I shed a tear today.

[Tweek]

LIFE (I think) has a coffee table book out with photos of Grace Kelly.

I shed a tear because as I flipped through it I realized: They don't make 'em like they used to. Actresses and actors, I mean. Hell, filmmakers!

I still can't believe Paris Hilton is a household name. I can't believe McG is in movies, or Uwe Boll for that matter.

I'm spent. Short but sweet. Whatever. Bye.

[dreamcurls]

Paris is only a household name b/c of the shock value of what she does and ofcourse who her father is. not because she has talent.
(and for some ungodly reason some fools find her attractive)

But there are some good quality actors still out there (not made like theyused to, but still damn good)
Gary Oldman
William Hurt
Nathan Fillion
Johnny Depp
Jason Isaacs
Annette Benning
Julianne Moore
Marg Helgenberger
Alan Rickman
James Spader

[Tweek]

It's still fuckin' stupid.

[dreamcurls]

i agree. it's sad but charisma, humbleness and suaveness has taken a back see to badboys and skanks.

[Tweek]

But there are some good quality actors still out therenot made like theyused to, but still damn good)
Gary Oldman
William Hurt
Nathan Fillion
Johnny Depp
Jason Isaacs
Annette Benning
Julianne Moore
Marg Helgenberger
Alan Rickman
James Spader)


You saucy-- You added this! Heh.

Yeah, you're right. I especially love Spader.:cool:

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by Tweek

I shed a tear because as I flipped through it I realized: They don't make 'em like they used to. Actresses and actors, I mean. Hell, filmmakers!

That, or you're not paying attention like you used to.

[MISFITS_Fiend]

I totally agree with this rant. Good one!

I was just talking to my friend the other day about this. Back in the day (even as recent as the '80s), controversy and bad behavior were the death knell of any career in entertainment. For example, the video that Rob Lowe made with the teen girls effectively killed his career for many years, and he was one of the top draws back then! He's only now started to resurrect his career a bit. These days, his video wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar screen. I kind of miss the days when actors, actresses and musicians at least tried to have a front of respectability. I figure the biggest difference between then and now is that back then, information was not so readily available for everybody and their grandmother (i.e.; the internet). They were able to keep their private lives private to a greater degree.

[Tweek]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
That, or you're not paying attention like you used to.

There are a lot of quality filmmakers, actors/actresses, but the problem is, they get shoved aside for the crappy ones. I should have been more clear. -shrug-

I figure the biggest difference between then and now is that back then, information was not so readily available for everybody and their grandmother (i.e.; the internet).

Word.

[NathanRomano]

I totally agree with tweek.
Especially the paris Hilton thing.
I want someone new to get big. I like Emile Hirsch(Sp?)
I mean hes big, but not Brad Pitt big

[Dorrito the Imp]

I keep telling baby boomer types about how much I hate my generation, how everyone sucks the teet of the lowest common denominator so unabashedly, how twits and hacks and no-talents with pretty faces or that guest-on-Jerry-Springer pity/shame appeal continue to pervade the mass media, how the vast majority of people keep talking about stupid shit that didn't matter, and how almost everyone who is at all talented and how almost anything that is any good is, relatively, shrouded in obscurity.

The response I usually get from these baby boomers is "You don't hate your generation, you hate them all. It was just like that when I was young, and the only reason the past seems so much better than the future is because only the things worth remembering are ever remembered. Now shut up and please me sexually, little one."

They are wise, wise people.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by Tweek
LIFE (I think) has a coffee table book out with photos of Grace Kelly.

I shed a tear because as I flipped through it I realized: They don't make 'em like they used to. Actresses and actors, I mean. Hell, filmmakers!

I still can't believe Paris Hilton is a household name. I can't believe McG is in movies, or Uwe Boll for that matter.

I'm spent. Short but sweet. Whatever. Bye.

While I agree that it's a shame that Hilton and the like are household names, you can't compare Grace Kelly and Paris Hilton. I think I'd compare the Princess more with Julia Roberts, Charlize Theron, or others like them.

Paris Hilton is a classless, talentless, media-whore. Grace Kelly had talent, style, and well . . . grace.

[Tweek]

While I agree that it's a shame that Hilton and the like are household names, you can't compare Grace Kelly and Paris Hilton. I think I'd compare the Princess more with Julia Roberts, Charlize Theron, or others like them.

Indeed.


I'm not sure if i was really comparing... bah.

[dreamcurls]

Originally posted by Tweek
You saucy-- You added this! Heh.

Yeah, you're right. I especially love Spader.:cool:

that's right!
i cannot wait for the season premiere of Boston Legal!
:D

[joeyzz]

I agree with the original opening statement. They don't make 'em like they used to. Love Grace, and I also loved Kate Hepburn. Hollywood has definitely lost it's class, but that's probably a direct result of Americans becoming fat, lazy, and dis-respectful. It's a new audience. Paris gives good head, that's what people want to hear about.

[electriclite]

I keep telling baby boomer types about how much I hate my generation, how everyone sucks the teet of the lowest common denominator so unabashedly, how twits and hacks and no-talents with pretty faces or that guest-on-Jerry-Springer pity/shame appeal continue to pervade the mass media, how the vast majority of people keep talking about stupid shit that didn't matter, and how almost everyone who is at all talented and how almost anything that is any good is, relatively, shrouded in obscurity.

The response I usually get from these baby boomers is "You don't hate your generation, you hate them all. It was just like that when I was young, and the only reason the past seems so much better than the future is because only the things worth remembering are ever remembered. Now shut up and please me sexually, little one."

They are wise, wise people.



He is wise, this one.

[Buck Turgidson]

While I agree that it's a shame that Hilton and the like are household names, you can't compare Grace Kelly and Paris Hilton. I think I'd compare the Princess more with Julia Roberts, Charlize Theron, or others like them.I would say Nicole Kidman, myself. Beautiful, popular, lauded and largely without talent.

Sorry, somebody had to say it.He is wise, this one.Yeah, that works for me, too. That same studio control locked people into doing shitty movies with the same stable of people and bound them to the whims of small minded (Louis B. Mayer) or insane (Howard Hughes) studio heads.

We remember the cream, but there was a lot of milk, too, and a lot of it was sour.

[FrankT.JMackey]

You shed a tear over that?? Are you female?? If not I only have one word... wuss.

[joeyzz]

You shed a tear over that?? Are you female?? If not I only have one word... wuss.

Come on now, be nice.

[Tweek]

You shed a tear over that?? Are you female?? If not I only have one word... wuss.


Meanie! I'm a woman, yes. It's not like I was bawling!

[Tweek]

[QUOTE=Buck Turgidson;2541381

We remember the cream, but there was a lot of milk, too, and a lot of it was sour.[/QUOTE]


There's more sour milk nowadays is what i'm getting at.

[LordSimen]

I keep telling baby boomer types about how much I hate my generation, how everyone sucks the teet of the lowest common denominator so unabashedly, how twits and hacks and no-talents with pretty faces or that guest-on-Jerry-Springer pity/shame appeal continue to pervade the mass media, how the vast majority of people keep talking about stupid shit that didn't matter, and how almost everyone who is at all talented and how almost anything that is any good is, relatively, shrouded in obscurity.

The response I usually get from these baby boomers is "You don't hate your generation, you hate them all. It was just like that when I was young, and the only reason the past seems so much better than the future is because only the things worth remembering are ever remembered. Now shut up and please me sexually, little one."

They are wise, wise people.

The imp speaks the truth.

[Buck Turgidson]

There's more sour milk nowadays is what i'm getting at.It's about the same amount, they just don't hide it in the back of the store room like they used to ;)

[Tweek]

It's about the same amount, they just don't hide it in the back of the store room like they used to ;)


Stupid analogies! I don't get it. (Just kidding.)

[Gordon]

I keep telling baby boomer types about how much I hate my generation, how everyone sucks the teet of the lowest common denominator so unabashedly, how twits and hacks and no-talents with pretty faces or that guest-on-Jerry-Springer pity/shame appeal continue to pervade the mass media, how the vast majority of people keep talking about stupid shit that didn't matter, and how almost everyone who is at all talented and how almost anything that is any good is, relatively, shrouded in obscurity.

The response I usually get from these baby boomers is "You don't hate your generation, you hate them all. It was just like that when I was young, and the only reason the past seems so much better than the future is because only the things worth remembering are ever remembered. Now shut up and please me sexually, little one."

They are wise, wise people.

You weren't supposed to say anything about that you dick. Now close your eyes and continue to siphon some intelligence from my garden hose.

[Dorrito the Imp]

I am enlightened!

[Gordon]

I am enlightened!

Well, you've done a lot of siphoning.