Friday, April 25, 2008

Baby Mama

Hollywood and Television hate old ladies. They also sorta hate old dudes too, but mostly old ladies. In many instances of casting parental and childrenical roles, the parental figure is too young to have even sired (what’s the female word for that, seared?) the offspring in question.
I could not find accurate info on my keynote example The Karate Kid, because the actress plying Daniel la Russo’s mother refused to admit her age.

Here we go:



Frasier:
The dad from Say Anything was old enough to be Ione Skye’s dad, but just barely old enough to be Frasier’s dad on Frasier. He is only fifteen years older in real life, meaning he would been getting his teen bone on early and often with repercussions. Frasier’s mom is dead or something in the show.

Trivia 1: Frasier also played a guy named Frasier on the hit show “Cheers”
Talk about typecasting!
Trivia 2: Say Anything dad did not become lame in between Say Anything and Frasier, he was acting!
Trivia 3: I want to have sex with Ros’s voice, but not the actress who played her. Science, get on this and invent something!



Manchurian Candidate:
Laurence Harvey was only two years younger than his on screen mom Angela Lansbury.

Trivia 1: Having a kid when you’re two would be gross bonin’ for her, especially when you add in the 9 months for gestating.
Trivia 2: I unofficially think Angela was totally hot because she looks a lot like my grandma. That would be gross bonin’ for me.



Forest Gump:
Sally Fields is only ten years older than Tom Hanks.

Trivia 1: This movie sucked.
Trivia 2: Sally Fields might have played a role where she boned Tom Hanks. They were in a movie called Punchline and I never saw it but I think they might have boned in it.



Webster:
In a show that blatantly ripped off the premise of Diff’rn’t S’trokes, Webster was about a young africanised American boy adopted by a white family. The only difference is Mrs. Garret was the maid in one, and then George Popadopilis treated Ma’am like a maid. Other than that, same damn thing. Except for no Gooch.
The “child” actor who portrayed Webster in the show’s first 3 seasons was really twenty seven year old genetic freak Emannuel Day Lewis, while George Popadopilis was played by recently retired Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Karras who had been forced out of the NFL the year before with chronic knee injuries at the age of twentysix.
Trivia 1: The final two seasons of Webster were straight to syndication and Webster was portrayed by an animatronic model built by Jim Henson Productions.



Honorable Mention:
Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, the actress who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen dad, Crispin Glover. But this movie is about Time Travel, and that’s messed up so it might not count.
Trivi 1: Futureboy is three years older than Chase, but Chase still calls him "a good kid".

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3 Comments:

Blogger scrooner said...

Nice. You disappear for a while, and return to post a couple of masterpieces. Sabbatical?

2:54 PM  
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9:06 PM  
Blogger ajparrillo said...

I was just watching The Karate Kid and noticed something I never had before...Kaniel-san is one bouncy mug. He has that same disease that Kyle has, where their heals rarely touch the ground when they walk. Paint the fence, Kyle...I think you were in my sister's Tigerbeat mag.

9:09 PM  

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