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In response to "yep. -- nm" by kelly

he was a ridiculously good looking young man

Posted by chuckles (aka chris) Jul 18 '10, 20:44

i have no idea why young "stars" of today don't have the same presence or "weight" as those during the Golden Age.

genetically speaking, there have to be young men and women out there who look similar to Peppard, Hepburn, Cary, Bergman etc.

but instead we get androgynous metrosexuals like Zach Efron and creepy pre-plastic surgery freaks like Vanessa Hudgens

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I've seen the movie *so* many times, so this isn't exactly a new revelation. - kelly Jul 18, 20:48 1
- I have the same reaction to young Brando. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:52
he aged pretty nice, too, unlike Brando. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:45 21
- The big revalation to me was Orson Welles in The Third Man. ROWR. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 20:49 20
  - oh hell yes. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:52 2
    - It's one of the best screen entrances ever. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 20:55 1
      - yes, and HELL YES. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:57
  - i cry when i think of how much he accomplished before he was 30 - chuckles Jul 18, 20:51 16
    - I don't know much about Welles. - kelly Jul 18, 20:57 9
      - he was a wunderkind from the New York theater, did War of the Worlds on the radio, and RKO gave him the keys to the film kingdom to make "Citizen Kane - chuckles Jul 18, 21:04 8
        
        I have seen Citizen Kane. - kelly Jul 18, 21:07 6
        
        "There is a fan. A certain fan. Though she's insane for dissing Kane, TFox thinks she's quite a man. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 21:17 1
        
        *endorses* -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 21:20
        
        it is like Bladerunner, in the sense that you feel like you have seen it before. The thing is, you have seen it before because everyone copied it. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:15 2
        
        and in the sense that both of them were genius visions ahead of their times -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 21:17 1
        
        this. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:20
        
        i try so hard to like you, and then you spew nonsense like this. -- nm - TFox Jul 18, 21:09
        
        (by the time he was 25) -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 21:06
    - Well, there's always Touch of Evil. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 18, 20:54 1
      - i can never get past Mexican Charlton Heston -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 20:56
    - don't think too hard about Lennon and McCartney, then. they'll make your head essplode. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 20:52 3
      - why? they never reached the heights post-beatles that they did as partners but their solo stuff is perfectly fine -- nm - chuckles Jul 18, 20:55 2
        
        but think of the heights they reached before 25. Mind boggling. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:00 1
        
        remember they were two uneducated working class kids from Liverpool. To this day, I think Macca cannot read music. -- nm - loosilu Jul 18, 21:00

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