Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Smoking and Sex [was: too goddam long to quote]
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:29:11 -0800
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Ok, ok: what about the old Rodney Dangerfield response to a woman in the
audience who asked him if he smoked after sex. "I'm not sure, I never
looked," was his reply.

Guy


>Good God, Mark, have you been to a movie in the past five years? Even
>Mickey Mouse is smoking - well, maybe not Mickey, but everyone else is.
>Smoking in movies is so common now that it has become a real problem in
>terms of the campaign to try to convince young people not to smoke.
>Virtually ALL the younger movie stars smoke, on and off screen...
>
>
>
>Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>
>> I raised the issue of a cigarette used in a portrait. In this case a self
>> portrait. Ones image and it's effect on other people.
>> In fashion and portraiture not log ago it was common. A favorite prop.
>>Harry is
>> not Harry with out his cigarette. Now almost unheard of.
>> Same with films. When you see it you go: "Hey look at the cigarette!".
>>
>> Modern WWII PC films are especially funny. You see five people all
>>talking no
>> one with a cigarette and it's 1944. No way. They'd ALL have a cigarette.
>>But now
>> they're all dead. They may have dodged bullets with amazing luck. But
>>not cancer.
>>
>> The glamorous fashion models from those previous decades have all gotten
>> cervical or breast cancer.
>>
>> No we don't want those young people to smoke. We don't want to make cool
>>images
>> of people smoking. That's my opinion.
>>
>> Mark Rabiner
>>
>> Portland, Oregon
>> USA
>>
>> http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
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