-PJ
Posted on 07/05/2015 6:15:04 AM PDT by Cecily
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner believes women are rarely both funny and beautiful.
Speaking with Goldie Hawn at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he said: 'The hardest artist to find is a beautiful, funny woman.'
He prophetically added: 'Boy I'm going to get in trouble, I know this goes online. But usually, unbelievably beautiful women - you being an exception - are not funny.'
Accordingly, his words have have prompted outrage on Twitter, with thousands of people name-checking comedians such as Tina Fey, Mindy Kalig and Kristen Wiig as examples of the supposedly unattainable formula.
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Beautiful!
She is two pillow case, 12pk, ugly.
>>Isn’t this the guy who brought all the filth to Disney?
Only 40+ percent of it.
Twitter exists to stimulate the outrage impulse in the emotionally fragile and intellectually weak. That’s just one of the reasons I don’t play in the Twitter sewer.....
Madeline Kahn wasn’t too bad either.
He has a point, not just about women, but about funny women and men. It goes to what people see as “funny”:
1) Much humor is physical humor with an element of folly. Think of a nicely dressed, pretty woman. If she walks past a deep mud puddle, there isn’t much humor involved. But if she falls into the mud puddle, it might be funny, though she will no longer be beautiful, but covered in mud.
2) Facial muscles are essential to funny. But beauty is often associated in women as involving facial rigidity. Think of the expressionless Japanese Geisha, an extreme of the idea. Men, however, are permitted to contort their faces to comic effect, without loss of their handsomeness, if they have any.
3) Women also as a rule have a much narrower age range for both acting and comedy. While there are some outliers, older and younger comediennes are much less common.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that. I think Cary Grant was an incredibly handsome man – I still do. Watching his old movies still makes my heart go all pitter patter ; ).
Gunga Din, Suspicion, North By Northwest, Notorious, To Catch A Thief, An Affair to Remember - he could play very serious roles or the dashing romantic leading man roles or sometimes even a rake, but he was also a comedic genius – Bringing Up Baby, Operation Petticoat, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, I Was a Male War Bride, The Philadelphia Story.
Paging Lucille Ball, Pick up the Disney courtesy phone...
Classic! Quintessential Lucy!
The real problem is Eisner’s comment shouldn’t be taken so seriously.
It’s getting to where you can’t say anything unless it’s approved by Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media.
-PJ
Val Kilmer in his prime was one. Top Secret, Real Genius. Dude had the looks, the charm and funny as hell.
Today...eh...not so mmuch.
His Doc Holliday was pretty classic and I still say he was the best Batman/Campy’ish era.
There was a brief period in which Val Kilmer was the prettiest thing in sight. Very brief.
A couple years either side of Top Gun, yea. He didn’t -really- go to look hell until he left Hollywierd and went to NM. But he showed his age pretty quick I guess.
Last pix I say he was just fat but still looked ‘OK’ with some imagination. A really GOOD imagination ;)
Pointing out unbelievably attractive funny actors and comedians to disprove a hypothetical rule of thumb for the general population is pretty flawed. But if it has to be the famous route, seems like it way easier to name famous plain people who are only famous because they are funny than unbelievably good looking famous people who are only famous because they are funny.
Freegards
There are plenty of okay-looking, overweight guys, but I don’t think Val Kilmer is one of them. Hard living, I expect.
Of course they aren’t. They’re already beautiful.
I just looked him up. Throat cancer surgery and aparently was/had become a christian scientist. Grey and rough as hell. Supposedly his family convinced him to get it dealt with.
How the mighty have fallen
You can lose your looks, your money, your health, your friends ... but not your good character, if you had one to start with.
Eisner made a generalization and we are saying that there are so many exceptions to his generalization that what he said is not really valid or true.
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