I heard he freebases saffron.
My favorite Ben Kingsley one-off is his appearance in the terrible recent adaptation of “A Sound of Thunder”, in which he takes scenery-chewing to hilariously self-conscious heights. He winks openly at the audience throughout.
But he wouldn’t do Cleaver and they had to get Daniel Baldwin to take the role.
4 words:
Buddhist Richard Gere in a Japan-only commercial for Dandy House, an “Exclusive Men’s Beauty Day Spa”
http://www.japander.com/japander/gere.htm
Lots more at that site.
When people ask question like this, I always go by the old truism - follow the money. Checking out boxofficemojo, I see that the PP starring Steve Martin cost $80M to produce and grossed $158,851,357 which gives Hollydumb $78,851,357 reasons to produce a sequel
'Cept, of course, because of Follywood’s “creative accounting” practices, a film has to gross twice what it cost to produce, just to break even. So, they’re making a sequel to a film in which they lost basically $2 million on. That’s the kind of “logic” that inspires them to make a sequel to a film which costs more than the domestic gross of the original!
That’s also because some of the box office money (about half, I think) goes to the movie theaters themselves. But when you throw in DVD sales and rentals whatever else, I’m sure the movie made a profit.
I thought the big scandal with the creative accounting was that the books didn’t show a profit to minimize back-end participation, not that “Hollywood” isn’t making “a profit”.
My favorite part of PP was when Beyonce was talking about how wonderful it was to be part of the legend and of course she said yes to the role. And what’s her favorite of the Pink Panther movies? Well, she hadn’t actually seen any of them.
If you know you’re going to be answering these questions, watch one or two of the movies.
We have a winner !
Look, the guy’s harmless. It isn’t art. It sells popcorn. He collects art. He doesn’t make art. Why is this a problem?
Cartooniverse, camera operator who never turned down a paying job. 
Well, who has more “cred” (and died with more money) Boris “Frankenstein” Karloff or Bela “Plan Nine From Outer Space” Lugosi? 
Not even close. The exhibitors don’t start getting half of the ticket revenue until a movie’s been out for many, many weeks, which very few titles manage any more. All things considered, the theater is very lucky if it sees a third of what it collects at the box office.
Martin pretty much lost me when he made The Three Amigos (what a piece of shit that was!). I saw him on Letterman pushing that crap–he was the exec producer, and said he didn’t know what the exec producer does.
IMO, it showed in the film.
I have a soft spot for that piece of crap.
I think it weirdly helped that the actors had the same mercenary attitude as the characters they were playing.