From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V9 #56 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Sunday, April 4 2004 Volume 09 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Sweetest Illusion ["Paxety Pages" ] Re: Sweetest Illusion ["Barry" ] RE: Sweetest Illusion ["Steve O'Hearn" ] News [Mondony ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 09:46:57 -0500 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: RE: Sweetest Illusion Sorry to get to this so late. The big head theory was created by Merv Griffin - who is a prominent producer of TV shows, although he is best known for his old talk show. I saw him talking about it once years ago. He believes that people with big heads, faces actually, have bigger features so it's easier for an audience in a theater, or a viewer looking at a small TV screen, to see the emotion expressed by the performer. In my TV news career, I got to interview a number of actors and celebrities. I was very surprised at how small so many, particularly the men, actually were. I wonder if there is something in their psychologial makeup that makes them, as smaller people, want to perform as someone larger? juan *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/27/04 at 10:28 AM Steve O'Hearn wrote: >I've found a lot of performers tend to be smaller than they would appear. >Not sure why. The illusion can be from the "big head" theory put out by >SNL >comedian Dana Carvey several years ago, that people with relatively big >heads proportional to their body tend to do much better in performances, >media, TV, etc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of >Desianto F. W. >Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:54 PM >To: basia@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Sweetest Illusion > > > >Yes, Amy, it answered my question and at the same time shocked >me. I never thought that she is only 4' and a few inches, well, let's >say, no more than 5'1" because I am 5'5.5" (not that 555 - >smoothness above all else...) and about 122 pounds (used to be >126 - I lost 4 pounds recently) and I still consider that I'm still too >short and too light compared to most westerners though I'm normal >for most Indonesians. > >It seems that our diva really plays our imagination with her >big voice which leads people to think that she is tall and big... :-) > >Desianto F. W. > >=================================== >"Amy T. O'Donnell" wrote: > >No, Desianto, I'm guessing she's four-foot-nothin', as we say in New >Orleans. I'm 5'3", and while I didn't get to stand next to her, Basia >looked shorter than ME by at least a couple of inches, plus VERY thin, >too. What I mean by "thin" is that while I'm short, I'm big-boned. I >was a little lighter in those days, and Basia weighed at least 30 pounds >less than me as well. She is (or was) small and quite thin, whereas I >can't get that small, I'm big-boned. > >I was one or two rows off the stage in the orchestra section of the >Saenger Theater. So. . .she's tiny from our perspective, with a huge >voice. > >Does that answer your question? > >Amy > >________________________________________________________________ >The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! >Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! >Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! >Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:42:44 -0600 From: "Barry" Subject: Re: Sweetest Illusion I don't think the actors themselves want to appear as bigger people as much as Hollywood wants them to appear bigger to have more appeal. Big men can appear more intimidating, overpowering, dominating, etc. So it's more effective to make them seem like their height and build is bigger on the screen. I've seen shows on how they make things like that happen. It's amazing how a little trick here or there can make a big difference. In "The Green Mile", they made Michael Clarke Duncan look like he was seven feet tall, but he's not that big. On the other side of it, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, John Rhys Davies was made to look like he was only about 3 feet tall as the dwarf. It's all about Hollywood and how they want actors to appear on screen. Barry "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:14:21 -0500 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: Sweetest Illusion I'm at the National Press Club in DC, and I've noticed the same thing. Entertainment types are smaller than expected. Politicians, on the other hand, seem to me to often be larger. Just an observation. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Paxety Pages Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:47 AM To: basia@smoe.org Subject: RE: Sweetest Illusion Sorry to get to this so late. The big head theory was created by Merv Griffin - who is a prominent producer of TV shows, although he is best known for his old talk show. I saw him talking about it once years ago. He believes that people with big heads, faces actually, have bigger features so it's easier for an audience in a theater, or a viewer looking at a small TV screen, to see the emotion expressed by the performer. In my TV news career, I got to interview a number of actors and celebrities. I was very surprised at how small so many, particularly the men, actually were. I wonder if there is something in their psychologial makeup that makes them, as smaller people, want to perform as someone larger? juan *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/27/04 at 10:28 AM Steve O'Hearn wrote: >I've found a lot of performers tend to be smaller than they would appear. >Not sure why. The illusion can be from the "big head" theory put out by >SNL >comedian Dana Carvey several years ago, that people with relatively big >heads proportional to their body tend to do much better in performances, >media, TV, etc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of >Desianto F. W. >Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:54 PM >To: basia@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Sweetest Illusion > > > >Yes, Amy, it answered my question and at the same time shocked >me. I never thought that she is only 4' and a few inches, well, let's >say, no more than 5'1" because I am 5'5.5" (not that 555 - >smoothness above all else...) and about 122 pounds (used to be >126 - I lost 4 pounds recently) and I still consider that I'm still too >short and too light compared to most westerners though I'm normal >for most Indonesians. > >It seems that our diva really plays our imagination with her >big voice which leads people to think that she is tall and big... :-) > >Desianto F. W. > >=================================== >"Amy T. O'Donnell" wrote: > >No, Desianto, I'm guessing she's four-foot-nothin', as we say in New >Orleans. I'm 5'3", and while I didn't get to stand next to her, Basia >looked shorter than ME by at least a couple of inches, plus VERY thin, >too. What I mean by "thin" is that while I'm short, I'm big-boned. I >was a little lighter in those days, and Basia weighed at least 30 pounds >less than me as well. She is (or was) small and quite thin, whereas I >can't get that small, I'm big-boned. > >I was one or two rows off the stage in the orchestra section of the >Saenger Theater. So. . .she's tiny from our perspective, with a huge >voice. > >Does that answer your question? > >Amy > >________________________________________________________________ >The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! >Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! >Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! >Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 00:36:02 +0200 From: Mondony Subject: News Hi all !!! Here is an adress with news : http://www.kyot.com/cliffnotes.html Patience, we need to have patience !!! Mondony ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V9 #56 **************************