Mick LaSalle
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602 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Mick LaSalle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that I think characterizes, I think that that irony is held over today.
I think that we're still in the same psychological space.
And I think Dietrich in her performances, especially in those wonderful movies that she made with von Sternberg, the rest of her career I think is an epilogue, but it's those six or seven films that she may introduce this kind of modern irony
So that you watch her and you're kind of smiling along with her as though you get the joke, even if there's no joke.
It's like everything's a joke.
Yeah.
And I think that's really valuable.
I don't discount that at all.
When I say she's not that great an actress, but she's great.
She's a presence.
She's a presence and she is...
The overused word is iconic, but in this case, she is like an icon of a certain kind of sensibility, certain kind of mentality.
So in her own way, she was great.
Well, the Hays Code, she was one of the actresses.
Garbo was one of them.
Katherine Hepburn, I think Betty Davis possibly, but I'm not sure about that one.
They were labeled in a full-page ad in one of the trade magazines as box office poison.
Katherine Hepburn was one of them.
Box office poison.
No.
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