anjelica

"Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.”
This is one of my favourite things said by one of my favourite actors.

Anjelica Huston, I do adore you!

Being an enormous fan of Wes Anderson also helps as she has starred in three of his six feature length films, perhaps most famously as Etheline Tenenbaum in 2001. I believe that she is undoubtedly one of the most talented actresses of the late 20th century and 21st century. Most recently I saw her in Jonathon Levine's (who I have had a teensy weensy crush on since The Wackness) 50/50 with Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt. She played JGL's mother and, I think anyway, that she got the perpetually worried mother of a too-young cancer victim down to an absolute tee! On top of everything else, she also has ties with not only Galway but also NUIG. Back in 2003, NUIG established a Digital and Media School called, no less, The Huston School named after John Huston, the Oscar winning director/father of Anjelica. John Huston's personal archives also found a home in the NUIG library. Anjelica is the third generation of Oscar winners in her family. Walter Huston, her grandfather, won an Oscar in 1949 and was nominated for three others. Aside from the the NUIG connection, the Huston family also have a history with Galway. Apparently as a child, Huston grew up in St Clerans House, Craughwell, outside Galway city.
I took a seminar in Cinema and Media Studies in the Huston School - which unless you are given instructions as to where it is, you're pretty much guaranteed that you'll never find it - and despite being aware of the whole Huston family connection for some reach, and a little embarrassingly I kept calling it Hudson. But maybe after this post I will have it so drilled it my head that I could not possibly call it the incorrect name again.
Huston. Huston. Huston. Hudson. Huston Huston.

While doing some Google searches for images of Anjelica in NUI, I came across these positively amazing editorial shots of Anjelica Huston modeling Valentino in the early seventies.

all images via www.iamlexaco.com

It was photographed by the late Bob Richardson and co-stars a slightly androgynous male model who reminds me a little of the currently exorbitantly-en-vogue Andrej Pejic. 

Cheers for reading,

Jane

17/1/2012 EDIT:

Anjelica Huston will also be starring in Smash, Steven Spielberg's take on the current obsession with all things musical theatre. She will be playing Eileen Rand the producer of the musical that the show is based around. On top of everything else the musical that she is producing is about the life of my ultimate icon, Miss Marilyn Monroe. The show will also star Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee and Uma Thurman. HERE is the trailer is you'd like to check it out. It's due to air at the beginning of February.