Beauty vs Beast: Crazy Comes Classified
Monday, February 1, 2016 at 5:30PM 
Jason from MNPP here with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" for your consideration -- Jennifer Jason Leigh will be celebrating her 54th birthday this upcoming Friday February 5th, after finally earning a long overdue Oscar nomination this year with her joyously profane work as "Daisy Dahmer-goo" (sorry I can only type it like Kurt Russell says it) in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
But Daisy's hardly my favorite villainous turn from the actress - she's always been willing to tap into the crazy, and that was a willingness that reaped righteously trashy rewards with 1992's psycho-roomate-thriller Single White Female, one of my favorites from the "psycho [fill in the blank] genre" that dominated in the early 90s. And meeting her all the way was a terrifically sweet and dazed Bridget Fonda (good god I miss Bridget Fonda), slinking around foolishly in that silver coat that haunts my dreams.
PREVIOUSLY Last week's actressy showdown didn't incolve Steven Weber getting a high heel to the forehead (much to Clouds of Sils Maria's detriment, obviously) but it did involve an incredibly close race from start to finish, and just ekeing it out in the end was (drumroll please) Kristen Stewart, with literally half of a percentage point lead over The Binoche! Talk about a photo finish. Said AndPeggy:
"This result is just testament to how great these two actresses are together. Their interplay and chemistry is what makes the film so memorable."
Reader Comments (7)
I woulda loved to see Fonda in a new QT film,she aced it last time she worked with him.
YES she's so so so good in Jackie Brown. QT needs to write an awesome part for her and coax her out of retirement already
Heddy by a landslide. Loved the salon scene. Really sells 'crazy' all the way!
1992 was such a great year for amazing female performances in otherwise trashy films. Leigh in Single White Female; Rebecca DeMornay in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle; Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me, though I like the film and of course, the iconic Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.
Real talk though...Leigh is hardly winning the Oscar is she? Could she????
For Leigh the nomination is the win since the nomination was elusive to begin with.
Hedra!!! Even though she killed that poor little puppy :(
If I was going based off the surprisingly good John Lutz book, then Allison based off the last few chapters.
But since the ending is pretty much entirely different in the movie, team Hedra.
And PS I remember watching this on VHS at a sleepover and all of us rewinding and pausing for the flash of Stephen Weber's wang.
Yes, she kills a puppy, but she also gives a guy a BJ AGAINST HIS WISHES. Totally subversive, haven't seen anything like it before or since.