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Every time I see Patinkin, this is what goes through my mind:
“It is like your name… Sykes. I’m sure it doesn’t bother you at all that it sounds like ‘ss’ai k’ss,’ two words in my language which mean ‘excrement’ and ‘cranium’…shithead.”
As for Deadwood, every time I see E. B. Farnum, I hear…well.
“Hi, I’m Larry. This here’s my brother, Darryl. And this is my other brother, Darryl.”
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I keep thinking the same thing when I see Blade Runner.
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So, Nielsen is now perceived as a comedian BECAUSE he starred in a movie and a TV series that lampooned the kind of serious dramatic work he’d spent his whole life doing!
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You’re right, but Nielsen is preceived as a comic actor because those are the only roles he’s chosen to play since Airplane! . He hasn’t gone back to playing the ultra-square guys he played before 1980. He’s made a great living playing Drebin-esque characters for over 25 years now, on top of the super-serious ones he played for 25 years before that. He’s in his eighties now, believe it or not, and still going strong. I say he should get a honorary Oscar.
the Matrix also ruined The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for all future viewings.
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Strange, I found that The Matrix perfected Priscilla for me.
Queen’s set at Live Aid, destroyed every other groups set. They compeletly blew everyone else out of the water.
I had a big problem with Passion of the Christ being a Life of Brian fan. I think a lot of folks on this board mentioned the same issue when the movie came out.
I’ve been trying to watch House but it’s really hard for me to see Hugh Laurie as a crabby, unshaven, limping, t-shirt-wearing, genius American doctor when I am used to him being an aloof, shaven, limber, stylish (usually), numbskull British comedian/fop/soldier/playboy in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves & Wooster.
My mom, who saw House first was equally as disturbed when I showed her Jeeves & Wooster.
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I had a big problem with Passion of the Christ being a Life of Brian fan. I think a lot of folks on this board mentioned the same issue when the movie came out.
I’ve been trying to watch House but it’s really hard for me to see Hugh Laurie as a crabby, unshaven, limping, t-shirt-wearing, genius American doctor when I am used to him being an aloof, shaven, limber, stylish (usually), numbskull British comedian/fop/soldier/playboy in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves & Wooster.
My mom, who saw House first was equally as disturbed when I showed her Jeeves & Wooster.
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I came here to post the very same thing. I tried to re-watch my J & W DVDs the other night and it just doesn’t work anymore.
Speaking of Blackadder, Miranda Richardson single-handedly destroyed all other portrayals of Elizabeth I, before or since: it’s impossible to watch Cate Blanchett or Judi Dench doing Queen Bess without thinking, “Percy - who’s Queen?”.
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And let’s admit it, when Ricardo Montalban shows up on TV, how many of you yell out, “KHAAAAAN! KHAAAAAN!” You know you do. :wally
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Ever since seeing Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! (which I can’t believe came out 25 years ago) I can’t take his previous work as a more straight-laced actor seriously. He played the ship captiain in the original Poseiden Adventure which was on cable not too long ago and I kept expecting him to be funny, which he wasn’t.
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This is exactly what I thought of–I simply cannot take him seriously now!
My dad once told me that Jack Elam used to play some really serious bad guys–I’m talking about real bastards. (I only saw one clip from an old Western flick and he was shooting at a baby, so I can believe it) But then came Support Your Local Sherriff, and his career as a baddie was over !