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Post by Charles on Dec 16, 2009 17:38:51 GMT -5
Interestingly, few interviewers ask about what she is reading, much less about her make-up and hair cutting choices. An unusual take . . .
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 19, 2009 6:31:13 GMT -5
Interestingly, few interviewers ask about what she is reading, much less about her make-up and hair cutting choices. An unusual take . . . ----- Glad to read that you are enjoying this interview, Charles. ----- Here are some more strange questions in the interview ----- Q - Which do you prefer, Apple or IBM? ----- WR - I don't have a computer. I've never been on-line. I'm terrified of it. I think it's going to take over the world and we'll never going to talk or touch each other again. ----- Q - Amazon or Barnes? ----- WR - The jungle? ----- Q - Amazon.com the on.line bookseller. But we've dealt with that. ----- WR - I thought you meant, go to the Amazon or go to Barnes and Noble! A little mix-up. Are your editors on crack? ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 20, 2009 7:24:47 GMT -5
The end of the interview ----- Q - Sylvia Platt or Anne Sexton? ----- WR - Everyone's going to think I'm so f-u-c-k-i-n-g depressed if I say either one. I'm more familiar with Platt , but Sexton ..... I feel like I know her body inside and out. If I read about her uterus one more time, though, I might have to put my foot down. ----- Q - Brady Bunch or Partridge Family? ----- WR - Neither, I didn't grow up with a television. I wanted one, believe me. ----- Q - Prince Williams or Prince Harry? ----- WR - That's sick. They're children. Your editors should be ashamed of themselves. ----- Q - Sinatra or Elvis? ----- Musically, Sinatra. They were both f-u-c-k-e-d-up homophiles, weren't they? ----- Q - Goddard or Truffaut? ----- WR - Oh, tie. I can't. I love them both. ----- Chrissie Hynde or Janis Joplin? ----- WR -Chrissie. Huge fan. Huge. ----- End of interview. ----- Winona uses the "F" word two times in this interview. She is really expressing herself in this one. ------ And I have to say about her answer about not watching "The Brady Bunch" and "The Partridge Family", She never really missed anything when it came to those two stinking TV shows (GAG, BARF, HEAVE) I grew up when those two shows were on TV, and you couldn't pay me enough to watch either of those shows. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Dec 29, 2009 9:33:10 GMT -5
Now "My Life, Her Life" by Susanna Kaysen ----- When I met Winona Ryder she had just stepped out of the bath. She was wearing an enormous white hotel-type terry-cloth robe and knee-high, sheepskin boots, and she looked like a petite, clean Abominable Snowgirl. Her hair was wet and her lips were a little blue. She was having a break from the tub, where they've been filming her for the previous several hours. I recognized her and I looked away, not wanting to intrude on her privacy. This was a somewhat ridiculous reaction, since I've travelled two days by train from Boston to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to meet the people who were making my book "Girl Interrupted" into a movie. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Jan 1, 2010 7:08:38 GMT -5
"It's you" she said to me with a big smile. I looked back at her. There is a particular shock in seeing an iconic figure in person rather than reproduced on the page or the screen. At first, the reality is less compelling that the image: you can see that this is just a person, like you. Then that realization somehow increases the glamour, so that far more than the image, the person-in-the-flesh takes on radiance. This person has transfixed millions of eyes, and those eyes have burnished her to a permanent sheen. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Jan 20, 2010 8:46:57 GMT -5
"It's you," she said again."I'm you," she added. She was trying to be gracious and introduce herself. I was tongue-tied. I got a grip on myself and said, "It's you." Then I said, "You're me." "It's you, it's me, I'm you, you're you ----- " She said all this with a giggle and we both started laughing. The break didn't last long. Within ten minutes I was sitting on a plastic milk crate behind the director, Jim Mangold. They were shooting the scene in which I -- that is, Winona ---- shaves my legs while the head nurse ----- Whoopi Goldberg ----- watches to be sure I don't try any funny business with the razor. ----- ----- Rusty
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Post by Charles on Jan 20, 2010 18:32:29 GMT -5
Rusty, this is a particularly interesting interview because Winona isn't being interview by an entertainment reporter. Susanna has her own view of things and her reactions to having her story told are quite interesting.
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Post by ilovewinona on Jan 23, 2010 10:02:13 GMT -5
Rusty, this is a particularly interesting interview because Winona isn't being interview by an entertainment reporter. Susanna has her own view of things and her reactions to having her story told are quite interesting. ----- Yes it is a refreshing change for Winona to meet and talk to someone she portrays in one of her best movies ever made. ----- For four hours, I looked from Winona in the tub, lifting her leg and saying her lines, back to the image of Winona in the bathtub on the monitor. These two things were not the same, and as I looked back and forth, I tried to understand how they were different. Winona in the tub was a very pretty, big-eyed dark girl up to her chest in water, lifting a well-turned leg. Winona on the monitor was an absolutely beautiful woman, who, by sitting in a bathtub, joined the constellation of beautiful women in bathtubs immortalized by Renoir, Degas, Manet, and soon back to Botticelli and his seashell bathtub. ----- A little trivia about other female stars in battubs in their movies. I have a very old book "Movie Stars in Bathtubs" 1975 compiled by Jack Scagnetti. ----- Winona might be sexy in the bathtub scene in "Girl Interrupted" but she has some great competition from Elizabeth Taylor in the tub scene from "Cleopatra", Natalie Wood's scene in a tub from "Love with a Proper Stranger", and Joan Collins in the bath in the movie "The Opposite Sex" to name a few. ----- I haven't read that book in over thirty years, but I can actually post info from it after all these years. ----- And one bathtub scene from the book that will please men and women alike, the scene from "You Only Live Twice" with Sean Connery in a tub with two beautiful girls. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Jan 25, 2010 9:35:21 GMT -5
----- One absolutely adorable photo of Winona from "Age of Innocence". ----- Rusty
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Post by Jay on Jan 25, 2010 9:51:39 GMT -5
----- One absolutely adorable photo of Winona from "Little Women". ----- Rusty Hmmmm... Lovely. I would have guessed "Age of Innocence", but Rusty probably knows better! She excelled in all the period pieces of the early-mid 90's.
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Post by imayne on Jan 25, 2010 12:21:31 GMT -5
Lovely. I would have guessed "Age of Innocence", but Rusty probably knows better! She excelled in all the period pieces of the early-mid 90's. Mainly because I cannot remember any period piece of that era worth remembering that did not have Winona in it, for some reason. ;D She was the go-to girl for period dramas, bar none.
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Post by ilovewinona on Jan 31, 2010 6:12:50 GMT -5
Lovely. I would have guessed "Age of Innocence", but Rusty probably knows better! She excelled in all the period pieces of the early-mid 90's. Mainly because I cannot remember any period piece of that era worth remembering that did not have Winona in it, for some reason. ;D She was the go-to girl for period dramas, bar none. ----- Jay, your guess was right the picture is from "Age of Innocence" ----- I'm so ashamed of myself for making such a mistake. I confused that picture with the scene where Jo and her sisters, in "Little Women", take their breakfast to the poor family. ----- What makes my mistake even worse in the "Little Women" scene Jo (Winona) is wearing a black bonnet. ----- Imayne I agree, when you consider that the only time Winona was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe was for her two greatest period dramas, "Age of Innocence" and "Little Women". ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 3, 2010 8:45:11 GMT -5
I never did figure out how this happened. It's what we count on, though, when we go to the movies -- that alchemy that transforms reality into something bigger and more resonant. That evening, I went over to the high-rise apartment building where most of the movie folk were staying . I'd been invited, but nobody answered the bell at Winona's place. I stood looking at the door, the way you do when nobody opens it. Then Winona came down the hall with her assistant, holding a can of soda in one hand and a fashion magazine in the other. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 4, 2010 9:48:13 GMT -5
Her assistant had a few more magazines and a bag that looked like it held pretzels and maybe some toothpaste. It was a domestic scene, two young roommates coming home from the corner store with supplies for a quiet evening in front of the TV. ----- Winona was in disguise: baggy blue jeans and a grey sweatshirt. Her still-wet hair was covered with a thing I believe is called a snood -- a crocheted, beret-ish sort of head covering. It didn't do much for her, and I could tell she liked it that way. ----- Rusty
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Post by ilovewinona on Feb 6, 2010 7:09:39 GMT -5
Winona sent her assistant off with instructions to return in two hours. Something in her tone made me see her as a movie star, parceling out her time and informing me precisely how much she had to give: what was left of a tired evening. Then we settled into the two sofas in front of the picture window that framed the dark Pennsylvania countryside. It was easy to talk. She had insomnia; I don't. I think her work is more demanding than mine. She could never imagine writing something. Her parents are obsessed with the '60s -- maybe that's part of why she likes my book so much. Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I grew up and still live, is also her boyfriend's hometown. ----- Rusty
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