Happy Birthday, Louise Lasser
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 4:55PM
JA in Birthday, Darren Aronofsky, Ellen Burstyn, Woody Allen

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"I wish you had done this twenty years ago.Now I'll have to get another fucking face-lift!"

JA from MNPP here. Because I'm too young to have seen Mary Hartman Mary Hartman or the Woody Allen movies she starred in (she's brilliant in Bananas) until recently, whenever I think of Louise Lasser my first thoughts are of her scenes in Todd Solondz's masterpiece Happiness (watch the above scene here), and also that time she dyed Ellen Burstyn's hair - "If this is red, I wanna know, what's orange?" - in Requiem For a Dream. What do you think of when you think of Louise Lasser?

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