# Why John Lithgow Why??!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732 "2006-01-12T23:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/61 "2006-01-14T07:06:53Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Ecxept that he uses the word “creamery” as an adjective :smack: > > I would have done the commercial, as long as the writers allowed me to say “creamy butter” instead of _creamery butter_. What’s wrong with ‘creamery’? Its a perfectly valid use of the word: > [@](#): > > _from [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com)_ > > A workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold. > > -OR- > > An establishment where dairy products are prepared or sold. So he’s saying butter FROM a creamery. Kind of like saying ‘butcher shop deli meats.’ ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/62 "2006-01-14T07:09:26Z")
I see that the 'creamery subject has been covered already… :smack: That’s what I get for forgetting to look at page two of the thread before replying. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/63 "2006-01-14T15:07:39Z")
Clearly, I have a hint of creamery issues. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/64 "2006-01-15T03:46:20Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Butter is yellow, it’s greasy, it’s salty, it’s… well, it’s buttery. But one thing it’s NOT is creamy. :smack: Sorry, but you’re thinking of hydrogenated vegetable oil. Butter is precisely not what you just described. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/65 "2006-01-15T06:49:27Z")
Starting out that way is fine. Everyone has to earn his props, but for an actor, who is still famous and doing fairly well (or maybe hes not?) it is very out of place for him to be doing commercials. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Swan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/66 "2006-01-15T16:54:39Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > … for an actor, who is still famous and doing fairly well (or maybe hes not?) it is very out of place for him to be doing commercials. Huh? How so? Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, etc. have all done commercials in their prime. It has NEVER been unusual for an extremely popular actor/actress to do commercials, maybe because the advertisments & the tv/radio shows often ran together back in the 40’s and 50’s. Who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/67 "2006-01-16T03:58:41Z")
> [@The Swan](#): > > Huh? How so? Catherine Zeta Jones, Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin, etc. have all done commercials in their prime. It has NEVER been unusual for an extremely popular actor/actress to do commercials, maybe because the advertisments & the tv/radio shows often ran together back in the 40’s and 50’s. Who knows. Touche John Lithgow is better than those though. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/68 "2006-01-16T04:20:38Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > So why on earth has John Lithgow whored himself out to a soup company?? You know, there was a time, when Actors where cosidered to be pretty much the same AS whores. I have a tendacy to agree. They just cost a lot more. But then again. Aren’t we all whores? ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/69 "2006-01-16T04:44:00Z")
Just got back from John’s last performance in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS–it. was. amazing. The skill and wit the man had–and then the accolades of love from the cast and crew, with old co-stars from other shows from Frances Sternhagen to David Hyde-Pierce to Melissa Errico to his own daughter Phoebe to–you name them, they were there. He got two huge show-stopping standing Os, one at his entrance and one during the last song, which composer David Yazbek had fitted with special lyrics for the occasion. He ended with a gracious and delightful curtain speech. His co-stars, esp. Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz, were sublime as well. It was a great night at the theater. So who cares if the man has done a commercial or two? It gives him the dough to be able to go and make $3000/week for a year or two. He’d been with the show since 2004 and he had a great time. And tonight, so did we. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732/70 "2006-01-16T04:49:50Z")
good point [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-john-lithgow-why/339732.md?page=3)