Ed Wood : Funniest line goes to Sarah Jessica Parker's character

Funniest line goes to Sarah Jessica Parker's character

Playing Ed Wood's girlfriend, Dolores Fuller, Sarah Jessica Parker says:--

"Do I really have a face like a horse"

It's funny because it's so true. How Parker has been able to get roles as some kind of sex-kitten for years is either a triumph of make-up or evidence of mass blindness.

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Joe, I agree with you 100%. I consider it one of the great mysteries of life.

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SJP is one of those women who was cute and had a great body-as the years of smoking and of life in general add up,she looks more and more like Dorothy Hamilton-the wicked witch.
Remember those shrunken head kits that were sold in the 70's?You take a peeled apple and carve shapes into it then hang it under a lamp shade with the light on-the apple dries up and becomes the shrunken head-well all the sun and smoke are depleating her skins natural collogen and her knows becomes more pronounced as the skin shrivels.

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Thats "nose" not knows-
There really should be a edit feature

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There is an edit feature.

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Where and how do you edit posts?

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On the top right corner of your posts it says " Flag - Edit - Reply." Select 'edit.'

Notice that my post says that it's been edited. That feature has been in place for years.

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Thanks-I might have to upgrade my app-this feature is not there

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Oh I see. They might not make it available for the mobile app. On my phone I usually go into the app and select a title and click 'view on IMDB.com' so I get the regular website.

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So, um, RTW, if you do someday get a handle on the ole Edit feature, you might consider going back and changing "Dorothy Hamilton-the wicked witch" to Margaret Hamilton, assuming your reference is to Wizard of Oz.


I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO

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While you're editing that, please also change "Dorothy Hamilton" to Margaret Hamilton. Thanks.

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I'll admit, I think SJP was alright in the looks department when she was younger (she really had a nice body). But still, I just couldn't help but laugh when I first heard her say that line because it's so true indeed.



Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

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It's funny because it's so true. How Parker has been able to get roles as some kind of sex-kitten for years is either a triumph of make-up or evidence of mass blindness. - deep-focus


I suspect that Sarah Jessica Parker was well-aware of the perceptions about her looks when she made this film. The first time I saw it, I figured it was an in-joke based on that.

Parker is what the French call jolie laide, "ugly beautiful," or unconventionally attractive.

The old cliches apply here: "There is no accounting for taste," and "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Frankly, I find it refreshing that she could be a sex kitten without being the stereotypical Hollywood beauty. Conversely, when I was growing up, Cheryl Ladd and Heather Locklear were always presented as being the gorgeous hotties everyone was supposed to lust after. Both are hardly hard on the eyes, but they both seemed to me to be bland, generic beauties. No spice there, just blank Barbie-doll beauty.

In Sex and the City, I did find it hard to believe that Parker's Carrie Bradshaw attracted so many men--but it was her personality, not her looks, that made me think that way.

And in Ed Wood, I think Parker's performance is the most overlooked and underrated of the principals'.
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Funny enough, the writers said during a Q&A after a screening the line was in the script LONG before Sarah Jessica Parker joined the cast. I guess she just ran with it.

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Funny enough, the writers said during a Q&A after a screening the line was in the script LONG before Sarah Jessica Parker joined the cast. I guess she just ran with it. - patrick_bateman_77401


I suspect Parker was cast because of her superficial resemblance to the real Dolores Fuller, who was not a "conventional Hollywood beauty" either:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Fuller

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I applaud her for being able to poke fun at herself like that.

She's confident enough and sexy enough that she can poke fun at something like her nose. She has nice hair, a nice body, and a likable personality. I think that's part of why she's been popular with a lot of women over the years. She has a relatable personality and she's attractive without being the picture perfect ideal.

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I'm glad I finally learned the source of the SJP horse-face jokes and it is true. She does have an odd and unattractive face.

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She's been able to get roles because she's talented, smart and can be very sexy. The fact that she can pull off sexy even though she's not a typical bombshell is amazing and a testament to her range and talent. People that make fun of her looks are quite insecure themselves and shallow. Jealousy might also play a part, but she knows people are shallow and has been told numerous times by agents, managers and directors that plastic surgery would help her career, but she turned her nose up at all those shallow types and stuck to her guns and relied on her talent and personality and her original beauty and it has served her very well, as she has been immensely successful in both TV and film, as well as Broadway. Personally, I think it gets old, all these over the top gorgeous up and coming actresses who cannot leave their mark, as they are a dime a dozen and made it this far only because of their looks.
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