HERE'S TO YOU, MRS. ROBINSON...AND AGENT STARLING...AND RAYMOND'S MOTHER...AND THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST: Pop Matters weighs in with a look at 100 Essential Female Film Performances. Make sure you read the introduction first; the rationale for who did and did not make the list is intriguing in its own right. The roles are broken down into groups of 20, so far focusing on supporting performances, classic roles, and the dark side, which means there are only 40 slots left for Paris Hilton's star turn in The Hottie and the Nottie to garner some much deserved recognition.
supplemented and afforded the rare ALOTT5MA bump by Adam, because it's that good: Part 4, From Page to Screen, is now up, including praise for the acting prowess of ... Whoopi Goldberg, in The Color Purple: "Perhaps the most talented, underappreciated actresses of her generation, and maybe also one of the most hard-to-cast, Goldberg’s film debut (!) for Steven Spielberg remains her superlative dramatic achievement in a career full of comedy. What casting agents just don’t seem to get about Goldberg is her commanding knowledge of cinema history and pop culture, and her ability to relate it to whatever role she happens to be tackling—her abilities as an intuitive, instinctive actor are unique and sorely missed. ... This should have been the first Oscar for Whoopi, rather than the one she received a few years later in 1991 for her ace comedic role in Ghost, in the supporting category. It is her depth and her gravitas in Purple that will ensure her place in film history, though. Unless, of course, some brilliant scribe out there provides her with a properly-written new dramatic part. One can dream…"
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