Tag: red-haired females
Gillian Owens is a character played by Nicole Kidman in the movie Practical Magic. Gillian is the sister who runs away to start living life as soon as she can; the party girl who basically goes from man to man trying to find one who sticks. When one of the men is trouble for her, she comes home and needs her sister, Sally, to help her out with a little of the family magicks.
I loved this movie, and also the book by Alice Hoffman that the movie was based on. It’s about being afraid, and how we decide to deal with our fears, especially in the context of relationships. Gillian is a bit of a trouble-maker, the wild-child, and I’m sure I could come up with a few more stereotypical hyphenations, but her place here is as a foil for her more conservative sister.
Delirium is a character in the DC Vertigo series The Sandman written by Neil Gaiman. While her hair is technically multicolored, I notice that several (not all) of the artists make the bulk of it red, as if that were her true hair color to which the other colors are applied. I am counting her among the “redheads” for that reason, and also because it amuses me to do so (which would probably be reason enough to her).
Delirium is the youngest of the Endless. She used to be Delight, but she changed for reasons no one knows. She often seems random, mostly appearing interested in fun and whimsical chaos, enamoured of bubbles and butterflies.
How does time fly by so quickly? I forget how big she is until we see other babies, and they seem so small compared to her now. She has four teeth, since the top two have come in (the first top one came in on the 28th, and the other one just a few days ago). So she got one tooth at about 4.5 months, one at just over 5 months, one at 7.5 months, and one just before 8 months. Lots of teething in there, and of course more to come.
Lana got to be out and about a lot this past month and a half or so. She went out to the winery for the 4th of July, and out to eat for her uncle’s birthday, and attended Ivy and Eric’s wedding, and the next day to the CompuHigh picnic, and out camping at Pennsic, and shopping with her aunt and cousin, and shopping with Grandmommy, and out to Richwood Grill’s open house. (Phew little one! You must be tuckered out! But you sure are a cutie, even if I do say so myself.) And look at the way her hair has started to curl when it’s damp! (Yeah yeah, who knows where she got that from…) Good thing my friends take pictures, or this set would be a lot more scarce (thanks Mary and Keira!).
Happy 8 months, Lana!
Jessica Rabbit was the surprisingly faithful wife of Roger Rabbit in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. She wasn’t bad, she said, “just drawn that way.” She was quite the sensation for a time, an exaggeration of the pin-up model redheads we’ve seen before. And she will do anything she has to in order to keep her rabbit husband safe.
Though her character has gotten a lot of flack for her unrealistic proportions, it seems to me the animators and writers are exaggerating her to a purpose: She’s the stereotypical red-haired bad girl, the one the hero isn’t supposed to go home with in the end. That her personality is at odds with the way she’s drawn is, after all, the point.
