Posted on 03/18/2009 6:36:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
No, it’s not any of those celebrities we’re told are stars. DiCaprio and George Clooney didn’t even make the top 10. Neither did Ashton Kutcher, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Seth Rogen, Matt Damon, Will Farrell, or Tom Cruise.
Every year for about 15 years now, Harris Interactive has conducted a nationwide poll and asked a very simple question: “Who is your favorite movie star?” And every year since the taking of the poll one particular individual has placed in the top ten — 13 of those years in the top 3.
This year, 2,388 U.S. adults were surveyed and this star rose three places to tie Will Smith for third. Only Denzel Washington and Clint Eastwood rank as more popular.
One last hint before the reveal: This star is the only actor in the history of the poll to rank posthumously:
Here’s the 2009 rundown:
Denzel Washington
Clint Eastwood
John Wayne
Will Smith
Harrison Ford
Julia Roberts
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Angelina Jolie
Morgan Freeman
In 2007, Time Magazine’s Richard Corliss (a film writer I respect) got it kinda wrong when Wayne ranked #3 back in 2007:
Nothing radical there, except that Pitt, Jolie and, oh, Tom Cruise were among the missing. …
Forget the youthquake. What America really loves is… old. Whatever Wayne represents - the Old Testament God, a Mount Rushmore face with a permanent scowl, the craggy soul of Frontier or Sunbelt America[.] …
Will Hollywood take any lessons from this poll - say, to make movies with, and for, older people. Nah. The moguls have read the small print in the Harris poll, and noted that it was weighted for many variables, but not to mirror the average age of moviegoers.
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Always liked Stewart, great actor, and he was a WWII bomber pilot, and made General in the AF. Not bad at all.
Elam one of the best western villains ever!
Here’s when I stopped seeing Julia Roberts films, the day she said “you will find the word republican in the dictionary, right between the words reptile and repugnant.” Can’t stand the sight of her now.
Clint Eastwood. 78 and still has it! Get off my lawn, grrrrr.
Clint! Be still my heart. Dang.
Mr. niteowl77
I have a special place in my heart for Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Especially Walter though. I have to see “Grumpy Old Men” and “Grumpier...” every year. I love the insults they hurl at eachother in those movies. Throwing dead fish in one another’s old cars, etc. Walter was so very expressive. The 2 of them were in the original “Odd Couple” right?
On St. Patricks Day, TMC showed “A Quiet Man”, and Irish movie starring John Wayne and Maureen O’hara. I have never seen it in its entirety before. Very fitting for St. Patricks Day.
John Wayne.....Great actor....and great movie!
And you can find the word democrat between demented and demons.
Maureen O’Hara. Yowza. The smile, the eyes, the hair, and the rapier personality.
So American, in fact, that Joe Stalin decided Wayne had to die... and put a contract out on his life. Protecting him’s one of the last good things that the FBI has done.
Ford, Stewart and Wayne. Now those guys were GOOOOOD actors.
I thought he was a terrible actor, really. No offense.
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