Word: bimbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happen. High-budget action movies will always require a bimbo, a girlfriend. And films with an eye toward Oscar will always need Meryl Streep. But the trend of bigger men in bigger movies will continue as long as the international audience pays to see them. In her one blockbuster of the '80s, Out of Africa, Streep took second billing to Robert Redford. And if industry solons grumble when an Eddie Murphy movie makes only $60 million (Harlem Nights) or $80 million (Another 48 HRS), should they cheer when the Streep- Fisher Postcards hits $40 million...
...emotion and intelligence. Movies were about grownups; the toy-boy heroes stayed in comic books. Maybe audiences were more mature too. These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children (the only age group in which the movies employ more females than males) and the over-40 wasteland, lies the precarious terrain where fine young actresses can do fine work. Just now that acreage is the property of Julia Roberts, currently starring in Sleeping with the Enemy...
...permissible. In the case of racial bigotry, we see this clearly: civilized whites don't tell racist jokes or defend the virulent gabfests on talk radio as harmless spleen venting. Where violence and misogyny are concerned, though, men just don't seem to get it. Give up skin magazines, bimbo jokes, woman-bashing rock and rap? Join women on a march against domestic violence? Get real...