Miles Teller’s best performance was as Peyton Manning in an SNL cold open.
My sister used to be director of a large not-for-profit organization in Los Angeles. She had to attend a lot of benefit banquets and often was seated next to a B-list or higher celebrity. She distinctly remembers that William Shatner was a charming dinner companion once you finally convinced him that under no circumstances were you going to sleep with him.
That is funny, I needed that. 
This advice is incomplete - how do you convey that message?
“under no circumstances am I going to sleep with you”
I’m picturing Shatner is like a child probing their parent for a case where whatever they want to do is actually a good thing.
“You could sleep with Captain Kirk! Who doesn’t want that?”
“You know I’m a dude, right?”
Thank you
With Shatner (or perhaps James T Kirk) that is not necessarily a showstopper.
Apparently James Woods’ house survived the fire in the end. I feel ambivalent about this; I don’t want people’s houses to burn down but Woods is very much a candidate for this thread.
As for Miles Teller - I thought he did an excellent job in Whiplash but anything Simmons is in is going to be Simmons-focused, because he’s just that fucking good.
Quite honestly, I have never liked James Woods the person, but he has had one (and only one, IMO) good and watchable picture to his credit: White House Down from 2013, where he was Martin Walker, who was supposed to be the man in charge of the Secret Service detail for Pres. Sawyer (Jamie Foxx), but who actually (IIRC) turned out to be one of the participants in the titular attack.
I have no idea what Miles Teller is like IRL. But He seems to have carved out a bit of a niche playing jerky characters who are a bit too arrogant for their own good who frequently get taken down a peg - Whiplash, Top Gun Maverick, Divergent, War Dogs, Spiderhead, etc.
Not a fan of Hercules?
Other than that, I can’t really remember any of his roles other than Videodrome, but according to his Wiki page he’s earned three Emmys and a Golden Globe and had two Oscar nominations so he must be doing something right.
Also: I give him credit for Family Guy and the “Ooo! Piece of candy!” bit.
And when he filled in for Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart.
They also named the high school for him, though it is now renamed to Adam West.
Salvador is what got him his Best Acting nomination and Ghosts of Mississippi the Best Supporting nomination. Both are quasi-biopics of mixed accuracy/focus. The Oliver Stone-helmed Salvador is definitely the better of the two (even if substantially fictional), but Woods does make for a satisfyingly repellent white supremacist in Rob Reiner’s Ghosts.
I thought True Believer was a pretty good movie and Woods was pretty good in it.
Reposting what I posted elsewhere:
I grew up in Los Angeles and live in Santa Barbara and have seen many celebrities over the course of my life. They are almost always benign and going about their life. Occasionally they are wonderful and rarely dickheads.
The biggest dick by far was Christopher Lloyd. He lives in the Santa Barbara area and we are both regulars at a very good sushi place. We have both been going there since it opened and and I saw him many times and, of course, didn’t give two shits who he was. One day I went in and he was with someone at the end of the bar. The only seats open at the bar were the two next to him and there was also one table.
The staff tried to direct me and my date to the table but I asked to go to the bar. I’m a regular there so they did so with a weird hesitation that I didn’t understand. As soon as I sat down, Chris looked at me with complete disgust and then turned his back to me and spent the entire time with his side to the bar. I didn’t even nod my head at him because I was much more interested in my date. I have a few friends who are involved in the promotion business and they have since told me that he is a notorious asshole.
I got my revenge though, not that he remembered me. A couple of years later a friend of mine worked for a major sponsor of a film festival and needed a date for their kick off dinner just a couple of miles from the restaurant. The three tables in the front were me, the big money sponsors and off the top of my head Kirk Douglas and his wife, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Annette Benning, Danny Devito, Rhea Pearlman, Rob Lowe and Dennis Miller. They forgot to include Chris with the other local celebs. He was all the way in the back furious, humiliated and stewing. I kept turning around and smiling at him but he had no clue why.
Doc Frown, lol.