was her! I love this chick.
Alli –
It wouldn’t surprise me at ALL if Rachel McAdams won an Oscar eventually. To me, she really stands above her peers – in the way Reese always did, too – even when she was in fluffy little movies.
And McAdams was terrific in Mean Girls.
Erik – hahaha #5 Michael Gilio, an ex boyfriend of mine. He’ll hate that I put him on the list, but whatever. I love him and I love his face.
Emily – I know!! And then she plays this cranky relentless bitch on wheels in Family Stone – and it’s totally different from everything else she’s done … she’s so good!
Ha! He should be flattered! He has a great face.
Oh and I have to say it:
The one of Mickey Rourke makes me sad.
Because of what he has since done to that absolutely perfect (in my opinion) face. That face is a BORN movie star’s face. He has SUCH a good face for movies.
sniff sniff. I know he’s tormented and all … and thankfully his talent remains untouched (anyone see The Pledge?? Talk about stealing an entire movie with one scene) but God, look at that gorgeous face.
Makes me really sad.
The face that makes ME sad is River’s. For obvious reasons.
Sheila,
When somebody told me that he played Marv in Sin City my jaw damn near dropped right off my face. Oh. My. God.
Erik – I know, man. Look at him.
Emily – I know, right???
Re Rachel McAdams– yep, yep, yep. She brings an authentic, responsive quality to something basically artificial like THE FAMILY STONE. And one of the greatest things about the (equally artificial, I suppose) RED EYE was the fact that Wes Craven gave us so many closeups of her and Cillian Murphy to swim in. Alive, she cried!
She is wonderful in closeups. I think there’s something quite unpredictable about her -even in conventional predictable parts. Mean Girls you could kind of see it … she was very scary in that movie, there’s something uneasy about her … or – she leaves ME uneasy because I don’t know what she will do next … and that has always been one of the earmarks of a potentially great actress, in my opinion.
I look forward to watching what else she does. I’m kinda rooting for her.
I played I played, Sheila – I hvae pics up too now (yes Im a copy cat! Last ones for you and I)
I am swooning over the John Wayne pic!! And I love that you put Miss Piggy!
And I LOVE the movie Valmont. I saw it a few years after Dangerous Liasons – I do like Malkovich, but “Valmont” was so much more interesting. Balk was incredible and very talented…its a difficult thing to pull off the kind of innocense that character needed without it becoming a joke.
Sharon – I love how it’s a glamour shot of Miss Piggy. Like she’s all posed and primped. It’s hysterical. Best face ever. I love it best, though, when she gets annoyed – and she turns her snout down. Makes me laugh every time.
And you know, I love John Wayne’s face as an old man too – I just see his face and feel all warm and happy inside (sorry, goofy, but true) – but I wanted to find one of him as a young man and could not believe my luck when I found that one. I mean, he always was handsome – but that one is just GORGEOUS. Love it.
You can see it in their faces: Rachel McAdams has a star presence. I’m kind of shocked that she hasn’t started getting the offers and the money of a Reece Witherspoon…
Definately THE most underrated female star in movies today. If actors were publicly traded commodities (yeah, I know, many are!!) I’d invest in Ms. McAdams
JFH – I truly believe she’ll get there. She’s only a couple of years into her career and she’s already starring in stuff. It’ll come.
I think it’s perfect that she broke out with Mean Girls – because that was a true ACTING job. She didn’t just play “the girlfriend” or “the girl who gets the guy in the end” … it was a real character part, and I think even though she’s so pretty that that is her forte.
I’m psyched to see what she will do next. And you are SO right – it’s in the face.
Is that Brian Mallon?
And my TV mom!
Kerry – yes, Brian Mallon!
As you will notice I placed him and Fionnula together … because they are connected by you!
I still remember that WONDERFUL night when you and I went to see his one-man show at the Irish Arts Center – he’s so good!
Kurt Vonnegut. Kick ass. I’m surprised no one mentioned him.
No one mentioned Henry Miller either! Love his cranky salacious old face.
And of course the gorgeous Rebecca West. If you see pictures of what she looked like when she got old (ever see Reds? she’s one of the witnesses)- with the huge goggly-eyed glasses .. and the snow-white hair and then compare it with that lovely youthful face – it’s just amazing. She had to have been in her 70s when Reds came along … and there she is with a feather pen. Heh. She’s a real idol of mine.
I was going to mention Henry Miller, but I’m late to the party. He’s also one of the witnesses in Reds, of course, the only face I recognized right away. And I agree that Dawn French is brilliant. Her Catherine Zeta-Jones bits never fail to leave me in tears.