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17 Aug 2015, 12:57 pm

Kyle McLaughlin as FBI agent Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks.


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17 Aug 2015, 5:46 pm

if John Wayne had been able to finish "Beau John" he would have been the ONLY one right for the part/movie. just as in "True Grit" the part had been written specifically for Wayne.



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17 Aug 2015, 9:04 pm

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if John Wayne had been able to finish "Beau John" he would have been the ONLY one right for the part/movie. just as in "True Grit" the part had been written specifically for Wayne.


I have never heard of Beau John. I presume he died while making the picture?


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17 Aug 2015, 9:07 pm

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if John Wayne had been able to finish "Beau John" he would have been the ONLY one right for the part/movie. just as in "True Grit" the part had been written specifically for Wayne.


I have never heard of Beau John. I presume he died while making the picture?

yup. pre-production was interrupted with the January [1979] recurrence of his cancer.



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13 Nov 2015, 7:32 am

Most (If not all) the cast of M*A*S*H TV Series.

Phil Harris as the voice (Especially singing) of Baloo, Little John, and Thomas O'Malley.

Paul Winchell as Tigger.


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13 Nov 2015, 7:53 am

kurt Russell as elvis, the man whose shin he kicked in that world's fair movie. and too bad evis couldn't have played the part that went to kris Kristofferson in that "star is born" remake, he woulda blown babs clean outta the water!



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14 Nov 2015, 5:20 pm

Bruce Campbell as Ash.

Samuel L Jackson as Jules.

Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Commando.



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14 Nov 2015, 9:20 pm

nobody looked more like the image burned into the shroud of turin, than max von sydow in "the greatest story ever told."



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15 Nov 2015, 3:31 pm

Sir Anthony Hopkins was divine as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon". He's perfect for roles like this one.

And Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" movie series. I didn't like the performance of Krueger in the remake as much as I like Mr Englund's.


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15 Nov 2015, 6:37 pm

I long thought that rod steiger should have played norman bates in "psycho" as nobody could have done it better than him. I also think that rod steiger should have played general patton in "Patton" - and that nobody could have played patton any better, certainly better [more fitting] than George C. Scott who was nothing like the real patton.



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15 Nov 2015, 8:31 pm

If you haven't seen the new James Bond movie, Spectre yet, and still want to, be warned, there's a spoiler ahead - -

I think Christoph Waltz is the newest and best incarnation of Bond's arch nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, yet.


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15 Nov 2015, 9:27 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
If you haven't seen the new James Bond movie, Spectre yet, and still want to, be warned, there's a spoiler ahead - -

I think Christoph Waltz is the newest and best incarnation of Bond's arch nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, yet.


It's as much a spoiler as Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan.

I don't know why they even bother.



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16 Nov 2015, 8:30 pm

auntblabby wrote:
kurt Russell as elvis, the man whose shin he kicked in that world's fair movie. and too bad evis couldn't have played the part that went to kris Kristofferson in that "star is born" remake, he woulda blown babs clean outta the water!

IIRC, Colonel Parker wanted top billing for Elvis, and they wouldn't give it to him. I mean, come-on, the "star" in the title was the character that Babs played.

I've always felt bad for Elvis, where his movies were concerned..... Elvis HATED those cookie-cutter roles (heartthrob leading man / singer) they gave him----he wanted to be a SERIOUS actor (as in, in dramatic roles). He did a couple of dramas, but the box-office take was abysmal; everybody just wanted to hear him sing, and look at him, in a happy role.




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16 Nov 2015, 9:06 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
kurt Russell as elvis, the man whose shin he kicked in that world's fair movie. and too bad evis couldn't have played the part that went to kris Kristofferson in that "star is born" remake, he woulda blown babs clean outta the water!

IIRC, Colonel Parker wanted top billing for Elvis, and they wouldn't give it to him. I mean, come-on, the "star" in the title was the character that Babs played.

I've always felt bad for Elvis, where his movies were concerned..... Elvis HATED those cookie-cutter roles (heartthrob leading man / singer) they gave him----he wanted to be a SERIOUS actor (as in, in dramatic roles). He did a couple of dramas, but the box-office take was abysmal; everybody just wanted to hear him sing, and look at him, in a happy role.

elvis went off the rails after that debacle, his health went downhill rapidly, and a year later he was gone.



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16 Nov 2015, 9:13 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
kurt Russell as elvis, the man whose shin he kicked in that world's fair movie. and too bad evis couldn't have played the part that went to kris Kristofferson in that "star is born" remake, he woulda blown babs clean outta the water!

IIRC, Colonel Parker wanted top billing for Elvis, and they wouldn't give it to him. I mean, come-on, the "star" in the title was the character that Babs played.

I've always felt bad for Elvis, where his movies were concerned..... Elvis HATED those cookie-cutter roles (heartthrob leading man / singer) they gave him----he wanted to be a SERIOUS actor (as in, in dramatic roles). He did a couple of dramas, but the box-office take was abysmal; everybody just wanted to hear him sing, and look at him, in a happy role.


One story goes that Elvis had been offered the lead male role in Westside Story, but the Colonel had convinced him to do a bunch of sucky movies instead.


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16 Nov 2015, 9:23 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Campin_Cat wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
kurt Russell as elvis, the man whose shin he kicked in that world's fair movie. and too bad evis couldn't have played the part that went to kris Kristofferson in that "star is born" remake, he woulda blown babs clean outta the water!

IIRC, Colonel Parker wanted top billing for Elvis, and they wouldn't give it to him. I mean, come-on, the "star" in the title was the character that Babs played.

I've always felt bad for Elvis, where his movies were concerned..... Elvis HATED those cookie-cutter roles (heartthrob leading man / singer) they gave him----he wanted to be a SERIOUS actor (as in, in dramatic roles). He did a couple of dramas, but the box-office take was abysmal; everybody just wanted to hear him sing, and look at him, in a happy role.


One story goes that Elvis had been offered the lead male role in Westside Story, but the Colonel had convinced him to do a bunch of sucky movies instead.

the "colonel" had his eye always on the bottom line, elvis be damned. :x