Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette is, joy of joys, single again! These days she's also, alas, considered less of a name than her younger, less attractive sister Patricia (not to mention David); as a result, while they're still making "proper" movies, Rosanna's spending most of her time either on TV or in indie movies (and those major studio movies she does do are unworthy of her... is it any wonder her name doesn't appear on the credits for either Hope Floats or Joe Dirt?). It's all a shame, especially as her highest-profile tale of late was - ugh - The Whole Nine Yards.
But at least Flower Child Productions, the company she formed way back in the 1980s, has finally got its name on a movie - the documentary Searching For Debra Winger (using Winger's departure from Hollywood as a springboard for a look at the plight of actresses over the age of 40, something the 43-year-old Rosanna knows firsthand). Until the movie labelled "A Rosanna Arquette Experience" (this was her directing debut) turns up in the UK, I'll have to make do with anything that comes by; but she's always capable of delivering the good even with bad material (Poison, anyone?), and when she gets decent stuff to work with, you realise what a shame it is that she never made it to Julia Roberts status. There's more to Rosanna than "Rosanna," Desperately Seeking Susan and her nude scenes (no offence to Julia, but Rosanna Arquette would not need push-up bras to play Erin Brockovich, know what I mean?)
Recommended viewing: Absolutely anything, except maybe Gorp - for starters, The Executioner's Song, Baby, It's You, After Hours (warning: she dies in this), Silverado, The Big Blue (but again a warning: Rosanna didn't like the finished product), Nobody's Fool, Pulp Fiction, Black Rainbow, Promised A Miracle, Sweet Revenge, The Parade, The Wall (contains Rosanna singing! But alas, she dies in it as well...), Separation, Flight of the Intruder, The Wrong Man (the good 1993 movie where she bares a lot*), Nowhere To Run (the BAD 1993 movie where she bares a lot), Liar, Search and Destroy, Hell's Kitchen, I'm Losing You, New York Stories, Johnny Belinda, The Linguini Incident... like I said, just about everything.
*She was once rather unwilling to show off her (stunning) body, though she was persuaded to do so in S.O.B. - as she told an interviewer, "I was the other one besides Julie Andrews who showed her tits for Blake Edwards" - and the cinema version of The Executioner's Song is also more revealing, but she kept her clothes on for most of the 1980s... Rosanna bares more flesh these days, which is good in many respects - but a bit depressing when you think about it.
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Rosanna blossoms here...
A Tribute To Rosanna Arquette
Desperately Seeking Rosanna (highly recommended - and tell Mark I said hi)
RosannaArquette.com