Dev Patel attacked Hollywood last year over the lack of decent roles for Asian actors.
In it, he addressed two key problems: a dearth of decent roles for little people, and the threat to their livelihoods posed by animation technology.
Meanwhile A Taste of Honey and Billy Liar are prime examples of kitchen sink fillms that offer decent roles for leading actresses.
"And ever since Terminator 2, Hollywood has been attracted to the androgynous woman, which allows producers to expand female roles without actually addressing the issues that lead to accusations of sexism – that there are few decent roles for older women".
The studios will use Twilight's profits to fund more films in which there are no decent roles for women, no women in major positions behind the scenes, no women directors.
If it's the common consensus that there's no decent roles for women over 40, then SATC surely disproves the theory: Parker and Davis are both 45 while Cattrall is 53 and Nixon, the youngest, at 44. "We can't deny their years and we don't try to," says King. "One of the great gifts of Sex and the City is that it's been able to evolve.
He had a good Combine as a box to box midfielder and New York desperately need some midfield mobility, so that's a decent role pick up for New York.
Never mind the details, it is really about a ruthless agent who coaxed a frightened owner into signing an under-the-table agreement for... a decent role player.
The oil shortage makes it difficult for us to play a decent role in the world & to cope with our own unemployment & the social disfunctions accompanying it.
He glowered magnificently in Picturegoer and Film Review for a few months, but never got another decent role.
