Re: General Semantics, classic actresses, and common sense
- From: mebratziujane@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:40:09 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 20, 10:11 am, calvin coolidge <calvincoolidg...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Apr 19, 11:44 pm, mebratziuj...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
One tenet of General Semantics is, "A thing is never the same
twice".
Consider (and not to imply 'objectifying') Shirley MacLaine. Now, I
saw some photos of her recently in one of the tabloids. The old gal is
in pretty good shape for someone her age, but she is not a sexually
attractive woman now. Women her age are not sexually attractive, even
to men their own age. (The reverse is true to some extent, but not so
much, since men and women are different-it's unremarkable when an old
but famous or wealthy man marries or impregnates or is seen with a
much younger woman, but the reverse is strictly man-bites-dog in terms
of news value. It was of considerable scandal for instance when
Margaret Whiting married a gay porn star 22 years her junior, for
instance, and even the marriage of Demi Moore to a stud puppy actor
was much discussed, as was the marriage of Olivia Newton John to
another allegedly horse-hung stud puppy.)
However, see "The Apartment". In this film, a young MacLaine plays a
short haired, pixie-like elevator operator. Believe me, penises in the
movie houses across America went up for her in 1960: she was hot. Her
performance and figure still are remarkably provocative even though-or
perhaps because of-a total lack of overt effort to titillate, a lack
of prurient intent on the filmmakers' part. (Contrast, say, 'Fast
Times at Ridgemont High', the first of a large run of major market
teen poon films made to generate adolescent hard-ons without an X or R
rating to keep the adolescents from buying the tickets in the first
place.)
The film's appeal erotically, and otherwise, has nothing to do with
whether or not MacLaine is still alive or if she lives to 105 and
looks like a shrivelled up mummy or if she had died in 1963. What is
there is there.
The same is true of Ava Gardner, Claudia Cardinale, Maria Schneider,
Pier Angeli, and a dozen others. It's true of Veronica Lake and
Elenaor Powell (who had, it has to be said, a truly fantastic ass).
It's true of Hedy Lamarr and dozens of other actresses.
If you're obsessing over something that doesn't exist anymore, it's
necrophilia. It doesn't matter if it's a whole human being or a truly
fantastic ass. I love it that I have you so riled up about this.
In that instance, vinyl is necrophilia. There's no evidence anyone is
ever going to make new record pressing machines, recording lathes, or
cutter heads-when the current stock is gone, they're gone. And sadly
that may be true of tubes too, because when the CRT finally completely
goes away so will the cathode chemistry, and the smallest tube
feasible to build will be on the order of a 4CX250B. And for that
matter CD's could go away in a surprisingly short time too. (Ever try
to find a 5 1/4 floppy drive lately? )
And the coming inevitable silver prices-gold is too rare to fully
monetize Western corrency, so silver will come back as politicians
Zimbabwify the US Dollar-will surely spell an end to what's left of
film photography-and to millions of old photos and negatives for the
silver content.
When you get down to it, to a first approximation, we're all dead
already.
Bon appetit.
.
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