Re: RARA-AVIS: Two Very Different Joes

From: Mark R. Harris ( brokerharris@gmail.com)
Date: 24 Jun 2008


Jack Lord's McGarrett in Hawaii Five-O is pretty alpha, I think. His personal and sexual life is not stressed, in keeping with the general tenor of the series, but he's certainly not asexual; the ladies look at him and he looks back.

Mark

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Kevin Burton Smith < kvnsmith@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:55 PM, rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com<rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>wrote:
>
> > Kevin,
> >
> > Re your question below:
> >
> > > And has there ever been a male on TV so alpha as
> > > Joe Mannix?
> >
> > Yeah. Joe Friday.
>
> Oh please. I meant a normal, sexually active, fully developed alpha
> male with emotions and everything (Everyone knows what Joe and Peggy
> did during commercials, right?)
>
> Square-peg-in-a-square-world Joe Friday seemed more like an emotional
> (and possibly sexual) eunuch to me. How he ever managed to have such a
> hot daughter as Max Collins' Ms. Tree is beyond me...
>
> Friday often came across more like a stern, slightly ticked-off priest
> to me than a cop, less interested in living in the world right as in
> hiding behind the rules. But maybe DRAGNET's another show I should re-
> investigate.
>
> It's been years, and the remakes, I'm sure, do the original no
> favours. I don't know what was worse -- 45-year old bit players in
> wigs playing "hippies" or the MARRIED WITH CHILDREN guy trying to
> solve murders by grimacing a lot.
>
> Kevin
>
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