list-making for the new year

[malignd at aol.com]

Much prefer James Mason to Jeremy Irons.


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From: Emma Wrigley <ecwrigley at excite.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: list-making for the new year


12) Olivia&#8212Helena Bonham Carter?


<-----Original Message----->
>From: Elaine M.M. Bell [elainemmbell at gmail.com]
>Sent: 29/12/2010 6:54:11 PM
>To: pynchon-
>l at waste.org;mandevil at frontiernet.net;attyargenti at earthlink.net;linnjeff@
msn.com
>;jpkrug at gmail.com
>Subject: Re: list-making for the new year
>
>The airwaves are filled at this season with bests of (recent REAL TV 
offerings
>included "Cutest Cats of 2010") and various chart-toppers, so here's 
mine--
>DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME   Who agrees?
>
>
>DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME (as in &#8220nobody else comes 
close”)
>
>
>1)     Humbert Humbert&#8212Jeremy Irons
>2)     James Bond&#8212Sean Connery
>3)     Richard Nixon&#8212Frank Langella
>4)     Abraham Lincoln&#8212Henry Fonda
>5)     Howard Hughes&#8212Leonardo DiCaprio
>6)     Philip Marlowe&#8212Robert Mitchum
>7)     Juliet&#8212Olivia Hussey
>8)     The Faun&#8212Nijinsky
>9)     Sherlock Holmes&#8212Basil Rathbone
>10) Heathcliff&#8212Laurence Olivier
>11) Jay Gatsby&#8212Robert Redford
>12) Olivia&#8212Helena Bonham Carter
>13) Superman&#8212Christopher Reeves
>14) Count Dracula&#8212Bela Lugosi
>1