Gwyneth Paltrow is to star as jazz singer Peggy Lee

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Gwyneth Paltrow is to star as jazz singer Peggy Lee in a film about the life of US writer Truman Capote

― Minty Fresh, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

but she has the wrong cheekbones!

― amateur!!!st, Friday, 13 August 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It should've been Nellie McKay. Even though she's not an actress. Whatever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really excited for a second when I thought Mark Wahlberg was playing Truman Capote. I'd watch that for two hours.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i really don't like gwyneth paltrow

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

who will Huey Lewis play?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Noooooooooooooooo

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 14 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"but she has the wrong cheekbones!"

In more places than one. Peggy had quite the caboose.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 14 August 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

when I read this title, I thought it was some sort of weird analogy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 14 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking this... have i been pleased at all with recent casting descions ?

i mean gywenth as marlene or peggy lee
jean harlow played by gwen stefani

etc.

they should just leave people dead (though i dont know why i hate her so much)

― anthony, Sunday, 15 August 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the jean harlow casting is ok, i guess. but yeah, casting old hollywood stars is just kind of a dumb idea, why do actors even want to do this? it just makes them look like shit in comparison.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 15 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirsten Dunst IS Marion Davies!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that at least made some sorta sense

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 15 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean it's not like most people have ever seen a marion davies film (i guess it's not like most people have seen a jean harlow film either, but you know what i mean)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 15 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

marion davies was such a bad actress, that any blonde whos tits are as large as their sense of entitlement will do wonders in it (madonna and sharon stone both come immediately to mind)

― anthony, Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

not screen stars but: The movie that embarrassed me the most was mrs.parker & her vicious circle. like little kids putting on the clothes they find in granny's steamer trunk. excruciating and also kinda funny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

actually that was one i didnt mind

― anthony, Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it was silly in the same way that those scenes in movies are silly where someone says something like: "I say, that's young Thomas Edison. Mark my words, you'll hear more of him someday!" (this never happened in a movie. i just can't think of a good example.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Like a bad high school play.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Peter Brady as George Washington.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

None of the people in Mrs.Parker resembled adults in any way, is what I'm really trying to say.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think marion davies was a bad actress anthony. have you seen her in something and thought she was bad or are you going by the conventional wisdom? i think kane really soiled her reputation and that was unfortunate.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My understanding of Davies is that she had a knack for light comedy but Hearst kept wanting to cast her in dramas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's my impression too.

honestly i can never get too worked up about actors and actresses being seemingly miscast as historical figures. i've often been pleasantly surprised by performances i was expecting to stink. in this particular case, i actually like g. paltrow. sure, with the exception of the high forehead i can't see much resemblence between her and peggy lee, but that doesn't really count for much ultimately anyway. and don't underestimate the power of prosthetics.

― |//\\| (amateurist), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i've seen a few of her movies and i mantain she is a painfully stiff and unimagintive presence, the best example being operater(sp) 13 or CAin and Mabel--i was under the impression that she wanted to be cast in dramas because there was more status in them, then comedy...the whole reason why mike meyers thot 54 was a good idea.

― anthony, Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought yahoo serious did a good job portraying the young einstein

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 15 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

jessica lange was pretty swell as frances farmer, i thought.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 16 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

That's because: 1) Jessica Lange didn't look like she was 10 years old. 2) And she looked like she had actually had a life before playing Frances Farmer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I was pretty good in my high school production of "I Remember Mama". I was really good in the incredibly outdated musical "The Boyfriend". I don't think broadway will be reviving that one. Ally Sheedy should've been in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle....in fact, the entire brat pack should've been cast....

― aimurchie, Monday, 16 August 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Love this vicious takedown in slate today:

“Considering the effort Paltrow expends positioning herself as an up-by-her-bootstraps achiever, listeners might come away thinking she’s the one mounting a presidential campaign. The born-wealthy child of Hollywood A-listers recounts her days living in her “first apartment, trying to make it as an actor,” when she would walk to Starbucks “to save money on gas” and buy her lattes with quarters she found by “digging around in my couch.” She claims she made such wonderful friendships at Starbucks that now, when she’s traveling for work and drinks one of the company’s coffees, she experiences a “very powerful sensory resonant feeling” of being “home.” Nothing like the taste of sameness to evoke memories of ye olde neighborhood corporate outpost.“

― calstars, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 02:30 (seven years ago)

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