Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/ >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html