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I think Clive Staples should have tried to run his female characters dialog and characterisation past some real women. He must have had lady friends, surely?

"Not sure what the point of the linked screenshot is, nor why you're pointing that out." I just think sexualisation of child actresses is wrong, even in comedies.

Sophie Cook makes a "softer" skinned beautiful Susan compared to Anna Popplewell. She was also fourteen compared to Popplewell's sixteen.

One of the most femininely beautiful and charming child actresses of the 1930s. I've always preferred her to Shirley Temple. And of course Cora Sue has achieved the ultimate revenge over her old rival... she's substantially outlived her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cora_Sue_Collins...

I was watching the election night episode of Blackadder the Third and I noticed the joke that when the "Standing at the Back, Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party" guy is explaining their policies, apart from the abolition of slavery punchline, he DOESN'T qualify that "free corsets for the...

She reached out to an "Evil Empire" and asked a courageous question that the old man in the Kremlin (and the White House) could not answer. http://www.samanthasmith.info/ Here, from the Official Samantha Smith Website you tube channel is a clip from an episode of Lime Street. That blue satin...

Remember when these were shown in prime time and were part of the British culture? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YSKmMkQ7d0

Well, The Curse of Mr Bean off ITunes: Do you think Bean ever goes after those boys who caused him to fall from the diving board? Likewise, I wish i could be a fly on the wall when the parents of the little girl in the yellow swimsuit realise that she's got a pair of men's swim trunks with...

If you were sent to the England of the Narnia Books, how would you go? They did have radio, didn't they? And, recorded music?

My least favourite dystopian stories are those where, for shock value, an "our history" master criminal becomes an alternate history important politician. Such published novels have featured: U.S. President Jim Jones (Jonestown) California Governor Charles Manson Soviet General Secretary of...

Christine "Moose" McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Ross, Barth, Alasdair and the gang. Even in the local Canadian-only Season 1 they danced on the boundaries of what was acceptable - here, courtesy of fansite Barth's Burgery, is a screenshot of the end credits in which, for reasons known only to God, the...

I've heard mothers defend this trend to me as being all about equality and being gender neutral, but let's be honest, they'd name their daughter Tristan but wouldn't name their son Barbara. Thoughts on this issue?

That little girl with the two missing front teeth that had the solo during "Every Sperm is Sacred" would have become a major singer if that had been her real voice!

I came across this ad in my Judith Barsi research. The outfits on Judith and the other girl... evidently Mattel didn't think little girls in trousers could sell baby dolls. What was so wrong with trousers? The blue (the older kid) and sunset (Judith) colored dresses would have been laughed at...

It's interesting to compare how Lewis and Blyton are often criticized today for supposed "sins" in their writing. The black villain Jo-Jo- in The Island of Adventure and the vague and stereotypical depiction of "Africa" in The Secret Mountain in Blyton's case and the depiction of Calormen being...

I'm a fan of Darla Hood... shame she died in her late forties :( RIP angel! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darla_Hood

Can't imagine a boy in the girl's place. Girls present differently to boys, and the cuteness factor would be different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2u24_d2w0

Basing this question on the premise behind "Galaxy Quest" - 'What-if William Shatner commanded the Enterprise' - how would the actors behind our favourite works cope if waking up inside the universe of said work? The female actors who played characters who had what TV Tropes calls "Big Bra to...

Six year old Melissa Lynn singing Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. that song is just creepy coming out of a six year old girl. Melissa also has earrings which don't seem right on a grade one student. the "not checking whether the lyrics are OK when being sung by a child, particularly a...

If a BBC Narnia had been made a decade or so earlier, a circa-1974 Lena Zavaroni would have made a good Lucy Pevensie or Jill Pole. Your ideas?