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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 15, 2019 0:41:40 GMT
I was always indifferent towards Meg Ryan in the past, never paid much attention to her, but I just loved the way she handled this asshole!
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 16, 2019 1:45:30 GMT
I was always indifferent towards Meg Ryan in the past, never paid much attention to her, but I just loved the way she handled this asshole! I like Michael Parkinson Mr. Dirty. I find him a warm, funny and honest personality. What I see here is an awkward and aloof Ryan who was edgy. Perhaps she may not have been used to the British personality, but Parkinson was very popular with many celebrities. I don't think he asked her anything pointed or condescending, his tone of voice wasn't snide and she was just very guarded for some reason. I have never really warmed to Ryan and while she was quite cutsie looking in her heyday and tended to do more comedic roles in the 80's, she is right about herself, it didn't really come naturally. Have you seen this 75' interview with Parkinson and Davis? I love the way they wrapped it up and Davis herself comes across as such an honest, classy and intelligent individual with a dry and sharp wit. I always like watching Bette Davis giving an interview. She is fascinating, warm, funny, incredibly bright and likeable. Bette is tops. And Michael Parkinson was actually good here as well. He was relaxed and respectful, the two of them had a nice rapport and I think they both had a fun time with the interview. I think with Meg Ryan, things were off from the start. I don't they felt any kinship or sympatico with the other one. Ryan has called Parky "nuts!" and said she felt like he had become this disapproving father type and she found him horribly offensive. I can see that. He leans into, seems like he wouldn't mind tripping her up himself, as Parkinson himself that he did not like the "monosyllabic" Ryan. He said she was cold and rude, whereas I might just as well see her as feeling on the defensive and not at all uncomfortable. When he says to her "Now, that you are wary of journalists... Yes, you are wary of them. You're wary of my. You can tell by the way you sit and by the way you are... " And she agreed with him, but it felt like he had gone in for the kill. I think in this case Parky liked seeing a guest he didn't really like, get all nervous and squirm in her chair. The most satisfyng part was, for me, when Parky kept at Ryan and saying "So, what you do right now if you were me?" And Meg comes back with a gem "Oh, just wrap it up!" And that was that. I liked Parky during the Bette Davis interview and I am sure a few others, but here he seemed to have an agenda. He did not like here, and Ryan was the one who came up out on top. Her response was near classic, and it certainly served the purpose she wanted to... I also didn't like Parky's interview he did with Helen Mirren, who is graceful and really in a class by herself. The Richard Burton interview supposedly went really well. And Parky supposedly was fascinated by Orson Wells.
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Post by dirtypillows on Aug 16, 2019 17:21:59 GMT
I always like watching Bette Davis giving an interview. She is fascinating, warm, funny, incredibly bright and likeable. Bette is tops. And Michael Parkinson was actually good here as well. He was relaxed and respectful, the two of them had a nice rapport and I think they both had a fun time with the interview. I think with Meg Ryan, things were off from the start. I don't they felt any kinship or sympatico with the other one. Ryan has called Parky "nuts!" and said she felt like he had become this disapproving father type and she found him horribly offensive. I can see that. He leans into, seems like he wouldn't mind tripping her up himself, as Parkinson himself that he did not like the "monosyllabic" Ryan. He said she was cold and rude, whereas I might just as well see her as feeling on the defensive and not at all uncomfortable. When he says to her "Now, that you are wary of journalists... Yes, you are wary of them. You're wary of my. You can tell by the way you sit and by the way you are... " And she agreed with him, but it felt like he had gone in for the kill. I think in this case Parky liked seeing a guest he didn't really like, get all nervous and squirm in her chair. The most satisfyng part was, for me, when Parky kept at Ryan and saying "So, what you do right now if you were me?" And Meg comes back with a gem "Oh, just wrap it up!" And that was that. I liked Parky during the Bette Davis interview and I am sure a few others, but here he seemed to have an agenda. He did not like here, and Ryan was the one who came up out on top. Her response was near classic, and it certainly served the purpose she wanted to... I also didn't like Parky's interview he did with Helen Mirren, who is graceful and really in a class by herself. The Richard Burton interview supposedly went really well. And Parky supposedly was fascinated by Orson Wells. Yes, Bette is a delight to watch, in person or in film. I will check out that Helen Mirren one, whom I'm not sure if I like her that much either, but does have plenty of class.
Ryan was apparently promoting her Jane Campion film at the time, In The Cut. She may have been having a bad hair day, but she wasn't exactly being professional and what I saw of her here, is why I don't really warm to her. She didn't have to do the interview, appears to have a distorted perception of Parkinson—is she perhaps feminist I wonder?—and she was a celebrity and Parkinson likes to ask celebrities about their stardom and how they perceive it and themselves.
Here is a brief retrospect of Parkinson talking about the Ryan interview:
Jane Campion! Oh, Jesus, Joseph and Mary! Say no more! That lady wreaks of a feminist agenda! I hardly know anything about Meg Ryan, but, yeah, she was there to promote her film. In the end, I think these two people were just predisposed to not like each other. And, yes, Meg's hair looks awful, it looks like a straw hat. Dreadful. Poor thing. I do like the Helen Mirren interview, for the way she handled herself. Parky can barely contain his state of arousal. And he introduced her by, basically, calling her a slut! Yikes!
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