Comments on: Leading Men

By: Ereshkigal

Ereshkigal — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:20:07 +0000

Ah, but only a quick step away from Clark Gable.

By: pamster

pamster — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:19:39 +0000

There is something to be said for having the courage to be one’s best self in the age of cookie cutter pretty.

By: Bon Mot

Bon Mot — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:10:17 +0000

Well, at least they shaved! We must content ourselves with small favors these days. And who knows–future generations may look back on these gentlemen as paragons of masculine elegance. We think of Clark Gable as embodying suavity, but in his day he was considered faintly ridiculous looking. Those ears!

By: VJ

VJ — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:15:10 +0000

Ah, so very true about the Macy, who is married to a desperate housewife.

But where has the Estevez been?

By: Mimi

Mimi — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:14:07 +0000

I’m with the Zarba and the Norma Desmond. And I’d much rather see Macy with his natural nose than with one a surgeon might give him.

By: Plastic Diadem

Plastic Diadem — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:50:00 +0000

Oh relax. This is the Manolo’s blog! And Macy *has* become a leading man and he’s a fabulous actor. He’s not letting himself be marketed that way and seems to be a genuinely likeable fellow, but unfair jabs and getting hurt that someone makes a HILARIOUS blog joke about how no one is like the Cary Grant is just silly. I’m amazed by people getting bent over expensive witch boots and Manolo commentary.

I agree, the character actor becoming more of the leading man does make the pretty boy more interesting in thinking about The Philadelphia Story and whatnot.

I love Macy but just forwarded this to everyone because it made me laugh so hard.

By: Norma Desmond

Norma Desmond — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:06:24 +0000

In Macy’s case, this is really an unfair jab. He’s never, to my knowledge, made the slightest pretension of being a leading man, so comparing him to Grant is calling him a loser in a race he never entered. If you compared him to, say, Burgess Meredith, I think he’d do quite well, and that’s the race he’s in.

By: Zarba

Zarba — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:33:25 +0000

At least Mr. Macy is properly dressed for the occasion. I hate nothing more than celebs dressing for formal occaions like the homeless person.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:00:21 +0000

Aww, don’t diss William H. Macy. He can’t help that he looks like Howdy Doody.

By: Jesse Somer

Jesse Somer — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:12:00 +0000

Hi Manolo,

I just thought you’d like to know that I wrote about your blog at this post in mine: http://www.blogspoke.com/page/blogspoke/20061026 ‘Blogs help us find out who the ‘real’ people are.’ Tell me what you think. However, you’d probably hate my general shoe-wearing habits (I have 3 pairs: brown casual, brown dress, and black dress)…And, I bought the brown casuals from Zappos.com! Does this make me shoe ‘lowbrow’? The worst part of it is I already had a pair exactly the same-I liked them so much that when they wore out I thought I’d just get a replacement! They’re so comfortable…Is this anathema in the shoe fashion world? Am I totally lost? By the way…they are DC skateboarding shoes…so tough-made to bear the all-too-pervasive concrete. Does the Manolo have any thoughts for me?