It's hard to pick a favorite actor/actress, but in terms of pure entertainment value, recalling Cher as Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck still brings a smile to my face and is the most memorable. The scene where she slaps Nicholas Cage and tells him to "Snap out of it!" is classic.
My favorite TWO actresses are duh and duh one duh's is Silver Lining Playbook and the other duh's is not Caligula but Calendar Girls. My favorite actor is Jack Nicholson and my 2 of his are The Shining and Chinatown
I'm going off the board for single favorite cinematic battle between a(n) (male) actor and an (female actor formerly known as) actress, with O'Toole and Hepburn in The Lion in Winter.
I also love Tony Curtis in "Some Like it Hot." Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe are also great in that movie, but Tony plays the loveable jerk so well. True to life, if his biographers can be believed.
For actresses, Imma go with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I adore her. OK, OK, she's not the greatest actress in history, but the movie is so funny and I don't care, I love her wisecracking.
Favorite Actor - Gene Hackman-can't pick a favorite he's so good in everything Favorite Actress-Debra Winger - Loved her especially in Black Widow and of course Terms of Endearment
Off the top of my head - Sydney Lassick 'One flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" Richard Ward - "Across 110th Street" & Brubaker" Cathy Moriarity "Raging Bull" "Neighbors" Deniro King of Comedy Walken The Deer Hunter Gena Rowlands 'A Woman Under The Influence" Geraldine Chaplin " Remember My Name" Barbara Loden "Wanda" Liz Taylor "Butterfiled 8" Cate Blanchett ' The Shipping news" Rutger Haure Nighthawks& Blade Runner Peter Sellers being There The Party Gregory Peck ' Boys From Brazil" &"I walk The Line"
ANDREWBW: You are by far the smartest person on CDAN today! The Bitter Tea Of General Yen is one of my absolutely favorite films! What a film history memory you have! Talk about memories! They just don't make films like that anymore. They can't! It would be considered racist. Not to mention the General was not Asian! Thanx for making my week!
The Asian guy in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" also wasn't Asian. 😂
But in some cases, casting an Asian person would've been even MOAR racist: Like if they made Teh Ancient One in "Doctor Strange" it would just play into stereotypes of the "wiseman guru" nyeeeh. And I hope they don't make Wong a servantman (I just learned that's how he was originally written WTF).
That's a good one actually. "There Will Be Blood" absolutely TERRIEFIES me. The hair on my the back of my neck/back are all goosebumps as I type this WTF. I hate TWBB.
I really like Audrey Hepburn in "Charade" (especially the opening scene when she just met Cary Grant's character).
Yesterday I parked at a high-end mall to go to the Japanese embassy next door in the capital city of the country I live in. The lights were unlit partially and teh shop assistants were just getting ready for a day of work... Only try coffeeshops had actual customers in it. I was walking in this mall 'alley' (it was wide, though). And I was the only person there, walking between the Louis Vuitton shop and something else that had these loopy/triply effects And it was so quiet/dark I could hear my own footsteps. I felt like Holly Golightly at the breakfast hours, I nearly fucking cried. I was so happy I'm a HUGE FAN of hers! And tehnn I saw teh Tiffany & Co. shop. It was crazyyyyy.... 🗽👩🏻🚕🍂💛
Oh, I also like Stephen Strange as Doctor Strange (LOL because that's teh level I play at—who's that Benedict guy Gwenpool mentioned in the comicbooks? I don't know him).
Completely OT - but in all the years I have been reading this site - today I noticed something that I can't stop seeing now. In the bottom right not quite corner of the banner it looks like there is a man's face... Has anyone else ever noticed that?
One of my favorites who never gets much mention (he's been dead for many years) is Richard Jordan. Logan's Run, Gettysburg, Dune, the Hunt for Red October. This guy was riveting on-screen. Never quite a leading man, he was always compelling, always on the edge of major stardom. Died of brain cancer shortly after Gettysburg. He would have been one of the real heavyweights if he had lived.
Michael Nyqvist is another great actor who has left us. He starred in the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and played the gangster father of Alfie Allen in John Wick. "With a fucken pencil."
Coincidentally, both men died at 56. Both gone far too soon.
i'm with you 346nyc and scandi on the killing, but can you remember a lamer, more disappointing, illogical denouement to the original rosie plotline than the season 2 finale? aside from dexter, that is?
Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Chris Farley, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Kiki Drunkst did amazing in interview with a vampire - that sticks out in my mind for some reason, Meryl streep and Winona Ryder
Amy adams - nocturnal animals Jennifer lawrence - silver linings playbook Kate Winslet - revolutionary road Emma stone - lalaland Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
Rock Hudson in "Pillow Talk."
ReplyDeleteYes! When he pretended to love gossip and appetizer recipes
DeleteAnd Doris Day for my favorite actress playing
opposite of him
I told my parents I wanted to be a juggler when I grew up, but Daddy Crowley said I didn't have the balls.
ReplyDeletePeter O'Toole - My Favorite Year
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to pick a favorite actor/actress, but in terms of pure entertainment value, recalling Cher as Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck still brings a smile to my face and is the most memorable. The scene where she slaps Nicholas Cage and tells him to "Snap out of it!" is classic.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Day-Lewis - "My Beautiful Laundrette"
ReplyDeleteCan't choose, Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans and Actress: Cate Blanchett in Carol.
ReplyDeleteJack Nicholson in "the Shining"
ReplyDeleteMy favorite TWO actresses are duh and duh one duh's is Silver Lining Playbook and the other duh's is not Caligula but Calendar Girls.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite actor is Jack Nicholson and my 2 of his are The Shining and Chinatown
Treat Williams -- 1941
ReplyDelete@cc423, I'll have to see 1941. I liked Treat Williams a lot in "Hair."
ReplyDeleteIf I can add an actress, it would be Catherine Deneuve, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"
ReplyDeleteGreat choice!
DeleteGeoffrey Rush and Dustin Hoffman, but I am now disenchanted with Hoffman.
ReplyDeleteWith GR, tossup between Quills, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and as Captain Barbossa. He is just always a delight whatever he's in.
Bill Clinton, playing a non-rapist.
ReplyDeleteCary Grant in North by Northwest.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE My Beautiful Laundrette! So hot.
Favorite actress - Barbara Stanwyck
ReplyDeleteBest performance - The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Favorite actor - Jack Nicholson
Best performance - Chinatown
Favorite director - Alfred Hitchcock
Best movie - Rear Window
Julian Sands and Helena Bonham-Carter in a Room With a View.
ReplyDeleteRichard E. Grant & Rachel Ward in How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Richard E. Grant and Sandra Bernhard in Hudson Hawk
Can you tell I adore Richard E. Grant? /grin/
I'm going off the board for single favorite cinematic battle between a(n) (male) actor and an (female actor formerly known as) actress, with O'Toole and Hepburn in The Lion in Winter.
ReplyDelete@Glue - Do you like Richard E.Grant in 'Withnail + I'? One of my favourite films.
ReplyDeleteBud Cort in Harold and Maude My all time favorite movie and I still love his performance to this day.
ReplyDeleteI also love Tony Curtis in "Some Like it Hot." Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe are also great in that movie, but Tony plays the loveable jerk so well. True to life, if his biographers can be believed.
ReplyDeleteFor actresses, Imma go with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I adore her. OK, OK, she's not the greatest actress in history, but the movie is so funny and I don't care, I love her wisecracking.
ReplyDeleteAllie Sin - Pigtails and Round Asses
ReplyDeleteSasha Gray - Cumfart Cocktails
Gauge - Any scene w/ handstand anal
Taylor Rain - Just Over 18
Cody Lane - The Blue Room
Anya Olsen - Bareback Studios
Amia Miley - Monsters of Cock
Dolly Little - xxxPawn
Does Gauge still work?
DeleteNah. Couple years ago she did a feature dancing gig with Aurora Snow, and a scene afterwards, because there was a lot of interest, but that was it.
DeleteJeff Bridges as His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
ReplyDeleteAlso Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
Nicholas Cage in The Wicker Man... "Killing me won't bring back your goddamned honey!" "You bitches!"
ReplyDeleteCan't believe he didn't get an Oscar for this one. Cinematic GOLD. 😂
Kathryn Hepburn and Cary Grant in Bringing up Baby
ReplyDeleteFavorite Actor - Gene Hackman-can't pick a favorite he's so good in everything
ReplyDeleteFavorite Actress-Debra Winger - Loved her especially in Black Widow and of course Terms of Endearment
Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai.
ReplyDeleteOff the top of my head - Sydney Lassick 'One flew Over The Cuckoos Nest"
ReplyDeleteRichard Ward - "Across 110th Street" & Brubaker"
Cathy Moriarity "Raging Bull" "Neighbors"
Deniro King of Comedy
Walken The Deer Hunter
Gena Rowlands 'A Woman Under The Influence"
Geraldine Chaplin " Remember My Name"
Barbara Loden "Wanda"
Liz Taylor "Butterfiled 8"
Cate Blanchett ' The Shipping news"
Rutger Haure Nighthawks& Blade Runner
Peter Sellers being There The Party
Gregory Peck ' Boys From Brazil" &"I walk The Line"
I tell everyone it's Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans (I will find you.") but it's really Keanu Reeves in Point Break and Speed.
ReplyDeleteJordi Molla - Diego Delgado in Blow.
ReplyDeleteCatherine O'Hare - tie between For Your Consideration and Beetlejuice.
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
ReplyDeleteOmg @Count bwaaaaaaahahahahahha
ReplyDeleteJoseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50
ReplyDeleteSaoirse Ronan- Brooklyn
Jessica Chastain - in anything she appears in
ReplyDeleteRobert Carlyle - ditto
Robert Downey, Jr. - same
Jue Law in Alfie
Gary Oldman, pick a role
ReplyDeleteJane Fonda in "Julia".
ReplyDeleteTom Hanks, all his films
ReplyDeleteJohn Cusack, High Fidelity
aunty and lauresp - yes! ddl in "last of the mohicans", swoon.
ReplyDeletewickedbee - what about nic cage's seminal role in "peggy sue got married"? such nuance and emotional authenticity. a maestro at his peak.
Sissy Spacek...Coal Miner's Daughter
ReplyDeleteDebra Winger...Urban Cowboy
@jon. Either of them in anything.
ReplyDeleteCharlize in Monster and Willem Defoe as Jesus Christ
ReplyDeleteCrispin Glover
ReplyDeleteEither George McFly in BTTF or Bobby in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Really, he's just the best thing in everything he does.
@Count: hilarious.
ReplyDeleteANDREWBW: You are by far the smartest person on CDAN today! The Bitter Tea Of General Yen is one of my absolutely favorite films! What a film history memory you have! Talk about memories! They just don't make films like that anymore. They can't! It would be considered racist. Not to mention the General was not Asian! Thanx for making my week!
ReplyDeleteThe Asian guy in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" also wasn't Asian. 😂
DeleteBut in some cases, casting an Asian person would've been even MOAR racist: Like if they made Teh Ancient One in "Doctor Strange" it would just play into stereotypes of the "wiseman guru" nyeeeh. And I hope they don't make Wong a servantman (I just learned that's how he was originally written WTF).
Emma stone .. The help
ReplyDeleteAlan Rickman - Snow Cake
ReplyDeleteDaniel Day Lewis- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one actually. "There Will Be Blood" absolutely TERRIEFIES me. The hair on my the back of my neck/back are all goosebumps as I type this WTF. I hate TWBB.
DeleteDennis hopper, robert duvall, and the rest...apocalypse now was a classic...also love al pacino
ReplyDeleteTwo, Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat
ReplyDeleteI really like Audrey Hepburn in "Charade" (especially the opening scene when she just met Cary Grant's character).
ReplyDeleteYesterday I parked at a high-end mall to go to the Japanese embassy next door in the capital city of the country I live in. The lights were unlit partially and teh shop assistants were just getting ready for a day of work... Only try coffeeshops had actual customers in it. I was walking in this mall 'alley' (it was wide, though). And I was the only person there, walking between the Louis Vuitton shop and something else that had these loopy/triply effects And it was so quiet/dark I could hear my own footsteps. I felt like Holly Golightly at the breakfast hours, I nearly fucking cried. I was so happy I'm a HUGE FAN of hers! And tehnn I saw teh Tiffany & Co. shop. It was crazyyyyy.... 🗽👩🏻🚕🍂💛
Oh, I also like Stephen Strange as Doctor Strange (LOL because that's teh level I play at—who's that Benedict guy Gwenpool mentioned in the comicbooks? I don't know him).
Completely OT - but in all the years I have been reading this site - today I noticed something that I can't stop seeing now. In the bottom right not quite corner of the banner it looks like there is a man's face... Has anyone else ever noticed that?
ReplyDeleteOMG what?! I'm afraid to look! 👻😱😖
DeleteYou're giving me goosebumps. Eep!!!!
Robin Williams in The Birdcage and Helen Slater in The Legend of Billy Jean
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites who never gets much mention (he's been dead for many years) is Richard Jordan. Logan's Run, Gettysburg, Dune, the Hunt for Red October. This guy was riveting on-screen. Never quite a leading man, he was always compelling, always on the edge of major stardom. Died of brain cancer shortly after Gettysburg. He would have been one of the real heavyweights if he had lived.
ReplyDeleteMichael Nyqvist is another great actor who has left us. He starred in the Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and played the gangster father of Alfie Allen in John Wick. "With a fucken pencil."
Coincidentally, both men died at 56. Both gone far too soon.
bette davis of human bondage
ReplyDeleteSo many I can think of, but I'll list two from the past decade in a show I loved:
ReplyDeleteMirielle Enos
Joel Kinnaman
THE KILLING.
"The Killing" is sooo good.
DeleteCan I wait for the dust to settle and answer in 2018?
ReplyDeleteEllen Burstyn in Requiem for A Dream
ReplyDeleteMeryl Streep in A Devil Wears Prada
That's all...
Delete@Kimberley - I haven't yet, but I will now. I just looked it up and will be watching it this weekend. Thank you for the suggestion!
ReplyDelete@Josh G YES! Gary is great in everything. Especially loved him in True Romance.
ReplyDeletei'm with you 346nyc and scandi on the killing, but can you remember a lamer, more disappointing, illogical denouement to the original rosie plotline than the season 2 finale? aside from dexter, that is?
ReplyDeleteDDL - Last of the Mohicans
ReplyDeleteRobin Williams, Tom Hanks, Chris Farley, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Kiki Drunkst did amazing in interview with a vampire - that sticks out in my mind for some reason, Meryl streep and Winona Ryder
ReplyDeleteAmy adams - nocturnal animals
ReplyDeleteJennifer lawrence - silver linings playbook
Kate Winslet - revolutionary road
Emma stone - lalaland
Jake Gyllenhaal - Donnie Darko
Ruth Gordon. Harold and Maude and everything else she did!
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