Addendum to say, I understand it's a complex issue, and casting directors cast for other stuff like hair color and body shape and those are limiting factors that I would have had to accept being judged on were I to have gone into the field as a career. But philosophically, I'm going to defend the roles intended for a specific ethnicity to be played by actors of that ethnic heritage until there's a more even playing field otherwise.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Liese S. - Oct 05, 2010 2:48:01 pm PDT #5143 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2010 2:48:32 pm PDT #5144 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
When I was a kid, I got cast as Jewish, Thai, and a sheep.
I can't believe you took roles away from hard-working sheep actors.
Trudy Booth - Oct 05, 2010 2:52:18 pm PDT #5145 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
All the world knew that Cipowitz couldn't possibly have grown up in Brooklyn (unless there is a Chicago neighborhood called "Brooklyn") and they got away with that shit for a decade. Hell, they got Emmys with that shit. It's a million and change tops being tormented with this one. BUT WE WILL BITCH WITH YOU!!!!!
Or I could offer to be DDK's dialect coach. Quick, Liese, teach me that dialect...
But philosophically, I'm going to defend the roles intended for a specific ethnicity to be played by actors of that ethnic heritage until there's a more even playing field otherwise.
That really seems reasonable. Or at the very least justify it in the text.
Connie Neil - Oct 05, 2010 2:52:47 pm PDT #5146 of 30000
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I'm afraid my primary interest with the new 50 is whether they're going to update Wo Fat. Because Wo Fat rocked.
Cashmere - Oct 05, 2010 3:56:17 pm PDT #5147 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Oh lord, how I want a malasada. DH walked about three miles in Honolulu to get us some hot, fresh malasadas. I still dream about them.
If you're moving, just ship the sex toys ahead of you.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2010 4:27:41 pm PDT #5148 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you're moving, just ship the sex toys ahead of you.
"Will nobody think of the sex toys?!"
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2010 4:33:13 pm PDT #5149 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you're moving, just ship the sex toys ahead of you.
It makes me think of my Finnish ancestors when they moved to the US. The first thing they'd do with their land is build a sauna. Then they'd live in (and use) the sauna while they built a house and barn. That way they had the most important thing first.
Sorta' the same thing with moving to a new place and sending the sex toys there first....
Calli - Oct 05, 2010 4:38:21 pm PDT #5150 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It makes me think of my Finnish ancestors when they moved to the US. The first thing they'd do with their land is build a sauna. Then they'd live in (and use) the sauna while they built a house and barn.
Mine did the same thing! In fact, I believe my grandmother was born in the sauna, either because the main house wasn't done yet or because it was a good source of hot water.
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2010 4:40:25 pm PDT #5151 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mine did the same thing!
Where did they live? My grandparents had a dairy farm near Alexandria, MN. My great-grandfather worked in the mines in Minnesota (I think) to raise the money to bring his wife over from Finland.
Aims - Oct 05, 2010 4:43:36 pm PDT #5152 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I love that I've been disappeared for the better part of two weeks and when I come in, we're talking sex toys. Love. It.
Know what else I love, since it's all about me? Teaching. Or at least I love the little bit of it that I'm doing. I'm happier in the past six days of this job than I was the last six months at Old Job.
t sigh of relief