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Gayfetus OP t1_j6kmhpl wrote
Reply to comment by InternetPeon in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
I'm all about the hard sell!
Gayfetus OP t1_j6klkjy wrote
Reply to comment by InternetPeon in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
When it makes it sound like a better deal, then yes!
Gayfetus OP t1_j6kk6wt wrote
Reply to comment by InternetPeon in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
It's only $23 per inch!
Gayfetus OP t1_j6kjsw6 wrote
Reply to comment by Maltese_Vulcan in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
There's a video of how the whole thing went down (or not, as it were). A dildo of that size made a very noticeable bulge.
Gayfetus OP t1_j6kjjqd wrote
Reply to comment by InternetPeon in Shoplifter Caught Trying to Steal Giant 30″ Dildo from Circus of Books WeHo by Gayfetus
The thing costs $699.95!
Gayfetus OP t1_j6khiyq wrote
They would've gotten away with it if they'd just hidden it up their bum!
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Gayfetus t1_jedwats wrote
Reply to Cynthia Rothrock was the best Martial Arts female movie star and yet she almost never gets any credit by Lili_Danube
Yay, another Cynthia Rothrock fan!
She mastered a vast variety of martial arts with impeccable form (won tons of medals for it, too). And form, after all, is what counts on screen.
Why isn't she better remembered? Hollywood just didn't give her the same opportunities that Hong Kong cinema did. Hong Kong cinema saw her as a star from the start. They built movies around her, and put her in major roles.
Her acting was certainly good enough to carry those movies and make them hits in the territory. She had perfectly adequate range for what's required of an action star. And she certainly had charisma and could spark chemistry with any of her costars.
But that was Hong Kong. In the US, all she got were a string of direct-to-video films that just weren't any good.
She never got a big break in Hollywood. She never got cast in any action tentpoles. I think if a major production had given her a chance, she'd been a breakout star.
Well, why didn't they? If you look at some of the women that did get cast in action roles in big budget films in the 90s, you get Sigourney Weaver, Famke Janssen, Milla Jovovich, Carrie Ann Moss, Grace Jones... Half of that list are people who started out as models. And they're all certainly extremely glamorous women.
While Cynthia is certainly very pretty, she's not quite model pretty and glamorous. I think Hollywood execs just wrote her off because they didn't think she was hot enough. Her martial arts prowess meant nothing to them, whereas I think HK cinema studio execs had much more respect for her skills.
So ultimately, a very tiny group of gatekeepers kept her from reaching her full potential as a star, likely because of her looks. It sucks. But well, her glorious stint in HK cinema will always be there, and that content is only more accessible to people around the world than ever.