09-25-2022, 10:48 PM
(09-24-2022, 09:52 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-24-2022, 09:22 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: "Nurse Ratched" (Louise Fletcher) can no longer dispense meds to inmates at the "Cuckoo's Nest".
She was mean in that movie. But on Perry Mason she played two very pleasant innocent clients.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Fletcher
Actors often play characters very dissimilar to themselves. If you were cast for a Western and you were not a "pretty boy", you were likely to play an outlaw. Were I a screen actor I would likely be cast often as a Nazi because I look the part even if my cultural and political values are decidedly anti-Nazi. Had my type been available or a Perry Mason drama, I would be the sort of witness who set up the frame job, lies on the stand on behalf of the prosecutor and goes into a rage as Perry Mason ripped my character as soon as I got tripped up in a lie while his client behaves himself or herself. Young, I had the sort of hair that women would kill for and would be a 'pretty boy' in a Western, but once I grayed I would be the corrupt businessman and then the more ambiguous bad guy. I'd need a brogue to play an Irish gangster (the only sort of gangster that I could resemble), but I would do it.
Figure that most actors are literate people well refined in education, and they often play illiterate characters if in the Wild West. Illiteracy was commonplace in the Old West, and just about anyone with unskilled or marginally-skilled work such as a miner or cow-hand was likely illiterate or nearly so. The attorneys, bankers, physicians, schoolteachers, newspapermen, lawmen, and surveyors (there had to be lots of those to determine who where the property lines would be) were literate. Reality is that if one wasn't in a job requiring literacy, one probably lacked it. Pretending otherwise would be foolish.
Quote:Sad to hear about that reporter Mr. German. I guess I heard about this on the news. Some people like to put down journalists today. We need them, as you say. The "MSM" is frequently attacked by those who prefer made-up stories to the truth. A shame for a murder like this to happen in our country.
I hate people who do violence toward news reporters or camera crews. Some who have gotten sentenced for the Capitol Putsch were those who attacked reporters and camera crews. Somehow I think the First Amendment, and not the Second, makes the other enumerated rights meaningful. I'm not saying that journalists are saints, but they deserve our respect when they do their jobs and meet foul play.
The alternative to a free press is not so much propaganda but instead rumors that nobody can either confirm or deny.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.