Blind Item #14 - Kindness
This actor has been acting for well over three decades and he came to it in his 30's. Usually a character actor he did land a pretty big supporting role in the first couple installments of what is a huge superhero franchise. He was shopping in LA and saw a stroller that got away from a mom rolling down the street. It was just like in a movie where it was speeding down a hill and headed for a car and our actor managed to catch up with it and save the baby.
Danny Devito?
ReplyDeleteHarrison Ford?
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ReplyDeleteHarrison Ford fits. Samuel L Jackson?
ReplyDeleteHe was more of a leading man. Not that well known as a character actir(Harrison Ford)
DeleteJK Simmons?
ReplyDeleteTricia wins CDAN today
ReplyDeleteDon Cheadle??
ReplyDeleteJK Simmons is an even better fit. Good one, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteThanks cheesegrater.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t be surprised if JK.. love that guy.
DeleteGreg Clark
ReplyDeleteClark Gregg? Phil Coulson from the Avengers? I can see it.
DeleteThis sounds like Michael Rooker.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe not. Guardians of the galaxy wasn’t a superhero movie/franchise per se.
DeleteJon Favreau? But as a fellow larger American, I have trouble seeing him rundown a stroller.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see Danny Devito chasing a stroller down a hill!
ReplyDeleteLeslie Nielsen!
ReplyDeleteLeslie Nielsen has been dead for years.
DeleteWho ever it is - good for him!
ReplyDelete"has been acting for well over three decades and he came to it in his 30's" sounds like someone who started in their 30's and is now in their 60's or 70's.
ReplyDeleteHow else could that be interpreted? @Brayson
DeleteWas DeVito in the first couple installments of a huge superhero franchise?
ReplyDeleteMichael Caine?
ReplyDelete@Brayson... didnt DeVito play the Joker in one of the Batman movies? Would that be a franchise?
ReplyDeleteHe played The Penguin (might have been only 1 film though)
DeleteHe was the Penguin
ReplyDelete@HkyMom: Penguin in the second one.
ReplyDeleteMichael Caine was in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
ReplyDeleteYes I thought DeVito was one and done for Batman.
ReplyDeleteWhomever this 60 something year old man is I applaud him. The thought of Danny Devito chasing a stroller down a hill to save a baby had me spitting my red wine and diet coke out. That visual is hilarious.
ReplyDeleteHey maybe he stopped,dropped and rolled and got there first lol
DeleteHahah Tricia 🤣 thank you for that image
DeleteJ.K. Simmons is the best fit, started in his 30's in the 80's, was in the first three Spider-Man installments, and still seems spry enough to outrun a stroller.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with JK Simmons guess but I'm surprised A list or Oscar winner wasn't mentioned. However I've seen him, Samuel L Jackson and Harrison Ford at the Grove in the last year.
ReplyDeleteClark Gregg, +1 Sean.
ReplyDeleteClark Gregg is another good one except he was doing movies and tv in his 20's.
ReplyDelete@:|raven|:.
ReplyDeleteMichael Caine was an actor from when he left the army at 20. He was part of the Swinging London scene in the early sixties and shared a flat with Terance Stamp - but not in that way, far from it. The flat was famous for the debauchery that went on in it. If Enty could get his hands on even half the stories of those two fucking their way through the young womanhood of the King's Road Chelsea in the sixties then this website might run for another few decades.
We need a like button!
ReplyDeleteIf it's JK they need to find a way to incorporate this incident into his Farmers ads.
ReplyDeleteMichael Keaton
ReplyDeleteNed Beatty -- character actor, big supporting role in the original Superman and Superman 2, acting for well over 3 decades
ReplyDeleteI like the JK Simmons answer - also, it's his birthday and mine today!
ReplyDeletei liked michael douglas for this until i saw he started acting in his early 20's. and he's not a character actor.
ReplyDeletej.k. simmons, great guess.
JK Simmons also played Commissioner Jim Gordon in Justice League, btw
ReplyDeleteMichael Keaton
ReplyDeleteGene Hackman? Superman was the franchise.
ReplyDeleteI adore JK Simmons! He is in the upcoming The Batman movie as well.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Robyn! :)
ReplyDeleteNo, Gene Hackman wasn't exactly a character actor. Ned Beatty is a much better guess, gauloise.
ReplyDeleteThank you to whomever it was that ran after the stroller, I know the mother was flabbergasted and overcome with pure joy he stopped that stroller
ReplyDeleteThis guess may not fit, but I'm enjoying the mental image in my head of imagining this is Sir Patrick Stewart.
ReplyDeleteMichael Rooker
ReplyDelete@unknown. Yep that was my guess too. It sounds so much like him except for the superhero franchise.
ReplyDeleteJ.K. Simmons is in good shape in Counterpart. I can see him doing this Michael Caine..plenty of creeper stories about him on here yuck
ReplyDeleteDammit Gemma you beat me to it! I immediately thought of him and his first credit was at age 31.
ReplyDeleteMichael Rooker. He got his start with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer at 31, and it's one of those films you can't forget. The lack of details about the superhero franchise is because the two Guardians of the Galaxy "volumes" are directed by James Gunn. Rooker has actually starred in all four of his movies, and Enty doesn't want people to notice that the blind clashes with everything he's been tipped about regarding Gunn and his friends from another source.
ReplyDeleteI am going with Clark Gregg also. He was the first actor I thought of.
ReplyDeletePeter Dinklage :p
ReplyDelete@angela. But I wouldn’t call GotG a *superhero* franchise. Although everything else sounds like Rooker. And I think he’d do something like this. As an aside, James Gunn has done more than 4 movies.
ReplyDeleteI think I like the Michael Rooker guess for this better than the JK Simmons guess, but glad the actor hustled it to save the little one!
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ReplyDeleteharrison ford needs all the deflections he can get
@Temi. 1955 not 52
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ReplyDeleteSamuel motherfucking Jackson, bitch.
ReplyDeleteLololololololol!!!!
DeleteI love the idea of Danny DeVito rolling down the hill. But honestly, it might be any or none of these guesses. I’m just glad it happened!
ReplyDelete@Brayson, not to get too personal, but is Robyn the person with whom you spent NYE’s ? Sorry to ask, but after all it is a gossip site 😉. Sounds like you’re very happy & content. Congratulations!
Obviously JK Simmons. Thought him immediately.
ReplyDeleteClark Gregg
ReplyDelete@yepthatsme excellent Naked Gun reference!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brayson!
ReplyDeleteOff topic...
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/Peaceful_411/status/933385204345032705
Is nobody going to comment on Mountain mama drinking red wine with Diet Coke???????
ReplyDeleteMust just be me then.
Depeche Model, I heard Juicy Joe talking about drinking it on the NJ Housewives years ago. Yesterday I had a glass of diet coke poured and my husband brought me a glass of Pinot Noir. So I drank half the glass of wine and topped it off with the diet coke. I loved it! Will definitely have it again.
ReplyDeleteDidn't he also pull three people from a burning car?
ReplyDeleteTune in tomorrow, some celebrity will rescue a drowning puppy!
I mean it. Really.
Oh my....well, each to their own I suppose. Just make sure it's not a Chateau Margaux or a Lafite
ReplyDelete@lydiajosepg. Who pulled 3 people from a burning car??
ReplyDeleteGuardians is a franchise, guys. Come on- it's part of the MCU.
ReplyDeleteJK Simmons is an Oscar winning actor, that's a whole lot more than just a "character actor".
It's Rooker.
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ReplyDelete@lisa. But would you say GotG is about superheroes? That’s my question. Not whether it was a franchise.
ReplyDeleteGary Oldman.
ReplyDeleteBorn in 58, breakout role Sid and Nancy in 86. Commissioner Gordon in Batman Begins franchise. Iconic character actor.
Also you can be an Oscar winning character actor. Supporting actor category.
ReplyDelete@Notagoodscreenname
ReplyDeleteGotG is Marvel, and Enty tends to put everything Marvel under the "superheroes" umbrella.
James Gunn has written a few scripts, but he has only directed four films – Slither, Super (which was literally a film about superheroes, by the way), GotG, and GotG vol. 2. The Dawn of the Dead remake was Zack Snyder and the two Scooby-Doos were Raja Gosnell.
@angela. Gotcha, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI LOOOOOOOVE the Clark Gregg guess. Seems like a very nice man who would absolutely do such a thing.
ReplyDeleteJK Simmons is also a fantastic guess. I've heard nothing but great things about him as a person.
@Flashy Vic
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The thought of Danny DeVito chasing a buggy down a hill and rescuing a baby is heroically hysterical! LofreakinL!
ReplyDeleteElliot Ness!
ReplyDeleteNed Beatty
ReplyDeleteBegan his career in "Deliverance" at 37
Was one of Lex Luthor's goons for Superman I & II