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Contents 1 Addrienne Barbeau 2 Images 3 Birth 4 Pfeiffer - Jewish? 5 filmography 6 NPOV violation 7 Possible copyright violations?

[edit] Addrienne Barbeau

Despite only being a voice-over... do you think it'd be fair to list Andrea Barbeau as her succesor as Catwoman, as opposed to Halle Berry?

You should also add that she is one of the most respected, successful and beautiful actresses of all time.

Or you could start your own fansite...

[edit] Images

That's a pretty crappy image of Michelle Pfeiffer! - Ta bu shi da yu

But at least there were no copyright problems with Image:Michellepfeiffer.jpg as with the current one. See Salma Hayek, Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman, Rosamund Pike, Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz etc. etc. (also their talk pages) for details. <KF> 11:52, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Birth

The top of the article says '58, but she's also in the 1957 births category. Which is it? — mæstro ^t/c, 08:38, 19 November 2005 (UTC) Paper sources such as Oxford Encyclopaedia, refer her as born in 1957, but since she is an actress I suppouse that she can remove years to her age, although she has been 45 years old for at least two consecutive years (2000 and 2001) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.85.197.38 (talk) 19:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pfeiffer - Jewish?

Isin't Pfeiffer a Jewish surname?

I know she's not Jewish but what's the connection?

It is often a Jewish name, but Michelle Pfeiffer is pretty clearly not Jewish, unless there's something weird I'm unaware of. She of mixed Dutch, German, Irish, Swedish and Swiss descent (it's in the article too). You know, I guess it's possible she may have a Jewish ancestor somewhere down the line (I.e. maybe from her German heritage?) but by the time it got down to Pfeiffer, she's mostly or almost completely or just completely non-Jewish. Vulturell 06:36, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

its rather common that ethnic dutch, germans and swedes have jewish names, Bergman is a good example. Pfeiffer sounds swiss by the way.

Contd. after the answer.

Well, like you say, she's obviously not. It is hard to believe that she is. But, certain names tend to be exclusively Jewish and Pfeiffer seems like one of those names. Also, if it was just a one off thing where the name entered the family line at some point, for it to have endured seems strange as well. Anyhoo, thanks.

I'm pretty sure Pfeiffer is a German surname, though I don't doubt it may also be considered a common Jewish one. Michael 04:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

My surname is Pfeifer. I am from Germany (catholic).

Ah, here is the answer to your "Pfeiffer" mystery. Michelle's father, Richard Pfeiffer, was born in North Dakota in 1933. His father, William Pfeiffer, was born in Minnesota in 1904. His father, also William Pfeiffer was born in 1863 in Colbe, Satle Province, Saxony, Germany (his wife, American-born, was also of German ancestry). His father, Ernst Pfeiffer, was born in 1831 in Germany. Pfeiffer's paternal grandfather is of full German descent, and at least on his mother's side, the family was Catholic. I'm sure his father's side was too - the Pfeiffers. See this family tree [1]. Pfeiffer's mother's tree - which doesn't get into the whole "Taverna" side though - is linked to on the page. Mad Jack 08:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Michael 05:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Of course she is not Jewish! Mad Jack is right, she is predominantly from German descent. And Pfeiffer is a common German surname and has nothing to do with Jewry. The Name Pfeiffer comes from the medieval musician (piper). There are a couple of version of the name such as Pfeifer or Peiper. 91.12.112.153 11:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] filmography

Most of the ones I've seen on Wikipedia list the most recent work first. Which way is it supposed to be? - IstvanWolf 05:45, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV violation

The sentence Since then, Pfeiffer has continued to maintain her status as one of the film world's reigning screen goddesses, despite working much less in recent years. strikes me as an NPOV violation. Leaving aside the inappropriate term "screen goddess", I'm not so sure that she maintained her status during the last decade. I suggest to remove that phrase unless there are some sources backing up the view transported in it.--134.130.4.46 22:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible copyright violations?

Sections of this article are identical word for word with articles on other websites [2] [3] which have copyright notices. I am not sure whether the articles on these other websites lifted their content from this article, or vice versa, but it's worth drawing to the attention of Wikipedia admins, so I am doing that here.... HarmonicSphere 5:48, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Not an admin but I really wish people would look for copyright notices before they scream copyright about mirror sites. The first link contains this notice at the bottom of the article: The content on this page was researched and compiled from many high quality public online sources, including the Wikipedia, which is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

The second link is illegally copying WP material and redistributing it as their own from what I can tell, they need to release the material under the same license we do. Someone should address this as I have never dealt with such a situation and wouldn't know how to approach it. IvoShandor 05:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)