tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3023603103167926996..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Moneyballing movies: "The Gender Gap in Screen Time"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36208205922954850672014-03-03T11:38:58.846-08:002014-03-03T11:38:58.846-08:00"No, dammit, no! The language is being deraci..."No, dammit, no! The language is being deracinated enough without iStevers piling on. And too many starlets are already doing this <br /><br />I hope you were just kidding. I mean, look at the fate of your own name, Jody."<br /><br />I always think this jody is like one of those Greeks from ancient times who imagined male children being born out of men's calves in an entirely male world. <br /><br />That Hollywood only seems to be casting actresses so we won't think the male stars are gay, seems about right.<br /><br />There's got to be a reasons they're pushing gay marriage so they can write women out of the picture entirely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20071140550545330562014-03-01T08:24:12.297-08:002014-03-01T08:24:12.297-08:00As a viewer I never noticed the difference in the ...As a viewer I never noticed the difference in the time women and men are on the screen. I don't think it is a big deal.MBA Data Guruhttp://mbadataguru.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36498322303332771532014-02-28T16:42:20.829-08:002014-02-28T16:42:20.829-08:00I wonder if blacks are given screen time out of pr...I wonder if blacks are given screen time out of proportion to their percentage of the population. And if so, if it's disquieting.<br /><br />zippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67147430158765387522014-02-28T14:50:56.874-08:002014-02-28T14:50:56.874-08:00"Hollywood has never been so miserable for wo..."Hollywood has never been so miserable for women. Nowadays, Joan Crawford and Betty Davis wouldn't even have careers. Sometimes I just think that Hollywood directors cast women so the the audience won't think that the male protagonists are gay." - Pedro Almadovar, a woman's director if there ever was one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65924753089554768602014-02-28T11:09:36.500-08:002014-02-28T11:09:36.500-08:00on a lexicographical note, shouldn't they both...<i>on a lexicographical note, shouldn't they both just be called actors? </i> --Jody<br /><br />No, dammit, no! The language is being deracinated enough without iStevers piling on. And too many starlets are already doing this <br /><br />I hope you were just kidding. I mean, look at the fate of your own name, <i>Jody</i>.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50713824915416996512014-02-28T11:04:57.552-08:002014-02-28T11:04:57.552-08:00One of them has the quite charming name Rocco Davi...<i>One of them has the quite charming name Rocco David Danielovich. then there's Celine Catherine Danielovich, etc.</i><br /><br />Something tells me the parents of Rocco and Céline might not be the most attentive stewards of Russia's onomastic traditions. <br /><br /><br /> <i>…calling him "Michael Demsky" is factually incorrect.</i><br /><br />It was a <i>joke</i>. No, a <i>sub-</i>joke to another joke. <i>Auschillen!</i><br /><br />Say, did you know Kirk is the most important <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(city),_New_York#Notable_persons" rel="nofollow">native of Amsterdam</a>, and <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Hisstationand4aces-coolidge.jpg" rel="nofollow">Cassius Marcellus Coolidge</a> the most notable resident ever of both Antwerp and Philadelphia?Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27744343556237876372014-02-28T05:13:18.860-08:002014-02-28T05:13:18.860-08:00Scandinavian TV Versus Jewish TV
That's the a...Scandinavian TV Versus Jewish TV<br /><br />That's the answer.<br /><br />In Scandinavian TV women are equal to men, while in Jewish tv women are not.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76448159382250935382014-02-28T03:02:36.596-08:002014-02-28T03:02:36.596-08:00Re: interestingness to look at, Ian Holm is one of...Re: interestingness to look at, Ian Holm is one of my favourite actors. He is visually captivating without being aesthetically pleasing, even in his younger days. Attractive women are pleasurable to look at, but you can do this just as easily with a still picture as with a moving one. More easily in fact. <br /><br />Other interesting-to-look-at actors include Gene Hackman (who had to give up on filmmaking because he got old and the phone stopped ringing), Ian McKellen, lately Christoph Waltz. In fact the more conventionally handsome a male lead is, the less interesting his roles and films, and the less his acting ability, tend to be.Hallstadtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49909732618575538072014-02-28T02:45:50.842-08:002014-02-28T02:45:50.842-08:00If you look at overall box office champs, they are...If you look at overall box office champs, they are overwhelmingly male. Doris Day is the biggest female box office star of all time. I don't believe these stats (the ones I'm using) adjust for inflation, and I think that's probably significant. TV, as Steve and others have pointed out, is all about women. Not just scripted dramas and reality TV, either--the Olympics have been famously scripted to appeal to women since 1992 or so.<br /><br />I thought that TV was the explanation, but a look at the top box office stars from 1932-1970 http://www.reelclassics.com/Articles/General/quigleytop10-article.htm suggests otherwise. Women regularly had 40-50% of the top box office slots in the 30s, but starting from 1940 on, they rarely had more than 2 in any given year. <br /><br />It couldn't have been longevity back in the 30s, so I'm not sure what explains it. <br /><br />The male names have a much more straightforward relationship to talent or star power than the female box office champs do: Doris Day, Julia Roberts, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple. I yield to no one in my appreciation for Doris Day, but her films don't have the same staying power as Bette Davis, Kate Hepburn, or Ingrid Bergman. Of the four top names, only Roberts is the equivalent of the top male names.<br /><br />I'm not sure what this all means over time. Certainly, since the 70s and the blockbuster, it's easier to explain the male dominance. But possibly the stories that age the best, that have the most general appeal, are not the stories that usually appeal to women in that moment.education realisthttp://educationrealist.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12495886261574232672014-02-28T01:44:03.570-08:002014-02-28T01:44:03.570-08:00It seems that the Right Sector guys wanted to inqu...<i>It seems that the Right Sector guys wanted to inquire about a murder case.</i><br /><br />Has the murder in question happened yet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13679345515074393622014-02-28T01:41:57.796-08:002014-02-28T01:41:57.796-08:00In fact, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc...<i>In fact, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to be an exclusive club that is 93 percent white, 76 percent male, with an average age of 63. . . </i><br /><br />So the Academy is only 7% jewish or less. Who would have thought it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19645165234728915052014-02-28T00:08:52.199-08:002014-02-28T00:08:52.199-08:00women are less interesting than men. i don't t...women are less interesting than men. i don't think it's any more complicated than that.<br /><br />they are also not good character actors. not that all men are, they aren't. but very few women have that as an ability. most women are just cast to play a generic woman in most roles rather than play a character. sure, their character has a different name and dialogue every time, but they're still just playing a generic, time period appropriate woman.<br /><br />this casting rule may be arbitrary - few scripts call for an interesting female main character where some serious out of personality acting is required of the actress - but i bet women wouldn't be able to do the harder, character acting very effectively on average, either. usually when they attempt this it falls flat. it's just the same good looking actress that you're using to seeing, but here she's putting on a bad fake accent, dressing up in different clothes, and acting like she knows how to ride a horse or drive a race car or whatever thing it is the script calls for that the actress really is not doing a convincing job of.<br /><br />women are also not funny, so that rules out most comedy. nor are they credible action stars. although there is a modern attempt to make them into them.<br /><br />if you deliberately tried to balance casting, screen time, pay, all that, between the genders, you'd end up with a lot of boring movies that not even many women went to see.<br /><br />on a lexicographical note, shouldn't they both just be called actors? now that we're in the 'men and women are exactly the same' era, i mean. there's no difference between men and women, so just use actor for everybody.<br /><br />"She's a good actor."<br />"She's not a good actor."<br />"I wish they would have gotten a better actor than her."<br />"She's the perfect actor for this role."jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74907645191070105132014-02-27T23:14:33.749-08:002014-02-27T23:14:33.749-08:00"Anonymous said...
Age gap in cinema?
..."Anonymous said...<br /><br /> Age gap in cinema?<br /><br /> Old actors seem to get less time. Maybe Nebraska is an exception.<br /><br /> John Wayne had leading roles to the end of his life. Aging actors nowadays just fade. "<br /><br /> Not really ;Eastwood made 'gran torino'at the age of 78 an age that Wayne never reached.kaganovitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33382581943105924592014-02-27T21:51:50.475-08:002014-02-27T21:51:50.475-08:00"All Things Considered" confronts the ge..."All Things Considered" confronts the <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/02/27/283481445/new-academy-president-pushes-for-more-diverse-voting-members" rel="nofollow">gender/racial/age gap</a> in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences:<br /><br /><i>In fact, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to be an exclusive club that is 93 percent white, 76 percent male, with an average age of 63. . . <br /><br />"I think people assumed the Academy was pretty homogeneous, and it turned out it was even more so than the worst assumptions," says journalist John Horn. He and a team of L.A. Times reporters tracked down and spoke with most of the roughly 6,000 members of the Academy.<br /><br />"When we told the Academy that we had independently confirmed the identities of more than 5,100 voters, there was a gasp in the room," says Horn. "I think they were really embarrassed by the findings of the demographics. They knew they had a problem; they were aware that the image of the Academy was that it was a bunch of old white men. But when they were confronted with the hard data of how old, how white and how male the Academy was, they really had no place to hide."</i><br /><br />Why are these old white men even here? Will no one rid us of them? At least the Academy named a sorta-black woman as its new president, that should help.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39947942930348625682014-02-27T21:49:17.636-08:002014-02-27T21:49:17.636-08:00Actors get more screen time than actresses because...<br />Actors get more screen time than actresses because men are active - and cinema is about action. If I recall correctly, the Tao Te Ching has an epigram that expresses this, and I think it goes: "The female overcomes the male with stillness." Cinema - you know, the MOTION picture - is about anything but stillness.Auntie Analoguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29947124961683419392014-02-27T21:06:16.175-08:002014-02-27T21:06:16.175-08:00Reg Caesar:"That depends on whether you go by...Reg Caesar:"That depends on whether you go by Wikipedia, or CNN and IMDB. <br /><br />"Danielovich" sounds like a patronymic, not a surname."<br /><br />A quick google search reveals people with the surname "Danielovich" in the USA. One of them has the quite charming name Rocco David Danielovich. then there's Celine Catherine Danielovich, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5332053464841313102014-02-27T21:00:14.310-08:002014-02-27T21:00:14.310-08:00Reg Caesar:"That depends on whether you go by...Reg Caesar:"That depends on whether you go by Wikipedia, or CNN and IMDB. <br /><br />"Danielovich" sounds like a patronymic, not a surname."<br /><br />Well, the WIKIPEDIA article offers this account of the evolution of Kirk's surname:<br /><br /><br />"Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch, a businessman.[4] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, Mahilyow Voblast, in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), [5] and the family spoke Yiddish.[6][7] His father's brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas' family adopted in the United States."<br /><br />In any event, "Michael Douglas" is Michael Douglas's birth name, so calling him "Michael Demsky" is factually incorrect. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51620258093566578922014-02-27T20:09:24.170-08:002014-02-27T20:09:24.170-08:00One disquieting finding from my research is that t...<i> One disquieting finding from my research is that this year’s lead actors average 85 minutes on screen, but lead actresses average only 57 minutes. </i><br /><br />Oh dear. <b> Disquieting. </b>peterikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89986987474843427512014-02-27T20:06:35.670-08:002014-02-27T20:06:35.670-08:00I wonder what the ratio is on porn? --Prof Woland
...<i>I wonder what the ratio is on porn?</i> --Prof Woland<br /><br />Porn isn't about ratios. Porn is about absolute numbers. Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52121359025666904472014-02-27T19:47:01.367-08:002014-02-27T19:47:01.367-08:00I wonder what the ratio is on porn?I wonder what the ratio is on porn?Prof. Wolandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67713501713908785432014-02-27T19:26:29.467-08:002014-02-27T19:26:29.467-08:00Five wives?
Guess that's why Mike Judge calle...Five wives?<br /><br />Guess that's why Mike Judge called him (by way of Beavis & Butthead) "Martin Scores Easy"Let's!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12131206395743007452014-02-27T19:14:34.906-08:002014-02-27T19:14:34.906-08:00I watched the video of Muzychko at the prosecutor&...I watched the video of Muzychko at the prosecutor's office again. That article about it is probably wrong. That skinny guy probably wasn't the regional prosecutor himself, but an employee of his. In the video Muzychko complains that neither the prosecutor nor his deputy is to be found in the office. <br /><br />They were speaking authentic Ukrainian there and I'm a Muscovite. I understood all of the profanity and the mentions of the hangman's noose the first time. But the complaint at the heart of the exchange - that the prosecutor wasn't there - escaped me until the second viewing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82348752381945505482014-02-27T19:06:35.338-08:002014-02-27T19:06:35.338-08:00It's easier for men to be defective but likabl...<br /><i>It's easier for men to be defective but likable... if [women characters] have serious flaws, we're in an area the audience doesn't want to go.</i><br /><br />Maybe at the box office. Flawed women have done fine in the living room-- Imogene Coca, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence, Gilda Radner, Roseanne Barr, half the cast of <i>Laugh In</i>…<br /><br /><i><br /><br />This is why chick flicks are a drag and they generally don't do well.</i><br /><br />Today. It was<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0517064480/ref=redir_mdp_mobile" rel="nofollow"> a different story</a> in the past. <a href="http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/770283%257C770284/Introduction-to-Screwball-Comedies.html" rel="nofollow">Quite different</a>.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78972131704901212702014-02-27T18:33:27.247-08:002014-02-27T18:33:27.247-08:00Demsky is not Kirk Douglas's original surname....<i>Demsky is not Kirk Douglas's original surname. He was born Issur Danielovitch.<br /></i><br /><br />That depends on whether you go by Wikipedia, or CNN and IMDB. <br /><br />"Danielovich" sounds like a patronymic, not a surname. Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46987487379533433972014-02-27T18:28:42.887-08:002014-02-27T18:28:42.887-08:00re: the Right Sector/prosecutor fruitful exchange ...re: the Right Sector/prosecutor fruitful exchange of views.<br /><br />That would be a hard thing to take, and a harder thing to live down.Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.com