Curtis: Best Actor in a Reality Role

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Lemme

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 02:42 pm Click here to edit this post

That's not to say that Curtis is a good actor, just that he did the best job of convincing people that his act wasn't really an act (although some BB fans saw through this early on). Well, now his fans are bailing like crazy.

Remember all of the posts & threads proclaiming his integrity, non-contentious nature, and above-the-fray attitude? Suckers! Now we have the key: give Curtis a few beers his veneer peels away. All of the bile poured out by Curtis minions against Eddie & Josh & even William (about their being crass, thick males, and so on) should be turned against Curtis twofold.

Really now, this guy has the integrity of a sponge: he adopts the traits of others because he is insecure with himself. Hence the Brittany-speak. Hence the gaydar thread. Hence his recent macho bravado (Eddie fans have rightly mentioned the hypocrisy of Curtis fans on this point). Will the real Curtis ever stand up?

On his acting. Curtis needed women around him (because of his insecurity around the guys), so he PLAYED the meek gentleman and trusty confidant.
Hence he rarely nominated women. In this role, Curtis ACTED sweet & harmless in order to contrast himself with the more confounding, fallible, warts-and-all (and more realistic, I might add) figure of Eddie. This worked to Curtis's advantage until the women were gone. But such was his insecurity right to the end that he did not nominate pal Jamie. Now he's had to change ROLES.

Now, Curtis minions, your high praise of the C-man has been seriously undermined. As many threads have rightly recognized, Curtis has now adopted a pseudo-Eddie macho attitude. (Good-bye to the "class" that he showed at the Emmys; good-bye to being distinguished from the "brute" humor and actions of the other guys!) Curtis has now portrayed himself as a beer-guzzling, unemotional, nonanalytical, insult-lobbing, too-cool-for-school bad boy! Please! Marry your daughter to him now? Bah!

At least we can say that Eddie -- for all his inconsistencies, questionable comments, and so on -- has consistently been himself. Good or bad.
Not so Curtis. He's wildly inconsistent in this regard.

Sweet Vindication at last for the non-favorers of Curtis! He may be the best actor (which isn't saying much) on BB. But the others (with the glaring exception of Jamie) acted less, if they acted at all.

Ocean_Islands

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 03:45 pm Click here to edit this post

It's true that with Eddie, you get what you see.

Many of us don't want that.

But Curtis is quite different, more lawyerly.

Many of us don't want that, either.

This feels like a presidential election where you don't really want any of them to win.

Singblueeyes

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 03:47 pm Click here to edit this post

Geeze..it's over already, Lemmee...GIVE UP!

Rufusgriswold

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 03:59 pm Click here to edit this post

ROFLMAO -- Curtis starts to behave like Eddie and that's bad. I've been saying Eddie's behavior is bad since day one. Glad you finally agree Lemme.

Jake

Friday, September 29, 2000 - 04:13 pm Click here to edit this post

Oh puh-LEEZE! Have you ever seen ANYONE who hasn't gotten looser, more brazen, more outlandish when they've soaked up liquor??? Does that mean that's who they REALLY are all the time? (I'm assuming you're going under the auspices that one's TRUE personality comes out when they're drunk.) If that's true, then we should enforce EVERYONE to be drunk ALL the time so we know EXACTLY who we're dealing with on a day to day basis.

Perhaps ASPECTS of one's personality come out when the "reigns of sanity" are loosened via liquor, but then... I tend to believe EVERYONE has a bit of EVERYTHING in them to varying degrees depending upon the individual person. Drunkness is not a day-to-day behavoir for most folks, so when one is evaluating "behvoiral characteristics"... then one should see what they do daily, when they're sane, when they have responsibilities to take care of, when they have to interact with people.

Sorry to disappoint you, LEMME, not a thing has been lost with or for Curtis. He remains an honourable, likeable, clever, witty, intelligent, empathetic person in my eyes. Adaptability is NOT a bad word and would that more of humanity were able to do this rather than refusing to see/participate with/understand/live WITH others around them.

Your argument about his flip-flopping MIGHT hold water if he had been declarative about abhoring that type of behavoir with HGs who also abhored it, then turned around and did that type of behavoir with the other HGs while dissing those who didn't like it. Kinda like if Jordan after declaring she hated models/modeling, turned around, became a model and proclaimed she always believed this was the ultimate life one could have.

Nope... Curtis still has "it" as far as I'm concerned.