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12-05-2006, 09:24 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
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| | | Best Performances by non white actresses
Maybe for once we can have a list that isn't all Jolie and Ricci. Ugh.
1. Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
2. S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues
3. Angela Bassett - What's Love Got To Do With It?
4. Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King
5. Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues
6. Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
7. Shohreh Aghdashloo - The House Of Sand And Fog
8. Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones
9. Kieu Chinh - The Joy Luck Club
10. Penelope Cruz - Volver |
12-05-2006, 09:39 PM
|  | WhatWouldSteveCarellDo? | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD
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| | | Halle Berry--Introducing Dorothy Dandridge |
12-05-2006, 09:46 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
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Originally Posted by Grace&Constanza Halle Berry--Introducing Dorothy Dandridge |
eh ... this is probably her best performance but even still it's not amazing. |
12-05-2006, 09:57 PM
|  | Mojo love | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: watertight hiding place
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| | | Michael Jackson - Moonwalker |
12-05-2006, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ltripley 4. Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King | Ok maybe I'm an idiot, but isn't she white?
edit- nevermind, just saw she's irish and cuban.
I'll add....
Penelope Cruz - Blow
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12-06-2006, 07:47 AM
|  | Chairman~MouseyTongue | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chairman Meow
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Originally Posted by Grace&Constanza Halle Berry--Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Monster's Ball! |
12-06-2006, 08:39 AM
| | don't say no to disco | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London
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| | | the women you listed, and
faye wong- chungking express
maggie cheung- in the mood for love
pam grier- jackie brown
i wasn't impressed by penelope cruz in blow. she was great in volver though |
12-06-2006, 11:07 AM
|  | errm............. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: japan
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| | | whoopi goldberg--sister act 1,2 and the associate
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12-06-2006, 12:46 PM
|  | Ian MacKaye loves me | | Join Date: May 2006
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Originally Posted by BleedingHeart Monster's Ball! | Yes |
12-06-2006, 12:49 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
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Originally Posted by renegade_princess pam grier- jackie brown | Man how did I forget that one. It's one of my favorites. |
12-06-2006, 01:02 PM
|  | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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Originally Posted by ltripley 10. Penelope Cruz - Volver | yeah. spain isn't white innit
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12-06-2006, 01:07 PM
| | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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| | | niggaz start at the pyrenees
srsly tho this just points out what a cultural construct "white" is. ya?, you agree, ya?
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12-06-2006, 01:15 PM
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| | Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
white or nonwhite? best actress period.   |
12-06-2006, 02:11 PM
| | dune coon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fiorina 161
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| | | No, Spain isn't white. My friend Gerardo from Spain doesn't consider himself white so I guess that might be where I got that notion from. |
12-06-2006, 02:18 PM
| | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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Originally Posted by ltripley No, Spain isn't white. My friend Gerardo from Spain doesn't consider himself white so I guess that might be where I got that notion from. | who decides this nonsense? ourselves, the census taker, a colour chart, the spanish government, pedro almodovar, tom cruise?
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12-06-2006, 02:21 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by Vermin Michael Jackson - Moonwalker | NO:
Michael Jackson - The Wiz
also:
That chick out of The Crying Game - The Crying Game :winky eye:
Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues (hilariously embarrassing for Di, like all her acting)
That evil chick with big hair - Leonard Part VI
Grace Jones - A View to a Kill (I'm serious about that one)
Rena Owen - Once Were Warriors (also serious)
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12-06-2006, 02:22 PM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | She needs her own thread:
Jennifer Beals - Flashdance
Jennifer Beals - Devil in a Blue Dress
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
12-06-2006, 02:37 PM
|  | She's like the wind | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Your face.
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| | | Anything with Whoopi Goldberg is best!
Also. I have to agree. Jennifer Beals is amazing and so gorgeous aswell.
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12-06-2006, 02:58 PM
| | be still, cody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port-au-patois
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| | anna karina in vivre sa vie 
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12-06-2006, 03:29 PM
| | Mojo love | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: watertight hiding place
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Originally Posted by bort NO:
Michael Jackson - The Wiz
also:
That chick out of The Crying Game - The Crying Game :winky eye:
Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues (hilariously embarrassing for Di, like all her acting)
That evil chick with big hair - Leonard Part VI
Grace Jones - A View to a Kill (I'm serious about that one)
Rena Owen - Once Were Warriors (also serious) | Grace Jones - Boomerang (I'm being serious as well) | |
