FRIDA

[joanna bujes]

At 06:29 PM 01/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I dont know how this discussion morphed into this.
>First, Martha made some excellent points about how the
>movie concealed Kahlo's handicap.  And then Marta and
>I both speculated that it was because the actress was
>going to be pushed as a "bimbo" (I dont know why bimbo
>is used, the correct word would be "bimba") and that
>it wouldn't have been sexy if the withered leg had
>been put into evidence.
>
>Obviously whether or not an actress wears diaphanous
>clothing or none at all does not reflect on her acting
>ability.  However someone (whether the actress,
>director or producer) decided that "sex appeal" was
>more important than the truth.

Yeah, except that sex appeal has very little to do with being a perfect 
object. That's where they went wrong.

Joanna