Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Today's Blind Items - Nicknames

This Golden Globe Nominated/Winner television actor who is a solid B lister from his body of work is known by the nickname Retch. It is based on one of his characters. The reason he is called this is because whenever he breathes on you you really think you are going to puke. It is not a natural condition. Our actor believes in a pill and vitamin regimen that is the cause. Despite complaints from everyone he keeps taking the pills and forcing everyone who does scenes with our actor to rub Vicks under their nose.

43 comments:

cdanluva said...

matthew mc-sp? the guy who always has his shirt off and runs around with lance armstrong?

MISCH said...

IT DOESN'T JUST COME THROUGH THE MOUTH...HIS SKIN....AND URINE ...IT CAN BE AWFUL..JUST AWFUL

captivagrl said...

I've heard about him.

karen said...

Bernie Turtletaub?

Pookie said...

*jumps on matthew mcm. train* he even looks smelly.

Carissa said...

Chevy Chase. Fletch = Retch. Plus, he was nominated for Golden Globe back in 1979. My best guess....probably not right....but still =)

Cindy said...

Carrissa, He was my first thought too

Anonymous said...

Matt McConaughey isn't a TV actor

Chevy will be back on TV with Joel McHale's new show Community. I'm liking that guess.

My first thought was Nick Nolte just because of the vitamin thing he used to sell, but he doesn't fit any of the other clues.

ClaireFrasier said...

I vote with half the "C"s.... Chevy Chase was my thought too. "Fletch" Sorry, Chevy, if we're wrong...

Cancan said...

Chevy Chase was my thought too.,

Unknown said...

Hugh laurie?

peppermint p said...

I thought this was the fresh prince. i remember a past lainey blind or somebody elses blind.

cdanluva said...

I'm changing mine to Hugh Grant. He just looks smelly.

Sara Bellum said...

Mina THE TURTLE!

LOL That's the first thing I thought of when I read this. Nice SATC reference.

Karmen said...

Chevy Chase ftw.

That shit's nasty. Stop taking those damn pills or get some Altoids!

Kathy K said...

For the first time I'm gonna say it: can this even be a blind? Fletch, Retch .... Chevy Chase FTW.

angelface said...

Kevin James? I'm grasping here.

captivagrl said...

"television actor"
Chevy Chase is known just as much for movies.

Unknown said...

Immediately thought Chevy. Is he really B list, though?

I did get a chance to see the pilot for Community, and it's freakin' hilarious.

West End Girl said...

I thought it was Robert Downey JR until I re-read and saw the TV bit. I'm stumped.

sunnyside1213 said...

At the risk of offending my children, Chuck Norris? (Chuck Norris can fry ants with a magnifying glass. At night.)

No seriously children, I was just kidding. Please don't put me in the home.

It's Chevy Chase. Retch, based on a character. Fletch.

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Majik said...

Has to be Chevy Chase...the obvs "Fletch", the reference to the 'body of work' suggests someone older, more established and the very fact that everyone is willing to still work with him makes me think it's someone with a bigger name--CC fits the bill.

BUT....is he actually working, lately?

Little Baby Jade said...

RDJ won a globe for best supporting actor in 1997 for Ally McBeal.

He carries around a lunchbox filled with pills and such.

I'm going with him.

.robert said...

Chevy is movie and TV but most definitely not B-list. He did get 2 GG movie noms in '79 though.

Caroline said...

Wouldn't Vicks show up on camera? It's shiny.

Andy said...

For some reason I thought of Hugh Laurie too. Still love him, though.

FrenchGirl said...

john Hamm of "mad men" ?: that would be too funny because his character is so stylish

SkittleKitty said...

Nick Nolte was interviewed once where he showed the interviewer all the health crap he was consuming. This was before his arrest & famous mug shot.
That said, agreed it's likely Chevy Chase.

Pamela S. said...

I was thinking Chevy Chase as well.

Unknown said...

I don't think it's Jon Hamm, otherwise it would say Emmy AND Golden award winner/nominee. Whoever it is isn't an Emmy nominee/winner or Enty would have indicated as such.

I guess technically, that would also rule Chevy out... :-\

Momster said...

LOL at sunnyside and her Chuck Norris joke--my kids are hooked on them too.

Chevy Chase was on a few episodes of Chuck last spring, but other than that I got nuttin'.

Anonymous said...

Isn't Hugh Laurie TV A-List, being the lead of his show and all?
Ditto for Robert Downey, Jr.-movie A list at this point, no?
It seems like Chevy Chase b/c of Fletch, but wouldn't Enty call him tv and movie actor?

bookjacket said...

Hugh Laurie is a British sketch comedian who has been known to lampoon new agey American health fads. If you've seen him speak, he is Cambridge-educated, highly rational and has great respect for science and for his late father, who was a physician. Plus he is (unlike many actors) pretty fatalistic about life, aging and death. Definitely not him.

PCF said...

OK Hugh I mean bookjacket (I kid, I kid) that was a h.ella amount if information. So OK it's NOT Hugh :D My guess is RDJ or Will Smith (Hitch).

jax said...

chevy was my very first thought.

Enny said...

I don't think it's Chevy Chase. I don't really think of him as a TV actor, more like a movie actor who has done some TV.

Linnea said...

bookjacket - im a big fan too. :)

__-__=__ said...

Acute Esophageal Necrosis. Learned that one watching Dr. G. Haven't a clue who it is but I think this is a good guess as to what it is. Way beyond bad breath, way beyond!

HeyThere said...

Steve Carell. He's always in people's faces when he's playing Michael Scott.

mooshki said...

Anyone who grew up on early SNL would think of Chevy as a big tv presence. And he's on the new show Community, so that could be why this is just coming out now. You know Joel McHale would tell everyone he met about it, LOL.

mooshki said...

Oh, and there is no evolution. There are only animals that Chuck Norris has allowed to survive.

watcher said...

What about Michael C. Hall. I don't know how to rank him, but he seems successful in his shows. When he was 11, his Dad died of cancer -maybe a reason for a pill and vitamin regime?

"body" of work - Six Feet Under, Dexter

Retch, name based on one of his characters - serial killer Dexter

Golden Globe nominated/winner - 3 GG nominations

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