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On 8/2/2022 at 1:03 PM, shadow_operative said:

i do not understand the appeal of ben stiller. his funniest roles were heavyweights and Dodgeball, but everything else he's done pretty mediocre-terrible, especially with him as the lead. the guy just isn't funny when he's not playing a one-note, angry, spastic character. zoolander is just not a funny movie. along came polly has maybe two funny lines the entire movie, both given by PSH. meet the parents/fockers are both essentially devoid of laughs, save the volleyball scene. he's just one of those guys who everyone else agrees is pretty great, but i just don't get it.

One of the worst takes I’ve ever read. Wow. 

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15 minutes ago, Deej said:

You know who the poster is, right? 

Of course. It had all the hallmarks of one of his posts. “I’m going to take a popular opinion and not caveat anything - just tell everyone how dumb they are. I’m gonna stir up controversy because I want to get into an argument, and feign innocence whenever everyone inevitably attacks me.”

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This is an interesting piece on old Hollywood money and nepotism. It tracks with a number of studies that show creative occupations becoming more and more limited to the wealthy. The scale here with Sweeney may be different, but the trend expands beyond Hollywood. 

https://www.vulture.com/article/sydney-sweeney-hollywood-pay-into-it.html

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28 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

This is an interesting piece on old Hollywood money and nepotism. It tracks with a number of studies that show creative occupations becoming more and more limited to the wealthy. The scale here with Sweeney may be different, but the trend expands beyond Hollywood. 

https://www.vulture.com/article/sydney-sweeney-hollywood-pay-into-it.html

Poor Sydney has to keep working because she spends all the money she makes? Uhh, OK.  Just keep showing those tits and you'll get more gigs...

 

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4 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

This is an interesting piece on old Hollywood money and nepotism. It tracks with a number of studies that show creative occupations becoming more and more limited to the wealthy. The scale here with Sweeney may be different, but the trend expands beyond Hollywood. 

https://www.vulture.com/article/sydney-sweeney-hollywood-pay-into-it.html

Pretty good read. I think limitation or barrier to entry is especially true of Hollywood. It's less true for, say, the music industry (although artists get shafted to a similar if not worse degree). I don't think it's really true at all for something like comedy. 

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