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In Reply to: Searching for Debra Winger posted by jamesgarvin on March 24, 2005 at 12:12:54:
the beautiful Alex Kingston is sacked from the television series E.R. because, at 37, the producers consider her "too old" for their target audience? So a character in authority must be old or be male to be taken seriously? Come on - this does not reflect real life, this is some television executive's out-of-touch perception of real life. Maybe 37 year old male production executives should loose their jobs because they are "too old." Maybe they, and film executives too, should reconsider.And this is not a new thing. Famous actresses like Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Sophia Loren, and Myrna Loy found jobs rare while they were in their middle age. Those who did find jobs often turned in the best work of their careers - the 41-year old Davis in "All About Eve" is a good example. Others, like Loy, Irene Dunne, Loretta Young, and many others, either left show business or worked on television.
Men have it tough, too, but nothing compared to what the women go through.
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You are not suggesting the darn "execs" canned a 37 year old actress simply to satisfy their misogynist ego, the profits be damned?How many people stopped watching the show after that?
To the audience watching such shows young sells.
Myrna Loy... she was fun... but how many times could one watch the same good wife?
I agree that in men actors the aging is not as serious an issue, as in women the looks play more important role, but then there is the other side of the coin, where young and pretty women get advantage when compared to young men.
has lost a lot of its audience. What was once interesting television has foundered. I think the show "jumped the shark" a couple seasons ago when they killed off Paul McCrane, who was the doctor everybody loved to hate. Scripts have declined in quality to the level of a typical soap opera. It's now bores me so I seldom watch. And, if I want the youth I will watch "Scrubs" which is a funny, if unremarkable show.
perhaps ms. winger would not fly on the casting couch
perhaps the executive would not try her out
you know,too old
Older women can not bear children anymore, men yes. That may play a role in many ways.
Maybe in 20 years Diane Keaton will play in Baby Boom II, where she, a single 80 year old woman, gives the birth to a child, and she masterfully reconsiles that fact with her career at the local community center as the bingo operator.
Will we also see Victor with sweet Scarlett Johanson, pushing the buggy?
So I would be walking behind her, wondering who really is the father of that child?No, thank you, I would much rather see myself in the remake of El Amor de Don Juan, with all the ground work already done, me just harvesting all the beautiful young ladies.
Ok. letīs have sweet Scarlett and the others...
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