The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Betsy Chang

I've been able to find more information on actress and dancer Betsy Chang, whom I first featured here in March 2014.  And just as importantly, I've found an even better picture of her.

In addition to her Broadway and Hollywood credits from the eighties and nineties, which I highlighted in my previous post, Ms. Chang has also worked behind the scenes as a choreographer, having arranged the dancing in two productions from East West Players company in Los Angeles, Pacific Overtures in 1998 and Little Shop of Horrors in 2003.  East West Players is a leading Asian-American company on the West Coast.

Here's something else I was able to find out: She was also in the first national-tour production of Drood!, the musical based an unfinished Charles Dickens novel.

Alas, I can't find any more recent information about this lovely woman.  If you know Betsy Chang - or if you are Betsy Chang - please feel free to tell me what she's (you've?) been doing since 2003 by leaving a comment on this post. :-)

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt is another actress I have failed to keep up with for far too long.  I last featured her here in February 2010.

A few months after I first featured her, she married John Krasinski, one of those TV sitcom actors no one takes seriously when they try to cross over into film. (Krasinski starred in the U.S. version of "The Office.")  In fact, as a British film actress marrying an American sitcom star, Ms, Blunt was seen as having married down.  Well, they both had the last laugh.  They starred in 2018's A Quiet Place, which Krasinski wrote and directed, which is a post-apocalyptic horror movie about unknown creatures who have wiped out a good chunk of the human race and are attracted to sound. The whole movie provided high-ratcheted tension from the Abbotts, played by Krasinski and Ms. Blunt, and their children trying to keep quiet and avoid being eaten by the creatures, communicating with sign language and gestures.  It was one of the most acclaimed films of 2018.

Ms. Blunt ended 2018 with the Disney sequel movie Mary Poppins Returns, playing the the title role opposite Lin-Manuel Miranda as the apprentice of Dick Van Dyke's Bert from the original 1964 film.

Though her Britishness made her an obvious choice to play Mary Poppins, Emily Blunt is now an American citizen. :-)

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Amy Adams

Here I go with a month-long look back at actresses I have previously featured on this blog.  And my first subject this month is someone I haven't featured here in a decade.

I last featured Amy Adams in January 2009, and of course she's played a lot of movie roles in the years since.  She's also been active on television.

Her most prominent roles in the past ten years have included a woman joining with her baseball-scout father on his business trip in 2012's Trouble with the Curve and as the object of the affection of someone who is simultaneously obsessed with a female-voiced computerized operating system in 2013's Her. Ms. Adams' most recent role as of this writing is former Second Lady Lynne Cheney in Vice, the biodrama about former Vice President Dick Cheney.  She also has starred in the TV series "Sharp Objects," as an emotionally troubled reporter who goes back to her hometown to cover a double murder involving two young girls.

I hope to feature Amy Adams here again, preferably sooner than another decade. :-)