Posted by John Fast on December 24, 1998 at 07:04:30:
In Reply to: Alley McBeal resurrected by her short skirt posted by Jimeny on December 07, 1998 at 09:49:23:
: I feel a compulsion to get this right so here goes...
Ah, a fellow One!
: Alley: 4w3 Sexual (competition, envy) subtype. ENFP
You spelled the main character's name wrong! Aargh! ;-)
I'm not sure that I agree with that. David Kelley is
said to have based Ally on his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer,
who is (according to Thomas Condon) a 5w6 . . . and
even to have selected an actress who looks like a
younger version of Pfeiffer. Ally is melodramatic,
like a Four, but she is also nervous and jittery like
a Six.
Perhaps the character is written with one Type while
the actress has another, and confusion arises. Condon
gives an example of this with Gregory Peck's performance
in _MacArthur_ (One actor, Eight character); I think
that George Clooney is a Nine playing a Seven on _ER_
(and Mark Harmon was a Three playing a One on the
wonderful but almost immediately cancelled _Charlie Grace_).
[snip]
: Renee: Its like she has no type, so lets call her 9w8!
LOL!
I have several close friends who are Nines, and they
can be incredibly frustrating to deal with --
"Blink twice if any of this is getting through!"
--
John Fast
jfast@fastindustries.com or caliban@gate.net
ENTJ/1w2
"Raise consciousness, not taxes."