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Growing up in the 80s slash 90s it was pretty much impossible to not love Winona Ryder. Oh I'm sure y'all were out there, y'all will probably leave a comment saying so, but I plug my ears up and say "la la la" I cannot hear you she was everything.
Everything! And that past-tense bugs the heck out of me - she "was" everything? She IS everything. I've been wanting her back ever since that "scandal" spoiled her career - it's bullshit that somebody like RDJ gets a dozen chances to right himself while she's all but vanished. So I glom on to any new thing...
... which speaking of, her movie with Michael Shannon called
The Iceman is out this weekend. Shannon's a contract killer for the mob, and she's his wife. It hasn't gotten the best reviews, but it's just been swell seeing her
on red carpets again, it has. Our good friend Joe Reid loves her too and
over at Tribeca he ranked 15 of her performances in order of least to most aspirational this morning, which inspired me to make this cruder, simpler list here (which I'm shocked looking thru the archives to find I've never made before) - here are my five favorite Winona performances.
"My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room."
"Oh come on, a lot of people drink mineral water,
it's come a long way."
"Never mind. I'm sure it's too complicated.
I have enough trouble
managing this lamp."
Charlotte Flax,
Mermaids
"So Joe, tell me about the nuns in the convent.
Do they wear underwear in the shower?"
Lelaina Pierce,
Reality Bites
"Can you define 'irony'?"
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5 comments:
I love her work in Heathers and Reality Bites. Marvelous performances.
I agree with you Fisti (nice name). I grew up in the 80's. I don't think the dissappeared after the 'scandal'. She just chose not to be 'in the public eye' as much as she used to be. You are right about RDJ and all of the chances he's been given. Isn't it odd what happened to Janet Jackson after the 'wardrobe malfuction' and Winona Ryder's arrest for shoplifting. The men walked about with no egg on their face, kind of a double standard...Don't forget Winona is now over 40.
Nobody ever mentions Welcome Home Roxy Carmicheal. Nobody but me.
Yes, that performance would've made my top five. You can disown me now.
At least, AT LEAST I didn't say Boys.
I've never seen Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, at least not the whole thing, I've never even seen Luca, her first movie. It's on my Netflix account, so I will at some point.
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