[Sca-cooks] Re: Hollywood gays (was movie night at therock)

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Y'know, the concept of either a *hyper* stereotypical movie (in which
the stereotypes are BROADLY overwritten and provocatively insulting
caricatures) (hey, if you piss off everyone, they can't accuse you of
discrimination) or a switch (I seem to recall a story called "My Gun is
Cute" by Germaine Spillane in an old National Lampoon) could be a serious
hoot. Of course, no one in Hollywood would have the cojones to buck the PC
nazis to do this, except maybe Spike Lee, and he done sold out . . .

    Sieggy

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> It is the "default assumption" problem. If nothing is specified about a
> character, most casting agents and directors "see" a white, able-bodied,
> straight, male. (Yes, we're still having trouble getting *Women* in many
> incidental roles! And we're a *majority*! ) Now there are exceptions...
> and they speak volumes. Nurses and clerical workers and teachers are
> women. Drug dealers and prostitutes are most commonly Hispanic these
> days, or else Black. Doctors might be Asian, but aren't of other
> minorities unless specified. They might, finally, be women, but  if so,
> they are still mostly pediatricians or ob/gyns...
>
> Some people with some control are finally accepting that this is a
> problem... *sigh*. So there are starting to be a few exceptions, but not
> many... there are so many layers... you have to convince the agent to
> submit, the casting agent to cast, the director to accept, and, for that
> matter, the actor to go out for a role that experience has taught
> him/her that s/he won't get... which can feel like a waste of time!
>
> Anne