Posted on 04/02/2016 7:48:35 PM PDT by pboyington
Ain’t that the truth.
I thought Jennifer Grey was pretty cute back then.
Then she had to go and ruin it by getting her nose done.
In the one I'm thinking of, she wears an expression that says oh dear, yet another male making a complete fool of himself for me. As if it's not the first time, and thinks its silly - but, even so, she likes it.
Kind of like the Mona Lisa.
some publicity stills for Lolita:
http://flashbak.com/sue-lyons-risque-lolita-publicity-photos-1962-48433/
With Jennifer Grey, it was much more the way she acted. Not that she wasn't cute, but her attitude was extremely charming, winsome.
The scene where she interacts with Charlie Sheen at the police station is delightful. Even though when I watch it as an adult I know that it's going to end very badly if she takes up with him.
In a couple of those, she looks like Alicia Silverstone.
“In a couple of those, she looks like Alicia Silverstone.”
Good call. There is a strong resemblance.
I wonder how many of those pictures were taken by him.
Sue Lyons has the property that it is almost impossible to take a bad picture of her. I'm sure that's one of the things that made Kubrick hire her.
According to Wikipedia, Tuesday Weld was considered for the part. She also has that quality - she's delightful from pretty much any angle, with any expression on her face, and wearing anything.
Perhaps she was too well known, and therefore too expensive. Also, I think Kubrick wanted someone unknown, an new face. By 1962, Ms. Weld was already very familiar, having appeared in nine movies by that time. Also, she's three years older than Sue Lyons, and probably wouldn't have been able to pull off the "precocious 14-year-old" thing by then.
I did see that kind of careerism or materialism, but all the grungy slackers were also GenX, so it was confusing back in the 1990s.
Are young people really less driven now? It's true that they're more coddled and less cynical, but I bet you can find a large subset of young people who are highly focused on career goals growing over the past two generations.
Whether in the 80s or now, young people spend less time at the beach or the malt shop than 50s or 60s teens (to judge by TV and movie depictions).
Ferris, Cameron and Sloan are skinny and surprisingly free of Millennial teen and early adult diseases like Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Why? Because they went places and did things!
That's what parents and grandparents talk about '80s and '90s kids and what parents and grandparents say about kids in every generation. Before there was the Internet there was TV and there were even video games back then. Parents reproached their children for not getting out in the real world and doing things even 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.
Sue Lyons not only had the photographic quality that you describe so well, but she was 13- and in the book Lolita is 12 1/2. An inspired choice by Kubrick.
Poor Sue Lyons sure went on to live a screwed up life afterwards.
In the movie it makes it look like his dad is some multi-millionaire.
But supposedly the house was hard to sell, as it wasn't particularly fancy.
It hadn't been upgraded in years.
Yeah, Sam Adams, she looked like Blair from the Facts of Life
I had a good run for about 5 to 7 years but it started getting crappy in the late 80’s.
Pelham (you): "The phrase "jury rigged" has been in use since at least 1788. The adjectival use of "jury", in the sense of makeshift or temporary, has been said to date from at least 1616 when it appeared in Capt John Smith's The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles published in 1624. [...]"
I had thought that my question - concerning "jimmy-rigged" - made clear that I already had an understanding of the lexicology of "jury-rigged" and "jerry-rigged."
Regards,
I posted it for the benefit of those who may have read your post but don’t have your etymological knowledge.
You’re right. It was small and old but very distinct and mid century modern, all glass. I have no idea what the kitchen or whatever looked like. The owner who had it built was in the textile industry.
Still is.
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