Does Helena Bonham-Carters fake orgasm rival Meg Ryans?
Nov. 16, 1999 Do great orgasms last longer than Oscars? American actress Meg Ryan and British thespian Helena Bonham-Carter have never nabbed Academy Awards, but they’ll both be immortally cherished for their caterwauling, cinematic climaxes. Ryan’s charm and humor etched itself intimately into public memory when she launched loose with a wholesome, cheerful and (of course) perky orgasm in her hit film “When Harry Met Sally.” Her buoyant-blond persona was exuberantly expressed in this sweet, artificial sexual surrender that’s been touted ever since as the Ultimate On-screen O. Actresses since then have wailed but failed to top Meg’s moaning masterpiece. Comparisons are unfair, though, when the challenger screams in a decidedly different tone. In “Fight Club,” Helena Bonham-Carter delivers a Gothic, angst-ridden medley of grunts, gasps and shrieks that are wondrously uninhibited and thoroughly un-Ryanesque. Both stars are passionate, but Bonham-Carter produces decibels of pain and nihil
