Re: Bosworth looked too young to be "Lois"--An overlooked reason


"Lilith" <lilith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 08:32:22 -0500, "Jay Rudin" <rudin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

"*_Host_*" wrote:

I just saw one of the old Superman serials with George Reeves. In one
scene,
Clark and Lois and Jimmy are all leaving. Clark turns to them and says,
"C'mon kids."
I guess Lois and Jimmy were originally "kids".

So now we have to ask the question, Why is Superman robbing the cradle?
Is Supes a perv?

A quick look at Phyllis Coates or Noel Neill shows that he isn't. The
word
"kids" isn't always restricted to minors. I will occasionally use it to
refer to my younger brother and sister (ages 44 and 42). It was used
affectionately about anyone a couple of years younger than the speaker,
just
as a 70 year old man is occasionally called "young fella" in rural New
England.

I think "kids" can also be used in a humorous manner to indicate that
you're looking down on someone as a superior much like a sargeant
might refer to his charges as "girls" as in "Come on, girls, get the
lead out!"

I do remember Reeves using that line and I'm sure he wasn't calling
Lois a kid.

--
Lilith

Well if you watch the old serials Lois and Jimmy do seem to act like
youngsters.
I mean he did call both of them kids, not just Jimmy, and Clark does seem a
lot older.



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