Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Kate Bosworth says people behave differently around her when she has brown hair.
The actress, who usually has blonde locks, often changes her barnet for movie roles.
‘I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette,’ Kate, 25, tells Stella.
‘I don’t know if that’s just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid.
‘But it’s a different kind of attitude.’
It’s a different kind of behavior from the lady with the hair, too. Sigourney Weaver said as much during the making of Galaxy Quest (I seem to recall from an interview, on the web, or maybe in the Special Features section of the disc). So…not exactly a scientific study there. Carry yerself differently, people treat ya different.
I used to have sympathy for actors and actresses in this predicament. Time has melted most of it away, I’m afraid. You’re making a generous living manipulating the emotions of others, which necessarily means you must contend with what’s already there. Just like a software developer who has to fix a bug in what someone else wrote, has to contend with the code that’s already there. The mechanic who works on your car has to contend with the apparatus that’s in there. The dentist and the plumber have to contend with what’s there. The list goes on…and on…and on.
If you don’t like the way people look at you, and their “preconceived notions,” honey you’re just in the wrong line of work. That’s the job. That’s what it is.
Why am I such a cold-hearted sonofabitch about it? Because as a consumer of movies I have to pay money, not get it, for the privilege of wrestling with society’s prejudices, even when I don’t share them. Dads are always wrong — our movie only has a happy ending when Daddy whacks himself in the forehead, five minutes before closing credits, and figures out what a stupidass bonehead he’s been by…breaking his promise to be at the moppet’s soccer game and making ‘im cry. Moms don’t do this. They don’t have anywhere else to be. They don’t do anything wrong, they’re too busy telling the Dad what a bad Dad he is, lying to his little moppet kid and making him cry.
Doofus Dads are just the beginning. I could add to this list all day long…bullshit things it seems everyone else is in a big hurry to see over and over again, that I don’t particularly want to see, but I have to shell out my thirty bucks plus overpriced soda & popcorn anyway.
Spoiled actresses who are treated differently when their hair is blonde. Heh. That’s just too bad, Katie.
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