I enjoyed this article and agree with what you’ve had to say with one exception. Dances with Wolves. When I first saw the movie I thought to myself that the hair and makeup artists had really nailed Mary McDonald’s character.- Her hair looked like a dried out rat’s nest that had been cut with a hunting knife- exactly like a white woman’s hair would look if she had no conditioner or shampoo. Compared to the Native American women’s gorgeous glowing, sleek and shiny locks her hair looked really horrible. Also, her skin looked like she had spent the day skiing with no moisturizer, her lips like she’d never seen any balm. Her nose was red, her cheeks ruddy. Windblown.

I took an internet dive to see if my recollections were right and in seeing stills I have to agree with my original thoughts.

If you enlarge this she looks like crap!

When she is all dressed up in her white buckskin wedding dress, she looks a million times better and the long dangling earrings she wears with that dress do remind me of how many women looked in the 1980s. Her hair looks teased and big too but that is how neglected hair that is suddenly given some attention might look.

And her skin still looks really weathered.

I think I’ve just revealed my overboard affection for this film…

I love a line given by the Timmons character (Robert Pastorelli) when he finds a bleached out human skull on the prairie with an arrow in one of the eye sockets,

I’ll bet someone back east is asking, Now why don’t he write?

I would shut my mouth now except I do want to add that Sophia Coppela (Lost in Translation) is a genius.

OK, that’s my 2 cents.