----- Original Message ----- From: Iain Coleman ijc@bas.ac.uk
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Fiona Moore wrote:
< but the media does tend to try and steer our tastes into convenient marketing trends with respect to popular celebrities.
'Steering
the crush', if you will. >
Well, yes and no. The success of Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg etc. suggest that sometimes it's the other way around.
Would this be the same Patrick Stewart who was cast as the irresistably sexy (and sexually manipulative) Sejanus in 'I, Claudius'?
Oh, he was wonderful-- but somehow I rather doubt the Beeb were promoting "I Claudius" as a source of sexual fantasy :). By the time Stewart entered the studio-marketing system which Leah was talking about, he was in his late forties and it was in fact Jonathan Frakes whom the studio seemed to be promoting as the new heartthrob. It seemed to be as much a surprise to Paramount as to Patrick Stewart that the young guy (even after the beard) got sidelined and Stewart wound up as "Sexiest Man of the Year."
Likewise with Whoopi Goldberg-- very capable of playing sexy, but marketed for the longest time as a goofy-chick type.
ObB7... sigh. Well, whatever the charms of its actors, it wasn't marketed as a soap or a source of sexual fantasy. And, looking through the promo material I've got relating to the video releases, reruns etc... it still isn't.
Fiona
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