Comments on: Friday Open Thread

By: Outlaw13

Outlaw13 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:06:10 +0000

You mean the time when there was a real threat of nuclear war and things like the Cuban missile crisis and Soviet invasions of the Solvkian states and other nasty things took place, yeah those were sweet times.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:37:31 +0000

No actor, not even DeNiro or Pacino, could be smaller than Seth Green. Funny, funny guy, but seeing him and Bill “Dauber” Fagerbakke in the same

I’m noticing taller actors more in the last 15-20 years, though, at least more than in the 70s heyday of the likes of Stallone and Henry Winkler wearing lifts: Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Will Smith, John Cusack, Jim Carrey, etc. Ben Stiller on the other hand…

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:45:29 +0000

“I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.”

Steph, I wanted to be a makeup artist when I was a kid because I was fascinated with monster fx in movies from the Universal monsters, Planet of the Apes, Rick Baker’s werewolf and apes, to present day traditional stuff. The paranormal stuff never scared me in film (except The Exorcist), because it didn’t seem like real life. But when the slasher stuff started with Halloween and devolved to today’s sadistic gory crap .. these slasher movies scare me more because this happens in real life, and could happen to any of us. A flick like Hostel scares me more because it plays on a realistic fear that we have to be aware of today. I wish I was a kid in the 50s and my worst fear was still vampires and werewolves, and not my fellow man. To me, that’s why Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Hostel are so much scarier than the legendary monsters.

By: Raoul Ortega

Raoul Ortega — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:59:24 +0000

Halloween? Bah, humbug.

(Oops, wrong holiday…)

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:17:48 +0000

Halloween I will be handing out candy to neighborhood urchins. Tonight, carving four or five pumpkins. Just normal carving. I don’t feel like getting down and funky with the faces. Then I have to clean the house tomorrow. FUN! not.
Oh and watching scary movies. I got the Dracula from the BBC finally last year. Louis Jordan. Its kind of good. I don’t have the Exorcist but I wish I did. I will also watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose. Maybe Bram Stokers Dracula to. I never found the Halloweens, Nightmare on Elmstreet stuff scary. Gross but not scary.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:13:14 +0000

Yes Rich that would be in bad taste. Ick.

By: Republibot 3.0

Republibot 3.0 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:56:26 +0000

I think it depends on the genre, frankly. Sitcoms tended to star rather short guys – Don Adams, John Astin, etc – and westerns and such tended to star tall people – Rock Hudson, John Wayne, Jimmie Stewart, Clint Eastwood, etc. There’s no particular reason that westerns have to star tall, lanky types, but they just tend to gravitate towards that. No particular reason that sitcoms tend towards short, frenetic people with odd deliveries, but they do.

Though most of the 60s and 70s, most shows prefered their male cast to be around 5′10″, whcih is average height-ish, and they liked their leads to be about 6′00″ if at all possible, to make them stand out a bit, but not so they’d be distracting. Not a deal-breaker if they weren’t, but it was the prefered thing. This is why Shatner wore lifts, and poor 5′8″ Richard Basehart insisted he was 5′11″ until his dying day.

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:19:00 +0000

Same thing with male cheerleaders. Two words put that to rest: cheerleading camp. Twenty to one ratio of girls to guys and they have to share many of the same facilities.

By: Veruckt

Veruckt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:15:06 +0000

Lars,

This is similar to the phenomenon with male cheerleaders. I was a football player and as such had a great deal of fun at their expense but one day it occurred to me that while I was laying under 1,500 pounds of offensive linemen and assorted other players that the guys I had been making fun had hot girls legs wrapped around their heads. I instantly felt dirty. Though as one of my teammates pointed out the male cheerleaders only got to have their hands on them during routines, we got to do a lot more than that at the after game parties. Ah, the after game parties.

By: Tracy, txmom2many

Tracy, txmom2many — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:10:34 +0000

I’ve got a newspaper reporter, a swordsman (from some video game), a pirate, Darth Vader, a ninja (not a terrorist), a green frog, a pink bunny, and a Holly Hobby doll who are anxious to hassle people for candy. We’ll go over to my dads and cruise his neighborhood with our cousins. I’m actually looking forward to it, I used to hate Halloween as a kid, but I love hanging with my sister and her kids and think my kids are pretty darn near the cutest things I’ve ever seen. I’ll post a pic of their amazing cuteness next week sometime on my blog.

After we get home from that, the grownups will steal candy and drink until the kids fall into a sugar induced coma and dr zoon will drive us all home. He doesn’t drink, much.