Alice in Wonderland redux

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Also 16-17.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 24, 2009 8:16 PM
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Cc: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Alice in Wonderland redux
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>How old was Winona Ryder in "Beetlejuice"?
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>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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