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Some reviews
Aug. 3rd, 2003 11:16 pmNot sure why I haven't updated for a few days...I guess it's just because not much is happening at the moment. I'll try to be a little better about it.
( Review of PBS' Skinwalkers )
One thing I've always wondered, though: why is it that Native American and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic actors are typecast? Black actors are no longer really typecast very often; most of them play roles that have no race attached. (Though there are a lot of roles out there that are aimed at black actors - i.e., any role Chris Rock takes.) And while it used to be a serious problem with Hispanic actors as well, with people like J.Lo out there it's becoming less of an issue and more like the choice African-Americans are offered. But Native Americans...looking at the cast of Skinwalkers, very few of them have non-"Indian" roles on their filmography. Even Adam Beach and Alex Rice (who plays Janet Pete), both of whom are major hotties and don't even look all that "Indian", have only been able to play Native American roles. It's sad, really...I mean, they should be able to play more judges and cabdrivers and miscellaneous people, rather than just in "on the rez"-type movies. The moral of this story? Hollywood = teh shallow, and prejudice sucks.
Also, with my birthday money I bought the new Janet Evanovich book, To the Nines (the latest in her Stephanie Plum series). This is one of my favourite mystery series for one major reason: it is impossible to read a Stephanie Plum book without laughing out loud. Repeatedly. (Seriously, I dare you.) The series follows the adventures of Stephanie, a novice bounty hunter from "the Burg", New Jersey, with a knack for getting into trouble. Poor Stephanie is a rather hapless bounty hunter - she keeps her gun in her cookie jar so she doesn't accidentally shoot someone - but she always manages to win through due to her dogged perseverance and the help of her friends. Bodies in trashbags, bulimic dogs, exploding cars, enraged geese - Stephanie's dealt with it all and made it through. Perhaps not without causing wholesale property destruction, but hey, it's all in a day's work, right?
I also like the love triangle in the books between Stephanie, her on-again, off-again cop boyfriend Joe Morelli, and her "skirting the edge of the law" but dangerously sexy co-worker, Ranger. Evanovich is quite good at writing sexual tension. (And FWIW, I favour Ranger. After all, Morelli's always complaining about Stephanie not being a "normal girl," always getting shot at and pursued by criminals. Plus he - with reason - doesn't like her "liberal interpretation" of the law. So he should just go find a nice normal girl and leave Stephanie to Ranger, who appreciates her the way she is.)
Umm...more book reviews to follow, methinks. I've been spending most of my free time reading to distract me from being bored and aimless with nothing to do. ^_____^
( Review of PBS' Skinwalkers )
One thing I've always wondered, though: why is it that Native American and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic actors are typecast? Black actors are no longer really typecast very often; most of them play roles that have no race attached. (Though there are a lot of roles out there that are aimed at black actors - i.e., any role Chris Rock takes.) And while it used to be a serious problem with Hispanic actors as well, with people like J.Lo out there it's becoming less of an issue and more like the choice African-Americans are offered. But Native Americans...looking at the cast of Skinwalkers, very few of them have non-"Indian" roles on their filmography. Even Adam Beach and Alex Rice (who plays Janet Pete), both of whom are major hotties and don't even look all that "Indian", have only been able to play Native American roles. It's sad, really...I mean, they should be able to play more judges and cabdrivers and miscellaneous people, rather than just in "on the rez"-type movies. The moral of this story? Hollywood = teh shallow, and prejudice sucks.
Also, with my birthday money I bought the new Janet Evanovich book, To the Nines (the latest in her Stephanie Plum series). This is one of my favourite mystery series for one major reason: it is impossible to read a Stephanie Plum book without laughing out loud. Repeatedly. (Seriously, I dare you.) The series follows the adventures of Stephanie, a novice bounty hunter from "the Burg", New Jersey, with a knack for getting into trouble. Poor Stephanie is a rather hapless bounty hunter - she keeps her gun in her cookie jar so she doesn't accidentally shoot someone - but she always manages to win through due to her dogged perseverance and the help of her friends. Bodies in trashbags, bulimic dogs, exploding cars, enraged geese - Stephanie's dealt with it all and made it through. Perhaps not without causing wholesale property destruction, but hey, it's all in a day's work, right?
I also like the love triangle in the books between Stephanie, her on-again, off-again cop boyfriend Joe Morelli, and her "skirting the edge of the law" but dangerously sexy co-worker, Ranger. Evanovich is quite good at writing sexual tension. (And FWIW, I favour Ranger. After all, Morelli's always complaining about Stephanie not being a "normal girl," always getting shot at and pursued by criminals. Plus he - with reason - doesn't like her "liberal interpretation" of the law. So he should just go find a nice normal girl and leave Stephanie to Ranger, who appreciates her the way she is.)
Umm...more book reviews to follow, methinks. I've been spending most of my free time reading to distract me from being bored and aimless with nothing to do. ^_____^
