Hollywood Bores
Here is an interesting review of Judd Apatow's latest: KatrinaOnstadSays"Enuff,Already"
I've said it before but it bears repeating: The women in these movies get short shrift. There seems to be a nicely democratic division of jokes amongst the guys, and the ladies are tossed the leftovers.
But I have a question: If Hollywood is supposed to be so liberal, why all the stereotyping of women as appendages to men? For that matter, why don't openly gay actors ever get the leading man role - EVEN WHEN IT'S A GAY LEADING ROLE?!
"Ooh, thank Gawd we found a straight actor to play this gay cowboy!"
But the fact that women are so nowhere in Hollywood explains why television shows like 30 Rock and Weeds do so well on DVD, I guess. Women don't have to suffer through lines like this from every Matt Damon etc movie: "What's happening to you?" when he comes home to her waiting daily question from his job at the spy agency.
Blech. Thank Gawd for the 1940s, is all I can say.
