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Its August, which can only mean one thing: Winona Ryder season is upon us.
This month, Winona fans will be living in the best of all possible worlds.
Read on, already!
My whole life is a darkroom.
One big, dark room.
Beetlejuice
Like most child actors, a young Winona Ryder began her career as a novelty act.
You know what I want?
Still, it feels as if a much wider gulf separates that performance from this one.
(Christian Slater).
I dont know how to be a wife.
Im only thirteen.Great Balls of Fire!
Her parting words to J.D.
presaged the gauntlet of public creepiness to which emerging actresses in their teen years are often subject.
She could not always reciprocate his affections.
The years to come would bear this out.
Its like Popeye says: I yam what I yam!
Same goes for Ryder, whod show the world just how diverse her tastes were over the following decade.
Her Mina Murray is made of stern stuff, self-possessed and ripe with desire.
Regardless of their era, theyre strong-willed, passionate, and too clever by half.
You do love me, Newland.
Youve made me so happy.
Shes sharp enough to know somethings amiss but not enough to know what it is.
Even in tamer times, Ryder could triangulate the pain.
Dont just dick around the same coffeehouse for five years.
Maybe the whole world is stupid and ignorant, but Id rather be in it.
Girl, Interrupted
But first, shed have to be a teenager again.
Though it was a passage in the opening narration Have you ever stolen something when you had the cash?
that would prophesy the next chapter in her career.
He is not a dipshit!
Drippy little things, moving along, about a foot above the ground.
Just dripping, behind furniture.
Little spring flowers with blue in them might come up first.
This months parade of hosannas alone proves it her legacy is intact.
