<p>She is a wonderful role model and let’s face it we are certainly lacking those for young girls to look up to. Miley Cyrus, Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears…need I say more!</p>
<p>If she ends up succumbing to the bright lights, big city allure and transfers to NYU, it will be sort of sad.</p>
<p>By the way, the rumor here in Michigan is that Twilight’s Taylor Lautner goes to Western Michigan U. (he’s originally from near there). If it’s true, it would be a refreshingly non-elite-college choice.</p>
<p>Apart from the money, apart from the fame, apart from the intelligence, apart from the taste, apart from the emotional resonance of her association with the most important female fictional character of her generation . . . Emma Watson is breathtakingly pretty. Long hair or short. Any college-age male who can’t figure that out – and I explicitly mean to include gay college-age males in this – may need professional psychiatric treatment.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have it on good authority that lots of them would not kick her out of bed. (The straight ones, at least.)</p>
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<p>For starters, I doubt she wants to look 17 as she is 20. Did you look at the recent photos of her that I posted? Ya think she looks like an 11 year old boy in some of those Lancome shots? I think she looks more grown up than before.</p>
<p>The NY Daily News said she got tired of the smug Brown kids yelling out “three points for Gryffindor” every time she answered a question in class.</p>
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<p>Interesting. I don’t see it that way. From what I have read of interviews of Emma Watson is that she has loved Brown. This year, she had some career obligations and she took a leave from Brown as she said she would not be satisfied with lower grades and if she was going to do the semester at Brown, she wanted to give it her full attention. I don’t know if she is transferring to NYU/Gallatin (other than rumors), but I doubt it is due to the bright lights and big city allure. This young woman has a career. Her career began before college. She has had the Harry Potter stuff that is still ongoing and has signed with Lancome and it may be easier to balance all this with her studies in a program like Gallatin which offers independently designed programs. It is obvious she likes academics and learning. If she was just after the bright lights, she could just go to NYC and not attend college at all! She certainly could make money and doesn’t need college for her career (which she already has) but she wants college.</p>
<p>PS, as a parent of an NYU alum, not everyone goes to NYU for the bright lights. My D’s program at NYU was so intense that she barely had time to enjoy the bright lights of NYC. However, those in the acting world have much to gain by studying in the city that is a massive network in this field.</p>
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<p>This is a common misunderstanding. IF Taylor Lautner attends Western Michigan and it is in the theater department (which is what I read of the rumor), the general public doesn’t have an understanding of how highly selective (very low admit rates) the BFA in Acting and BFA in Musical Theater programs are. Many highly competitive programs are located within universities that are not that selective. Those in the theater world know which programs are very selective, but those outside that world just hear the name of the university. For example, my kid who was an excellent student, applied to the BFA in musical theater program at Penn State and if I were to run into someone in my community or even on CC’s NON-theater oriented forums, they would say, “of course she’ll get into Penn State! She is over qualified!” and they would have no clue that the acceptance rate into the BFA in Musical Theater program (which is by audition) is less than 5%. It’s possible to be admitted to Brown and not be admitted to a BFA in Theater program at Western Michigan.</p>
<p>You can’t tell me that WMU would not accept Taylor Lautner or that he couldn’t get into wherever he wanted to go. That would be like Harvard turning down a Kennedy.</p>
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<p>You haven’t been paying attention. I discovered decades ago that women will value the opinions of other women on hair/make-up/fashion questions far more than they will heed the advice of men. They are dressing to impress each other and not you.</p>
<p>Women may SAY they are trying to appear attractive to men but they are not. If the boyfriend/husband says your long hair is beautiful - don’t cut it, and the girlfriend says Oh, you’d look really cute if you got some sheep shears and whacked of all your hair on the left side and dyed it orange on the right side, the woman will be out pricing sheep shears and orange hair dye the very next day.</p>
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<p>^^^coureur…LOL! (there’s truth to that)</p>
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<p>3bm, I’m not saying that WMU would not accept Taylor Lautner. I was remarking that Schmaltz was saying it was refreshing as WMU is not an elite school, but those familiar with BFA in Acting admissions know that programs that are highly selective are located within colleges that are not. The general public doesn’t realize that when selecting a BFA program, many select the program first before selecting the college within which it is located and that what is considered an elite or top program for acting is not the same list as what is considered a top college generally speaking.</p>
<p>“You haven’t been paying attention.”</p>
<p>I’ve heard that…but I said “attractiveness,” which to me is a nice word for “sexiness,” which is a nice word for “I’d like to…” I don’t think hetero guys are in much of a position to evaluate other males’ sexiness. And I think the same goes for hetero women evaluating other women’s sexiness.</p>
<p>And I think the same goes for hetero women evaluating other women’s sexiness.
Probably-
however I have had shortish hair practically my entire life & I really don’t give a rip about if that affects my perceived " sexiness".
I really doubt many adult men chose their hairstyle for it’s attractiveness to women & why should women be any different?
I had ( it has faded into golden blonde now) gorgeous red gold hair until a few years ago, but when it was even to my shoulders, people couldn’t stop talking about it- it was really uncomfortable. I had fewer comments when it was short.</p>
<p>Now Emma doesn’t have that problem but I imagine she was trying to feel more adult, and many women change their hairstyle when they feel different inside.</p>
<p>Oh, you’d look really cute if you got some sheep shears and whacked of all your hair on the left side and dyed it orange on the right side, the woman will be out pricing sheep shears and orange hair dye the very next day.
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<p>Nor are your judgments, as a middle age man, relevant. Sorta creepy actually.</p>
<p>Like it or not, the judgments of middle aged men – directors, producers, financiers – are likely to be highly relevant to Ms. Watson over the next stage of her career. Sorta creepy, yes, but I trust it doesn’t come as a terrible shock to anyone.</p>
<p>Anyway, Ms. Watson is only a little younger than my daughter, and I am perfectly capable of judging the attractiveness of my daughter. She is absolutely adorable! Stunning! Ms. Watson is easily in her league, so I am confident Ms. Watson is very attractive, too.</p>
<p>What I want to know from Schmaltz is that he said Emma Watson looks like an 11 year old boy with short hair (after looking like 17 with long hair) and not only do I think she looks older now than before (but who am I to say as I am just another woman?? LOL)…but I want to know if Schmaltz looked at the photos I linked to of Emma Watson in post #18 that are recent (age 20) and with short hair and if he thinks she looks age 11 in those photos.</p>
<p>(btw, JHS, loved your post! 
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<p>Nah, I think she looks adorable in spite of that haircut, not because of it. The pictures shown where she looks the best still look like she has long hair, just pulled back. She is just a beautiful girl no matter what she does, but I think she was much more attractive with long hair. Some of the short haired photos I’ve seen of her do make her look like a boyish waif. I figured she was one of those pretty girls trying to unsuccessfully make herself look unattractive.</p>
<p>I always assumed that cutting her hair was a visible statement of transition - of her change of status from Movie Star to College Student.</p>
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<p>Too bad. I’m sure it was funny the first time or two but very tiresome beyond that. I would have thought the Brown kids would have been cooler than that. </p>
<p>Rock star Rivers Cuomo was at Harvard the same time as my daughter. She didn’t know him but some of her friends did. I heard him say in an interview on NPR that other Harvard students were almost always respectful to him and didn’t create much in the way of hassles. He didn’t have to worry about stalker fans leaping at him out of the shrubbery when he came out of class. </p>
<p>This was back in the early days when Facebook was new and joining was restricted to college students. And Mr. Cuomo had his account further restricted to be visible only other Harvard kids. My daughter did report that he had over 4000 Facebook friends, all from Harvard, which was more than 2/3rds of the undergrad student body.</p>
<p>Emma Watson could not cut her hair while making the HP movies - as one movie segued straight into the next. She started filming at age 11. Most girls experiment with hairstyles during the teen years. She was restricted. When the last movie wrapped, the hairstyle went with it. </p>
<p>[‘Potter</a>’ star Emma Watson talks haircut in EW exclusive: ‘I knew everyone was going to have an opinion,’ she says | PopWatch | EW.com](<a href=“http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/06/exclusive-emma-watson-haircut-debate-i-knew-everyone-was-going-to-have-an-opinion-she-says/]'Potter”>http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/06/exclusive-emma-watson-haircut-debate-i-knew-everyone-was-going-to-have-an-opinion-she-says/)</p>
<p>Emma is a gorgeous girl, and I think the short hair is very attractive—makes her look gamine, classic in a sophisticated, rather Audrey Hepburn sort of way. No way does she look like any boy I’ve ever met. I’m assuming the hair cut was a way of distancing herself from the Harry Potter look in order to position herself for more mature rolls. I would be concerned that all those Potter movies might typecast me, and render people unable to envision me in other rolls. I definitely think Daniel Radcliffe is in danger of that fate.</p>
<p>poetsheart, I agree with much of what you wrote.</p>
<p>I’ll point out, however, that Daniel Radcliffe’s “fate” so far with new roles is pretty darn good. He has been in Equus on Broadway and is now starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Bdway too!</p>