[Mamzelle]

re: My wife's wise policy is to know as little about these folks' personal lives and views as she can. She has found that, when they're not saying and doing what others write for them, they're pretty disappointing. There are exceptions, of course -- but a lot of NOT! )))

I like movies--like a good story. I love LOTR--love a GREAT story.

I have tried to avoid reading celebrity interviews of actors--actors are 95% low-IQ, gullible, easily led by pompous activism, have no education to speak of. What they can do is "let's pretend" effectively. Your pleasure with stories will be spoiled if you read celeb interviews--

Wish I'd never seen that ridiculous "No Blood For Oil"--because Aragorn's lines with Theoden in TTT were so at odds with Viggo's silly, shallow Old Euro public politics. Now I've started to wonder if Sean Bean might have made a better Aragorn--

[BibChr]

I agree. I've often wondered: does acting ATTRACT (generalizing, here) messed-up, immoral, clueless people, or does it CREATE messed-up, immoral, clueless people?

The lazy answer may be the correct one, that it is a both-and situation.

It is nice when exceptions like JRD and Sean Astin and (on many things) Tom Selleck and Mel Gibson and Charlton Hestin come along.

But they're definitely the exceptions, not the rule.

Dan