Jari: If your listing of LAURA refers to the 1944 Otto Preminger directed
production with Gene Tierney, there were no "evil women" in that. The
"evil" quotient was filled by Clifton Webb, who played the murdering
newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker.
Peter Warren

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> From: Jari Rantala <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Evil women
> Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 11:36 AM
>
> Disclosure
> World Is Not Enough
> Laura
> Gingerbread Man
> Wild Things
> To Die For
>
> For example...
>
> Jari
>
>
> At 09:22 10.3.2000 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hello all!
> >
> >A friend of mine is writing an article about 'evil women'. She is less
> >interested in films featuring women criminals (such as Bonnie and Clyde)
> >or horror/supernatural evil women (such as Exorcist). The type of female
> >characters she's primarily interested are those who are evil in a more
> >'realistic' way. The list of films we have come up with so far are:
> >What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
> >Single White Female
> >The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
> >Misery
> >Fatal Attraction
> >Basic Instinct
> >
> >Any more suggestions?
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >Boris Vidovic
> >Finnish Film Archive
> >Helsinki
> >
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