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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (26356)	11/29/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

CB, I suspect that you are right about people using celebrities to represent types. I suspect that many people base those types on the characteristics that professionals give to the image of a celebrity, rather than on those of the celebrity. I shouldn't really talk about it, as I'm almost immune: I practically never watch TV. I've heard a great deal about Maria, but never seen her (we only get CNBC Asian Edition, with its severe, professional looking Asian reporters). If I actually want news, I go to the net. I've never seen Lauren Thierry. As for the varying appetite for information on celebrity sex symbols, could that be because men would rather appreciate them for what they obviously have than try to imagine that they have what they almost certainly do not? I tend to fantasize about the character being played rather than the actress; the fantasy is coterminous with the movie because I know perfectly well that the character does not exist. Tom Berenger is not a pig; he is reasonably civilized in manner and at least shows up on time, knowing his scenes (an unusual trait which an AD appreciates). Egotistical is pretty much on the mark. He has a way of talking for hours about a singularly uninteresting subject: himself. One can easily live without it, especially when he's a regular occupant of the only air conditioned space on the set. I do not miss the movies, though I enjoy the occasional storytelling reunions. Steve