Beauty vs Beast: Blue Beauty On Velvet Beast
Monday, January 19, 2015 at 3:00PM 
Jason from MNPP here wishing everyone a blue blue Blue Monday. When I tell you that it feels as if I've been having an awfully Lynchian series of months, I'm sure your first reaction is to 1) shudder and 2) to call the police on my behalf. But this is not a cry for help, don't worry - I haven't turned into a door-knob or anything. It's just been a random confluence of events - I saw David Lynch speak at BAM a few months ago; then I read Lynch on Lynch (a terrific book of interviews with the director); then there was the news about the Twin Peaks revival; then I met Laura Dern at a party and told her she needs to get herself into the Twin Peaks revivial; then I went to Philadelphia and saw an exhibit of his paintings. It's been Lynch up the wazoo, basically.
And since tomorrow is Mr. Lynch's 69th birthday it seems a heck of a good time to give him the "Beauty vs Beast" treatment. I mean, what other director works in such extremes of dreamy beauties and nightmare beasts after all? Laura Palmer and the BOB at the end of her bed, for instance. And when the beauty & beast meet, watch out - you could argue that Laura Dern's become the perfect muse for him since she can so effortlessly stretch her sunny beauty out out out way too far for comfort. Those examples aside, it was pretty clear where we needed to mine this week's competition from...
Treat yourself to some cherry pie, climb inside a stranger's closet, do whatever it takes, and then hit the comments to tell us whose disease you want put inside of you in the next seven days, and why and how. And here's to your...
Reader Comments (18)
I just re-watched the Robins of Love scene the other day - my way of celebrating Laura Dern's Oscar nomination, with (maybe) my favorite Laura Dern scene.
But anyway, Deam Dorothy all the way. I'm always looking for her in my closet.
I've always loved teh weird Oscar story of this movie with only a DIRECTOR nomination and Frank Booth sort of memorialized in a very safe inspirational way via a different nomination in his category if you know what I mean (hello, Hoosiers!)
Since this is the actress sexual site, has an actress ever lost this poll to an actor?
Murtada - The answer to that question is a straight-up HELLS NO. Every time it's been Actor vs Actress, Actress has won. Y'all are consistent! ;)
JA -- this is why I pitted Tilda against Tilda. BUT I will say that I voted for Frank Booth wholly because Dorothy threatens Kyle Maclachlan's beautiful stuff with a butcher knife and that just aint right!
Oh my God...that Frank Booth isn't losing by a wider margin is frightening to me.
My best actress winner from 1986 :)
JA - test us by pitting the Brokeback boys against..... I don't even know who ..... Patricia Heaton?
Of course I voted for FRANK. Now if it had been Dorothy vs. Sandy (who's the beast?) I would been all about the brunette.
I seriously considered doing Dorothy vs Sandy but I still thought Dorothy would win in that match-up too. Naive little Sandy just gets swallowed whole in comparison.
But then I honestly though Frank would be doing better! He gets my vote anyway. I've seen this movie probably a couple dozen times and Dennis Hopper scares me MORE every time I watch it. It's a brilliantly unhinged spectacle, one of the greatest villains of all time, I think.
I'll vote for Frank. I'm tempted to vote for Dorothy simply for the Cons part.
I LOVE YOU!!!! LOVE ME!!!!!!! HE PUT HIS DISEASE IN ME!!!!
" Naive little Sandy just gets swallowed whole in comparison."
Considering that my friends and I used to call Sandy "bathtub mouth" because of its dimensions when she starts to blubber, I think she could swallow Dorothy, Frank, Jeffrey and his chin with no problem at all.
Oh, I love both so much. I had to go with Dorothy because SIEMPRE VIVA, LIVE FOREVER! Oh wait, that's a different movie.
Dorothy, because all she wants is her kid back, man!
Can I vote for Laura Dern's facial reactions
This poll is scientific evidence that TFE is largely populated by friends of Dorothy.
Carmen -- LMFAO