Oh good one! Let’s go! I hear there’s a new Buscemi flick out called Eating Some Peanut Butter Crackers.
Well, not really, but if there was…
Which is why I would pay a lot to see him perform! 
Bruce Campbell orders a pizza.
Samuel L. Jackson waits in line at the muthafucking DMV.
Roger Ebert sometimes reviews particularly bad movies by asking the question, “Is this movie as interesting as watching the same actors having lunch?”
Is my memory playing tricks on me, or didn’t Orson Welles do literally this once on the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson?
Did this post make anyone else remember the classic Sesame Street song, “One of These Things is Not Like the Others”?.
I’d watch Edward Norton Balances His Checkbook
I think Cate Blanchett is providing some of the best acting currently being committed to film, but don’t put her in this category. I’m not interested in Cate Blanchett Makes an Omelet, but would love to see Cate Blanchett as a WNBA Star making an omelet, or as a long of tooth pop-star making an omelet on a hotplate on the tour bus. My point, I guess, is that the reason I’ll see anything Cate Blanchett is in is different from the reason I’ll see anything that Anthony Hopkins is in.
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Get ready, because she’s playing Bob Dylan in an upcoming film!
I’ll see your Edward Norton and Geoffrey Rush, and raise you an Alfred Molina. Throw in Hank Azaria, and we can all watch “Four Guys Sitting Around Playing Bridge”.
I’ll add confirming votes to William Shatner mowing the lawn, and to Alan Rickman doing absolutely anything (I adore the man, and wish he’d do less theater and more film, so I could see him more often) and add someone more known as a singer than an actor.
David Bowie. I saw him in the Elephant Man in Chicago years ago, and he was very, very good. I’d watch him doing just about anything.
William H. Macy
Peter O’Toole
Michael Caine - he’s already been said, but it’s worth saying twice
Edward Norton - ditto
Christian Bale
“No, Alfred! We already told you we play for cash only. Nobody cares if you want to throw in the whip!”
I nominate Chris Cooper Loads the Dishwasher and David Strathairn Takes a Nap on the Couch. Not surprisingly, Maetwan is one of my favorite movies. (And it’s got James Earl Jones, too!)
I know he’s not an actor but i could listen to Vin Scully read the phone book, Hell i used to watch golf on CBS when he did that.
Spencer Tracy. Doing anything. As long as he was on screen thinking about something, he was interesting.
Another ‘James Earl Jones’ vote (the man is crap proof- he could star in PORKY’S IV and it would help the movie and not hurt him at all)
John Rhys Davies
Brian Blessed
Katharine Helmond (very underrated actress- I was watching her as the grief-mad howling hag in Miss Jane Pittman the other day and re-appreciating her)
Derek Jacoby
I think Sesame Street is one of the greatest TV shows ever, in part because you can see actors from this list reciting the alphabet. Each of those segments is amazing television.
I’ll add Ned Beatty to the actor’s list.
Diverting the thread to authors, I’d read Bruce Sterling’s to-do list. “Bruce Sterling’s *-Punk To Do Lists” would be a fantastic collection.
There is a kids show my son likes to watch on Saturday morning called “Peep in the Big Wide World” or something like that. It isn’t bad to begin with but I enjoy it that much more because Joan Cusack does the narration. She also made “School of Rock” considerably more enjoyable for me than it would otherwide have been. And her outburst concerning Barbara Streisand was the single funniest moment of the movie “In and Out”.
In the same vein I was surprised to find myself enjoying the recent “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” movie more after Bill Nighy showed up as Slartibartfast.
Christopher Walken reimagines The 12 Days of Christmas.
I will also nominate Hugh Laurie folds the laundry and orders pizza by phone.
Has anyone else here seen The Swarm? Michael Caine was in it, as were a number of other good actors, and he didn’t make it any better. Even Ian McKellen wouldn’t have done anything for that movie.
Peter Sellers Plays Everyone in the Phone Book might make my Netflix list.
I don’t know about Orson Welles, but there was a humorist named Henry Morgan with a delivery so dry it was said he could get laughs simply by reading the phone book. Some late night talk show host (might have been Johnny Carson, or maybe Merv Griffin, Jack Paar or Steve Allen) once gave him a phone and sure enough, he made it funny.
My father said he cheated because he picked a page with all Chinese names and made them sound goofy.