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re: This isn't social work...it's Show Business

Posted by:	Jax 02:32 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to:	re: This isn't social work...it's Show Business - Michael_Portantiere 02:15 pm EDT 08/15/14

You misread me. My point is that a performer's "bad behavior" (by which, in Bacall's case, I only mean not suffering fools, gladly or otherwise)is irrelevant to their stardom. Beyond that, audiences often come to enjoy a performer's persona: Sinatra's tough guy stance, Bacall's edge. Who would you rather see in "Goodbye Charlie," Lauren Bacall or Debbie Reynolds? (Author George Axelrod said he never even saw the film due to the casting.)

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