Word: typecasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...without cause. Many reviewers have given short shrift to or virtually ignored the political implications of her thesis in order to elaborate on the minimal amount of personal details she chooses to divulge. "All this concern about the private life of public figures simply allows people to typecast," she counters, "and it distracts from what is important...
...movie star. It's a different kind of famous. But people typecast you. They assume I have my views simply because she has hers. In section, people will say, 'You're mom says this in the article we read,' and assume that I think the same way," Ehrenreich says...
...problem with people who keep raising the cry of "racism" is that they would have us see everything in terms of race. They treat minorities as emblems, and everyone as typecast. And in suggesting that a white cannot put himself in the shoes, or soul, of a half-white, or a black, they would impose on us the most stifling form of apartheid, condemning us all to a hopeless rift of mutual incomprehension. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to a litigious nation's equivalent of the tribal vendetta: You did my people wrong, so now I am entitled...