![]() Television stories about teenagers tend toward the fantastic they are most often soap operas, melodramas, sensationalistic and/or overstylized. Justin Changīased on the 2019 bunk-bed memoir by Canadian identical-twin singing sisters Tegan and Sara Quin, “High School” (Amazon Freevee) is a quietly beautiful series, as good a show about adolescence as I’ve ever seen. That’s the magic of acting - and Lansbury was one of its most spellbinding practitioners. I remember watching John Frankenheimer’s great thriller as a teenager and feeling captivated and terrified having known Lansbury mainly through her signature Disney “B&B” musical roles in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” ( multiple platforms) and “Beauty and the Beast” ( multiple platforms), it floored me that a sweet singing teapot could also become the murderous embodiment of political evil. Just four years after “The Long, Hot Summer,” Lansbury would deliver her most indelible film performance in “The Manchurian Candidate” ( multiple platforms). A few weeks ago, while watching “The Long, Hot Summer” ( multiple platforms), I lunged for the pause button: Was that Angela Lansbury as Minnie Littlejohn, the mistress of the Mississippi plantation owner played by Orson Welles? Dumb question, really: Once she showed up, who else could she have been? Lansbury, who died this week at 96, wasn’t the kind of actor you mistook for anyone else. ![]()
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