Who would you cast in the role of Delores Umbridge?

[Michele]

> From Bohcoo:
> I'm about to show my age -- because I can't, for the life of me, 
> remember the name of the movie -- the one where the little blond 
girl 
> gets sucked through her TV set into another (horrifying) dimension 
> because the development company her father (Craig T. Nelson) worked 
> for had built houses, including theirs, right on top of a graveyard 
> and the initial residents were none-too-pleased about it. It is the 
> movie where the little girl says, "They're he-e-e-e-ere."
> 
> Anyway. The mother (Jo Beth Williams, I think) and father call in 
an 
> exorist -- a "little person" with that little girl voice and buggy 
> eyes. She is quite an actress and has been in countless movies. She 
> is exactly who I pictured when reading Umbridge. That actress can 
do 
> sickingly-sweet-but-artificially nice like a champ. She would be 
> perfect -- but, I don't think she is British.
> 
> Does anyone know that actress's name? And, what the heck, does 
anyone 
> remember the name of the movie?
> 
> Thanks (sheepishly),
> Bohcoo

Now Michele:

As already mentioned, the movie was "Poltergeist".  The actress I 
think you mean is Tangina Barrons as Zelda Rubenstein.  This might 
help:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-45535

Funny, she's exactly who I thought of, too, to play dear Dolores 
Umbridge.

Michele (slowly but surely coming out of lurker status...)