FANTASY casting...

Liz the Lucky lizthelucky at comcast.net
Sat Jun 23 22:42:17 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 170683

I've been asked to explain my choices:

> Tallulah Bankhead for Bellatrix

This is kinda hard to explain because I've only seen her on 
screen once, in an episode of Batman, when she was sixty-five 
years old. The image I have of her mostly comes from a couple 
of mysteries. One is The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case by 
George Baxt. The other is one of the Elliot Roosevelt 
mysteries starring his mother (can't remember which one, 
sorry). Both gave the impression of a very willful, wild 
woman who was prone to saying and doing anything that took 
her fancy. Her lovers were many and of both sexes. And she 
had a penchant for taking her clothes off at parties. Some 
of the quotes I've seen creditted to her include, "There is 
less to this than meets the eye," and "I'm as pure as the 
driven slush." Oh, and she was a member of Dorothy Parker's 
Algonquin set. {shrug} She just seems very Bellatrix-ish to 
me.

> Mrs. Sloccum (Are You Being Served?) for Umbridge

Okay, I confess, I just want Umbridge to say, "Somebody had 
to act [about Harry Potter], and I am unanimous in that."


Hugs and Kisses,
Liz the Lucky       lizthelucky at comcast.net
http://www.lizthelucky.com/
Who is Will? And why does everyone keep firing at him?




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