I always liked John. I thought he was funny in Third Rock From the Sun and I also liked him in (not admiting I watched it ) Footloose. As far as I am concerned, Lithgow is a great actor.
So why on earth has John Lithgow whored himself out to a soup company??
Is he really so desperate that he needs to do soup commercials? Or is this some kind of pro-bono that I’m not aware of.
I like John Lithgow a lot, but hawking soup is a step up from both Third Rock and Footloose.
Always one of my favorites; he was brilliant in Buckaroo Bonzai and The World According to Garp (and had a great scene that was left on the cutting room floor from L.A. Story). I’ve even been to one of his children’s book readings, and he killed.
The soup thing kinda disappoints me.
Why settle [sub]for soup commercials [/Sub] when you can select [Sub]a worthy project[/Sub]?
I sat next to him in a restaurant. Uno’s. Harvard Square.
I’ve been to Uno’s. In Houston. It closed.
I’ve been past Due’s. In Chicago. It was open.
I believe it’s called “paying the mortgage.” A paying job is a paying job, after all.
I really don’t understand the reasoning behind this complaint. If someone came up to you and offered you a substantial amount of money for one or two days work, you would turn it down? Why? The man did a soup commercial and probably got paid more for that than I get paid in a year. Good for him.
Just out of curiosity, does he have anything else lined up?
I’m just saying its sad for this great actor to be pedalling soup instead of doing movies. (although he did do Orange County and Shrek)
Maybe he just really likes soup.
Were you under the impression that he signed on to do Cliffhanger because of Stallone’s subtle and insightful screenplay?
Indeed. He should stick to pedalling bicycles.
Perhaps you meant “peddling”.
This is the last week of his run in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for which he received a Tony nomination.
So a well-known “respectable” film/TV actor sells soup.
So?
Others sell cellphones or cars. Or do voiceover work for the Yellow Pages.
If anything the ones complaining should be the small-time actors who would normally do such ads as a source of regular incomes.
Lithgow, like Michael Caine, has something of a reputation as someone who just wants to have a gig going on at any given time and finds very little to be beneath him.
I’d like to see any of you turn your nose up at the amount of money he’s getting for those spots.
So, keeping your face in the public eye is a bad thing?
Oh, but just think of the potential! Two years from now, aired during the Superbowl:
Momma McNabb vs. John Lithgow in a winner-takes-all tin cage deathmatch.
Because Soup is Good Food, and because both Love Boat and Fantasy Island are cancelled. Usually, washed-up actors needing mortage payments wnet on one or more episodes of those series.
At least he’s not doing paid programming for some tacky products.