Crushes

The last screen actress I had a crush on must have been Monica Vitti, star and spouse of film director Michelangelo Antonioni, and that was a long time ago.  No wait, there was also Stephane Aubran, star and spouse of director Claude Chabrol, and that was almost as long ago.   After those two I didn't have a crush on any of the bikini clad beauties of Elvis Presley's 33 flicks (and there were very many of them!), or  any Bond Girls or Charlie's Angels for that matter. None.

Nothing since Vitti and Aubran, none.  Until recently. I've been watching on Netflix various foreign and domestic mystery series, some better, some worse, and in two of them regularly appearing actresses cought my eye, one Danish and one American.  Cool, tall women in their thirties, in supporting roles, their characters, I'm guessing, very similar to their actual off screen personalities - supporting characters are often underdeveloped by the scriptwriters and used merely as bouncing boards for the main characters to push forward the plots and explain things to viewers.

And then, before I started having fantasies,  I remembered the stalkers.  Just recently,  a major Hollywood actress was involved in a lawsuit against a stalker who sent her dozens of fan letters. He, a 66 year old man sent fan letters to other celebrities, who considered him harmless, as did the jury who tried him.  The actress herself claimed to have been terrified of him, and it is important to note that she has led a sheltered life, daughter of a Hollywood family.

Anyway, I started putting myself in the mind of a stalker, figuring out how he would proceed stalking these two actresses, who by the way are both married with children.  It is perhaps an interesting story to develop, without of course actually practicing the stalking (as if I had to mention it!)  I suspect that novels and movies have been made about stalking and crushes of this type, I haven't read or seen any of them, still it is an interesting topic to explore.