fat guys I look like
After getting the first big batch of reviews re: my naked face on Thursday night, it's been decided that I don't look so much like Fred Flinstone as I do Dylan Thomas, although I don't have his weird nose. Actually, I'm shooting for Bob Hoskins in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY. Bob Hoskins is the patron saint of big-hairy-dudes-who-like-women everywhere. The man's just as furry as anyone at the Cuff.
You ever notice how fat hairy guys - James Gandolfini, Bob Hoskins, John Goodman - are either given roles as complete buffoons or gangsters and thugs? Seriously; check out every Cohen Brothers movie and every gangster flick. And we're disposable, too. Al Pacino/Michael Coreleone gets to be Godfather, but Luca Brasi, poor socially inept but loyal, and fat, schmuck, sleeps with the fishes. And don't even get me started on Big Pussy. (I can't even type that without smiling.) And again, look at Hoskins's more recent roles, like WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT and, uh ... the Pope?
However, you'll note that Harold Shand and Tony Soprano seem to have no trouble attracting women (or at least Helen Mirren and Lorraine Bracco, not ones to sneeze at). I attribute it to being snappy dressers - although I wouldn't necessarily call Tony's ubiquitous bathrobe "snappy". That reminds me of the best advice I've ever gotten re: attracting women: "you have to LOOK nice, you have to SMELL nice, and you have to BE nice". I heard this from an elderly black man who came regularly in to the Kinko's where a roommate of mine was working; this was in the early nineties back in Memphis. He (the old guy, not my roommate) was always in a clean, pressed suit, complete with vest, tie, and hat, and one day he came in wearing honest-to-God spats. You got the impression the man knew whereof he spoke.
Many thanks to low_control for drooling over Tony Soprano on her LJ and making me feel better about my babyface and inspiring this post.
You ever notice how fat hairy guys - James Gandolfini, Bob Hoskins, John Goodman - are either given roles as complete buffoons or gangsters and thugs? Seriously; check out every Cohen Brothers movie and every gangster flick. And we're disposable, too. Al Pacino/Michael Coreleone gets to be Godfather, but Luca Brasi, poor socially inept but loyal, and fat, schmuck, sleeps with the fishes. And don't even get me started on Big Pussy. (I can't even type that without smiling.) And again, look at Hoskins's more recent roles, like WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT and, uh ... the Pope?
However, you'll note that Harold Shand and Tony Soprano seem to have no trouble attracting women (or at least Helen Mirren and Lorraine Bracco, not ones to sneeze at). I attribute it to being snappy dressers - although I wouldn't necessarily call Tony's ubiquitous bathrobe "snappy". That reminds me of the best advice I've ever gotten re: attracting women: "you have to LOOK nice, you have to SMELL nice, and you have to BE nice". I heard this from an elderly black man who came regularly in to the Kinko's where a roommate of mine was working; this was in the early nineties back in Memphis. He (the old guy, not my roommate) was always in a clean, pressed suit, complete with vest, tie, and hat, and one day he came in wearing honest-to-God spats. You got the impression the man knew whereof he spoke.
Many thanks to low_control for drooling over Tony Soprano on her LJ and making me feel better about my babyface and inspiring this post.