Word: waldenberg
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...hard not to draw parallels to the real life stories of Tonya Harding or Nancy Kerrigan, especially given that Kerrigan actually makes an appearance in the film. However, Poehler claims she didn’t use any figure skating greats as inspiration for her character, Fairchild van Waldenberg.“I based my character more on, like, a great Bond villain,” she says, explaining that Waldenberg is not your typical teen skating queen.“What I did think about was prima ballerinas and ice queens, like really rich mothers. And also, like, super villains...
...Jimmy might be a kind of blond Boitano, while Chazz is from the butch, Elvis Stojko school. But the enmity is surely a gender-bending version of the 1994 feud between Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. In the movie, skating's criminal underside is personified by Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a borderline-incestuous brother-sister pair whose long-skate routine has the theme "Forbidden Love," with Stranz skating as JFK and Fairchild as Marilyn Monroe. Arnett and Poehler's turn doesn't quite match Baron Cohen's as the French driver in Talladega, but Arnett gets points for smarming...
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