Posted on 05/16/2016 2:44:14 PM PDT by patriot08
I have to agree with you. I don’t follow pop culture very much, but I can’t think of a current movie star that I really think is handsome. But the women aren’t glamorous the way that the old female stars were, either - Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner...
-JT
I agree. There is not a one in Hollywood today who can hold a candle to the old Classic stars.
A lot of today’s ‘stars’ photographed on the street, etc look like bag ladies/bums.
As Joan Crawford (who never left the house without full makeup and dressed glamorously) said; ‘I act and dress like a star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.’
Our old Classics are almost all gone, though.
The day Doris Day passes on (one of my favorites). I’ll cry.
I still think French is the most beautiful of languages. :)
Thanks for the info. Very informative.
Well, if you think about it, movie stars are marketed products. If we aren’t getting really ‘classy’ ones anymore, it probably says a lot about the consuming public.
Things will swing back :-)
-JT
Don’t get me started on the ‘consuming public’ :)
Like I said in an earlier post; if they made a movie with no dialogue and no plot, but just car chases/crashes, things being blown up, and graphic sex scenes one right after the other, today’s viewing public would eat it up and they’d make a fortune off it.
People are getting bored and sick from lack of interest and meaning - I think that’s largely the root of the sickness that we’re seeing in our society.
The most fascinating things about life are God (or Origins, if you prefer); Sex; and Death. At this point, the ‘majority culture’ has worked so hard to make them all banal, to take all the mystery and awe out of them, that people are going nuts for want of some reflection in culture of what they instinctively sense *does* hold real meaning.
(It’s kind of funny, that industries that rely for profit on playing-into human awe and interest in mystery - are making things so darn boring. The ‘movies’ for instance - with few exceptions - have been destroying their own industry for decades.)
Things will turn back; people will demand more. All the great questions are still unanswerable.
-JT
Interesting.
Thanks.
You know, I’ve thought about it, and I have to qualify my post 202 - there is one recent ‘movie star’ that I find attractive, as he’s gotten older: Keanu Reeves - at least when he keeps himself clean-cut and quits trying to be ‘trendy’. He’s no Gregory Peck, but there’s a sort of thoughtfulness there...
-JT
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