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Originally Posted by cateyes
What you said is true about Marlee being rude and stuck up... Marlee was at a party that I went to, so I approached her, informing her about my friend who had known her well from the same school in Chicago and had asked me to say hello to her in case I run into her. She cut me off before I could finish my sentence, by signing (in a fast and sloppy way) "say hi to her too!" and walked away. I didn't have the chance to tell her the name of her/my friend and she didn't even bother to find out who her/my friend was. I felt insulted and thought she was very rude and stuck up! Since then, I have never liked her. It's very obvious that success had gone to her head!
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If she was at a party I'm sure she was very busy, don't you think? A million people must be demanding her attention all the time! It would have been nice if she had listened to you for just a minute, but I don't think it is fair to say that she is rude, stuck up, and success has gone to her head based on that one encounter. I have heard mostly very nice things about her.
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Originally Posted by cateyes
Marlee is simply popular because she won the Academy Award. The other well known deaf actress, Phyllis Frelich, won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance role in the "Children of a Lesser God" Broadway play in 1980. She did an equal amount of acting works in the movie and tv industries as Marlee and her acting was wonderful in the movie "Love is Never Silent". And yet, Phyllis did not gain worldwide fame like Marlee. Looks like Marlee became popular because of the type of the award that she won.
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Well of course. The Academy Awards are MUCH better known than the Tony Awards. I have no idea when the Tonys are or who wins them each year, they just don't get the same publicity as the Oscars. So yes, of course she is more famous, because more people watch the Oscars. Also, Marlee has played on more mainstream TV than Phyllis. In the past 20 years, Phyllis has been on two episodes of E.R., one episode of Diagnosis Murder, two shows that are pretty well known. In the past 20 years, Marlee has been a regular character on The L Word, The West Wing, Picket Fences, and Reasonable Doubts. She has guest starred on things like Nip/Tuck, My Name is Earl, CSI, Law and Order, Desperate Housewives, E.R., and lots of other stuff. If you look at how much exposure Marlee gets compared to how much Phyllis gets, of course Marlee is more popular and famous. Phyllis is a wonderful actress and I'm sure she can take jobs whenever she wants, so she is CHOOSING to work the amount that she does. Marlee can also choose how much she wants to work, and she does more work than Phyllis. It has nothing to do with Marlee is more famous BECAUSE of the Oscar...it's how much work she does that the public sees, a lot more than Phyllis...plain and simple.