"Michael Alan Chary" <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
Mary Tyler Moore?!!?! Okay, maybe in the 1960s. She seem more gal next
door
by the time she had her own show in the 1970s, ala Bonnie Franklin. A
major
step up from Linda Lavin, altho her role on her show downplayed her looks,
especially since Polly Holliday was ****trayed as the hot one on the show
(what would be called today as the resident "cougar").
> 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
Butler and Black often play more macho roles that downplay their
incredible
good looks.
Especially Black's stint on FARSCAPE, unlike like a lot of American shows,
had her pretty much dressed from head to toe without skin-tight,
cleavage-baring, high-hemmed or slitted outfits. The most traditionally
feminine outfit she wore the most often was her long hair, down, loose,
altho often it would be combed back really tight into a pony tail. Rarely
was the character of "Aeryn Sun" shown wearing an outfit that was
traditionally glamous, except for the few times she was shown with bare
shoulders under a bedsheet.
-- Ken from Chicago
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