Judgment at Nuremberg-Natural, fine.
Twilight Zone eps-Great, especially the first. Very natural.
Star Trek-Frigging brilliant early on. BRILLiant. As he got fatter and the costumes less flattering he started to mail it in.
Between ST and TWOK-Yeahhhh…tough times. Just get your paycheck Bill. People don’t appreciate you anyway.
TWOK and most of the rest of ST movies-Great. For the most part.
Then Bill transitions to his “I’m just me” phase. And he’s quite good at it. See Denny Crane.
By the way his album with Ben Folds is fantastic.
edit: oh, and you’re saying David Warner and Christopher Plummer are amateur hour?? Please.
Tim Reid post-WKRP was seriously impeded by his wife’s insistence that he put her into all his projects. She was dreadful in “Frank’s Place”, and IMO killed the show, and his career.
Did you forget the 90 episodes as T.J. Hooker, which started around the same time as Wrath of Khan? Or his episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. featuring also Leonard Nimoy as the antagonist?
That said, I don’t agree with your assessment of his acting. It was often like he was stage acting when the camera was in close-up. Selling to the cheap seats on film does not work for some of us.
What about Ioan Gryfydddud (sp? and I’m not looking it up)
Matinee idol looks, was great in the Horatio Hornblower series, not so great in the abysmal Fantastic Four. Works steadily I suppose but I thought he’d be huge.
I saw “My Week With Marilyn” last night and Julia Ormond was in it.
She’s worked steadily. But when she was in Legends of the Fall, First Night and Sabrina (I think she took a hit for the dismal performance of the Sabrina remake - where they made EVERY mistake they made in the first one - well, except Greg Kinnear isn’t a hopeless drunk), I thought she’d be Julia Roberts sort of big…She’s beautiful and talented, and she got her break.
If there’s ever a movie of Catcher in the Rye, he would be perfect to play Holden. If he’s not too old by then, of course. But then the question is, if he was Holden, who could they find who’s even more abrasive, to be Ackley?
She was 29 when Legends of the Fall was in theaters, and if you look through her movie choices in the following ten years, she really wasted the last decade of her A-list looks (by common/unfair Hollywood standards for women).
If she couldn’t land romcom roles post-Sabrina, she would have done quite well in the sort of the roles Rachel Weisz landed in that same time period - like the Mummy flicks and Enemy at the Gates.
Sabrina really did kill Julia Ormond’s career in this country. She was unfairly criticized for playing a role that was originally portrayed by a svelte Audrey Hepburn, whereas Ms. Ormond was physically “thicker.” Hardly her fault.
She’s been playing a recurring role in Mad Men, the last two seasons, as Don Draper’s mother in law. I was stunned to see her playing such an older role, but of course, she is pushing 50, and Don Draper robbed the cradle for wife #2. She’s very good and very sexy in the role.
Besides MST3K, The Film Crew, and Rifftrax, Mike Nelson also wrote a lot of hilarious reviews, some of which were collected into Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese, which I still think is laugh-out-loud funny (if now somewhat dated)
He’s written a few other books, but I haven’t been able to get into them at all.
I don’t think so. Jay has this kind of sweet innocence thing going.
The kid who would be great as Holden would be that kid who plays the uber evil Kin Joffrey in Game of Thrones. Imagine all that anger without any of the power.
The whole Sabrina remake confused me. The first one didn’t do very well in the theaters. The romance between Bogart and Hepburn was unbelievable. They are two of my favorite actors and I sit through that movie thinking “what the hell?” So they recast it. And Harrison Ford - who can be charming - plays Linus as such an ass and again looks too old that once again the romance has zero chemistry, and you sit through the movie thinking “what the hell?”
And A list actors survive flops - I guess the ones that do are A list actors and the ones that don’t hope to get a “Best Supporting” nomination at some time in their future, because - especially women - they have little chance of carrying a film again.
Oded Fehr from the Mummy films. Exotic look, decent actor-I’d have thought he could at least get some mileage from those films. The RE films have probably padded his bank account nicely, but Super Hybrid? A killer car film? Really? (Though it’s watchable, has some nice cars and pretty ladies in it.)
He was absolutely brilliant in the terrorist-themed TV show *Sleeper Cell. * If he could just stop picking losers and be part of some sort of hit, he’s got the talent to be at the very least a well regarded character actor a la Alan Rickman.
I met William McNamara years ago and always assumed he’d be big, as in Brad Pitt big. While he hardly appears to be starving, he’s still not a household name.
Lucas Black. Had some notable roles as a young’un (Sling Blade, for one), and has been in some other stuff recently (like one of the Fast and Furious movies), but hasn’t hit it big, IMO. Maybe it’s the drawl. He should’ve; I think he’s talented.
I also think he’s hot, BTW. He’s a bit young for me, but I’d do awful, awful things to him (if I wasn’t married and if he’d even look in my direction).
I agree with you on his talent. One of the best kid actors I’ve ever seen. And his adult work has been fine.
However, Lucas is terribly short. He is too small to be a leading man, at least that’s my guess. He’s shorter than Matt Damon, who is pretty short himself.
I don’t think his accent should hold him back. Can’t southern folks fake a neutral accent like a person not from the south can fake a southern drawl or twang?
I’d really like to know how small he is. Because height usually doesn’t stop someone from making it big (see Al Pacino and Tom Cruise, for two examples). However, he may be too short to even fake it. I don’t know. Or maybe he can’t fake an accent.
But I’ve always liked him. Not like you, and I know I wouldn’t want to do the things you have thought up, but hey… I’m a straight guy.