
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Hey, everybody! I've been offline for a while due to computer problems, hopefully which are fixed now, and I'm happy to say that it's had an upgrade! I thought I'd do a little tribute to actress Yvette Mimieux. I've seen several of her films and I think she had the talent to be a great star, but unfortunately, she came to the forefront when the studio system was collapsing, although she did break away the mold that she was groomed into, and later branched out in freelance to show that she was indeed extremely talented. The daughter of a French father and Mexican mother, Mimieux started off playing meek and frightened young women, but she fought against the typecasting, playing diverse roles in her forties, and in 1974 she starred in a TV movie ("Hit Lady") which she also wrote, playing a female assassin. Even in her early work there was something touching and powerful: the lost Melanie who mistakes sex for love and pays dearly in "Where The Boys Are" (1960); the mentally challenged teenage girl who falls in love with an Italian boy in "Light In The Piazza" (1961), and as Sloan Howland, who loves a Hawaiian boy much to the <b>...</b>
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