tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post4014856314503429247..comments2024-01-08T19:49:13.932+00:00Comments on Froogville: My Fantasy Girlfriend - Tilda SwintonFrooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-80608930811278722452010-03-15T01:55:25.573+00:002010-03-15T01:55:25.573+00:00Oh yes, she 'slept' in a perspex sarcophag...Oh yes, she 'slept' in a perspex sarcophagus in the Serpentine Gallery for a week, didn't she? I didn't get around to seeing that.<br /><br />'Art'? Hmm. But she's certainly got a much more varied and risk-taking CV than most.<br /><br />Did you check out her article on Cinema & Dreams? Wonderful stuff!Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-41437544334754677032010-03-14T17:02:11.946+00:002010-03-14T17:02:11.946+00:00I don't know if this was the first use of the ...I don't know if this was the first use of the "to rample" bit, but the first time I saw it was in <em>The New Yorker</em> a few years back. (The profile is <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/10/060710ta_talk_thurman" rel="nofollow">available online</a> even to non-subscribers -- well done, <em>New Yorker</em>!) Definition there: "to ensorcell with an enigmatic gaze." (Someone showing off a bit there, I think.)<br /><br />The first time I remember seeing Swinton was in <em>The Deep End</em>. She looked positively fraught in that, and I couldn't have named another actress who might have been cast in the role instead of her.<br /><br />The cheekbones: wonder if <em>she</em> ever suffered from TMJ? I sense that if she did, she made TMJ pay for the privilege of afflicting her!<br /><br />The clip from <em>Limits of Control</em> sort of unhinged me. Thanks for that.<br /><br />P.S. Oh, and per Wikipedia just now, I see that she's also got some history not just as an artist, but as <em>art</em>. Wonder what Hugh MacLeod would make of that?JEShttp://johnesimpson.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-3518246587936281232010-03-14T06:09:35.898+00:002010-03-14T06:09:35.898+00:00By the way, Stuart, I have just been preparing a b...By the way, Stuart, I have just been preparing a bumper post on Mary Hopkin - for St Patrick's Day over on <b>The Barstool</b>. Since you are of an age with me, I suspect you'll rather like that.Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-26918082118875147802010-03-14T06:08:26.464+00:002010-03-14T06:08:26.464+00:00Ah yes, Charlotte Rampling - definitely pencilled ...Ah yes, Charlotte Rampling - definitely pencilled in for a future spot in this series.<br /><br />I always liked the remark (I forget who said it!) that there was something especially provocative about the fact that her surname sounded like a participle. And what red-blooded man would not wish to have been 'rampled'?Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211251.post-44076059098221547602010-03-14T02:23:30.294+00:002010-03-14T02:23:30.294+00:00"...it's very, very rare that anyone real..."...it's very, very rare that anyone really impresses me - much less dazzles me - with the sharpness of their brain, but Tilda does."<br /><br />This comment reminds me of an interview I saw with Charlotte Rampling a decade or more ago. I never looked at her in quite the same way again. Amazing woman.stuarthttp://foundinchina.com/noreply@blogger.com