http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/05/boys-in-the-movies/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/05/boys-in-the-movies/#comment-20686 Zhombre Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:00:44 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/05/boys-in-the-movies/#comment-20686 Yeah, the "boy next door" look has proved perennial but a popular actor like Robert Mitchum never fit that mold and the Fifties saw a crop of tough guy actors like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine and Jack Palance who were gargoyles by comparison with those sensitive types. Might I add a lot of those teen idols and boyish actors of the Forties grew into mature men, like Frank Sinatra -- who had teenage girls swooning a decade before Elvis -- and William Holden ("Golden Boy" in 1939; cynical boss of "The Wild Bunch" 1968). Yeah, the “boy next door” look has proved perennial but a popular actor like Robert Mitchum never fit that mold and the Fifties saw a crop of tough guy actors like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine and Jack Palance who were gargoyles by comparison with those sensitive types. Might I add a lot of those teen idols and boyish actors of the Forties grew into mature men, like Frank Sinatra — who had teenage girls swooning a decade before Elvis — and William Holden (”Golden Boy” in 1939; cynical boss of “The Wild Bunch” 1968).

]]> http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/05/boys-in-the-movies/#comment-20685 Danny Lemieux Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:35:22 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/05/boys-in-the-movies/#comment-20685 No matter the prevailing mores of the day, there will always be many that hold high the flame of manhood and all that for which it stands, above mewing, whining masses of of girly-men. Aarrh! No matter the prevailing mores of the day, there will always be many that hold high the flame of manhood and all that for which it stands, above mewing, whining masses of of girly-men. Aarrh!

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