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Why ARE today's stars so short? Actors were once strapping hunks and muscular specimens.
Daily Mail ^
| 03-19-15
| Quentin Letts
Posted on 03/19/2015 11:06:09 AM PDT by donna
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Average American height:
Men 5' 9.6" Women 5' 4.3"
Movies: The reverse!
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:06:09 AM PDT
by
donna
To: donna
Probably, because the old films could not hide as much things like height, the heights had to be real. Today, thanks to special effects, they can hide things like this so other things, like aesthetics become more important.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:10:40 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: donna
They left out Gary Cooper...of course he wasn’t much of an actor. Yet he is in many of my favorite movies, go figure.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:10:59 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: donna
Directors like short male actors close to same height as actresses - easier to film.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:11:25 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: donna
Superman George Reeve. Short
Alan Ladd. Short
Audie Murphy. Short.
Many others were also.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:11:39 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: donna
Actors whose heads look too big for their bodies are judged to look better on today’s screens.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:11:45 AM PDT
by
hlmencken3
(I paid for an argument, but you're just contradicting!)
To: Jonty30
I was very upset upon learning that Tom Cruise was cast to play Jack Reacher.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:12:00 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Sgt. York was pretty dreamy.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:12:37 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: Jonty30
“...so other things, like aesthetics become more important...”
Tom Cruz has an aesthetic?
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:12:54 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: b9
Yup...and The Fountainhead, High Noon and others.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:13:58 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: donna
Paul Newman, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, James Cagney, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford... 5’10 or under.
To: donna
It's not just their physical height - it's the inner strength and gravitas they seemed to have - they were much "weightier" back then.
Sure, there are some good actors nowadays, but they are like boys compared to Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, et al.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:14:58 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: gorush
Cruise did a good job as Reacher, but those who’ve read the books say otherwise.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:15:10 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: Da Coyote
I don’t like Tom Cruise, but he is a handsome man.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:16:43 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: heartwood
To: donna
Why? Because the gay guys are running the Academy.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:16:57 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: donna
Do actors represent the ideal? Is pajama boy the ideal in the non acting sphere? Generally along with the moral and psychological degeneration in a dying civilization there goes a physical degeneration. Such degeneration would be reflected in the popular media.
To: heartwood
Mickey Rooney.
This list is growing very long.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:18:16 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: heartwood
Steve McQueen - only 5’10”???
Always pictured him MUCH taller.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:18:20 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: b9
Having read all of the Reacher books I’m squarely in that latter group. His defining features in the books, 6-8, 250lbs.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:18:54 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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