BLEEDING EDGE and voice

[Mark Kohut]

forgive if I have posted the essence of this before: i remember wanting to.
If I did, this post will be fuller to make up for not boring you enough the first time.
 
Listening further to the audio of Bleeding Edge. The actress who is Maxine, somehow
part of Paul Thomas Anderson's crew, I think, is very nasally ethnic. Is, one might say,
a stereotype of a female Jewish voice, such as the media/movies have given us. I think
it must be the actress's real voice. For which Tom and Melanie must have chosen her. 
 
She could never be the leading lady in a mainstream movie. She would be a supporting 
actress only (as manifested here). Her voice annoys the hell out of me.....
 
Which is why I again think P's choices are more perfect than we often notice (or think). 
 
Maxine is Jewish and, in some sense, only Jewish (and a mom) in this novel. No connection
to the Marching generation; no operatic heritage; bereft of a rich dream fantasy life. 
 Nothing but dogged honest work (outside the law); trying to survive; be a good mom; 
and have a sliver of what passes for love warm her arms and thighs. 
 
My annoyance at the BE voice is annoyance that MAXINE doesn't fit my preconceptions, my TV
moms---Mrs. Cleaver, others....---probably contains some hidden anti-jewishness,
 
So a great writer makes us feel; makes us think to get it...even in the audio version. 
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