Human Frailty...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I saw this article rec'd on a facebook page, so clicked on it and read it.  It's actually from 2007, so probably something a lot of people have seen before.  The thing that stood out to me was a couple of things Robert Vaughn said regarding the night he got the script on UNCLE.  He says he and a friend picked up a couple of 'floozies', and later mentions that again in reference to utilizing the charms he used to seduce them as an acting tool for portraying Solo.
I know he is a product of his times, and perhaps he didn't think referring to women as floosies sounded hypocritical alongside the very obvious reality of his own promiscuity (in this instance), but reading it I had a rather negative reaction to him and to his point of view.  All of this from a man who later says it didn't even bother him for the show to be cancelled because he was so wrapped up in the anti-war movement.
Again, a little self-centered considering a slew of people were put out of work with the cancellation of MFU.
Am I being a little too critical?  Maybe, and it doesn't keep me from being a fangirl for the show.  But it does tend to add weight to my preference for David McCallum as a real life person, based on the bits and pieces I know about him.
So, any thoughts on the subject?  Any rebuttals to my impressions of the article and what is reported there?  I'm curious, and I can forgive Robert Vaughn for his seemingly, to use a word that gets tossed around quite a bit, misogynistic attitude.  I'm sure he repented and changed his ways with age and maturity.

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Rubuttal as Requested!

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

I did wonder if 'floozie' was a euphemism for a lady who likes to be paid for her time.

And the poor man was apparently not immune to being objectified by his fans (the shower scene sounds very season three!).

I read the later paragraph as meaning that he used skills he already knew he had, having used them in real life, to play the seducer Napoleon Solo. Rather than that he went out specifically seducing women as practise for the part.

I didn't read his take on the show cancellation quite as callously as you did either (maybe I'm just in a mellow mood, our weather broke and I'm happy to be cool :0)), because the industry itself is pretty brutal about hiring and firing. And of course many of the technicians etc. would have worked for the studio, rather than the programme - the end of U.N.C.L.E. may simply have meant they moved to the next production. Sad to see the end of the show, but not necessarily the end of their paycheque.

And it was some decades after the event.

Plus actors and their egos...

Still, if you like Mr McC best, I'm happy to support you in your choice without any rebuttal at all! :0)

RE: Rubuttal as Requested!

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I figured he already knew how to seduce women, but the double standard of name calling seemed odd, especially since the quote is from 2007. All of that aside, I'm not holding it against him.

RE: Rubuttal as Requested!

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Well there's a puff in there for Tom Cruise, who was at one time being touted for Napoleon Solo, and a plug for the boxset (which I now have, yea!), so I wonder if it was a bit of a publicity piece.

A sort of variant of the infomercial, so 'family friendly' euphemisms were required.

And I did enjoy Mr McC's assertion that he's still waiting for the studio to tell him the show's been cancelled!

But alas, the double standard existed, and exists. I think sometimes it's so ingrained, it's subconscious. Everyone seems to feel they have a right to comment on what a woman is and isn't doing with her body.

A lot better than it was though, so I have hope, even if we're not there yet.