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Article: A rose is a rose is a Rose McGowan. (actress)(Cover Story)(Interview)
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- March 1, 1997
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In her movie performances, the prickly Rose McGowan evokes the brittle glamour and imperious moods of Bette Davis, although with a fiercely modern twist. Considering that she's only twenty-two and has already lived a life and a half, she could even better the formidable Bette. In fact, who'd bet against it?
Whichever 1-900 impresario or Larry Flynt manque coined the term nasty girl might have been thinking of Amy Blue, the caustic speed freak played by Rose McGowan in Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation (1995). With her Bette Davis eyes, rasp, and sneer, and her exaggerated Louise Brooks bob, Amy was a spectacularly bitter and ironic Gen-X movie queen. But Amy would ...