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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 23, 2011 0:29:38 GMT -5
Because as attractive as Diane Lane is, isn't she close to 60? I always pictured Mrs. Barrett as 30, tops. I thought she was pictured as a younger mother?
I see Diane Lane as perhaps a good slightly older Elizabeth Brewer, perhaps?
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 23, 2011 0:38:27 GMT -5
Yeah, Mrs. Barrett was 33 or so. Diane Lane's in her 40s, I think. I guess she would make a good Elizabeth too!
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 23, 2011 11:56:54 GMT -5
My bad! I thought Diane Lane was older, but she's actually my parents' ages (my parents had me when they were late teens). I guess I can picture Diane as a "hot Elizabeth", after she's been married to Watson for a while and combs the Lancome counter or whatever....
Just to edit: that I am basing this off of how Elizabeth was portrayed in the film, for example (which I liked that portrayal of her) and I always remember the part where the tomato gets stuck on her lip/cheek/
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 23, 2011 16:53:06 GMT -5
Sometimes the lines between Mrs. Barrett and Sharon Schafer-Spier are very blurred to me. They don't look alike, but they have this scatterbrained-ness going on. I always pictured them looking very much alike. Was it said that Mrs. B-D was a brunette? I thought she was blonde. |
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 23, 2011 16:58:49 GMT -5
^ I guess she's a brunette because she has chestnut hair. If someone has chestnut hair, then their hair is a reddish shade of brown hair.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 23, 2011 17:22:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I looked it up in Dawn and the Impossible Three and it said she had chestnut curls. That's generally considered brown with a reddish tinge to it. Either way that's not how I think of her at all. I'm going to keep thinking she looks like Sharon's younger sister.
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Post by greer on Dec 23, 2011 17:23:32 GMT -5
I thought chestnut was very dark brown?
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 23, 2011 17:29:58 GMT -5
I don't know, I googled images and they all look reddish to me. According to wikipedia: chestnut brown - medium brunette to dark brown with dark auburn tones.
auburn brown - reddish shade of brown hair.
So I guess it's a darker brown with reddish highlights? This is why I'm not a hairstylist...
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 23, 2011 17:49:19 GMT -5
Maybe Mrs. Barrett being Dawn's long-lost aunt could have been a new storyline (jokes!)
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Post by booboobrewer on Dec 23, 2011 23:12:30 GMT -5
Charlotte's hair was described as chestnut and it was always dark brown.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 23, 2011 23:38:16 GMT -5
I thought Sharon had short-medium length blond hair while Mrs. B-D had the longer chestnut locks. As for Elizabeth, based on how she looked in Kristy's scrapbook pages, I think her hair was possibly a longer, bigger, version of how Stacey looked dancing with Sam in Shadow Lake. For some reason I picture Elizabeth being the tallest of the three women, Sharon the shortest and Mrs. B-D in the middle. Lol, fyi, until this very moment I never gave second thought to any of their respective heights! This board sure has a way of getting all of us to examine the nittiest of BSC gritty.   |
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 24, 2011 0:01:58 GMT -5
^ You're right about the descriptions of the ladies. Originally, when I said Sharon and Mrs. Barrett were alike and like sisters, I didn't mean by the way they looked. They both have a "scatterbrained essence", so to speak. That's where the Mrs. Barrett as Dawn's long-lost-aunt comes in. Obviously Sharon would be the older sister. Haha, it kind of reminds me of Dawn and Mary Anne all over again... just... older.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 24, 2011 12:33:45 GMT -5
^I can see your point about both women being very scatterbrained for sure but I think there was a difference. Sharon, we were told anyway, was perfectly fine at work and it was only at home where she not only "forgot" things but would freeze shoes. ITA with past discussions on how such behavior is much more than "oh I forgot where I parked one day." I have always wondered if Sharon was this way (as "bad") prior to her divorce. We know from Dawn's first mention when she and MA were looking for the yearbooks, that Sharon had evidently packed things very which way. I wonder if that extended to leaving groceries on the counter before or starting right after the big move. Mrs. B-D, in terms of her kids, was plain neglectful. There was that one early scene where she was yelling at Buddy in front of Dawn that she was also abusive. Her scatterbrainedness was more of a combination "I just can't deal with this anymore. I need to get away, reply. Possibly a part of her didn't realize just how bad everything had gotten while she dealt with the divorce. What I'm trying to say is whether un-intentional or not, her actions ended up being hurtful to her kids. Sharon's were just "dumb?" Although I do feel she (because we rarely heard her "miss" him), neglected Jeff to some degree. I also admit to (overall) ending up liking Mrs. B-D much better than I ever did Sharon. I was merely glad Sharon ( we can hope) helped add happiness to Richard's life. I never got to like her character much on its own. Mrs. B-D at least had that awesome scene singing "Davy Crockett" with Buddy in "Sea City, Here We come!" Lol, it would have been quite funny though had Sharon and Natalie B-D been related. |
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Post by greer on Dec 24, 2011 14:24:27 GMT -5
I like Sharon in FF, where we see a lot of the Spier family interacting. She has some good moments where she really seems to be able to help Richard understand Mary Anne.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 24, 2011 14:52:34 GMT -5
^ I like Sharon, too. I think when they keep her scatterbrainness down to a minimum, she seems a lot like Maureen McGill, not someone who should be a patient in a psych-ward for putting shoes in the oven or whatever...
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