Hollywood Casting Lies

One of my pet peeves is Hollywood casting where they cast actors who are well  beyond their teenage years as teenagers. What? There aren't any teenage actors?

Present I'm watching the Netflix series "You" which is about a serial killer. Of course it's ridiculous but it is entertaining. "Black comedy" is I think what they call it. 

I'm watching Season 3 now where they introduced a new character. The character's name is "Theo" and he is supposedly the teenage (19 years old) son of the next door neighbor of "Love Quinn", a married woman with a small baby and the wife of serial killer Joe Goldberg. She's supposed to be the "older" woman that "teenage" Theo is attracted to. Even though the actor who plays "Theo" has his hair combed bang style and wears a hoodie,  I immediately wasn't buying him being a teenager. So I did a little research and sure enough he is the actor Dylan Arnold, who is 29 years old! The actress Victoria Pedretti plays the character "Love Quinn." She is supposed to be the "older woman" who "teenager" Theo is attracted to. In real life she is a YEAR YOUNGER THAN DYLAND ARNOLD. She is 28 years old!What the fuck Hollywood casting director? Who do  you think you're kidding? 

I watch a lot of movies and this is one Hollywood "trick" that has always bothered me, casting older men as teenagers. "Theo" is no more a teenager than I am and God knows I'm a long way from being a teenager. Maybe in my next life.

These Hollywood casting directors think they are so clever by casting older actors as teenagers. This is one viewer who isn't buying the deception. Besides, the actor who is playing "Theo" isn't even likable. He's creepy. This must be one of those "Timothee' Chalamet" force feeds. Apparently some producer, man or woman, has the hots for them and assumes we, as the Great Unwashed, will buy their deceit.

This dude is 27 years old but tassel the hair and presto! Timothee' is a teenager!

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

President Obama made a promise during the election that the ridiculous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy would be discontinued.  Just recently he said, "It will happen this session of Congress."  Well, it isn't going to happen.  The repeal of the DADT bill isn't even going to come up for debate, much less be repealed.

When President Clinton was running for president he promised to lift the policy of banning gays from the military.  When he encountered opposition, he caved.  Thus resulting in the absurd "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which has resulted in ruining thousands of careers of dedicated gay men and women who only want to serve their country.  When Clinton caved, that's when I stopped listening to him.  I never believed anything he said since.  I still don't to this day.

I believed Obama when he was running for president and said he represented "Change we can believe in." Well, I believed.  Now that Obama and the Democrats are in power, I see that they are doing the same thing Clinton and the Democrats did back fourteen years ago.  They took the gay and lesbian vote for granted.  They assume gays like me have no where else to go.  In a way they're right, I would never.....NEVER vote for any of the Republicans today as long as they remain in lockstep to destroy the Obama presidency. 

What I can do is not make any more contributions to the Democratic Party.  And, for the first time since1964, I will probably not vote.  Ironically I cast my first vote for Barry Goldwater.  Back then I was a Republican when a Republican had real values.  Ever since the Republican Convention in Houston where Pat Buchanan drummed out of the party gays like me, I left the Republican Party.  Those cheering white folk who approved of Buchanan's hate filled diatribe reminded me too much of the Good Germans who cheered and gave the Nazi salute to Hitler at the height of his power.

No, I'm not going to be the Charlie Brown to the Lucy Democratic Party anymore.  Bye.