9 replies on “Phil Spector, Wes Anderson and Eddie Money.”

  1. Oh come on. Kyle McLachlan does not look that effeminate (at least I’ve never seen him look that effeminate). Nor does Smokey Robinson. Warren Beatty looks like he’s been morphed with Billie Jean King. Phil Spector I can buy.

  2. Phil Specter looks like the Emperor in “Return of the Jedi,” with his hood replace by a bad dye job.

  3. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog, Waldo, but this particular entry seems uncharacteristic in the narrowness of the audience to which it appeals–and I don’t mean that you’re writing off those without a sense of humor. I do think the resemblance of the Warren Beatty photo to Billie Jean King is funny, but I find it hard to feel the same way about the sobriquet “old lesbian”–what does an old lesbian look like? Try substituting some other stereotypical category for the nominative here and see if it strikes you as similarly amsuing.

  4. @Kenny Marotta: All stereotypes (that I can think of) are based on some element of truth. The set of middle-aged or old lesbians (that are out of the closet) has a subset with certain correlated features. Many of those features can be described as “mannish”. This is a set of men who one person has perceived as appearing similar to that subset.

    Or… “men who look like old lesbians”.

    And it’s funny because it’s true!

  5. Try substituting some other stereotypical category for the nominative here and see if it strikes you as similarly amsuing.

    White men who look like old black men? Movie stars who look like they’re homeless? Heiresses who look like whores?

    Honestly, this all sounds like comedy gold to me.

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