01/07/2007: "Winona Ryder"

Teh Luvverly Interwebs
is laden with joi!

Recently, I found How to Write a Screenplay. Badly.

Unfortunately, the site is now "on hiatus" (no, that's not Latin, 'Tish)
but there is much joi to be had - this, for example:

On Breaking the Fourth Wall

It has been said that breaking the fourth wall is a crutch used by lazy writers, and also by cripples. This may be true, although I can't be sure, since I've never met any cripples. Although once I knew a girl whose left leg was four inches shorter than her right. We called her Roundabout and forced her to cavort for our merriment on many a cold winter night. Ha! And when our fits of whimsy overcame our better judgment, oh, we would pelt her with apples and cry out that no loving God could ever create a creature such as herself, and we dubbed her beast, beast, unclean beast.

(By the way, don't feel sorry for stumpy little Roundabout; she's doing just fine these days. Why, you've probably seen some of her movies...her name is MISS WINONA RYDER.)



Much amused, I decided to undertake a little research. There is an enormous amount of 'Noni stuff on Teh Luvverly Interwebs - here's a small sample:


In the gym with Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder Fiction

Winona is a sort of Black Widow for musicians

From Wikipedia

Notable family friends include her godfather Timothy Leary and beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

When Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a commune near Elk, California... the remote property had no electricity or television sets...

During her first week at the local junior high school she was bullied by a group of thugs who mistook her for an effeminate, scrawny boy.



The Wikipedia article then wanks on & on about her film roles, always returning to the theme of conflict -

For example: The character is simultaneously struggling with life in a world obsessed with materialism and dismissing those interested in more ethereal or philosophical concerns.


Looks like 'twas written by her agent or something...


On December 12, 2001, Ryder was arrested for shoplifting thousands of dollars' worth of designer clothes and accessories at Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, California. During the trial, she was also accused of using drugs without valid prescriptions. ...she had filled up to 37 prescriptions written by 20 doctors, using six different aliases, in a three-year period.


I must admit that Heathers was rather good -
but mostly due to Christian "Clarence Worley" Slater...



Reality Bites was good too,
but mostly due to Ethan Hawke...



but she was perfect in Great Balls of Fire, playing Myra, the thirteen-year-old (second cousin twice removed) 3rd wife of Jerry Lee Lewis!


Quite understandably, she has her own, dedicated news channel!


Other sites:

Winona Online

Winona Ryder Media Center

The Winona Ryder Patchwork

Noni (many, many fine wallpapers & artwork here!")

Nonisight (Italian, 'Tish!)

Lady Winona (French, 'Tish!)


PS: the first person to say gamine loses...


lerevdr on Sun 07-Jan-2007 @ 14:37 e.s.t [permalink]
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