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So, it turns out, are employers. But while a malicious comment from a fellow teenager can be bad enough, systematic discrimination in the employment market can have a real, measurable and negative impact on the many decades that will follow their graduation. And the thinner you are, the better you fare, financially speaking. If you are deemed to be heavy, on the other hand, you suffer , as a study made clear.
You may also struggle for promotion. Add an extra layer to that glass ceiling. But her theories are formed based on the responses she gets from her audiences at those conferences. Or will fire them if they gain even a few pounds. First of all, the hospital seems to be a little bit more concerned with appearance than anything else. Secondly, there are all kinds of flaws with BMI as a measure of health, in spite of its growing use by the insurance industry to identify those more likely to consume more medical services.
What matters more is lifestyle.
Incidentally, in a few decades, that young receptionist also is at risk for becoming overweight herself — and may have less healthy habits. In fact, one study suggested that bias against women begins showing up when they are only a few pounds above their ideal weight, although men can pile on far more pounds before it becomes a problem for them.
A woman who is 5ft 5in, for instance, begins to experience this when she is only 13lbs above what the BMI charts deem her highest healthy weight. There is almost no scenario where being overweight is an advantage for a woman — or even where it puts a woman on an even playing field relative to their overweight male counterparts. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett , released in January Hammett's novel drew on his experiences as a union-busting Pinkerton detective in Butte, Montana.
Hammett based Nick and Nora's banter upon his rocky on-again, off-again relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. The screenplay was written by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich , who had been married for three years.
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Van Dyke encouraged them to use Hammett's writing as a basis only, and to concentrate on providing witty exchanges for Nick and Nora. Van Dyke convinced MGM executives to let Powell and Loy portray the lead characters despite concerns that Powell was too old and strait-laced to play Nick Charles and that Loy had become typecast in exotic femme fatale roles. Skippy played Asta, the dog of Nick and Nora.
For Powell's first scene in the film, Van Dyke told him to take the cocktail shaker, go to the bar and just walk through the scene while the crew checked lights and sound. Powell did it, throwing in some lines and business of his own. Suddenly he heard Van Dyke say, "That's it! Van Dyke often did not bother with cover shots if he felt the scene was right on the first take, reasoning that actors "lose their fire" if they have to do something over and over.
It was a lot of pressure on the actors, who often had to learn new lines and business immediately before shooting, without the luxury of retakes, but Loy credited much of the appeal of the film to Van Dyke's pacing and spontaneity.
He paid the most attention to Powell and Loy's easy banter between takes and their obvious enjoyment of each other's company and worked it into the movie. The director often encouraged and incorporated improvisation and off-the-cuff details into the picture. In order to keep her entrance fresh and spontaneous, W.
Van Dyke did not tell Loy about it until right before they shot it.
Powell loved working so much with Loy because of her naturalness, her professionalism, and her lack of any kind of "diva" temperament. On her, Powell said: We were just two people in perfect harmony. Myrna, unlike some actresses who think only of themselves, has the happy faculty of being able to listen while the other fellow says his lines. She has the give and take of acting that brings out the best.
According to Loy, the actors were not allowed to interact between takes with the dog, Skippy; trainers felt it would break his concentration. Skippy once bit Loy during filming. Although she had great compliments for Powell's charm and wit, Maureen O'Sullivan who played the daughter of Wynant later said she did not enjoy making the picture because her part was so small and the production was so rushed.
The scene of Nick shooting the ornaments off the tree was added after Powell playfully picked up an air gun and started shooting ornaments the art department was putting up. Loy wrote that the biggest problem during shooting was the climactic dinner party scene in which Nick reveals the killer. Powell complained that he had too many lines to learn and could barely decipher the complicated plot he was unraveling.
It was the one scene when several retakes were necessary, which brought up an entirely new problem. The script called for oysters to be served to the dinner guests and, in take after take, the same plate of oysters was brought out under the hot lights.
The film was released in May 25, to extremely positive reviews and was a box office hit, with special praise for the chemistry between Loy and Powell. Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times called it "an excellent combination of comedy and excitement", and the film appeared on the Times year-end list of the ten best of the year. In , critic Roger Ebert added the film to his list of Great Movies.
The Case of the Tiny Tootsies. BIG girls reasoned that if Oprah slimmed down, then, damn it, we had to, too. It ended up with them in a room jamming. If true, it might preclude the use of polonium in the neutron initiators; if true for plutonium, it might mean that the gun-type design would not work. Claudia Morgan appears as Nora.
His delivery is so droll and insinuating, so knowing and innocent at the same time, that it hardly matters what he's saying. In , the film was added to the United States National Film Registry having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Nick Charles then steps out of the cover to talk to fellow detective Philo Vance also played by Powell about his latest case.
Charles goes on to explain to Vance that his latest case revolves around a "tall, thin man" referring to Clyde Wynant , just before clips of the film are shown. Van Dyke was host. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.