Has Lindsay Crouse ever given a performance where she did not seem like a sociopath wanting to do violence?

I know - she is so stilted. BUT she is/was married to David Mamet who is writes the most brittle dialogue and demands that it be delivered that way. So maybe it's not entirely her fault - just bad direction.

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But other actors manage to make his dialog a little less stilted.

And even in her non-Mamet work she sounds that way.

Maybe she never got over being given a her name as a joke.

Her father was half of a writing team. They were known as Lindsey and Crouse.

So he thought it would be funny to name his daughter Lindsey Ann Crouse.

Must have been a complete asshole.

She was very warm and sweet as the blonde actress who inspired a suicidal gayling (played by the then-gorgeous Eric Roberts) in the PBS production of Paul's Case.

I just adore her in [italic]Places In the Heart,[/italic]as Sally Fields's sister.

Her mannered mien worked PERFECTLY in that role as sexy philandering blue collar stud Ed Harris's beautician wife.

I absolutely love her first scene, where, toddler on hip she confronts the truckfull of white crackas who'd just lynched the Black boy who accidentally killed her brother-in-law. And, later in the film, where she confronts her husband and says "Ah don't think Ah love yew any more"? Heartbreaking. Because you know exactly how desperately she does love him.

But perhaps she seems less brittle there because Amy Madigan's schoolmarm character (who was fucking the Ed Harris character) was brittled to the motherfucking gawds.

O. M. G. Such a perfect film. Nary a wasted scene, nor noncompelling character. And the best final scene and frame I have ever watched.

Oh, and when she goes up to the Sally Field character, touches her wrist and says, " Oh, Sis--I'm so sorry." So underplayed by both actresses, yet so powerful.

Can you tell how much I love this film? It, and M*A*S*H, are my longest-running movie love affairs. Oh, and [italic]Hello, Dolly[/italic] (definitely a less-popular opinion here on DL).

She was a great foil for Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as an insidious mother figure in the Oedipal triangle with Riley.

Rumor has it she wanted off the show, so they killed her off halfway through season four, and the remainder of the season sank like a stone without her as the Big Bad villain.

Would it have killed you to have at least posted a picture or link OP? Would it? I mean would that have really been that hard? Would it? Why don’t you try to think more of others next time before you post? Can you give us a straight answer? At least be honest for once in your life and tell us why you were so inconsiderate?

Why would a link be necessary?

If you need a picture to know who she is, you probably do not have anything to say about her.

R9 is just a troll who posts the same thing in every thread, OP. Don't worry about it.

She was an attractive young woman. And has seemed prematurely middle aged since she was in her 30s or so.

She was funny in Slapshot. How did it all go so wrong?

She was wonderfully human, touching and funny in Slapshot.

[quote] sexy philandering blue collar stud Ed Harris

fuck yes!

Being married to David Mamet could turn the sanest person into a sociopath.

Didn't she play the mom in The Indian In The Cupboard? Now the kid in that film is an odd one.

I do not think I have ever seen her smile before R13