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Why ARE today's stars so short? Actors were once strapping hunks and muscular specimens.
Daily Mail ^
| 03-19-15
| Quentin Letts
Posted on 03/19/2015 11:06:09 AM PDT by donna
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To: donna
You can "prove" anything if you select your data properly.
That's how global warming became "settled science."
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
To: GoldwaterCountry
Tom Cruise does his some of his own motorcycle and car stunt work. He’s a pretty decent rider/driver/pilot.
I think he drove most of the car scene in Jack Reacher.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:38:50 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: donna
I saw Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise while they were filming Rain Man. I'm 6'1". Hoffman is close to a midget. A really nice guy who sat in a lawn chair outside all day and watched everything. Signed autographs etc. Cruise was a little taller than Hoffman, but still really short, and he spent all of the time he wasn't actually filming in his trailer. Walked from trailer to camera with security guys around him.
That being said... and he being all the things he is... I still generally like his movies.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:38:59 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Resolute Conservative
And, have you noticed, today’s suits give men hourglass figures, lol.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:39:19 AM PDT
by
donna
(Pray for revival.)
To: forgotten man
I saw Schwarzenegger in person as well, and was amazed at how small he was. Close quarters in an elevator. I expected to be intimidated, but he was quite the runt.
Amazed to this day at how the screen image differs.
To: hlmencken3
Liam Neeson - mmmmm
Soooo glad to see him thriving.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:40:30 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: SJSAMPLE
Tom Cruise does his some of his own motorcycle and car stunt work. Hes a pretty decent rider/driver/pilot.
He also performed a good movie version of the Mozambique Drill in Collateral.
To: hlmencken3
More tall and muscular/beefy Brit actors (6’ tall or more): Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Wilkinson, Damian Lewis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Bonneville and Ciaran Hinds.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:41:15 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: heartwood
George Raft, 5’7”. And, hey, if were going way back, John Wilkes Booth was only 5’8”
Muir_redwoods, 6’2” :)
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:41:26 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Just start watching actors and actresses standing together on TV. The men have to look up at the women.
It kills the romance - that's why I notice it.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:42:04 AM PDT
by
donna
(Pray for revival.)
To: muir_redwoods
"How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet?"
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:43:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Psalm 73
I’m tall. 5’9” and I wear 2-3 inch heels when we go somewhere. Today’s stars all seem shrimpy to me. Probably why none of them are attractive to me.
I don’t care for little men. Lol
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:43:17 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: Jonty30
He was very good in Last Samurai but Ken Watanabi was the real star.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:43:35 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: donna
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:44:05 AM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: kjam22
Russell Crowe seems pretty masculine to me, not a metrosexual, but who knows? Same with Mel Gibson..I think they’re on the short side, though..at any rate, they’re talented...
To: Cecily
Funny, for some reason I always think of Damian Lewis as short.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:45:09 AM PDT
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: ansel12
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:45:28 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: RedStateRocker
Dustin Hoffman 5-6 Tom Cruise 5-7 Al Pacino 5-7 Robert DeNiro, ‘the giant’, 5-10
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:45:49 AM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
To: b9
Cruise sure packed a punch as Reacher in the movie. Saw it twice even, liked it so much. Haven't seen his Jack Reacher movies.
did like him in Collateral.
Esp. the scene w/ him in an alley accosted by 3 hoods. His pistol work was ...wow. Watched that scene numerous times.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:45:56 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: needmorePaine
I think he went to Blackwater or another North Carolina training academy. I have the DVD somewhere, and the extras show him training. He’s quite a quick study.
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posted on
03/19/2015 11:46:46 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
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