Nana Visitor is guilty of over-emoting, as well. Whenever she finished some long monologue, I half expected her to say, “ACTING!”
Probably the same one where’s lauded for his comedic genius by James Lipton on *Inside Actor’s Studio * for his role in “Big Momma’s House.”
:smack: Waitaminute.
I really don’t think James Lipton has met an ass he wouldn’t kiss. You know, just IMHO.
Martin Lawrence, don’t the French think he’s a comic genius?
One obscure one: The great (and lamented) My So Called Life was full of great acting among all the regular cast. (The weakest link was probably Devon Odessa as Sharon, and she was still fine). But the Christmas episode featured a guest starring appearance from country singer Julianna Hatfield. And she could not act her way out of a paper bag.
I loved Tobey Maguire/Will Ferrell as Dustin “Screech” Diamond/James Lipton on SNL. “You… sir… are… quite simply… the… single grea—test… comic actor… of all time.”
Who, Rohm? Wikipedia says she was engaged for two years to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Röhm
Yeah, engaged.
What?
Whoosh.
Her last line on L&O was “Is [my being fired] because I’m a lesbian?”, the first time the character’s orientation was ever mentioned (though I think she had been seen with a dog and a tennis racket).
In a typical calibre of ITAS guests, I’d be kissing ass, too. I expect Great Important Actors on ITAS. I can see a place for Underappreciated Legendary Character Actors and Hot Up And Comers With Unbelievable Talent and Enjoyable Perfomances. I could conceivably see a place for Whole Series Casts, although I kind of :rolleyes: at the ones for Everybody Loves Raymond and Will & Grace.
But Martin Lawrence has always struck me as too much the poor man’s Eddie Murphy.
Why the hell was Billy Joel once a guest on ITAS?
I can’t believe this thread has gone this far with no mention of Roseanne Barr-Arnold-whatever. Okay, she did improve over the course of the series so that she could at least do a passable job portraying a character that mirrors her own personality. But for the first few years she could not deliver a line to save her life. Whenever I see those early episodes, my heart really goes out to John Goodman & Laurie Metcalfe and even the three kids, all of whom struggled mightily to compensate for that enormous albatross weighing down her own show.
The cast of Will & Grace was on Leno one night and they were asked about their interview on ITAS. Unanimously and openly they despised it, particularly the asinine “answer this question as your character” pieces. They thought the interview was too silly except when he tried to get deep, which with ten people (the 4 principals AND their characters as well as the producer and creator) just isn’t gonna happen in a short show. I think that episode even more than Lawrence or Robin Williams’ second interview was it’s nadir.
Well, he DID do the voice of Dodger in Disney’s Oliver & Company.
Was Hatfield playing a country singer? Because that’s not her preferred musical style.
That’s cuckoo talk. Jason Alexander was easily the best actor on that show. His character was annoying, for sure, but that’s not because of bad acting. Anything other than Seinfeld, though, and I agree - he’s lost it.
I came in to say the actress who plays Corrinne Mackey on The Shield - I guess when you’re the creator’s wife, it doesn’t matter how bad you come across on camera. Even worse (though she was only on a few episodes of The Shield, and I’ve never seen her in anything else except movies) is David Mamet’s wife (whose name I can’t remember, and my work computer is way too slow to open another window to look her up on imdb) - on the show she was supposed to have some sort of British accent, I think - she was so painfully bad (and intermittent) with it that it was hard to tell. Talk about the perks of being the creator’s wife - she’s probably the worst actress I can think of (even counting Elisabeth Rohm), yet she gets to appear in more critically-acclaimed shit than many actresses with far, far better chops.
No, she was playing a mysterious and angelic homeless waif. I thought she was a country singer in real life, but as I’ve never heard of her in any other context, I might well be mistaken.
Martin Lawrence is the desperately-starved-for-entertainment, lacking-a-sense-of-humor-man’s Eddie Murphy’s untalented brother.
The Billy Joel episode of ITAS was one of my favorites, because it was mostly Billy Joel singing and playing and talking about songwriting. I don’t know why he was ther, but he was great.
One more example of a horrible actress and nepotism on The Shield: Autumn Chiklis, star Michael Chiklis’ GIANT daughter, playing his character Vic Mackey’s daughter Cassidy Mackey. The girl seems extraordinarily huge, and is an even worse actress than Cathy Cahlin Ryan, who plays her mother. All she does is whine, scream, cry, and flounce… and not even in a believable “I’m a teenage girl, my parents are separated, and my father is a shady scumbag” sort of way.
Wouldn’t that be CHARLIE MURPHY? Oh wait, he’s actually funny as well.
Both Billy Joel and Elton John got the pass because they’ve written the music for successful Broadway shows (old style in Billy Joel’s case where they take a bunch of his more popular songs and build a show around them). Sir Elton has actually written the music for two successful shows.
Did you happen to see Movin’ Out when it was here in town? Un-fricken’-believable!
Nope, out of work at the time – couldn’t afford it.