That’s what my friend Sue Lyon was telling me the other day…
I agree completely. Thing is, Taylor had a MUCH more difficult role to play than Rush did. Rush had the luxury of just adopting a certain tone of voice and a set of mannerisms, and staying with them the whole movie (just as Dustin Hoffman did in “Rain Man”).
Rush did a perfectly fine impersonation of David Helfgottt, but that’s NOT the same thing as good acting. If it were, Rich Little should win an Oscar every year.
Mind you, I think Geoffrey Rush is a superb actor who has given admirable performances in many films. I don’t mean to insult him at all. I just find it sad (though typical) that he won the Oscar for a role that wasn’t really all that challenging, while Noah Taylor was NOT rewarded for a perfornace that required much more range and much more effort.
Noah Taylor reminds me, though… as good as Daniel Day-Lewis was in “My Left Foot,” I thought Hugh O’Connor, who played the young Christie Brown, was even better. I know he’s been a working actor since then, but I’m a bit sad he never earned stardom.
If I’m reading you right,you’re saying that, because Heather Locklear is considered enough of a draw that she has been recruited, multiple times, to help a show that was failing–and that she succeeded in doing so. And, somehow, that makes her less a success than the stars of the series whose shows she had to save?
At least she has “The Cosby Show” re-run money rolling in for the rest of her life.
Hmmm…douchebag…yeah, sure, I’d go ahead and put that in the debit column…
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Oh, speaking of O Brother Where Art thou, I also thought Timothy Blake Nelson was going places. If he did, he forgot to tell me.
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Well, he’s had 30 projects since then, which is 30 more than I’ve had, including The Incredible Hulk (to be fair, a lot of us thought that would be a bigger deal; we don’t hold that one against Edward Norton or Tom Roth, do we?) and a recurring role on CSI. He also has some movies in the pipeline, and who knows how they’ll do?
He’s a director who occasionally acts.
I thought Bridget Fonda really had it going on back in the 90’s, both in terms of acting chops and straight up hotness, then she just disappeared off the face of the earth. It wasn’t a slow fade, either, she just vanished. The last thing I remember her in was Jackie Brown. It wasn’t like her career went south, she just stopped working.
Well, alrighty then!
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Actually, her career did kind of go south which is likely one reason why she stop working. I think her last good part was in A Simple Plan (that was after Jackie Brown wasn’t it?). Then, she appeared in Lake Placid and that flop turned out to be toxic to the career of everyone concerned except for Betty White. It wasn’t long after that that she married and decided to retire to raise a family.
Okay, for the longest time I thought John Cusack was going to be a huge star in the same vein as those that do indie movies and big blockbusters. But somewhere along the way, his script choices have seem to let him down and now his acting (to me) isn’t as solid as it once was. Not really sure what happened, but I hate that (thus far) he’s missed his shot at super-stardom.
There’s a way to spot the big upcoming stars who will disappear off the face of the earth. That little Q&A page on the inside of the Parade Magazine in the Sunday paper? The kind of thing your grandma reads so she’ll have something to chat about when the topic of show biz comes up? There is always someone writing in “who is going to be just HUGE in show biz”. They’ll answer - “Joe Blow is going to knock your socks off in Bada-Bing, in theaters in June.” A couple years later, Joe Blow is a faint memory. I don’t know how Parade Magazine picks 'em - psychics, maybe.
Fred Ward. Liked him in Tremors and Tremors 2 and anything else I’ve seen him in, which hasn’t been anything big. Always hoped for more for him.