Word: typecaster
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Lichtenstein has been typecast as "the comic-strip artist," but in fact comic strips take up only an early phase of his work. By 1965 he had stopped basing images on them. He was never to refer to comics again, except now and then by including a parody of one of his own earlier paintings in a parody of an elegant interior -- ah, well, I'm a classic too now, feels funny but that's art-life...
Performers? There's the problem. The issue isn't just being on TV; it's the kind of TV. Panelists on the more flamboyant journalistic talk shows have allowed themselves, for entertainment's sake, to be typecast. Here's the liberal, over there the conservative; here's the wimpy moderate, there the curmudgeonly old vet. They are not asked to analyze the news (as journalists on Washington Week are). In the quest for good ratings, they are required to have and express opinions -- baked, half-baked, and some not even close to the oven -- according to the roles they...
West's interests range far beyond the epistemological conundrums that preoccupy many professional philosophers. Nor is he easy to typecast as a liberal or conservative, black nationalist or integrationist, since he endorses bits and pieces of all those ideas. Instead, this self-styled "intellectual freedom fighter" wields his learning as a polemical sword, slashing at barriers that prevent "ordinary people from living lives of dignity." Says West: "We need intellectual weaponry to find out why people, black and white, are catching the hell they're catching in America and around the world. If we don't have it, and historical...
Audiences typecast actors. They want to see Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone in shirt-off action movies, not button-down comedies. This summer Willis is playing a wreck revived (remember, ahem, The Bonfire of the Vanities?) in Death Becomes Her (July 31), a comedy about Americans' fear of aging. With Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as dueling harridans, the project suggests little appeal to kids. But director Robert Zemeckis promises broad laughs and dazzling special effects to keep everybody awake and amused...
...villainous stereotype may be an endangered species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...