it's in the way they walk, or some stray remark snags,
and you're in the grip of a fully fledged crush.
Here are five of mine: Zhang Ziyi, Eva Green,
Cameron Diaz, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Marilyn Monroe
Eva Green - the latest Bond "girl"
1] I think it was the 2046 publicity shot of Zhang Ziyi, elbow jutting out with calculated dancer's poise, that grabbed me.All those tantrums and petulant game-playing during the film just made things worse. (How could Tony Leung mess her around?)
2) Eva Green is amazingly sexy - she has the air of aloofness that all iconic French actresses have, and it's been helped by the fact she's rationed her films carefully.
The Dreamers, a touch self-consciously, cast her as the nouveau Gallic temptress.
She kept Kingdom of Heaven afloat with kohl and pained looks alone. And as Vesper Lynd, she was maybe the best Bond Girl ever - devastating even with a name redolent of Italian motor engineering.
3) Cameron Diaz's CV has since developed along bland Hollywood lines, but boy, do I remember her entrance.
Maybe it was the preceding heavy night, maybe it was because I had escaped to the cinema from the car-park at B&Q where I had been helping my dad buy wood - but the debut of those exotically broad features and smoking body in The Mask pinned me to my seat. All a bit cheesy now, though.
4) I like Helena Bonham-Carter's acting. I like her refusal to kow-tow to idiotic fashion diktats on the red carpet. And I like her face: round, porcelain, innocent and knowing: Fight Club catches the contradictions perfectly.
5) Marilyn Monroe is the ultimatum blonde bombshell, screen sexuality incarnate, blah blah blah ...
I'd got bored with hearing this, but I was surprised to find, the first time I watched Some Like It Hot that it actually was true.
Magnetic suddenly doesn't seem like a cliché - the scene on board in which Tony Curtis pretends not to be stuck on her is incredibly funny.
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