Don't be bad looking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxuUkYiaUc8
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Don't be bad looking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxuUkYiaUc8
I have the world's worst Leave it to Beaver joke. Seems like a bad time to share that in the RIP Tony Dow thread. But I giggled when I saw that pop up. Which is awful.
Who owned more sweaters, Fred MacMurray or Andy Williams?
Facebook. Along with fire, my favorite thing to not be on. I was in Saskatoon last Saturday and it was 47 overnight. I wore a sweatshirt to workout in the morning and a sweater to dinner. Flying home Sunday and I had to re-route to Orlando for a baby emergency. I haven't worn sweaters while I'm here.
all boys school. very limited prom opportunities, like exactly zero.
I recently had to do online anti sexual harassment and anti racism training for my work. There were 7 or 8 scenarios that we had to watch. In all but one of the scenarios, the harassers were white women. I'm sorry, but eff that. If representation matters, then it matters in stuff like this too. To be perfectly honest, I felt harassed by the training.
My 9th junior High prom, also asked to go to the junior high prom at our rival Junior High. (They were not yet middle schools.) In high school, it was called the Junior/Senior prom and sophomores could only go if asked by a junior or senior. I got asked as a sophomore. Then I went as a junior and a senior.
As to the "Don't be creepy" stuff - I've been struggling with that lately. The son of a dear friend is "on the spectrum" as the lingo puts it these days. He truly does not realize when he's being creepy. He tries hard not to but often does come off as creepy. It will never be possible for him to never be creepy. What should be done in such a situation?
I've been thinking about it because a few years ago I was adjacent to an issue with a couple of actors. Bottom line, they didn't get along. It was a male/female pair in a Shakespeare play. The characters wind up together at the end of the show but they are secondary characters and only have 2 scenes together. The female actor was creeped out by the male actor, but even from her report, what he actually said to her did not cross any lines. That's not even fair, what he actually said to her, as reported to me, was completely fine, it's the way actors discuss scenes together all the time. When she expressed discomfort, the production dealt with the issue immediately. Alas, there were multiple complaints. Each one was addressed and each time the male actor changed his behavior. By the time of the last request - to restage the show so that the actors would not be standing on the same side of the stage - the male actor was no longer speaking to the female actor at all except on stage. The show had already been restaged so that the two actors did not touch each other - original staging included a handshake and a hug. The male actor is someone I had worked with before, although I had never played a character romantically paired with him, I had acted in scenes with him multiple times so I was called to give an opinion on the situation. My report was that the actor was perhaps irresponsibly klutzy - I had to remind him many times that he needed to put his arm over my shoulder in such a way that he would not get fake blood on my costume - and that he was often seemingly out of step with those around him, and perhaps, IMHO, neuro atypical, but I'd never gotten a harassing or creepy vibe from him. Still, I should not have had to tell him more than once not to bleed on me, so I am not completely championing him. Respect for your fellow actors is job one and allowing yourself to be klutzy with a fellow actor onstage is showing a lack of respect. Unfortunately, the relationship between these two actors was broken beyond repair and the show was suffering. Ultimately, the female actor was replaced. She was still paid the full amount of her contract but another actor was brought in, on book, for the last 4 performances. I wonder about that decision a lot though. How creepy is too creepy? When does behavior that on paper does not cross a line actually cross a line, and who gets to decide when it does? What about actors that are neuro atypical - should they be prevented from acting because of their inability to interact the same way neuro typical people do? I do not know what the right answer is in this situation. I have learned to try to weed such stuff out in auditions when casting actors who will be romantically paired. You've got to have them touch each other at auditions. Give them time and space to rehearse a scene for a few minutes before you watch them read together, but if two actors cannot get comfortable enough to have some minor physical contact (a hug, handshake, hand on shoulder) in 10 minutes, do not cast them together in a romantic pairing.
I have another actor friend that I have cast multiple times because he is not creepy, at all. He is an extremely nice guy. He just looks creepy. He gets cast as serial killer types fairly often because he completely looks the part. I cast him in short play festivals whenever possible because he is, truly, discriminated against because of how he looks. Several directors see him only as creepy. I feel for him.
Bursitis anyone?