Jeff Daniels spies a tasty fly during his TV interview
Posted on 05/21/2019 2:49:52 PM PDT by Monrose72
He is from a small town in Michigan. His family owns the lumber yard there and he still lives in the area. He always seemed to be pretty down to earth as his kids went to the local public school and he’d sit in the stands at their games.
Seems his Hollywood status has gone to his head.
I wonder if his family would like to return to the Obama economy?
>> Look in the mirror pal - we’ve been enabling you long enough.
good one
Daniels had a scripted TED-like moment where he excoriates today’s complacent generation. The language got stupid with obscenities but the message was nonetheless on target.
Daniels is obviously off-script. But the silly fool doesn’t know any better...
>> Seems his Hollywood status has gone to his head.
Yup, and the influences.
Most everyone has fun, and too much fun for some, but not sure why the core morality needs to continually shift in one direction alone.
“TCM (which has gone noticeably and disgustingly leftwing lately)”
Host Ben Mankiewicz is a HUGE anti-Trump lefty. He appeared on some lefty cable show on Election Night 2016. I was shocked that he was associated with such a partisan show when he should have been neutral. Here’s the link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWY0iRLV94&t=842s
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
It was that spider bite that turned. Him into a liberal zombie.
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
The Young Turks - I think Ben actually helped found the group back whenever it was created - not surprising that he’s so leftwing given his family’s connection with show business, the Kennedy’s and all, but it does take a lot of the enjoyment out of watching him introduce the movies - he’s always got a dig for the HUAC and attempts to thwart communism in this country and is defending the poor, innocent writers and actors who were blacklisted for refusing to cooperate with those attempts - and I always wonder how honest his commentary is about some of the films from the WWII era, when Hollywood went from supporting our war efforts against Germany to suddenly being not so sure we should be fighting during the year or so when the Germans had a pact with Communist Russia, then suddenly back to wanting us to fight when Germany broke the pact - if only we could bring back Robert Osborne......
Daniels? I prefer him over Carrey, actually. Daniels is primarily a dramatic actor and its rare for him to do zany comedic parts, whereas Carrey is the opposite. My favorite Jeff Daniels role is probably in the civil war saga Gettysberg and Gods & Generals where he played the real-life war hero figure of Col. Joshua Chamberlain in both movies. Shame they never made a final film in the trilogy. 
In second place was another real life historic war figure he played: George Washington in The Crossing. I only knew him from Dumb & Dumber at the time, but he did a fantastic job as Washington and really brought him to life. Best George Washington ever (sorry, Barry Botswick). 
Also liked his roles in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Arachnophobia, Speed, The Hours, and The Martian. Heard he was good in the HBO series The Newsroom (where he was the lead character) but I haven't seen it.
Carrey is probably the bigger "name" and Box Office draw by far, but Carrey's heyday was his breakout toilet humor comedies of the 90s, the last time I saw him in anything noteworthy was Kick-Ass 2 and the sequel to Dumb & Dumber, and that was about five years ago.
Ideologically, both Carrey and Daniels are hard-left loudmouths, but that's true for about 90% of Hollywood.
I think Washington was done better by the guy who played him in “Turn”!
Gettysburg & Gods & Generals are the only things I thought Daniels did well.
Carrey picked with “In Living Color”. Probably because he had good writing there.
Daniels did at least come across as sane, which apparently was also an act. His portrayal of Col. Chamberlain (and future Maine Republican Governor — the horror !) did more to introduce him to the public and elevate him as a key player at Gettysburg than at any other time.
I noted amongst autograph collectors, prior to the film, Chamberlain’s autograph could be had for a nominal price (say perhaps $50 or less). After the film with Daniels, the price skyrocketed ten times, so now you can’t get an autograph of Chamberlain for under $500.
Jeff Daniels is a lifelong alcoholic who sobers up, falls off the wagon, sobers up, goes on another drinking binge.
Dear Jeff: you are a very mean drunk and/or temporarily dry alcoholic. You need to go to your daily AA meetings and shut the h*ll up.
And moreso than Daniels performance, I also have to give kudos to liberal goofball zillionaire Ted Turner for funding those movies.
Gotta give credit where credit is due.
“Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals” were two great movies, ins spite of the box office.
The scene at Marye’s Heights in Fredericksburg (in Gods and Generals) was harrowing. Over 12,000 Union casualties that day, two-thirds of them alone on the repeated assaults against dug-in Confederate positions on the Heights at the stone wall. There was no way in Hell they were going to take that position without reducing it by artillery.
Lincoln removed Ambrose Burnside from command of the Army of the Potomac (he had replaced McClellan after Antietam) because of the ghastly losses there.
“The Last Full Measure” would have been the third movie, if made... shame they didn’t.
I agree with the kudos to Ted Turner. He even made a few cameos in Gods and Generals - he was one of the officers in the audience with Lee and Stonewall Jackson when the performers were singing “The Bonnie Blue Flag”.
I have to say, his George Washington was also probably the best in “The Crossing,” a terrific movie if you haven’t seen it. The only thing it did not cover-—which was a miraculous achievement in itself-—was Washington’s RE-crossing of the Delaware that night before British reinforcements arrived with some 800 Hessian prisoners in a sub-zero temperature!
No more need be said--
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