Posted on 04/10/2006 7:49:22 AM PDT by presidio9
There are some substances that should never be mixed, like sodium and chlorine, oil and water or peanut butter and caviar.
To that list we now can add Paris Hilton and Mother Teresa.
Paris Hilton is, of course, the 25-year-old hotel heiress who is famous for, well, for being famous. She is rich, beautiful and the star of a well-known sex video in which she gets extremely frisky with a former boyfriend.
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Macedonia in 1910, took her more famous name when she took her vows as a nun in 1931.
She went on to work tirelessly for the poor in the slums of Calcutta, India, and eventually established her own order of nuns, “The Missionaries of Charity.”
So what do the two have in common, other than their species and gender?
Well, according to People magazine, Paris Hilton is on the short list of actresses being considered to play Mother Teresa in a movie about the nun’s life.
Indian film director J. Rajeevanath says Hilton and Mother Teresa share a close facial resemblance. Hilton, for her part, disagrees, insisting the two look nothing alike, but says “I love Mother Teresa,” who, of course, died in 1997.
Mother Teresa was small and somewhat stooped, her face marked with lines of wisdom and compassion, her smile loving, her eyes kind.
Paris Hilton is young, blonde and apparently averse to wearing excessive amounts of clothing in public
It seems like a perfect match to me.
Actually, this would not be the worst piece of Hollywood casting in history, but it would be close.
John Wayne’s casting as Genghis Kahn in the 1956 film, “The Conqueror,” is one casting decision that just might be worse. In that film the Duke was heard to utter such immortal lines as “She is a woman — much woman. Should her perfidy be less than that of other women?”
Another low point in the annals of movie casting came when Tony Curtis was given the role of 1952’s “Son of Ali Baba,” in which he said the line, “Yonder lies the castle of my father,” which, with his accent came out sounding like “Yondah lies the castle of my faddah.”
“The 10 Commandments,” also brings us some unusual casting, with film gangster Edward G. Robinson appearing as Dathan, the Hebrew who betrays his people by working with the Egyptians. You half expect to hear him spouting his lines with a cigar between his teeth.
In 1956’s “Teahouse of the August Moon,” Marlon Brando was miscast as Japanese interpreter Sakini. Fortunately the movie was supposed to be a comedy.
Among more recent casting decisions that have drawn criticism were Ben Affleck as Tom Clancy’s protagonist Jack Ryan in “Sum of All Fears,” and John Travolta as Terl in Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s “Battlefield Earth.”
It has long been rumored Ronald Reagan was originally the choice to play Rick in the classic “Casablanca,” but that has been discounted. That would have given the Paris-Mother Teresa pairing a run for its money.
Then there is the recent controversy over casting openly gay actor Chad Allen in the lead role in the Christian film “The End of the Spear.” The directors certainly weren’t guilty of type casting.
Of course, acting is the art of making the audience forget they are watching an actor playing a role, and concentrate on the person being portrayed. Jamie Foxx pulled it off with his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Ray Charles in “Ray,” and Philip Seymour Hoffman won a best actor Oscar for his role as Truman Capote in “Capote,” and Joaquin Phoenix earned an Oscar nomination for playing Johnny Cash in “Walk The Line.”
This could be the opportunity of a lifetime for Paris Hilton. If she can make audiences believe she is Mother Teresa, they might as well stop handing out Academy Awards, because no one could ever do a better acting job than that.
Outside of Washington, that is.
So is moronic journalism.
The Tony Curtis movie cited in the article was "The Black Shield of Falworth"
That movie was so bad that nobody could have been well-cast in that role, except maybe a really, really bad actor, and John Travolta is actually pretty good.
It is about the young MT isn't it?
Paris Hilton sucks. Pretty good, too.
Does it really matter? Young or old, I don't see it. But hey, what do I know, I'm not a hollywood casting agent.
Paris Hilton has huge empathy. She sure doesn't need the money. This might be an excellent casting choice.
It's pretty cool to watch, if you've taken measures to ensure your safety during the resulting violent, flaming reaction.
Well, if she does, maybe. I guess I've never seen her act, not even in her infamous "One night in Paris" flick.
Actually, I have never seen her on TV or in movies, and am not that attracted to the idea that I would take the time to check it out. But, she has something going for her.
That's definitely a matter of opinion. You ask me she's about as sexy as a sack full of dirty laundry.
We will always have Paris.
So will about 4821 ohter men and I suspect mor ethen a few women.;)
Is Oliver Stone going to direct this Bizarro world epic?
Sodium is pretty reactive with just about anything. I'm just wondering why this author singled out chlorine of all things.
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