{"id":4494,"date":"2006-02-19T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:40:52","slug":"more-on-bill-pullman-and-sandra-bullock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"More on Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to go along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4492\">this post<\/a>.  Or should I say epic??<\/p>\n<p>Roger Ebert says in his review for <i>While You Were Sleeping<\/i> (a movie he really enjoyed in spite of himself):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There aren&#8217;t many movie actors we simply like. Marilyn Monroe was one, and that quality, not sex appeal, is why she has remained such a durable memory. On the basis of &#8220;Speed&#8221; and &#8220;While You Were Sleeping,&#8221; Sandra Bullock may be another. She plays Lucy in a low key, as a shy, unassertive young woman, and so of course late in the film when she has to stand up for herself, we&#8217;re proud of her. She makes us feel protective. And Bill Pullman has real charisma, too: He&#8217;s got the right chemistry for this love story in which sweetness is more important than passion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.  I believe his words about Sandra Bullock are completely spot on.  You <i>like<\/i> her.  A very VERY rare quality &#8211; and also one that is highly under-rated.  Actors are praised for being &#8220;intense&#8221;, or &#8220;deep&#8221;, or &#8220;courageous&#8221; &#8211; all things which are, of course, very important.  Nothing worse than a shallow cautious actor afraid to &#8216;go there&#8217;.  But likable?  How is that quantified?  What is it??  It&#8217;s rare is what it is. It also can&#8217;t be &#8220;created&#8221; in a conscious way by the actor. You&#8217;re either likable or you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to go along with this post. Or should I say epic?? Roger Ebert says in his review for While You Were Sleeping (a movie he really enjoyed in spite of himself): There aren&#8217;t many movie actors we simply like. Marilyn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4494\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[432,1169,433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178981,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/178981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}