Today's Blind Items
This actor is C list. He probably used to be B list. Not a very recognizable name, but you would definitely know the face. He has done a mixture of both television and movies. Every few years he gets a really great lead in a movie or television show, but nothing long lasting. He got his big break and the lead in his first movie because he blackmailed the producer of the movie, who was also an actor in the same movie and has a good guy reputation. The blackmail in question consisted of some photos our actor had taken at the party of the good guy producer/actor snorting coke. It doesn't seem like a big deal, but this producer/actor's entire career is based around his good guy reputation.
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Tom Hanks has got to be the actor/producer, right?
i thought tom hanks as well...but would he say that the other guy is A list?
Or not. He didn't start producing until relatively recently.
Could it be Ron Howard as the director? Not sure how the public would like to see Opie Taylor sniffin' the stuff.
matt damon? he's a wholesome good guy, right?
what about Kevin Costner? Doesn't he produce movies, too?
Checking IMDB, Hanks doesn't tend to produce vehicles he acts in, with the exception of Castaway. Not too many choices there except "Wilson".
Long time lurker...
I think Moosefan got it. Ron Howard was the first name that popped into my head.
i wouldn't say costner has a squeaky clean image.
we're not talking a director here, but a producer. so good guy is both producer and actor.....now who could that be??
Kevin Costner assaulted a masseuse. It sounds like this guy still has a good rep. If it's Opie, that makes it hard to find the other guy in the blind - he's produced way too many movies.
But has Ron Howard acted in any movies he's also produced? Aside from cameos, I can't find anything on imdb.
Yeah but does Ron Howard act anymore?
I think George Clooney, he has produced several films. Still working on that actor....
but Costner did that relatively recently - if this tape was years ago . . . ? And he has produced 15 movies beginning in 1990.
Just sayin!
Ron Howard was thefirst name that popped into my head too.... also Matt Damon came to mind but it's no secret that Damon was a wild party boy... maybe still is??
Good point. He has produced 50 movies to date.
The guy producing the movie also acted in the same movie. Not Ron Howard, he hasn't acted since a Return to Mayberry TV movie in the '80's.
Matt Damon also doesn't produce and act in the same films.
Ron Howard today is director first, producer second and actor third. Since he started directing and producing, he has stopped acting (except some stuff like the narration on Arrested Development).
By the way, Henry Winkler was strictly a TV producer (except for Young Sherlock Holmes, but...)
Apparently, the producer/actor is not a director, so it's either a producer who acts from time to time (and there would be few of the) or an actor who has come to do some production, but hasn't turned into a director, except occasionally.
Ideas that spring to my mind would be some guy like Danny De Vito (produced Pulp Fiction, for instance) but it wouldn't be De Vito as he directed at least one hit movie, The War of Roses.