Still plenty of that delicious golden
amber to be handed out but before getting to some more rounds the
next nomination for Best Picture of the Week of Color.
From 1993 John Dahl's Red Rock West
Michael Williams comes from Texas to
Wyoming & ties to get a job on a drilling crew but his bum leg
costs him the position. Spending his last 5 dollars on gas he heads
into Red Rock stopping into a bar & is mistaken as a hit-man that
the bartender had sent for to murder his wife. Cash strapped Michael
assumes the identity of the mechanic & sets out to do the deed
only he informs the wife of her husband's intentions. She then hires
him to kill her husband. Michael agrees but has no plans to kill
anyone & just take the money & get the hell out of Red Rock.
Things don't quite go the way he had planned as he hits a man w/ his
car on the way out of town & has to return to face those involved
including the hit-man who's identity he had assumed.
Time to reach back into the 6 pack for
the 2nd award of the week..Best Female Performance – The
C.L.I.T.
The nominees are..
Bernadette Peters as Lou Ann McGuinn in
Pink Cadillac
Peters as Lou Ann takes the rap on a
counterfeiting charge for her husband & his neo-nazi friends.
Posting bail on a bond she skips town w/ her baby & high tails it
to Nevada in her husbands pink Cadillac & a shit pile of funny
money. W/ a skip tracer & those who she took the counterfeit
money from on her heels she hopes to turn the bogus bread into really
cash in Reno. Many feel that Pink Cadillac is sorta Eastwood's black
eye but Peters in one of it's stronger parts. Constantly a fan of
her Peter's able to rise above a lot of the film's mediocrity.
Barbara Bouchet as Kitty Wildenbruck in
The Red Queen Kills 7 Times
Although it is difficult to actually
judge a performance when you are watching a film dubbed from another
language Bouchet does stand out in this often convoluted albeit
stylish giallo. W/ her grandfather passing Barbara is heir to the
estate but w/ murders talking place by a mysterious woman in a red
cloak she suspects it's her sister that she had killed some time ago.
It puts her in a state of doubt almost to the point of madness.
Wide eyed & attractive in the role Bouchet portrays that well &
she does have a couple real stand out moments. The after shock when
she is raped is eerily good . I also liked seeing her tormented by
rats & fighting for her life as she's trapped in the cellar as it
fills w/ water. She's a good woman in peril.
Brooke Shields as Emmeline in The Blue
Lagoon
To me growing up Shields was an
innocent face that didn't have any problem being naked. @ a very
young age I remember seeing her on the cover of Playboy or Penthouse
(I don't remember which) @ the newsstand. Along w/ starring in films
like The Blue Lagoon she stirred something inside my loins even if I
didn't have hair one of my balls. Although no one claims her to be a
great actress in this movie she does fit this sexual coming of age
film very well. She doesn't look like the type of girl that would
take her clothes off but she does & she looks very natural doing
it. Seeing her again it makes me long for my own days of sexual
innocence just wanting to swim the tropical waters w/ an attractive
budding flower..buck ass naked.
Lara Flynn Boyle as Suzanne in Red Rock
West
Lara Flynn Boyle sorta goes through a
transformation of sorts in Red Rock West changing w/ twists. It's
difficult to explain w/out giving away too many of the plot details
of this movie which makes it more enjoyable if you really don't know
too much about it. Boyle always plays it cool & strong even when
her life's in jeopardy & she's sexually seducing Nicolas Cage. My
favourite line of her's when the jig is finally up – 'shit'.
Cathy Moriarty as Joan White in White
of the Eye
Outside of Raging Bull I don't think
Moriarty quite gets the credit that she rightfully deserves. She has
a great progression here as the girl from the city who ends up in
Arizona (as told in flashbacks), guiding mother, affectionate wife, a
woman scorned full of rage to one who finds out the horrific truth &
is running for her life. Sadly White of the Eye becomes a little
more style over substance but when given the opportunities Moriarty
delivers like she usually does.
Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia in Purple
Rain
In a Prince (albeit great) vanity
project Apollonia hold her own quite well which is a difficult thing
to do when you're sharing screen time w/ The Purple One & Morris
Day. Her good looks & sensual on screen appeal carries her a
long way. Seeing her bust out her sugarboobies when I was12 is
forever burned in my psyche. She actually has some musical talent &
stage charisma...bustiers & garters are a fantastic look.
And the winner is...
Cathy Moriarty in White of the Eye
I really like Cathy Moriarty as an
actress. She was one of the main reasons that I decided to watch
White of the Eye this week. This is the 3rd film of her
career after Neighbors & Raging Bull that it's too bad after what
I would consider a good start to a career poor reviews of Neighbors &
an auto accident kept her out of the business for 6 years. Although
still making film & doing television work I don't think that
Moriarty's career ever got close to where it rightfully should have
been for her talent. It could have been the strains of the accident
but mostly I think it's the unfortunateness that if you drop out of
the Hollywood eye long enough they forget about you...I hope that
Tarantino uses her someday.
Another trip to cooler for a frosty
one.
Be back after this..
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