{"id":1664,"date":"2011-03-07T21:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2011-03-07T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:28:50","slug":"holding-out-for-a-red-haired-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Holding out for a red-haired hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in Miami this week \u2013 home of spectacular sunrises, a pretty good basketball team and THE red-haired hero.<\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>
David Caruso as Horatio Caine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I speak of Horatio Caine \u2013 CSI Miami’s taciturn but oh-so-sexy hero \u2013 played by David Caruso.<\/p>\n

Horatio has risen above a great handicap to become a hero. His intelligence and strength, moral fibre and sexy voice were as nothing compared to the fact that he has\u2026.. whisper it please \u2026 red hair. <\/p>\n

When I first started writing, I was told that heroes don’t have red hair. In fact, some editors have been known to make a writer change the hero’s hair colour.<\/p>\n

Why is this?<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/a>
Jessica Rabbit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are many, many heroines with red hair\u2026 from Nicole Kidman to Maureen O’Hara and Jessica Rabbit \u2013 flame haired screen sirens have men falling at their feet.<\/p>\n

But where are the red haired men?<\/p>\n

Red is fine for a side kick, like dark-haired Harry Potter’s carrot-top friend Ron Weasley.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Scarlett O’Hara may have thought she loved Ashley Wilkes, who tended towards ginger (at least in the movie), but he was never going to win out over Rhett Butler in the hero stakes.<\/p>\n

Hair does not make a hero. A hero has to be so much more. Give him strength. Give him honesty and kindness. Give him flaws, a troubled past or a limp. Give him a killer smile and yes \u2013 please \u2013 don’t be afraid to give him red hair!<\/p>\n

In my days as a news reporter, I worked with an elite police task force \u2013 intelligent and tough, but also thoughtful and honourable. They put themselves in harms way to help others. That’s the stuff of heroes\u2026 and every single one of them had red hair.<\/p>\n

So \u2013 lets declare ourselves for those of a carrot persuasion!<\/p>\n

\"Horatio<\/a>
Horatio Caine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And in case you’re not sure \u2013 here’s Horatio again.<\/p>\n

What that man does to a pair of sunglasses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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