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To: bentway who wrote (508579)	12/12/2003 4:38:16 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769667

Well, I wouldn't call her average looking. An average looking woman would not really repulse or attract, but rather be perceived as just a female. Gilda Radner had that effect on me. She wasn't exactly ugly and even had some odd cuteness about her due to her sense of humor, but there was no beauty anywhere near her. Blanchett is quite different. I've seen her now in several films and during each performance she has repulsed and enticed me about equally. She is quite a gifted actress and I think I am attracted to that. But it seems as gifted as she is as an actress, she is is equally not gifted in physical beauty. That can't be quite true, because her Galadriel in LotR was quite lovely-- but with the occasional flashes of the standard Blanchett ugliness I have now come to expect. In "Elizabeth" she was just plain ugly, with flashes of plain beauty. Recently I saw her in "The Gift," and she was, once again, equally very lovely and very ugly by turns. I lean toward the belief that she is ugly as sin. Yet, she seems to have other qualities that constantly threaten to counterbalance her ugliness. She is, in a word, "beaugliful."