Post by TVFan on Mar 27, 2006 11:16:19 GMT -5
Found this on that infamous hair!
A breath of fresh hair
26 March 2006
Grant Smithies does some detective work on Cold Case's Lilly Rush.
Forget the blood, the semen, the gaping gunshot wounds. And spare me the stoved-in skulls and those tell-tale tyre marks across the corpse's chest. What I'm really interested in is the hair. Is it a bob, is it a shag cut or it is a classic blunt cut? Because that's the first thing you notice when you watch actor Kathryn Morris playing Detective Lilly Rush in Cold Case. Framing that cool yet quietly compassionate milk-white face is the best copper's haircut on television.
"If you look closely it seems to be made up of a series of buttery ribbons that stream from her crown," proclaims one writer at hairboutique. com. "I have seen Kathryn's hair range from smooth and finished with a magnificent shine to more edgy, pieced out and messy. What's fascinating to me is that at different angles and at different times, the look morphs from the appearance of a longer, shaggy do to a shattered chunky type of bob."
If you've never watched Cold Case, it's worth a look. The show was created by industry legend Meredith Stiehm (ER, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills 90210), and there's decent acting, some clever plot-lines, and a winningly jumpy narrative style. Each episode has more flashbacks than an LSD-addled Woodstock veteran.
"Really, we're a crime show with a difference." says Morris, her voice sounding light, perky, clean.
"We avoid all the science stuff, because we're more interested in the emotional and psychological currents of what was going on at the time the original crime was commited."
Now this is odd, when you think about it. The very concept of going back and solving "cold cases" didn't really take off until the early 90s when there were advances in DNA profiling technology. Most genuine cold cases are solved in the lab, by re-testing old blood or semen samples, yet Cold Case shies away from science. Why? I imagine it's because industry giant Jerry Bruckheimer is executive producer on Cold Case, and a high science format might simply cannibalise audiences from another of Bruckheimer's biggest shows, the massive CSI franchise, which now includes so many spin-offs that CSI Otahuhu surely cannot be too far away.
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Fair enough, but without the science, what do we have left? We have angst. You see, Lilly Rush is the sole female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad, and she is not a well-adjusted human being. Cold, detached, unhappy in love, a stranger to herself, her one source of happiness is her job.
"Lilly Rush is much more comfortable with victims' families and other distressed people than she is with anyone else," says Morris, as if she's talking about a friend she knows well. "She keeps most people at a distance emotionally. She's not comfortable with relationships. She's been hurt and abandoned so many times in her own life that other vulnerable or guilty people sense that and they open up to her. She's like, `OK, we're gonna go down this road and into the dark woods, and while we're in there you're going to tell me what happened and we're gonna walk out of those woods and you'll feel better'."
Yes, temporarily, perhaps, but then that person will be eating hospital food for the next 40 years.
"Well, payback is a b*tch, isn't it? Everybody believes in karma on some level and it's great to see somebody brought to justice years after they thought they'd gotten away with something. Nobody should get away with murder. It causes so much emotional fall-out. A guy is killed and his daughter has to grow up without a father, his parents have lost a son. Maybe an innocent man has been in jail while the real perpetrator is drinking beer at a hockey game somewhere. Lilly Rush hates to see that happen."
One of six siblings born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Morris spent her childhood travelling around the southern states singing in a family gospel band "like The Partridge Family". Later, after attending university in Philadelphia and acting in a few stage plays, Morris started winning minor roles in TV shows, including a stint as supernatural sexpot Najara on Xena, Warrior Princess, and then in movies including As Good As It Gets and Minority Report. Cold Case has been her big break, and she's extremely grateful.
"Lilly Rush is just such a great character to play, partly because she's not very healthy emotionally. She gets in really co-dependent relationships with crime victims. She's a crusader, with an unnatural level of commitment, partially because her own life is so screwed up."
Morris' own life, however, is pretty peachy. Now 36, she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her fiance, financial advisor Randy Hamilton. She does yoga up there, goes running in the hills, reads and loves taking photos. And she sleeps a lot, because Cold Case leaves her knackered.
"It's exhausting, physically and emotionally. But it's a show that's really struck a chord for people. They really do love it! People come up to me in the street all the time."
Perhaps they just want to see your famous hair.
"Oh, God! That hair thing is crazy, isn't it? I never in a million years thought that I would become some sort of hair icon. And there really is no special cut. I just took one big bobby pin, jammed it in my hair and twisted it up behind me. I figured that's the kind of thing Lilly Rush would do."
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A breath of fresh hair
26 March 2006
Grant Smithies does some detective work on Cold Case's Lilly Rush.
Forget the blood, the semen, the gaping gunshot wounds. And spare me the stoved-in skulls and those tell-tale tyre marks across the corpse's chest. What I'm really interested in is the hair. Is it a bob, is it a shag cut or it is a classic blunt cut? Because that's the first thing you notice when you watch actor Kathryn Morris playing Detective Lilly Rush in Cold Case. Framing that cool yet quietly compassionate milk-white face is the best copper's haircut on television.
"If you look closely it seems to be made up of a series of buttery ribbons that stream from her crown," proclaims one writer at hairboutique. com. "I have seen Kathryn's hair range from smooth and finished with a magnificent shine to more edgy, pieced out and messy. What's fascinating to me is that at different angles and at different times, the look morphs from the appearance of a longer, shaggy do to a shattered chunky type of bob."
If you've never watched Cold Case, it's worth a look. The show was created by industry legend Meredith Stiehm (ER, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills 90210), and there's decent acting, some clever plot-lines, and a winningly jumpy narrative style. Each episode has more flashbacks than an LSD-addled Woodstock veteran.
"Really, we're a crime show with a difference." says Morris, her voice sounding light, perky, clean.
"We avoid all the science stuff, because we're more interested in the emotional and psychological currents of what was going on at the time the original crime was commited."
Now this is odd, when you think about it. The very concept of going back and solving "cold cases" didn't really take off until the early 90s when there were advances in DNA profiling technology. Most genuine cold cases are solved in the lab, by re-testing old blood or semen samples, yet Cold Case shies away from science. Why? I imagine it's because industry giant Jerry Bruckheimer is executive producer on Cold Case, and a high science format might simply cannibalise audiences from another of Bruckheimer's biggest shows, the massive CSI franchise, which now includes so many spin-offs that CSI Otahuhu surely cannot be too far away.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Fair enough, but without the science, what do we have left? We have angst. You see, Lilly Rush is the sole female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad, and she is not a well-adjusted human being. Cold, detached, unhappy in love, a stranger to herself, her one source of happiness is her job.
"Lilly Rush is much more comfortable with victims' families and other distressed people than she is with anyone else," says Morris, as if she's talking about a friend she knows well. "She keeps most people at a distance emotionally. She's not comfortable with relationships. She's been hurt and abandoned so many times in her own life that other vulnerable or guilty people sense that and they open up to her. She's like, `OK, we're gonna go down this road and into the dark woods, and while we're in there you're going to tell me what happened and we're gonna walk out of those woods and you'll feel better'."
Yes, temporarily, perhaps, but then that person will be eating hospital food for the next 40 years.
"Well, payback is a b*tch, isn't it? Everybody believes in karma on some level and it's great to see somebody brought to justice years after they thought they'd gotten away with something. Nobody should get away with murder. It causes so much emotional fall-out. A guy is killed and his daughter has to grow up without a father, his parents have lost a son. Maybe an innocent man has been in jail while the real perpetrator is drinking beer at a hockey game somewhere. Lilly Rush hates to see that happen."
One of six siblings born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Morris spent her childhood travelling around the southern states singing in a family gospel band "like The Partridge Family". Later, after attending university in Philadelphia and acting in a few stage plays, Morris started winning minor roles in TV shows, including a stint as supernatural sexpot Najara on Xena, Warrior Princess, and then in movies including As Good As It Gets and Minority Report. Cold Case has been her big break, and she's extremely grateful.
"Lilly Rush is just such a great character to play, partly because she's not very healthy emotionally. She gets in really co-dependent relationships with crime victims. She's a crusader, with an unnatural level of commitment, partially because her own life is so screwed up."
Morris' own life, however, is pretty peachy. Now 36, she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her fiance, financial advisor Randy Hamilton. She does yoga up there, goes running in the hills, reads and loves taking photos. And she sleeps a lot, because Cold Case leaves her knackered.
"It's exhausting, physically and emotionally. But it's a show that's really struck a chord for people. They really do love it! People come up to me in the street all the time."
Perhaps they just want to see your famous hair.
"Oh, God! That hair thing is crazy, isn't it? I never in a million years thought that I would become some sort of hair icon. And there really is no special cut. I just took one big bobby pin, jammed it in my hair and twisted it up behind me. I figured that's the kind of thing Lilly Rush would do."
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