Alice in Wonderland redux

[Joe Allonby]

How old was Winona Ryder in "Beetlejuice"?

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> i might think it is a 'marketing-based' decision......Burton (or his studio distro company) feel, KNOW, that
> many prime moviegoers---teens---would not go to a movie ostensibly about a kid......12 or younger.................
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> It would end up an arthuose movie like (the terrific) Pan's Labyrinth.
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> But Burton will get her to act a very young 17.....I think.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:02:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Alice in Wonderland redux
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> Judy was 16 or 17.  The girl in Pan's Labyrinth was 12.  A description I read of the Burton movie describes Alice as 17.  Hey, it's a film of something in the public domain, what do you expect?
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> LK
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Jun 24, 2009 10:42 AM
>>To: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>Cc: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Re: Alice in Wonderland redux
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>>How old was Judy Garland when she starred in the Wizard of Oz?  Even
>>though L.F. Baum doesn't, to my recollection, give Dorothy a specific
>>age, one is clearly inclined to think of her as much younger than 16.
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>>On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:44 AM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> my girlfriend made a good point when I mentioned this to her--she said
>>> some 19 yr olds look like 12 or 14 but better yet, due to the nature
>>> of an adult film you would need to cast an older person and that that
>>> person would be much better acting range-wise and the like
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>>> On 6/23/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> More to the point: can this 19 year old look freshly-pubescent?  I'd say
>>>> casting an "unknown" in this role is meant to establish this blur.
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>>>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> is alice supposed to be 19?
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>>>>> On 6/23/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:07 AM, David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/johnny-depp-as-mad-hatter_n_218747.html
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>>>>> > Feat. Cicciolina as The White Queen ...
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