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   XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Perry Gillick"  wrote   
   >  pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:   
      
   >> "One of the world's greatest living actresses"? Are you freaking nuts? *   
      
   > I like her, but I hardly think of her as a 'great actress'.   
      
   Most people don't. I believe this is primarily because she does not go out   
   and take rôles just to make herself more visible and famous. She tends to go   
   for 'artsy'-type things like 'The House of Mirth' and 'Bleak House', or   
   low-profile, lesser-known stuff like 'The Mighty' and 'Playing by Heart'.   
      
   The actual QUALITY of her work as an actor is very, very high; she really is   
   genuinely 'great', IMO. It's just that her work outside XF is not very   
   *visible* to the popular mainstream, so most people haven't seen how good   
   she can really be. It may also have something to do with the fact that her   
   filmography is not very large; she seems to have a tendency to really spend   
   a lot of time waiting for a project that she thinks is right for her, as   
   opposed to just doing stuff all the time in order to keep her popularity up.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
   House: If you're broke, I could lend you a tiny bit of the money I owe you.   
      
   Wilson: No, no. I wouldn't put you in that position!   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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