OK, I'm supposed to be wrapping up my HT today, and writing that big long article with the tons of pix that I've been promising…. So I'm going to try to keep this short yet explain my thoughts.

No, I'm not talking porn, and out of deference to our kind hosts here, I hope you won't either…at least for THIS thread!

OK, to be serious:
I've always had a fascination with charisma and beauty. I'm not sure if it's a photography/video production thing, but sometimes I'm very aware of a woman (or man, even) being caught perfectly at the right moment in their career, maybe with the right role in a movie, for example. It might be someone who has had a series of successful moments, but one just seems to "click". Sometimes, it can be a still photography session as well.

Again I'm being serious: There was a photo shoot of Charlize Therron several years ago in Playboy that I thought was amazing. Not at all porn in any form, the photos were reminiscent of 1940s and 1950s-era Hollywood. I've never seen her look so good. I can't throw out the issue; the photos to me are the quintessential moment of capturing timeless grace and beauty.

I can fall in love a little bit through photos and roles such as these.

More on-topic to this forum, I usually see examples of this in movies:

**Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny". She's had good roles, but this one takes the cake. I couldn't believe she wasn't a native New York Tuff-Chick when I saw her interviewed after. A well-deserved Oscar.

**Maria Conchita Alonso in "Moscow on the Hudson"

**Annette Benning in "The American President" (by the way, another "Guilty Pleasure")

**Emmanuelle Seigner as the French waif in "Frantic"

**Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat"

Anyone have any other examples of a role when someone was at their "hottest"? Anyone else fall in love a little during a 90 or 120 minute period?

(Hey, sorry, it's another snowy day here in NH, and this will keep you busy while I write that other post!)


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