December 07, 2005
odd parabolas
The IMDb is so thorough, and the tendencies of "superaggregate" industries to cross-employ and reuse human resources so powerful, that most names that appear in the register appear repeatedly. There are, of course, those who appear only once, and we can imagine the circumstances: the assistant director's cousin covering a sudden absence, or the nascent star wrecking a car on the night of a first wrap party. But what to make of someone who seemingly played the female lead in her debut film, then vanished for 23 years, only to return at some untold age as the singing voice of an animated spacegoing girl star? What happened for this to happen? The mind reels.
Posted by jane at December 7, 2005 09:05 AM | TrackBack