Suzanne Pleshette

Here's an excerpt from a recent Camille Paglia column on Salon.com that I thought was interesting..."I was shocked to read of the recent death of Suzanne Pleshette, one of the most intelligent and underutilized actresses in Hollywood. Like the equally fierce and articulate Jessica Walters, Pleshette never quite found her niche in an industry geared to conventional female personae...Because Pleshette died over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, the first bulletins on major online news sites, clearly being manned by 25-year-old greenhorns in the absence of senior staff, made reference only to the death of an unnamed actress who had played a "TV wife." I didn't even bother looking at first. A day later, however, as the impact hit (and vacationing cognoscenti clearly squawked), Pleshette's name was blazoned in every headline...
Pleshette loomed large in my book for the British Film Institute on Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," where she plays a darkly lovelorn schoolteacher, Annie Hayworth, who gets cut down by a flock of crows in chaotic Bodega Bay, Calif. Pleshette's deft parry and thrust, punctuated by cigarettes, with the coolly composed Tippi Hedren, is a model of virtuoso screen acting. For the book, I used a full-page on-set candid photo of Pleshette with the caption, "Annie Hayworth may be dead, but Suzanne Pleshette lives!" She'll certainly live forever for me. Here's a fan web site ("More than Emily Hartley") devoted to wonderfully elegant Pleshette pix, including European magazine covers."

An "Arrested Development" Movie?

Is it possible? Could one of my all-time favorite, recent TV shows, Arrested Development, become a movie? Two articles online seem to indicate that -- this one, at MTV Online, and another in New York Magazine. Oh, to see G.O.B. perform his magic on the big screen to the sounds of "The Final Countdown..."