Hollywood typecasting should be outlawed

RYAN WILLIAM Cox ASST A&E EDITOR

RWC722@ CABRINI.EDU

We all have favorite movies, and with that, favorite actors and actresses, but does anyone other than myself find the sudden wave of type-cast actors and actresses annoying. It is as if Hollywood has no new material, particularly in the "comedy" genre. For those who don't know what type-cast means, it is when an actor or actress only plays a certain character that remains the same in all of their movies. When I think of actors that fit this profile, I think of none other than Ashton Kutcher. Here is a guy who started out as an idiot, did a TV show playing an idiot, and then, as an aspiring movie star, played a convincing role as an even bigger idiot in "Dude, Where's my Car?"

Although Kutcher seems to have created a universal staple of non-