You guys recall that old Madonna video, where she is all peep-show and bustier for the first 80% of the video, and then at the end goes prancing around in the street, in non-sexy clothes, with a skinny preteen boy?
Open Your Heart. IIRC, the kid was early teens (14 or something) when they shot the vid. I saw it a lot when I was out with chicken pox (I was 12).
Djimon was more like me backing away, trying to get out of range of his mysterious powers before it was too late.
Oh, hell yeah. I mean, I was safely across the room, and totally enthralled. I just wanted to stare until my eyes dried out.
PMM, please reassure me. It wasn't Who's-the-Boss-era Leo DiCaprio, was it? Please say no.
I'm really pretty sure it wasn't.
I liked that video. I guess I like the proper moral outrage circuits, because I saw the boy's curiosity in the peep show posters and all that as more bafflement than anything else. I got no sexual vibe at all from the bit where Madonna and the boy dance off together, more as if she was going back to a less jaded stage herself.
It had never occurred to me that Madonna was supposed to be exhibiting any sexual response to that little boy. He had an unrealistic lack of a sexual response to her, as far as I can tell.
Quite probably gay.
Felix Howard. That was the kid's name. No idea what he's doing now.
Re: HP and the Lusting After Underage Actors: Was I the only bugged by one of the commenter's assertation that "everyone" looked at certain pictures of Daniel Radcliffe and defaulted to a sexual POV? Because *I* sure don't.
Yeah, that's fandom for you--overuse of "everyone". Also "they".
Yeah, when Dana cornered me on the HP thing last night, the first thing I thought of was the Sturm und Drang in Smallville fandom when there were kerfuffles over slashing a 15 year-old Clark Kent. (I also started humming "Mrs. Robinson", but that's neither here nor there.)
I acknowledge that it's not quite the same, what with Tom Welling being around 10 years older than his character, but I thought then and still think that it's disingenuous to conflate fan fiction, fannish behavior, fantasy, and definitely sexual fantasy.
Sure, I think that quite a few HP actors are attractive boys. Of course, if one of them ever hit on me, I'd pat him on the head and feed him cookies.
Because when taken out of context, any kind of fantasy I'd have -- including ones that potentially would be considered inappropriate or objectionable -- breaks down. At least, for me, and I think for the majority of people. Although I don't watch Jerry Springer, so perhaps I'm wearing glasses with a rose tint.
