FionaT

Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined February 5th 2007

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Mary Ellen Walton

February 8th 2007 21:57
Who remembers Mary-Ellen Walton? I do. I was up there on Walton's Mountain with the whole gang. I thought John-Boy was so handsome. Loved the steely Grandma. The little one - Elizabeth - she annoyed me - too cute. There was a middle one - I forget her name - so not much of an impression there. Oh yeah – Erin. The Mum - Livvie? Well I liked it when she let all that hair down at night and brushed it out - freedom! But Mary-Ellen. She played SOFTBALL! And wore denim dungaree's! Really what more could a young kiwi tomboy aspire to? Mary-Ellen was played by Judy Norton Taylor and I’ve read that she is a practising Scientologist and has appeared in Playboy … I won’t go there.
Mary-Ellen was forthright and stuck to her guns. She inspired me – I took up softball and even got around in dungaree’s circa 1974. Personality wise – well – my shyness would take over – but I did have some Mary-Ellen moments. She was a great role model really considering the times. Most females on tele were mindless girly girls who either got killed or got saved. Mary-Ellen did the saving. G’night Mary-Ellen.
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Tele-Girl Takes Off!

February 7th 2007 05:58
HI FELLOW SCREEN WATCHERS ...

What are my credentials for writing on this topic? I’m a bit of a tele girl - growing up in the seventies what else could I be? It’s like an old faithful dog - always there, waiting and ready to share the contents of its dinner bowl: drama, laughs and lashings of trash. For the purposes of this blog, I’m including films via DVD or on the big screen into the dinner bowl mix. Mind you, living out in rural Australia I don’t get to the flicks too often. Most of my celluloid comes via DVD – lets call them ‘divvy’s’
In this little diatribe I’ll be having a rave or a rant about the women characters I like … or loathe. Women who inspire me, challenge me, make me want to sell my TV and take up astronomy, make me cringe, make me crack up and cackle and roll on the floor with a sore belly from laughing so hard, make me cry and those who make me BELIEVE are the ones who will grace my keyboard.
Buckle up your remotes, hold the couch steady and get ready to ride with … TELE-GIRL!

Ruth Fisher

Six Feet Under. I love it. Having just enjoyed and endured a divvy fest of the ENTIRE series I am quite the SFU head at the moment! What a journey. What amazing characterisation - life, death and everything in between.
Ruth (played by Frances Conroy) is the lynch-pin who doesn't hold it all together. How can she? A life of caring for others and not taking time to have a relationship with herself has left this woman polishing and re-polishing the dining room table looking at a dowdy reflection she no longer recognizes. Ruth blossoms and stumbles, loves and hurts and tries - very hard - to know herself and her children. "All I want is for us not to be strangers, I want intimacy!"
Through Ruth we see the whole Fisher family - warts and all - as they leap and bound over the puddles of spilt blood and embalming fluid in their respective lives. I felt deeply involved with this character. I would shake my head at her, growl at her, cry for her and ... well ... love her. Intimacy.



Ruth Fisher
Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under.


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on MY TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND..........................

February 8th 2007 22:07
Ahh - you've made me homesick. Not for the bulldozers -which, by the way there are PLENTY of blighting the Australian landscape here and there - but for those hills. The green green hills ...