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| Sarah's done some films - notably Cruel Intentions and Simply Irresistable - but let's face it, we mostly know and love her for her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gellar's Buffy is sassy, sexy, smart, occasionally silly - oh, and strong. The Buffster is probably seen at her best in the first season, when she wore her sexiest clothes and shortest dresses - no doubt a conscious decision to maximise the fledgling show's chances of getting an audience. But it's hard to go past the second season episode called Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, where a be-spelled Buff comes on to Xander wearing nothing but a very short raincoat. Ouch! I love it when she wrinkles her face up and pulls her head back in disgust when something gross happens. |  |
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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| Jennifer started out as a child star in the film
Labyrinth. Then she grew an amazing set of boobies which, in
combination with her beautiful, fresh face, glossy black hair and
Brooke Shields eyebrows, makes her so perfect she really should not
exist - or only as a work of art, or a subject for
a love-struck poet. I knew a girl who looked
like her. Asked her out twice!
Recommended: Higher Learning, The Hot Spot, Dark City, and her relatively small role in Inventing The Abbots. One scene in particular is gobsmacking. |
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Jennifer Connelly
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| I just love luminous, soulful-looking women, and Swiss actress Irene Jacob is one of them. She first came to notice through two of Kristof Keislowski's films: The Double Life of Veronique and Three Colours Red. Both films showcased her soulful, spiritual qualities. She went to the US and played Wesley Snipe's girlfriend in US Marshall. A waste, an utter waste - but that's Hollywood. |  |
Irene Jacob
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| I've watched It's A Wonderful Life so many times that I can hardly not notice Donna Reed. Her role as Mary, the sweet, pretty, wholesome, loyal and adoring wife of George Bailey (James Stewart) may seem a bit old-fashioned today, but it touches a chord in me. It also makes Bailey's attempted suicide that much more incomprehensible - and shocking. Interestingly, Donna Reed went on to play a prostitute in From Here To Eternity, then reverted to the true as apple pie mom in The Donna Reed Show. |  |
Donna Reed
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| I guess women with big, sad cow-eyes do it for me too. 'Livvy' often played sacharrine, 'too good to be true' damsels in distress like Maid Marian and Melanie, from Gone With The Wind. She embodies very old ideas of romantic chivalry, and may be a little insipid - but she convinces as someone definitely worth fighting for. Her sister, Joan Fontaine, was almost as good-looking. |  |
Olivia de Havilland |
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