one of my main reasons for launching
'planetcool' was to celebrate all sorts of artists and talents that rarely, if ever, get celebrated. so tonight, i'm taking my jazzy bob fosse-styled derby off to miss leland palmer. this is a still i managed to shoot of her in fosse's 'all that jazz,' where she played joe gideon's (roy schieder's) wife. she's so fantastic in this part that i've always wondered why i never saw her in anything else. her dancing is first-rate, her beauty strange and striking, and her acting skills solid. every time she's on the screen in 'all that jazz,' she's the only one i'm watching. maybe she did a lot of stage work, i don't know. there's really not much information on her that i've been able to find. but i think she's incredible. every bit as hot as anne reinking. i captured this shot, then cropped it and tricked it. dig it.
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I too have long been fascinated by this elusive lady. Other than All That Jazz, and a few small parts in other films, her work was mostly on the stage. She moved to Israel a long time ago, apparently very involved in religion, then returned to the US as Linda Posner and last I heard she does work with theater groups in California.
Of her, Time magazine once wrote "the principal light-and-power supply of the show is a loose-jointed, lemur eyed lady named Leland Palmer, who shows she can mug a laugh out of thin air, detonate a song and dance like a rag doll in a washing machine."
I have several interesting pics of her, but don't know how to post them...help?
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