In article <592fq397v204lk3rrkp2266qfqapfdnbsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:32:37 +0000 (UTC), mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael
>Alan Chary) wrote:
>
>>In article <fo5t7p$nb2$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>In article <qsk9q3lip3vjfpejvig98cn2407cq0mmh7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>Rob Jensen <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>>
>>>> I've always thought that a good high-concept description of Chuck
>>>> is, "It's the Greatest American Hero minus the cape."
>>>>
>>>> "And with Connie Selleca as not just Ralph's love interest, but
>>>> also as another secret agent and Bill's reluctant partner. And,
>>>> okay, she's a much-hotter blonde who bears a strong resemblance to
>>>> Marcia Brady all growed up."
>>>
>>
>>Sarah's very beautiful, but she is way, way, *WAY* less hot than Connie
>>Selleca. And not just because I was 13 or so when I first saw Connie
>>Selleca.
>
>Dude, I'm about your age. Faye Grant from "V" is waaaaay hotter than
>Connie Selleca. So were about 95% of two-x-chromosome Hollywood at
>that time. Heck, Marie Osmond is hotter than Connie Selleca.
Mixed vibes. Faye Grant is better looking than most of the woemn I know
personally, I'm sure, but compared to other professional show biz types?
As for Marie Osomnd: spoken like someone who never saw The Bermuda
Depths...
There is, I think, a hierarchy:
Women who are attractive enough by tv standards, but can still play a
normal person on a show, even though in real life we would kill ourselves
over them:
Jan Smithers, Connie Selleca, Stephanie Zimbalist, Bonnie Franklin, etc.
Women who are so attractive that other characters comment on it, but still
pass for normal people on the show:
Joyce Dewitt, Loretta Switt, Veronica Hamel, Lee Meriwether,
Catherine Bell, etc.
Women who are so ridiculously attractive, that their physical beauty
becomes a regular plot point for episodes:
Lynda Carter, Cathy lee Crosby, Mary Tyler Moore, Cheryl Ladd, Suzanne
Sommers (which is how they get away with having Joyce Dewitt in the second
category), Loni Anderson (which is how Jan Smithers, etc) Stephanie
Powers, Julie Newmar, Diana Riggs, etc....
Obviously most actresses fall into the first two categories but even more
are just ludicrously miscast. Erin Gray was a supermodel. Yet, they put
her on Buck Rogers and Silver Spoons, and nobody noticed. Yancy Butler and
Claudia Black are incredibly beautiful, and if they want to play soldiers
and so on, that's fine by me, but it makes Daniel Jackson look like a
blind monk.
--
The All-New, All-Different Howling Curmudgeons!
http://www.whiterose.org/howlingcurmudgeons
|
