Alfred Hitchcock Robert Mitchum
Two quotes by a famous director and an actor go something like this,
“Actors are like cattle … the hierarchy of prison life is similar to the movie business.”
Should the academy have its people, actors, directors, etc., dress up in character when they attend an award night? Since it is so close to Mardi Gras, they might have them dress up for the big ball that it is?
A month of preparation is good money for hair salons and plastic surgeons. Bodies are painted with the most intimate fashions on the planet; that the actors give back the next day. Why not go casual and comfortable instead, with a cold beer in their hand?
It is superficial, pretentious, and stupid that they do not! Who are these beautiful people who act for us? We know who they fuck, who they divorce and when they get boob jobs. Tabloids make fun of them too. I do not have a clue who they are, not a clue and I am not looking for one either. They are simply cattle doing their business.
Films, the theater, writing scripts all has a magic for sure…story telling is as old as the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. Now that would be a hell of a fashion statement for next year’s Academy Awards.
I love the the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert because they listen to the praying mantis and have wonderful stories to share with us!! They are beautiful people, real human beings!!
Quotes taken from All About Eve script
EVE
Then why? Why, if you’re the best
and most successful young director
in the Theater-
BILL
The Theatuh, the Theatuh-
(he sits up)
– what book of rules says the
Theater exists only within some
ugly buildings crowded into one
square mile of New York City? Or
London, Paris or Vienna?
(he gets up)
Listen, junior. And learn. Want to
know what the Theater is? A flea
circus. Also opera. Also rodeos,
carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal
dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man
band – all Theater. Wherever
there’s magic and make-believe and
an audience – there’s Theater.
Donald Duck, Ibsen, and The Lone
Ranger, Sarah Bernhardt, Poodles
Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty
Grable, Rex and Wild, and Eleanora
Duse. You don’t understand them
all, you don’t like them all, why
should you? The Theater’s for
everybody – you included, but not
exclusively – so don’t approve or
disapprove. It may not be your
Theater, but it’s Theater of
somebody, somewhere.
EVE
I just asked a simple question.
BILL
(grins)
And I shot my mouth off. Nothing
personal, junior, no offense…
(he sits back down)
… it’s just that there’s so much
bushwah in this Ivory Green Room
they call the Theatuh – sometimes
it gets up around my chin…
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