Hello, Colin, Re: Sigourney Weaver -- I think she's a spectacular actress, but at six feet tall and not "conventionally beautiful", she's not everyone's cup of tea. She's one of my favorite actresses, though. I thought she was good in all of the "Alien" Movies, even the two later, disappointing ones; and very good in Ang Lee's all-English-language debut, a small but powerful film called "The Ice Storm." It's set in Connecticut (I'm originally from nearby Rhode Island), and it's ***very disturbing*** -- but she and Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire -- all of the actors are achingly good, but the movie may make you weep -- it did me -- and gave me nightmares. Not for the weak of heart or stomach. But what a movie.
[Speaking of disturbing, I had to leave the computer for a few seconds to set up the VCR to record "The Laramie Project", about the murder of young gay Matthew Shepard in Wyoming a few years ago -- it's on HBO, and I'm preparing for a good cry.] In any case, getting back to Sigourney -- she's best at a certain type of intensity. I'm trying to think fo another actress like her. To a certain extant, Maura Tierney, who's the best thing since sliced bread in my book. She was wonderful on NewsRadio (an American TV sitcom, good enough to be imported, but I don't know if it is), but she's getting more attention right now on E.R., which I imagine you folks *must* get in the UK (she's the troubled nurse, who started as a medical student, her mother is occasionally played by Sally Field, etc.). Like Sigourney, Maura T. acts with her eyes, and can generate three emotions at once when's she at full blast. Neither is the kind of woman you want pissed off at you. Whoa! Fondly, Walt
