Old School

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 I had some fun looking up Batbie's real size if she were a real woman.  I got a height of 5 foot 9 inches with measurements of 39-23-33, as she was portrayed in the movie, to seven feet tall with measurements of 39-18-33.  Her waist seems to be most disportiinant but it seems Barbie's shoe size is about a 3.  It's an agreement she wouldn't be able to walk.  But Barbie does have a figure to make any boy's libido run wild.

The fact is Barbie can't be a real human.  I can't remember when I last saw a naked Barbie.  I know my sister had her share of Barbie dolls.  I mention this because the Barbie movie was an Oscar nominee for Best Picture.  I'm just happy she was beat out by a real scientist.  I can't imagine a fictional character like Barbie winning best picture.  

Barbie would have to be a CGI character for her actual dimensions!  A seven foot tall woman with a 39 inch bust might be good for any boy's libido, but I just can't see it.  Maybe to a boy she's a goddess.  I don't know.  I'm just glad Oppenheimer won.  At least he was a real person and his movie is a real story based on reality.  

I have to put a disclaimer here because I didn't see either of these movies this year.  Maybe I'd want to see what a real Barbie might look like, but I'd like to see Oppenheimer.  I don't really care enough about Barbie, and I kind of know about the invention of the atomic bomb.  I know the Oppenheimer movie is rather dark and frightening.  

Al Pacino got some flak on how he read the Oscar for Best Picture.  The nominees are always mentioned, but Pacino dove right into it mentioning only the winning picture.  Maybe he felt Batbie wasn't worth mentioning compared to the winning movie.  But it seems like an AL Pacino thing to just get right to it.  I think of both AL Pacino and Robert DeNiro as the last of Old School Hollywood.   

Some might include Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood,  Harison Ford, or Mel Gibson, but both Pacino and DeNiro are really representative as Old School Hollywood.  They are the last of the Old Holywood actors in my thinking.  Maybe it's the Goodfather or a movie like Heat that is lesser well-known.  There is one scene in Heat where the two appear together with Pacino portraying a good guy and DeNiro playing a bad guy.  They are good friends in life, but in that scene they act as if they genuinely hate each other.  It's classic Old Hollywood moviemaking at its best.

Maybe Barbie is great for libidos, but she can't compete with a real person who literally scared the world with his invention.  So, there you have it.  There's none better for an Oscar announcement for the best represented by one of the very best through the years of movie making magic.  Al Pacino.  There you have it.  A doll beat by a scientist.  It doesn't get better than this.  It's Hollywood for you.  

Well, the stars for me today might be any number of people, but it's my Peterson System pipe today with some Captain Black Cherry tobacco.  They're not Old School Hollywood, but still stars in MY thinking.  Smoking a pipe IS an old school thing to do.  I'm just an old school kind of guy with old school thinking.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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