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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Movie stars
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 12:23:41 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <mattm-250193092258@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1k1k5dINNh1m@mizar.usc.edu> <1993Jan27.154411.15437@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- In article <1993Jan27.154411.15437@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- gsmith@clio.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
- > In article <1k1k5dINNh1m@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu
- > (adolphson) writes:
- > >I think Katharine Hepburn is a great movie star. That I
- > >don't particularly care for her is a failing, I suppose.
- > >(That I can't stand Humphrey Bogart is a sign of my
- > >good taste.)
- >
- > It's a sign you don't respond to male icons in the same way you do
- > female ones, I think.
-
- This is true, and it extends beyond iconic movie stars.
- I vastly prefer the sound of a woman's singing voice --
- in opera, jazz, pop, Broadway (no, I don't listen to
- rock at all) -- to a man's.
-
- > Bogie is as iconic as Garbo, and it's kind of
- > funny to see that you don't notice this.
-
- I do recognize the fact that he's iconic. I just don't
- respond to him *at all*. I think he's unwatchable.
-
- > Now, if you want to complain about Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper or
- > (God help us) the Duke, go ahead.
-
- I wouldn't complain (all that much) about Jimmy Stewart,
- and the only complaints I have about Cooper (one of the
- most stunningly beautiful men who ever lived) have to do
- with his reactionary politics. John Wayne is a complete
- mystery to me. Anyway, I *do* respond to Gary Cooper, Cary
- Grant, John Gilbert, and Valentino in exactly the same way --
- if not with the same fervor -- that I respond to Garbo and
- Dietrich and Davis.
-
- Arne
-