February 21 2007
Firefly's Nandi gets new gig.
Melinda Clarke gets new role in CBS new drama pilot "The Man". She ends her 4 year role in "The OC" as Julie Cooper tomorrow, February 22nd.
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I wish Melinda Clarke all the cookies in the world. :-)
Dana5140 | February 21, 07:44 CET
Sheriff Lamb smells bread! Also, he died. So it looks like fellow browncoat, Michael Muhney, is going to need a new gig, too. Unless they're bringing him back as a different character, like they did with James Jordan (Lucky/Timothy Foyle). If so, I suggest Sarcastic Mime.
betwixt | February 21, 09:37 CET
On topic: She did do a great job as Lady Heather, though I have only seen CSI in reruns so I do not have a real grasp on how her story line ended.
Interestingly enough, I think I get this actress and the one who played the Preying Mantis on BtVS confused. Both are getting a lot of work and are similar types.
newcj | February 21, 09:56 CET
[EXT. DESERT (OFF HIGHWAY 55, NEAR SPARKS) - NIGHT]
(Grissom takes the turn onto the dirty road and drives toward Lady Heather's car.)
(In the spot where her daughter's body was found, Lady Heather unleashes her rage and grief on Leon Sneller. Sneller is bound to the front of her car as she whips him. His face and chest are cut and bloodied. He cries out with pain at every crack of her whip.)
(Behind her, Grissom parks and gets out of his car.)
(Lady Heather doesn't let up.)
GRISSOM: (shouts) Heather! Stop it!
LADY HEATHER: No. Let me finish.
(Beyond reasoning and out of control, she continues to whip Sneller. She pulls her whip back to continue, but Grissom steps forward and catches the end of the whip.)
(She whirls around and tugs her whip, trying to get it out from Grissom's grasp.)
GRISSOM: (shouts) You cannot do this!
LADY HEATHER: No! Let go! Let ... !
GRISSOM: No!
LADY HEATHER: (begs) Please ...
(The whip between them, she continues to struggle to get it free from his grasp.)
GRISSOM: Stop. (firmly) Heather.
LADY HEATHER: (begging) Please ...
GRISSOM: I'm saying stop.
(Lady Heather stops and looks at Grissom. She gasps deep, heaving sobs. Grissom pulls the whip closer, bringing him closer to her.)
(Dissolving into tears, Heather cries as Grissom holds her.)
FADE TO BLACK.
Dana5140 | February 21, 11:53 CET
Ameer | February 21, 12:06 CET
;)
kerfuffle | February 21, 12:12 CET
newcj | February 21, 12:17 CET
Those words "I'm saying stop" carry meaning well beyond their simple utterance.
[ edited by Dana5140 on 2007-02-21 19:29 ]
Dana5140 | February 21, 12:28 CET
Wish the best of luck for her in this new role.
betwixt, if you'd like to further discuss that matter hidden in the invisio-text, we have a forum for that show over at whedonesque.org, for which you're more than welcome to join in, so we won't go off topic over here in the black.
Numfar PTB | February 21, 12:32 CET
Lady Heather's first appearance back in S2 was an amazing turn; her return a couple of years later in a special 90-minute episode was simply incredible. Listening to her and Catherine Willows talk about being powerful women in a man's world was great acting by both. And then Grissom just blows it- though that led to GSR, so I cannot complain. And her final appearance, as noted here, was heart wrenching. I had never seen any The OC, but I bought S1 solely because of her acting in the 3 eps of CSI she was in. She never steps wrong, she owns the screen, and she is the most compelling person the show has ever had.
ETA: newcj, you are right, some of the text was cut at the beginning when Grissom first sees her. Damn, good call!
[ edited by Dana5140 on 2007-02-21 19:48 ]
Dana5140 | February 21, 12:39 CET
Absolutely.
I'll take a look at the link when I get home. I wonder how the 90 minute episode is handled in reruns? Maybe they don't show it...
newcj | February 21, 12:44 CET
They do show it in reruns, and typically they do show the entire episode and schedule around it on Spike. I could watch Lady Heather's Box (no jokes now) over and over again, just an incredible episode. POTTR is very hard to watch since it is so disturbing on so many levels. Slaves of Las Vegas, her first episode, is lots of fun as well- especially when Grissom picks up the mask with the, shall we say, odd nose. BTW, Elizabeth Berklely has a role in LHB as well.
It is amazing to me how powerful those words Grissom says are. And that Lady Heather is begging him, something she would never, ever do. She is the one always in control and in her world she knows that the one being beaten is always in control, not the one doing the beating. And Grissom talks to her with the only words she will hear or understand- and that allows her her release, not the beating. Incredible!
Dana5140 | February 21, 12:57 CET
betwixt | February 21, 15:06 CET
bookworm | February 21, 18:03 CET
Kris | February 22, 01:58 CET
newcj | February 22, 10:40 CET