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Bryce Dallas Howard May Replace Lindsay Lohan In 'Teardrop Diamond'
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Whether she's losing roles because she's too busy, because she's done with independents or because she's unreliable, Lindsay Lohan is so known for dropping out of projects that some of us have coined the action as "pulling a La Lohan." It isn't a surprise now to learn that she's being replaced in another film, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond. You may remember the plot of the Tennessee Williams-penned film, which we told you about in November, as centering on a Southern socialite in 1920s Memphis. Lohan had been cast as that socialite, but now the role is being offered to Bryce Dallas Howard. As far as reliability goes, Howard may be the better choice, but as for acting talent, I'd honestly rather have Lohan. Howard has so far done awful things for the films she's starred in, and she nearly damaged my faith in one of my favorite filmmakers, Lars von Trier. I'm hoping that Sam Raimi actually gets smart and cuts most of her performance from Spider-Man 3 -- she was almost completely absent from the trailer -- although it might help him to keep her just to make Kirsten Dunst look better. I think for Williams' fans, spoiled with the memories of great actors starring in film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie, among others, as well as in his previously filmed screenplays like my personal favorite, Baby Doll, Howard will be a horrible addition to Teardrop Diamond's cast.
Vintage Image of the Day: Quinn in Streetcar
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Of all the men who have portrayed Stanley Kowalski over the years, I never expected to find Anthony Quinn among their numbers. It shouldn't surprise me, though -- Quinn had an amazing variety of roles onscreen. From 1936 until his death in 2001, Quinn played characters who were Native American, Mexican, Greek, Middle Eastern, French, Italian, and Irish, among others. He portrayed Zeus, Kublai Khan, Long John Silver, Quasimodo, and Attila the Hun.
Quinn was born on this day in 1915. His son, Alexa, has created a lovely tribute page that includes stills from some of his father's best-known movies as well as pictures of his father's artwork. Quinn was a painter and sculptor as well as an actor on stage and screen.
The above photo is from a 1949 stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire, with actress Uta Hagen as Blanche. (It's from a Wisconsin Academy Review article on Hagen.) Quinn and Hagen replaced Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy in the original Broadway production of the play. A few years later, Quinn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role alongside Brando in the 1952 film Viva Zapata!.
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