Why John Lithgow Why??!!

[lawoot]

@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

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.’

[lawoot]

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.

[Patty_O_Furniture]

Clearly, I have a hint of creamery issues.

[The_Swan]

@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.

[Surbey]

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.

[The_Swan]

@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.

[Surbey]

@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.

[Grrr]

@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?

[Mehitabel]

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.

[Surbey]

good point