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""Things We Lost in the Fire""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve --

Great review. Except in no way is Duchovny like Bronson. Bronson had a strong, masculine, working-class presence.

Because that is who Bronson was. Son of a poor Polish coal miner in Western PA, he few WWII bombing missions over Japan in B-29's.

Duchovny is from a middle class Brooklyn family, undergraduate degree from Princeton and a Master's in Literature at Yale.

Duchovny is very good at playing upper class East Coast yuppies, but could not play a tough working man to save his life.

You're right in that both Bronson and Duchovny have/had limited range, but within his range Bronson was superb. Particularly now that no actor can convincingly play a man as opposed to a metrosexual. Del Toro play anything other than the ugly guy? Hah.

Evil Neocon

10/19/07, 12:23 PM

Anonymous daveg said...

Halle is "porno," with all sorts of gasps and other flirty titillations.

Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.

I don't think she can do "normal," but normal is probably the hardest thing to do when it comes to acting.

10/19/07, 2:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daveg -- probably right on normal being hard for actors/actresses. Considering that in their circles, a guy/gal/whatever like Larry/Lara Wachowski (post-sex change) is considered "normal."

Hollywood really is a freakshow. Goldberg has a column on it in NRO Online, his point that the freakshow used to be kept under wraps because it was bad for business and now is on display 24/7 is well taken. Along with that behavior being a bad model for those not wealthy and priviliged.

Evil Neocon

10/19/07, 3:18 PM

Anonymous Riot Nrrd said...

It is said (by no less then Richard Ben Cramer) that when a baseball scout was sent to evaluate Lefty Gomez, he was favorably impressed by the man's playing ability. However, he refused to commit to anything until he's "talked to him in the shower room". He really wanted to "check him out", not because he had a sexual interest in men, but because he had preconceived notions that there was a correspondence between a man's male endowment and his playing abilities. He then told the minor league team that he was declining to sign Gomez because no one with that large a member could properly play the position.

Duchovny's acting gives credence to a similar theory about bejingled men having certain theatrical linitations.

10/20/07, 4:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh riot nrrd now you are just being mean . . ;)
And I think Jude Law robs any credence to that.

10/22/07, 8:50 AM

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