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And the Emmy doesn't go to...

Submitted by Amelia on August 29, 2006 - 5:02am.
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...Kyra Sedgwick is one wicked actress. Now this post isn't so much about the Emmys as much as it is Kyra's character Brenda Johnson on "The Closer".

I have a tiny confession to make first and that is this: I loathe southern accents. I resent myself for this but I even make an attempt to avoid the south, period. I mean all the manniersms and formalities and even the mind-set. Well...I can't get past it. It's mostly the accent though. I had a three hour layover in Georgia last week and I couldn't wait to get out of there. This all makes me very sad.

But I have to give kudos to Sedgwick for doing an outstanding job playing the role of Brenda Johnson. The character is so unexpected, refreshing, and spot-on. I can't stand the mannerisms, the accent, or that polite formal smile she always has plastered on her face but I sort of love her character anyways and appreciate how much it contrasts with her rather ambitious inner bitch. She gets the job done and she doesn't take crap from anyone.

I love Olivia from L&O. Really, I do. But it makes me sad to see The Closer overlooked when the heroine is so kick-ass.

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Hmm I don't know much of

Submitted by Jeyoani on August 29, 2006 - 7:15am.

Hmm I don't know much of Kyra Sedgwick, (haven't seen her in hardly anything) but I thought she was good in "Personal Velocity", which, btw, had a woman director, writer, and cinematographer to boot. ;)

Personally I'm a little jealous of anyone w/any kind of accent other than the one I have. Nothing is worse to me than my "accent", which, to me of course- is no accent at all. It's basically 5 o'clock news reporter American English zzzz....

I love living in Los Angeles where there are endless accents . :) Including Southern. I think Southern accents are lilting and down home and pretty. I love the multitudes of sayings, too. My dad is from New Orleans and I think this is part of his numerous sayings and wise little vignettes.

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Kyra Sedgwick's character is

Submitted by Daniella on August 29, 2006 - 12:53pm.

Kyra Sedgwick's character is brilliant, yes, partly because she deviates from that Steel Magnolia-Southern Belle dichotomy that seems to be in place for Southern women. --Personally I can't stand her accent for another reason: it's so fantstically inconsistent that it hurts my South Carolina-trained ears (plus no one in Atlanta actually has an accent!).

I actually watched the Emmys with my closest feminist ally here at school, and she had the hardest time making a pick in that category. So many strong women who are wonderful role models--Mariska, Kyra, Geena Davis. Difficult, difficult pick.

"A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women."

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Daniella said it better.

Submitted by Amelia on August 29, 2006 - 7:14pm.

"Kyra Sedgwick's character is brilliant, yes, partly because she deviates from that Steel Magnolia-Southern Belle dichotomy that seems to be in place for Southern women."

Thank you. Yes. This is what I was trying to put into words late last night. My whole point put into better words. ^^

--Happy Camper

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