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re: Why were blonde white guys vilified in the 80s?
Posted on 6/4/22 at 9:15 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 6/4/22 at 9:15 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Hell, the backlash could maybe be traced to The Graduate. In the book, Ben is some Troy Donahue surfer type...because that was what sold to teenage girls.
quote:DH shouldn't have been cast, but once Mike Nichols was hired as director it was certain that he would Jewify the character (as he'd done casting George Segal in Virginia Woolf). At one point Nichols was actually considering casting (I kid you not) Charles Grodin.
Hoffman said he didn't think he'd get the role because the studio thought he "was too ethnic looking."
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