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                                January 27, 2004
   
Rosalind Russell, in                         
"Crimes of Passion",                        
plays an accidental       (She's got an easy out, the
murderess who spends      self-defense defense, but  
most of the movie         she declines to use it for 
trying not to give        some reason.)               
away her secret.           

The way they had her
playing this role
bothered me a lot.
                                                          
This suspense format requires the        
main character to be constantly
on edge, trying hard to maintain
control, looking visibly worried
(in ways that every one keeps
missing some how).  

So throughout she acts like
an innocent who's never lied
before...  but her character
is supposed to be a popular
actress.
          
In actuality actresses are better
at lying than this. Or at least
they *think* that they are.

The trouble with interrogating an 
actress would not be spotting a false 
note, the trouble would be that it's 
*all* false.  They project phoniness 
at all times. 

How could you tell the lies told out of 
habit from the lies told with sinister 
intent? 

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