Posted on 12/01/2012 6:09:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Did you know, Simpson's name had originally been floated for the lead in Terminator, but James Cameron nixed the idea since he felt Simpson would not make a convincing killing machine.
Seriously.
Childs is a major liberal progressive and i hear his books reflect that
Is that true?
We even had a thread on this....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2875689/posts
I think Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory is probably closer to the mark.That would be Dr. Bialik, who in real life has a PhD in neuroscience.
That may have something to do with her terrific performance on The Big Bang Theory. Or maybe she's just a good actor.
Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell in “The Medicine Man”.
Too much age difference for the love interest in that film.
Apple Blossom
Maybe. There was a lot of opposition to casting Mia as Daisy.
But for many of us who saw the film, it's hard not to think of the book in terms of the movie. However awful Robert Redford may be in however many ways, he did make the role his own, at least for me.
I'm not sure about Tobey McGuire as Nick in the new version, though. Come to think of it I'm not sure about Tobey McGuire as Spiderman, though at this point it's hard to accept Andrew Garfield in the role.
Amy Farah Fowler is hilariously perfect. You may have a point.
Come to think of it, does George Washington come off well in movies or television?
Barry Bostwick, Jeff Daniels, Adam West, Kelsey Grammar, David Morse, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Graves?
I thought Peck taking a full running leap and knocking over a table of food while tackling another idiot Nazi for some offense was hilarious.
I suspect the film makers were less concerned with acting and more interested in getting Connery into that suspendered jock-strap costume.
I read the book (a couple times) before the movie. I think that Redford was already too much of an established "A-lister" and too familiar for a character who was supposed to have suddenly shot to the top from a murky, obscure past; Redford would have made a better Tom Buchanan.
You're right on about Toby McGuire. He's too much a whiney, snively brat. Carraway was something of a stoic, traditionalist with midwestern sensibilities. I'll be very surprised if he pulls it off.
John Wayne as Moses.
ditto for thinking Sean Connery could be disguised as a Japanese in "You Only Live Twice."
Elvis Presley as Rusty Wells in “Girl Happy”.
He was good in “The Fisher King”
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When I saw the movie, I wasn't familiar with the actors, so it was easy for me to imagine that they were Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Tom. Karen Black, though, as Myrtle was too over the top for me.
There was also an A&E television version. I remember it as Paul Rudd as Gatsby, which would really have been miscasting, but actually he was Nick, and wasn't awful in the role. Gatsby was Toby Stephens, an English actor who maybe did have that "came from nowhere and shot to the top" quality. Daisy was Mira Sorvino -- not quite right.
In one of my "Hollywood" readings, I remember reading about some studio suits discussing some project, and they wanted a cameo role by some big name star. "And not like that 'He truly was the Son of God' appearance crap..."
What was really irritating was the huge, comic hillbilly-type beard Sheen had. Lee actually had a much shorter, carefully trimmed beard. I never once thought that Sheen was anything but Martin Sheen with a bad beard riding a horse.
Yea but we discovered he could sing! He wasn’t so bad.
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The Black Shield of Falworth - Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh
False quotation
“The film is famous for an apocryphal line, rendered as “Yonda stands da castle of my fodda” or similar. The plot details above show that this would not fit the story: there is no “castle of my father”. The line is said to have come from a remark made by Debbie Reynolds on television.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Shield_of_Falworth
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