Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2010 August 1

= August 1 =

Fooling around without embarassment
How do actors comedians and clowns somehow overcome embarassment when they play roles or do things that would be humiliating in real life? 92.29.127.162 (talk) 18:08, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * They are "in character" so the humiliation isn't happening to them, it's happening to their character. Of course, if the character would be embarrassed by what is happening, then the actor will want to portray that embarrassment so feeling it themselves would be advantageous. --Tango (talk) 18:38, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Embarrassment is also caused with accidental acts, whereas the behaviour of actors and clowns is deliberate, so that should mute the effect as well.  This may explain why many people find it difficult to be actors and clowns:  they expect to be embarrassed, so they are. Aaronite (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It depends on the training and temperment of the actor involved. Classically trained actors understand they are playing a character, and there is a wall of seperation between the actor and the part.  They are portraying a character, not being the character.  Method actors do they exact opposite; they try to become the character, and actually feel the emotions the character is feeling, as though the situations occuring to them were real.  Thus, if it calls for a character to be embarassed, the actor is genuinely embarassed, not just pretending to be.  -- Jayron  32  02:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If all of that fails, this helps. Shadowjams (talk) 07:12, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Perhaps some people are more sensitive to embarassment or loss of face than others. 92.24.185.100 (talk) 17:21, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Andy Griffith Death
I was looking at the Andy Griffith show on Wikipedia and when I clicked on Andy Griffith it showed date of death 8/1/2010, and I notice on TV land that they are palying the 50 favorite Andy Griffith shows. I had not heard that he had passed nor is there any other information relating to his death. I am sking did he die or is someone just putting in false information?

Thank You, Brent Mercer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.40.27.98 (talk) 23:20, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * There's nothing on Google News, BBC News, IMDb, or TMZ (the last of which has lately shown itself to be ahead of the others in reporting Hollywood deaths). There's no talk of it on the article for him or its talk page (people tend to edit someone's Wikipedia bio and announce their "death" as soon as there's even a rumour of them being somewhat under the weather). So no, there's no indication at all that he has died. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 23:34, 1 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The article did have a 1 August death date for 51 minutes, but it was removed. --  202.142.129.66 (talk) 02:10, 2 August 2010 (UTC)