Beauties: Lesley Ann Warren
I have had a huge girl crush on Lesley Ann Warren ever since she sashayed though the delectable 80s cult classic Choose Me, which is up there with Some Like It Hot as one of the all time great sex comedies. So I am delighted to see that she's now on TV every week in the new USA Network show In Plain Sight, which you can catch on Hulu. I'm happy to report that she is as achingly kittenish at 62 as ever, well cast as gritty Mary McCormack's ditzy sexpot mom. Sure she's had some botox she didn't need, but she still oozes sex like no other actress half her age.
McCormack isn't half-bad either, and she gets one of my favorite TV lines in recent memory, when her tough cop character wrinkles her nose and says, "What's the deal with babies? I don't get it."
I've liked Lesley Ann Warren since I first saw her in the 60's t.v. version of Rodgers & Hammersteins "Cinderella". Great voice too. She was also an excellent Miss Scarlett in "Clue" One great lady who is sometimes confused with Susan Sarandon.
Posted by: Maureen | June 20, 2008 at 09:32 PM
She played Cinnamon in the 60's/70's tv show, Mission Impossible, and she stole the whole movie Victor/Victoria as the floozy girlfriend of the James Garner gangster character. I've nursed my girl crush on her for almost 40 years.
Posted by: demeris | June 21, 2008 at 09:29 PM
And don't forget how amazingly funny she was as Will's father's mistress on "Will and Grace"--- she is timeless!
Posted by: jkonrad | June 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM
I've adored her, too ever since she played Dana Lambert on Mission Impossible. I just thought she was so wonderful and those huge eyes--I used to try to make up my eyes like hers, to no avail. She was my role model!!
Posted by: Patricia | August 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM
You're close, demeris, but her name was Dana.
Posted by: Patricia | August 12, 2008 at 01:01 PM