* During the 30 seconds it takes to read Parade magazine, I gleaned a trivia tidbit about “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”–in addition to the time-flies realization that it’s now a 30-year-old movie. Bueller’s high school buddy, Cameron, was played by Alan Ruck–who was 29 years old at the time. Who knew?
It reminded me of another–much more impactful–movie with noteworthy actor-character age disparity: “The Graduate.” Dustin Hoffman, playing recent college grad Benjamin Braddock, was already 30–and Anne Bancroft, as the iconic, seductive Mrs. Robinson, was all of 36. But the relationship dynamic, as we saw, was spot–coo, coo, ca-choo–on. BTW, “The Graduate” will turn 50 next year.
* Anyone else think this when an online or print headline references the fallout from the Terry Bollea-Gawker trial: How slow does a news day have to be for another prominent update on something so quintessentially repulsive?
Did you know Mike Nichols first choice to play Mrs. Robinson was Ava Gardner? She turned it down because she refused to do nude scenes.