TV helps us love the past (with a sidebar of racesuccess!)
That's my theory this morning, after TiVo picked up an old Dale Midkiff episode of "The Outer Limits". He is his sexy self, playing a desperate guy who has lost his memories but gets them back through the sci part of this sci fi episode. And the woman who helps him until the end is this beautiful black lady who runs a rescue mission.
I just watched the sex scene and thought, "He is so freaking beautiful, not for the body but for the way he cries easily, the vulnerability... the ridiculous hotness of that very tender sex scene. Which was only aided by how pretty the dark-light contrast of skin and hands and mouths was. ::happy sigh::
For like, 5 minutes, I loved Dale almost like I did when I first started loving him as Buck, all that girly tenderness alongside all that masculinity. I can do that with pretty much any actor who had the good fortune of doing interesting work while at their very best (whatever that may be for each one).
It makes me want to have a movie marathon day, instead of writing; to watch Wiseguy (Jonathan Banks' best moments), Aliens for Michael Biehn and Sigourney Weaver, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back for Angela Bassett (and Tay Diggs), and Magnificent Seven (for MB, DM, AS, AK, and even some of RP's great moments), and Once and Again for a nice shot of EC's best, Space: Above and Beyond (Rodney Rowland's sublime moments amidst a pile of, well)... heck, maybe even "The Empath" or "For the World is Hollow..." from the original Trek series, for the utter wallow in angst and friendship.
Then of course I think I want to watch "Strange Days" because it was one of Angela Bassetts' best (to me) roles, but also because Kathryn Bigelow directed it, which makes me want to watch all Kathryn Bigelow films... which makes me realize I need to stop enjoying my wallow in the past and take my dog for a walk in the hills.
Such is a Saturday morning when I wake early with the TV remote near to hand.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/19858.html#comments
I just watched the sex scene and thought, "He is so freaking beautiful, not for the body but for the way he cries easily, the vulnerability... the ridiculous hotness of that very tender sex scene. Which was only aided by how pretty the dark-light contrast of skin and hands and mouths was. ::happy sigh::
For like, 5 minutes, I loved Dale almost like I did when I first started loving him as Buck, all that girly tenderness alongside all that masculinity. I can do that with pretty much any actor who had the good fortune of doing interesting work while at their very best (whatever that may be for each one).
It makes me want to have a movie marathon day, instead of writing; to watch Wiseguy (Jonathan Banks' best moments), Aliens for Michael Biehn and Sigourney Weaver, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back for Angela Bassett (and Tay Diggs), and Magnificent Seven (for MB, DM, AS, AK, and even some of RP's great moments), and Once and Again for a nice shot of EC's best, Space: Above and Beyond (Rodney Rowland's sublime moments amidst a pile of, well)... heck, maybe even "The Empath" or "For the World is Hollow..." from the original Trek series, for the utter wallow in angst and friendship.
Then of course I think I want to watch "Strange Days" because it was one of Angela Bassetts' best (to me) roles, but also because Kathryn Bigelow directed it, which makes me want to watch all Kathryn Bigelow films... which makes me realize I need to stop enjoying my wallow in the past and take my dog for a walk in the hills.
Such is a Saturday morning when I wake early with the TV remote near to hand.
cross-posted from dreamwidth. http://charlottechill.dreamwidth.org/19858.html#comments