What is the fascination with ugly people in entertainment with the excuse that they can act? Most people are not so good looking either but on the big screen the ugliness is more obvious.
But the bottom line for actors and actresses is their ability to present a character in a believable fashion. That’s their business and the great actors and actresses do it so well that we are able to suspend belief’s because of those skills. Often being good looking is a liability for entertainers as well as in society because people who are good looking are somehow expected to be perfect or at least more perfect than the quotidian but the precise definition of who is good looking and who is not becomes very, very fluid. Most people will often find themselves attracted to the more homely because of their other attributes as well as the human ability to overlook flaws and then to actually like and even love the homely among us. That’s a good thing.
Even the dumb ones are found to have attributes that are useful in presenting a story. That’s also a good thing.
When actors and actresses get political and use the stage or screen to present their opinions they tread on dangerous ground, very, very dangerous ground. People who criticize the president will face strong retaliation or even the most simple type of retaliation, the refusal to pay to see the different opinionated types. That’s a moral response to the different values and different value systems to which the entertainers expose themselves. It’s rather easy for a viewer to change the channel or to not even watch shows where entertainers are awarded for their work. No one wants to watch an awards show that’s a political event which explains why the recent Golden Globes attracted far fewer viewers. Being moral means using judgment and moral people will not watch intellectual opponents even though the venue is supposed to be neutral.
Marlin Brando was one who used the Oscars for personal political purposes, the result of which had little to no effect on his cause. Brando was the second performer to turn down a Best Actor Oscar; the first was George C. Scott, who politely declined to accept his award for Patton in 1971. The awards are very important to the career of those nominated and those who win but there is the law of diminishing returns where the politics have little effect. On major star who went into decline and even became hated as a result of her anti-American visit to the enemy in North Vietnam was Jane Fonda. It turned out the despite her unpopularity she is still worth perhaps $200 million. Darn say some people.
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