Re: RARA-AVIS: Angie hit back on TV
William Holmes (kenoman@bigfoot.com)
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 19:29:54 -0700
Reeves said:
> For what it's worth, Angie Dickinson starred in
"Policewoman," a TV series
> that ran in the 70s, in which she played a detective
considered "hard" for
> those times who used her considerable sexual appeal to
great advantage. (It
> wasn't a good series, but it retains a certain cultural
fascination.) It
> crossed my mind when I first saw De Palma's "Dressed to
Kill" that he was
> deliberately subverting her tough television persona by
making her the almost
> unbearably helpless victim. Many feminists got pretty
mad at De Palma, but
> they've never been known for their sense of irony, let
alone humor.
>
>
>
>
You just brought to mind another gal from that era, a
character
actress named Sherree North. She usually played a hard boiled
character no matter what the story line, and I always enjoyed
seeing her in a movie or on TV. I don't know if she ever had
any
starring roles, or if she is still acting.
Bill Holmes
Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to
accept the things I cannot,
and a great big bag of money. -anon. 13 year old.
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