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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

At least Dreyfess reportedly overcame serious drug problems and did some excellent work after that. Another druggie with arguably great talent is Robert Downey Jr. (probably best work was in Chaplin). He also appeared in Ally McBeil - which prompts me to mention Calista Flockhart as "best extremely thin actress..."

Among other mainly TV stars with exceptional talent, I would include Dennis Franz, David Caruso (NYPD Blue used to be great...), the whole cast of Everybody Loves Raymond (Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Patricia Hearst, Brad Garret...) Kiefer Sutherland (24), Martin Sheen (West Wing), and Hugh Laurie (House)

Other stars certainly worth honorable mention are Alan Alda and Diane Keaton...

Xerxes · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

Ok, anyone got the link reference to a list of fav movies of all time in one of the old threads? If there isn't, I'd make one, but I'm thinkin' there's gotta be one. Even if I do make one, I don't have the patience to wait around until enough respondents come in.

My vote for De Niro for the old-timers. (Come on, you gotta like Bob!)

Ed Norton for the new breed. BTW (Great intensity)

Meryl Streep for the older actresses (She's just got that sexy intelligent thing going for her in addition to when she does all her roles with precision accuracy)

Helena Bonham Carter for new breed actresses (though she was acting since she was like two and getting good all the time. She could be a stage actress for all the range she's got)

I think that a director picking an actor for the range an actor has is not good direction. A director should not pick an actor that is so type cast that he/she will bring all these other performances to the screen as noise, but there is a balance. I agree that for the actor, showing range is good self promotion, though.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

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Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

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Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

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Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Yeah, that was a great film. I like the synopsis of Crimes and Misdemeaners:

The film's title indicates the themes of two separate stories: 1) a renowned opthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship...which ends up in murder; and 2) an ethically frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss...

Alda played the self-centered boss. Certainly one of Allen's best efforts as a film-maker. All his films are interesting and usually funny (and he married that Korean girl about 35 years younger than him... Cool

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On a side note, I've seen Alda (and a number of celebrities) in person as they regularly patronized my aunt's dry cleaners in Southampton, N.Y. (Mel Brooks and his late wife, Anne Bancroft, were among the regular customers who used to drop in while I was hanging out there working a little during summer vacations...) Steven Spielberg, Melanie Griffith, Hank Azaria and Julie Kavner of the Simpsons have been more-or-less steady clientel in recent years... My aunt half-jokingly talks about writing a "tell-all" book based on celebrities dirty laundry (including Melanie Griffith's panties...) entitled "It All Comes Out in the Wash"... When her late husband's family started the business in the 50s' the likes of Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Zsa Zsa Gabor were regular patrons, and she says she has many stories... I may ghost write the book for her. (She's currently in the process of selling the business to a Korean family...)

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

After the Olsen twins release their first porn flick I will post my vote.

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject:

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

duplicate post.