It’s critically important that your boys play field sports.

After all your country ultimately depends on having young men hold position & fight for possession in one muddy field or another.

I recently watched a series on Netflix starring Ted Danson and one on Paramount Plus starring Kathy Bates. Both are in their mid-70’s. Both series were entertaining and worth watching but would have been highly unlikely 25 years ago. People are living longer despite the bad food and bad medical system. What’s wrong with watching talented older actors besides not enough young T&A for your veiwing pleasure?

Here’s the thing though. Actors are beside the point now.

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You can animate a somewhat convincing CGI version of an historical character from existing media. Some clever edits and you get hilarious stuff like this.

Maybe lead actors are becoming older simply because the population itself is aging (due to low fertility rates) and want lead characters like themselves with whom they can empathise.

As for the decline in “onscreen nudity” since 2000, this might reflect the wider availability of porn on the Internet. Back in the 1990s, the pornographic content of some mainstream movies (e.g. ‘Basic Instinct’) was actually part of the appeal for some men. Now that everyone can easily obtain porn on the internet, the appeal of such content has declined.

Both series were entertaining and worth watching but would have been highly unlikely 25 years ago.

Both of those series are unwatchable garbage.

Maybe young actors aren’t as dynamic as Clooney, Joan Collins, Denzel Washington, etc.?

They grew up in the TikTok/Social Media age.

To Hell with Hollywood. I hope Hollywood folds. Sooner the better.

This happens every time the culture turns a corner.

50-60 years ago big stars were ancient because the actors in them were the first generation of the sound era. It gave them longevity. They WERE culture.

Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, all them, were able to work till they dropped. In some cases the men were playing the love interests of women young enough to be their granddaughters. It’s happening again now.

What corner was turned? What was the equivalent of sound in 1975-85?

Probably the 24/7, multi-media binge watching era starting with VHS in the 1980s. Sound made movies addicting and the ability to rewatch at will made them more addicting. Also cable TV.

Before at least video and cable, entertainment was a one-and-done proposition. No one ever imagined rewatching tv shows or most movies. Now it’s expected that a large percentage of viewers want repeat experiences.

It’s also why star salaries went astronomical and jobs in entertainment are so competitive. The new people know they can have a fortune in a few years from a hit tv show. Nothing like it ever happened before.

children are banned from bringing in birthday party invitations lest this upset the children who are not invited

But this is manifestly the correct etiquette and the author is ignorant. If a child wants to invite only his or her friends then they must hand out the invitations outside the school environment. If he or she wants to give out the invitations in class then no one can be excluded.

And it goes without saying that their parents drive them to and from school, often even at secondary school, and, almost unbelievably, accompany them to university open days.

Such could be partly explained via streets being, in truth, more dangerous nowadays compared to Homogeneity’s heyday.

Another reason for older actors and probably a major one is that the ability to look younger as you age, especially if you can afford it, has advanced making it easier and more successful than it used to be. People know how much the sun damages the skin, there are all kinds of serums and herbs and drugs you can use to look younger, better diets, healthier living, and of course plastic surgery has gotten better, and we can’t forget that CGI can improve your looks as well. I mean if you go back to the 1970s and look at 50-year-old actors and look at them today you can see that in general they look younger today.

How about putting that question to Daniel Kahneman or Con-man?

Granted, some of Dutton’s ideas seem rather loopy as well.

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I recall reading Roger Moore deciding it was time to quit playing James Bond when he discovered he was older than the mother of the leading lady (with whom, of course, he was to have a romantic relationship) in a 007 film.

The stronger risk aversion among young people today can be discerned from their typical way of speaking. It’s the main reason for “uptalk” — ending sentences with a rising inflection. (“I wish I could afford a Tesla?” “I’d like my eggs scrambled please?” “Take exit 37, it saves a little time I think?”

Uptalk implies the speaker doesn’t want to sound too committed. Someone else might have a different opinion and be offended! Best to signal that you’re not sure, it’s just your two cents worth, you’re ready to change your mind if contradicted.

I swear that in general young guys speak in a higher pitched voice than those of my generation did and do. It’s a quasi-female thing, hoping to convince the women who are so much in authority these days that the guys don’t have a toxic masculine bone in their body.

Risk shouldn’t be taken for its own sake, but automatically ruling it out is limiting what it means to be mature.

Maybe people are maturing later these days and young actors in their 20’s come across as being weak punks, nobody worth watching. Of course, it can get ridiculous the other way around when actors over 70 are trying to play tough guy action roles. At any rate most stuff produced is predictable, formulaic and just a snooze.

Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, all them, were able to work till they dropped

That’s probably because they dropped at 60, 59 and 58, respectively,

If he or she wants to give out the invitations in class then no one can be excluded.

Pretty sure they get handed out during recess/lunch. Although this technically takes place “inside the school environment”, it should no more require you to invite everyone than any other playground activity.

I have zero interest in what cast a spell Hollywood are up to.
Here is my 2c worth, could it be that they capitalize on the stars (folk heroes) that have already proven to be box office draws, and simultaneously appeal to the very strong sentimentality of the average American.
Bring back Jimmy Dean and Marilyn Monroe, golly how old would they be now.

No, this is not a new trend. Hollywood often goes with bankable stars when it makes good sense. But they all have a “best by” date. More common is the Gidget-geezer casting with the male star being 2 or 3 decades older than the much younger lovely actress.
Woody Allen’s later film were notorious for Woody shoehorning himself into the romance with a younger lady.

Hell, Stallone is pushing 80 and still trying to play a tough guy. 🤣🤣🤣
Both my grandfathers didn’t make it to 80 and my father only made it to 82. Women live longer on average. Hell, I will settle for 70-75 at most. Who wants to live to 90 especially given the world we exist in sucks arse. IF you haven’t done anything before fitty, it taint going to happen or get better with age, and you can take that to the bank.

Cue: Theme From Baretta by Sammy Davis Jr.

How about old 1970s and 1980s rockers still touring, hell, The Stoooones are from the 1960s, the Glimmer Twins Mick and Keef are both octogenarians.

Cue: Going To A Go-Go (cover) by The Rolling Stoooooones

Joan Collins? She’s 91 freakin’ years old. What has she been in since playing that slut on Dynasty 35 years ago? Maybe she could still play Clooney’s and Denzel’s mother in a movie, one father white and the other one black.

Probably from too much booze and too much smoking.

People want to see attractive white lead actors. Increasingly over the past decade or so, Hollywood casting directors dare not hire any new white talent. The compromise has been to use the existing white actor pool, which of course is aging.

What if said boy runs out of gas quickly and has delicate wrists.

Quite possibly. But the attractive white lead actors you mention have to fit within the small body/large head criteria. Hollywood Jews like to present asymmetrical actors because it causes distress in white populations.

They’re not trying to convince anybody. There’s too much estrogen in the water.

I don’t know about the thesis.

How comes I see so many teeny-bopper movies everywhere?

Somebody isn’t counting right.

I agree. Most of their stuff today is drek. Unlike the much older stuff from 40-50 years ago and before.

Yeah but Steven Tyler has called it quits at 77 years.

Do young people watch TV and movies as much as they did in the past?

Established actors are lower risk. The “farm” of young talent probably doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m going to take a wild stab and say it has nothing to do with dysgenics caused by too many children surviving childhood disease, and nothing to do with the outcome of sexual selection over the past few decades either.

Those who suggest it might, are fucking nutjobs. There’s no reason to read the article or watch the video.

Joan Collins is no joke. She’s still around.

Since 1989, she has been in:

… [The risk-aversion impulse] also helps us to understand why onscreen nudity has decreased by 40% since the year 2000. Females are more influential and, in general, it’s only young and un-established actresses that are prepared to do nude scenes. Unlike older women, they are body-confident and, unlike established actresses, they are under greater pressure to be cooperative.

Hollywood continues to flood the world with Jew propaganda, yet what seems to most concern Dutton is a shortage of fresh T & A. The words warped and shallow come unbidden to mind.

It must be difficult to sit down with that giant stick up your ass. All television is unwatchable garbage if you think you’re so much smarter than the people who create and produce the shows. I have to give credit to 75 year olds that can still do the work, even if it’s garbage.

That’s probably because they dropped at 60, 59 and 58, respectively,

Smokers all — Clark Gable, 4 packs, 80 cigarettes/day.

Humphery Bogart is probably the same as Gable but add a (minimum) bottle of whiskey daily.

Gary Cooper also had much tobacco which blessed him with ulcers in the days before the Purple Pill and antibiotics if you had H—Pylori in your gut. Nobody knew how connected this stuff was!

The best scene in the classic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still: Two doctors, perplexed after examining the alien Klaatu, take a break and have a smoke. They thought it was good for nerves! Ah, the good old days.

Joan was always hard-working even prior to making it big as the bitch in Dynasty. She did a lot, really a lot of tv work and movie work in the fifties and sixties (given the fact she was quite hot helped her to get a lot of work too). One of the hardest working yet non-difficult to work with actresses around.

50-60 years ago big stars were ancient because the actors in them were the first generation of the sound era. It gave them longevity. They WERE culture.

Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, all them, were able to work till they dropped.

Uhhh, for one thing, 55 years ago was 1970. 60 years ago was 1965–all of those men you named had been dead for some time by then. And all were dead by age 60 (or less). Denzel Washington, Harrison Ford, Stallone, Mel Gibson, etc etc–all have worked (and lived) much longer than the examples you named.

And the point of the article is still valid. The names that you mentioned, who were “old” in the 1950s, were surrounded in Hollywood back then by younger leading men just coming up–Paul Newman, James Dean, Monty Clift, Rock Hudson, Brando, Bill Holden, etc. etc.—any one of which was young enough to be Gable or Bogie’s son.

Haven’t noticed this trend because I stopped watching Hollyweird productions in the early to mid 80’s. I do think that despite the large differences in their ages, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were perfect for each other.

Movie industry is becoming more risk averse because fewer and fewer people are going to the movies. Movie theaters are going out of business everywhere, accelerated after Covid. From Gen Z to Gen X most of our entertainment has moved to social media: YouTube and TikTok over movies. A 2 hr commitment for a movie increasingly feels like a long time unless it’s really good and worth your time.

Now add increasingly low quality, poorly scripted movies/serials from Netflix & Amazon Prime, with DEI characters – blacks, browns & Asians even in Victorian English movies and fairy tales, it’s like WTH? Many of the younger lead actors are selected for their gender, sexuality, ethnicity rather than good looks, like in the new Star Wars movies which totally killed off the franchise.

Increased immigration from more culturally conservative Asia also accelerated this push towards more wholesome content. It’s why Korean pop music and movies, Chinese/Taiwanese and Japanese anime movies are increasingly popular among Gen Z, because the content is much more wholesome, while Disney which was known for family entertainment has gone full blown perversion with its promotion of LGBTQ mania and teen pop stars who grew up and became known more for risque acts and substance abuse than true talent like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber.

Even the fashion industry has gotten headlines for promoting child sex and abuse of young models. Gen Z is the one generation that’s sick of having sex shoved down their throat with a fire hose since Kindergarten, they are revolting by tuning out all the sex and sexual perversion. It’s all backfiring badly on Hollywood and they still don’t get it. The only people still interested in all the garbage they produce are liberal Gen Xers and Boomers who are still stuck on aging stars they loved in the 80s & 90s like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston. Even the superhero movies are dead. The death of tabloids on supermarket shelves tell us there are no longer Brangelina caliber mega stars from Hollywood anymore. Hollywood’s heyday is over. Thank God. They engineered their own demise with their ultra left wing politics and debauchery, hastened by Covid.

Two doctors, perplexed after examining the alien Klaatu, take a break and have a smoke. They thought it was good for nerves!

I hope that the brand they were smoking was either Viceroy – “A thinking man’s filter, a smoking man’s taste.” – or Camel – “Surveys show [that] more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.”

[wink]

Thank you for this salient reminder of the price stars often paid for living the high life in Hollywood. Errol Flynn could also be added to your list of premature burnouts. When he died at fifty, he might easily have been taken for a hard-drinking eighty-five-year-old.

I think the reduction in nudity is more explained by internet porn and trying to lower the age rating to get a wider audience.

Possibly more women in production too. (For legal DIE reasons)

Most modern “content” is garbage, but I recall reading somewhere that “80% of everything produced is shit”–and that was 30 or 40 years ago. Fortunately, there is still plenty of art, film, and literature I have not yet “consumed”. Every time I pick up Crime and Punishment, I get sidetracked. And I have not reread Huckleberry Finn as an adult. The French film Rififi (1955) includes a ten-minute scene of a break-in that is completely silent. So, lots of cool stuff left out there if black-and-white films with subtitles aren’t a blocker for you.

The problem is parents are thick, and there will always be one boy or girl who is backward or socially undesirable, and they will be the only one left out.

Flynn was an honest man though

In his autobiography he said it was too bad Prohibition didn’t work out, he might have spent more time sober.

That sort of cold self-assessment is rare in any era.

It may also be a matter of more risk-averse audiences.

People used to just go to the movies. Try something; if it was a dog, you were out fifty cents — and what else were you planning to do that night? Plus, double features meant ‘B’ movies could always turn out to be a pleasant surprise.

Even — say — thirty years ago, I can remember catching films this way. Sheer luck…I literally saw Earth Girls are Easy by accident.

Would that happen now? No…too much money, too many alternatives at home, and too many turkeys out there. So if it’s Clint Eastwood’s latest…okay. Something or somebody I never heard of? No way.

We talked about seeing the Dylan movie, but the nearest indoor theater is a 45+ minute drive. Our local is, get this – “Hwy. 21 Drive-In”.

As both Parris Island & a Marine AFB are close by, makes sense for a movie date.

We had business up in Charleston two years ago. Took in “Cocaine Bear” and loved it. Last theater movie we’ve seen.

But do watch Noir Alley at 10AM Sunday on TCM every week. Yes, 70-80 year old B&W classics.

Quite. Many younger American actors looked like weedy, slovenly hipsters; casting such estrogen-addled specimens in military/war movies would be laughable. In turn-of-this-century movies like Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers, a number of British actors were cast in supporting roles, and Damien Lewis secured the pivotal role in the latter production. Some, like Leonardo Di Caprio, are pushing or past 50 and still appear to be too soft-featured for many roles, particularly historical characters (his voice certainly won’t make people forget Burton or Gielgud). Also, many actors on the cusp of geezerhood probably aren’t into drugs or booze like some of the tragic actors of yore, so a George Clooney or similarly notable actor can pull off the role of a mature but middle-aged character. Of course, actors’ longevity can be related to Hollywood’s risk-averseness, but the money makers can be used to cross-subsidize their woke, virtuous “message” movies that are likely to tank at the box office.

That’s not the reason at all. What’s porn got to do with regular movies not having any nudity in them? I think the real problem is CENSORSHIP. That’s what you are clearly overlooking. For decades the piss ass GOV have been trying to censor everything. Violent video games, certain lyrics in music, it goes on and on.

Well they are wrong if they believed everything was shit 30 or 40 years ago, because at least the 70s, 80s, and 90s all had some very good movies. The early 2000s wasn’t so bad either. But the question as to why are all the lead actors so old is because the lead actors who were once famous before are still famous today. A lot of these actors been around for a really long time, some of them were acting even before I was born. And finding new talent to replace a lot of them is tough. No one else can play The Terminator better than Arnold himself, or Freddy Kruegar than the original actor of that character that retired.

FWIW, the main “Bond Girl” in Moore’s last Bond film, “A View to a Kill” (1985), Tanya Roberts, was 22 years younger than he. In one he did four years earlier, “For Your Eyes Only” (1981), one of the “Bond Girls” with lesser screen time was the then-young lady playing a precious figure skater, Lynn-Holly Johnston, THIRTY years younger than Moore. In a somewhat funny scene, Ms. Johnston sneaks into Moore’s suite at an Italian Alps ski resort, peels off her clothes, and hops into 007’s bed, making the overt play. As the character is ambiguously a minor (Miss Johnston was then 24), 007 does display some standards, and gently admonishes the girl to simply get dressed, and he’d buy her an ice cream cone.

Michael Rennie (Klaatu) was a heavy smoker who died of lung cancer.

Another explanation: young people are plagued with anxiety thanks to the brain damage caused by the expanded childhood vaccine schedule, the garbage diet they consume, and the microplastic pollution of their tissues. Pervasive anxiety is the one marked psychological characteristic of the under 35 demographic compared to us old folks.

Still, John Wayne menaged to live to 72, James Stewart lived to 89 and Cary Grant lived to 82.

Why Are Hollywood Lead Actors Getting Older?

Isn’t everybody?

Yup, we old farts sure fucked them up.

A thought-provoking article indeed. The author did, however, neglect to call attention to some obvious points 1. Kate Winslett looks like a man. 2. Women in the movies in general appear less feminine than they once did.

Women in the movies in general appear less feminine than they once did.

There’s a good reason for that.

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Beauty.

I think it is more likely that

1) Hollywood doesn’t create stars anymore. This is partly because the market is more fragmented but also, Hollywood is looking to the future, they don’t need people to be stars to make big movies. Once people become stars, they start to have power and that is a liability to the operation (especially in the social media age). And dont underestimate what they will do with AI versions of famous actors once they are dead – thus its in Hollywood’s interests to keep wheeling out old actors to keep their flame alive before they hit the AI switch.

2) The audience is older. Younger audiences would rather watch tiktok or youtube. Thus older audiences want to see their experiences reflected more on screen. Thus older actors.

3) This is just speculation, but if women have power making decisions about who gets cast, they naturally want to remove their biological competition, which means removing younger women.

He is the oldest Bond. By which I mean oldest at the point of assuming the role.

5) Boomers want to live forever and have destroyed the future for their children. And any time you bring this up, boomers get defensive.

Im not sure if Elon Musk is controlled opposition or not probably he is. I believe in flath earth.

But if he is a genuine supporter of Western Civilisation he should produce some films that can show some truth in history aslong as it is possible. Joseph Kennedy had a film company why not Elon.

Would be fun to see some films were the jews are the bad guys like slaveshipowners and Gulagcommanders. But i dont mind seeing swedish or norwegian bad guys either and especially in films about the vikings that is shown.

The true game behind the scenes of world history are to seldom potrayed.

Then one ofcourse make films with scenarios which isnt precisly true but that can be entertaining. A film were Martin Bormann were an allied and soviet spy in WWII would be interesting. true or not. A true filmcompay shall strike in many directions if a film takes licence with what is known truth they shall clearly mention that in the endings.

Marlon Brando ones said in an interview with Larry King.

Hollywood is run by Jews. It is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity. They should have greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering because they’ve [been] exploited. We have seen the nigger, we’ve seen the greaseball, we have seen the chink, the slit-eyed dangerous Jap. We have seen the wily Filipino. We’ve seen everything, but we never saw the kike, because they know perfectly well that is where you draw the wagons around.

“almost unbelievably, accompany them to university open days”

https://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2009/03/laban-goes-to-college.html

The first change is that I wasn’t the only parent on site – at least a third, maybe more than half of the prospective students were accompanied – in many cases by both Mum and Dad. That just didn’t happen back in the day – you’d no more have wanted your parents on campus with you than your dentist. The generation war seems to have ended – at least as far as the middle classes are concerned. For that’s the other thing that struck me as I sat in the cafeteria – how very middle-class the overwhelming majority of the prospective students seemed – far more so at this former Poly than at my Victorian red-brick alma mater. It does tend to reinforce the theory that the massive expansion of further education (and lowering of standards) has benefited the middle rather than the working classes – although of course it could be that middle-class youth just talk louder.

That’s not to say that there’s no radical counterculture anymore – although there isn’t. The radical counterculture is now mainstream. The student newspaper points out that ‘experimenting with drugs is, for many, an important and natural part of university life’. The ‘Reclaim The Night’ marches against male violence are now mixed-sex – it would have been a brave Yorkshireman in 1977 who attempted to join the women on the streets of Leeds.

Im not sure if Elon Musk is controlled opposition or not probably he is.

But if he is a genuine supporter of Western Civilisation

If he is controlled opposition, why would he be? The operative word in Controlled Opposition is “controlled.”