Late Show

Late Show—
for David Trinidad
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The way Linda Darnell
In “Fallen Angel” says
“So What?” to Percy
Kilbride in the dumpy
diner after she’s come
back from a night on
the town, the look on
Joan Crawford’s face in
her wheelchair when
Bette Davis shoves her
down the stairs in
“Whatever Happened to
Baby Jane?” the way
Marilyn Monroe drops
her purse and lets her
lipstick case go skittering
across the floor in the
Bell Tower after Joseph
Cotton strangles her to
death in “Niagara,” the
way Zsa Zsa Gabore
sneers at the men from
Earth in “Queen of the
Universe,” the way
Thelma Ritter slouches
and shambles around her
satanic apartment in
“Rosemary’s Baby,” the
look on Lana Turner’s
face in “Imitation of Life”
when she finds her own
daughter Sandra Dee
in bed with John Gavin,
the look on Barbara
Stanwyck’s face there
in bed doing her campy
hypochondriac routine
frantically on the phone
as she hears somebody
slowly crawling up the
stairs, the look on Vivien
Leigh’s face as she tosses
her keys down from the
window to the young male
hustler in “The Roman
Spring of Mrs. Stone,”
the look on Corey Haines’
face when he realizes his
own brother, Jason Patric,
is a cold-blooded vampire
cocksucker who can fly,
crawl around the ceiling
and who shamelessly
wants to suck off Haim in
the sudsy bathtub on
Saturday Nights Live!
the hysterical look on
Richard Barton’s face
tied up in a hammock
in “Night of the Iguana”
when he can’t get to
the two dancing naked
cute Mexican kept boys
of Ava Gardner, the
shocked disbelieving
but deceptively clever
look on Ann Baxter’s
face when snide George
Sanders devastatingly
reads Eve’s beads in
“All About Eve...”