Oliver Reed on the role of women
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Stumble ThisBritish actor, Oliver Reed, shares his chauvinistic views and pays the price.
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1. Watching Shelly Winters dump a drink on Oliver Reed, first and foremost. Not that I approve of bad manners on this order, but I also don't approve of chauvinism. Still, it's funny to watch her act impulsive like that.
2. Watching Oliver Reed's stereotypical British reserve. Regardless of how I feel about his opinions, I have to hand it to him - he was completely unfazed by Shelly's action. If the British taught the whole world one thing that is worthwhile to this day, it's the concept of grace under pressure. (Yes, I know Hemingway, an American, wrote stories whose exemplars embodied this concept to the point that the whole term "grace under pressure" was invented, but I still believe it was the English who inspired this concept.)
3. Watching Johnny do what Johnny does best - keep things rolling, in a humorous fashion. Johnny could have been the original Jerry Springer had he wanted that. This little episode could have provided ample fodder for it. Yet he didn't, because Johnny was a class act for his entire career.
By the time Johnny ended his career some people said he was boring or not edgy enough. Screw them. I like edgy stuff too, but not Jerry Springer. That isn't edgy; it's just a fucking circus. Johnny knew how to entertain without being mean-spirited or voyeuristic. He is missed to this day by me.
Ok, he was wrong.. but he wasn't rude in particular. You can tell by the way he put it that he wasn't trying to be vindictive.
And that is the most amazing handling of a situation i've ever seen.
Indeed Reed was chauvinistic and absolutely had the opinion that women had their place and men had theirs and by god let men do all the 'real work' because women are unable to do so... an example of the old order.