Sunday, February 24, 2008
Is Audrey Hepburn considered attractive? Because, as an actress, I find her a charming and irresistible screen presence, etc etc, but she looks like a creepy, evil skelletized zombie or something. A charming zombie, sure, but still a zombie.
Anyway, did this one for my K2K. It's a pretty funny, charming, but not great movie that I'm glad I saw. It's also an accidentally fascinating cultural artifact, because Mickey Rooney plays an asian man with giant teeth who has a ridiculously exaggerated accent. The character is already an offensive stereotype, and then having a white man play the role (yellow face?) makes it an unforgettable experience. They still did this kind of shit in the early 60's? Hot damn.
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so, i wikipedia-ed audrey hepburn, and read this:
In 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands. During the Nazi occupation, Hepburn adopted the pseudonym Edda van Heemstra, modifying her mother's documents because an 'English sounding' name was considered dangerous. This was never her legal name. The name Edda was a version of her mother's name Ella[9] By 1944, Hepburn had become a proficient ballerina. She secretly danced for groups of people to collect money for the Dutch resistance. She later said, "the best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance."[10]
After the Allied landing on D-Day, living conditions grew worse. During the Dutch famine over the winter of 1944, the Germans confiscated the Dutch people's limited food and fuel supply for themselves. People starved and froze to death in the streets. Hepburn and many others resorted to making flour out of tulip bulbs to bake cakes and biscuits.[5][11] Arnhem was devastated by Allied artillery fire that was part of Operation Market Garden. Hepburn's uncle and her mother's cousin were shot in front of Hepburn for being part of the Resistance. Hepburn's half-brother Ian van Ufford spent time in a German labour camp. Suffering from malnutrition, Hepburn developed acute anemia, respiratory problems, and oedema.[12]
that makes me feel slightly guilty for finding her unnatractive and, as you said, skeletal-zombie-like.
and further down it said she had to give up her career as a ballet dancer because of the malnutrition she suffered during the war.
yeah dan. good goin'.
you know what? I blame her. Her figure bad example for young girls. It's her fault for living in Nazi occupied territory, knowing one day that she could possibly be a role model for young women and help create a dangerously standard of weight and beauty.
well, that may be, but your blog is a bad example of grammar for easily-influenced young people. and i quote:
"her figure bad example"
"a dangerously standard of weight"
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