I had the same objection to Cathy Lee Crosby
I had to google for that. [link] Heh.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
aurelia - Mar 22, 2005 1:44:25 pm PST #191 of 10457
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 22, 2005 1:46:46 pm PST #192 of 10457
What is even happening?
Isn't Morena a little physically delicate to play Wonder Woman?
Connie Neil - Mar 22, 2005 1:49:01 pm PST #193 of 10457
brillig
I don't see caucasian as a requirement. Female, yes. Caucasian, no.
That's because you're not a Hollywood studio exec trying to keep his job by not startling the people with money or the conservative whack-jobs who don't like change.
I saw a very interesting article about movies with black actors (Wil Smith etc.) always having Latina or Italian girl friends, because blonde girlfriends make people nervous and black girlfriends mean white people won't go see it.
Whack-jobs.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 1:57:18 pm PST #194 of 10457
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hmm, Will Smith's movie girlfriend being black didn't keep me from seeing Independence Day. Though, in retrospect, I wish something had...
Connie Neil - Mar 22, 2005 2:00:00 pm PST #195 of 10457
brillig
But they weren't counting on Will to carry the movie, I'm betting. He wasn't the big draw he is now, yet, IIRC.
Steph L. - Mar 22, 2005 2:07:56 pm PST #196 of 10457
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I'm afraid I do for this - it's not a standard I hold all comic book character adaptations to, but I think the big icons like Wonder Woman and Superman really need to bear a strong resemblance to their original printed sources.
Seriously -- I can't imagine a black Superman, despite how kick-ass Djimon Hounsou could be in the role. (Seriously -- the man has got the physique, no question, and he can even get his Clark Kent on.)
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2005 2:08:26 pm PST #197 of 10457
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think Morena bears a strong resemblance to Wonder Woman. She's got the colouring, but I'd rather see Gina in whiteface (okay, please don't, but I think that'd be closer to looking like WW than Morena even after the Jessica Biel program).
P.M. Marc - Mar 22, 2005 2:09:19 pm PST #198 of 10457
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
He's so pretty.
So very pretty.
ChiKat - Mar 22, 2005 2:11:14 pm PST #199 of 10457
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
blonde girlfriends make people nervous
Heh. Don't know if we make people nervous, but we do occassionally get second looks. Not often, though.
Steph L. - Mar 22, 2005 2:11:28 pm PST #200 of 10457
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
He's so pretty.
So very pretty.
So true. So very true.