Where Camille went off the track was in 2001 when she didn't see 9/11 as the cataclysmic event that it was. She had always been an Arabist (a student of Edward Said) and this act of horror seemed to catch her unawares. She's never recovered from that day.
Are you two related?
When you grow up with actresses like Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner and Catherine Deneuve, it’s hard to appreciate Taylor Swift
Even if you didn’t grow up with these stars, it’s easy to watch a movie like Cleopatra and see that they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Virtually no major actress on the scene today could pull of the title role like Elizabeth Taylor could. Not really any Richard Burtons left on the male side either. And this from someone who did not grow up in the Golden Era of Hollywood.
I thought Lopez's point about Doris Day, a big talent and gorgeous well into her maturity, was well-taken, although I never thought Calamity Jane was remotely "transgendered"--Lopez is applying his own life-view of having two mommies to this take. Doris Day was not remotely "butch" in Calimity Jane. The sharp-shooting comedic tomboy Jane was twice as alive as her insipid "feminine" rival in the movie. When Jane cleans up and puts on a dress she's twice as pretty as her rival. Watch the movie, it's darn good. Howard Keel is dynamite...