Sandra Bullock's Giant Hair Gives the Best Performance of the Decade
When your name is The New York Times, you have the kind of pull to convince a dozen or so A-listers to share their favorite performance of the decade, filmed in artful black and white. Some choose lazily ("Anything Meryl Streep has done in the past 50 years," Morgan Freeman? Don't strain yourself too much!), some chose surprisingly weird (Jeff Bridges: Mike White in Chuck and Buck), and some chose we have no clue because we were TOO PREOCCUPIED STARING AT THEIR GIGANTIC MOUND OF HAIR.
I seriously would like some reasonable explanation for what's going on on top of Sandy's head, which appears to be buried beneath a metric tonne of the stuff you ship antique furniture in. Is Betty White in there? Is she starring in some upcoming Lisa Bonet biopic I was unaware of?
Answers: Who got 'em?
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Comments
I really like Saldana's and Clooney's choices, they're actually the only people who named foreign film performances. I might be wrong but I have this undying suspicion that many actors in Hollywood don't watch foreign films.
I think her hair is like that because they tried to kill two birds with one stone by interviewing her right after they shot her picture for that god awful Great Performers in Film photo series for the Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/17/magazine/20100221-oscars-photo-slideshow.html