Subject: Re: Harry Dean Stanton (was Re: Movie Filming)
From: frab@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pamela Chandran)
Date: 1991-09-16, 12:44
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >Speaking of Lynchian actors, I hear that Laura Dern and her mother, Dianne
> >Ladd, are going to be appearing in an upcoming movie, the title of which
> >escapes me at the moment.  But it showed at the Telluride Film Festival
> >last week, and critics are predicting Oscars for it.

> >--
> >bvickers@ics.uci.edu | "Only a large-scale popular movement toward
> >brett@ucippro.bitnet |  decentralization and self-help can arrest the
> >                     |  present tendency toward statism." - Aldous Huxley

"Rambling Rose" is the movie with Laura Dern and Dianne Ladd which did indeed
premier at Telluride to mixed reactions.  It's based on a Calder Willingham
novel and is more or less charming, life-affirming and
thoroughly mediocre but has dynamite performances from Ladd and Robert Duvall.
Dern is white trash with a gold heart who comes to be a nanny for a well-to-do
Southern family...simple plot which toys with the idea of a "feminist" (as far
as mainstream Hollywood films CAN be feminist) agenda and falls flat.  The
director is Martha Coolidge ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") who felt "from the
beginning,this was MY film."  Renny Harlin ("Adventures of Ford Fairlane",
"Nightmare on Elm Street 4") produced it, not because of any bubblings of
charmingness or life-affirmitude, but because he's Dern's flame du jour - his
quote to a member of the Film Festival staff, "I'll make any film which
involves a lot of violence and exploits women."  Hey, somebody's gotta do it.