Members SFK Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Nan Kempner, the late New York socialite famous for her extensive wardrobe and lack of fat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Kempner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Every time I read Diana Vreeland's comment, I just... I just love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Vreeland got it so, so right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 It wouldn't, b/c no one would ever believe Joan Collins as a woman who loses in the end. ;-) Frankly, just about anyone could "do Hedda," but not everyone could "do Alexis." ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Ya got that right. And Alexis looked a lot more fun, like J.R. vs. Hamlet. I should mention that I saw Judith Light play Hedda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 I tend to blame so-called "Method training" -- which has its benefits, granted, but shouldn't be foisted onto every actor. Because, the truth is, there are and were plenty of actors who were damn good and who didn't sit at the knees of Strasberg, Adler, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Did you see the exhibition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Hedda is fun, too, b/c her motives are always murky, at best. That's part of the reason why so many actresses would be good at portraying her, IMO. Alexis, OTOH, is more specific as a character; her line of motivation is much, much clearer. Even if you "get" Alexis, however, that's not a guarantee that you have what it takes to portray her successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 14, 2011 Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Particularly the Brits. And though Strasberg is widely regarded as the genius of that crop of gurus, Adler seems to be the one that a lot of the greats left Strasberg for. She wasn't into all that self-indulgence and believed that the actor should rely more on his imagination than the actual events of his life. She could be a little camp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 14, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 14, 2011 Too bad no one ever asked her to guest star, I bet she would've accepted it in a microsecond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 15, 2011 Members Share Posted March 15, 2011 And brought her own wardrobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 15, 2011 Members Share Posted March 15, 2011 "Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Eileen Brennan...." You know, I'm accused all the time in acting class - yes, I'm taking an acting class, shut up! - but I'm always accused of not putting enough energy into my performance(s). Fear has a tremendous amount to do with that, I think. No matter how much you give yourself permission to "look stupid" onstage and in front of others, you (or I) still hold back. Of course, judging from the clip, if Stella Adler is what they're looking for, sorry, but that's beyond even my capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 15, 2011 Yeah. Like Constance Towers. Only, Nan would have played herself. Are you pursuing a playwriting degree or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 15, 2011 Members Share Posted March 15, 2011 As a matter of fact, Sylph, yes. I am. Wanna make something of it? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted March 15, 2011 Members Share Posted March 15, 2011 I thought the same thing! Didn't she play a kooky acting teacher on Will & Grace? I know what you mean. Sometimes the character can be freeing when it comes to that, like, if you were playing Opal. The more "real" the character is let alone the closer it is to you, we have a tendency to pull back and play it small. We're afraid of getting "real" "wrong". Constance Towers wears her own stuff? I didn't know that. She has good taste. Morgan Fairchild wore a lot of her own stuff on The City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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