Posted on 05/26/2006 3:31:32 PM PDT by Reaganesque
It's the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend. We've had our silliness thread to start things off now, how about this:
Who do you think had the best cameo performance in any movie or TV show? You know, someone who had a bit part but stole the show for you.
Me in "Dawn of the Dead"
"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
"You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses."
Interesting. I thought I was the only one who remembered Square Pegs. Great series--way ahead of its time. Also brought us Sarah Jessica Parker--though the value of that is questionable.
"The Price is WRONG....b!tch!!!"
Easy - Jim Lovell in "Apollo 13"!
I was thinking the same thing. When Sean Connery appeared on the screen near the end of Robin Hood, he immediately eclipsed Costner. I have never seen one actor upstage another with such authority and finality. Had Costner simply disappeared for the remainder of the film, I doubt I would have noticed -- and he was playing the lead!
The gerbil in Brokeback Mountain.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Nixon uttering the famous line "Sock It To Me"
Thank you for understanding that I was just kidding! Well, I was making light of a situation, anyway!
:-)
George Bush Sr. on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather...
1. Louis Ruckhouser (Wall Street Weekly) was featured in a kid's movie "Gordy" interviewing the pig. I must have been the only one in the audience that got the joke because no one else laughed.
2. Huey Lewis was one of the judges that voted down Michael J. Fox getting the gig for the school dance in the movie "Back to the Future". He has on a hideous plaid jacket and thick glasses. He tells Fox that they are just TOO LOUD through a megaphone. (Just noticed this cameo this week)
The street musicians playing for change in "Scrooged" was good. The band included Miles Davis and that guy that leads the band on the Letterman show.
Mr. Heston in the remake of "Planet of the Apes".
Peter Ustinov in "The Great Muppet Caper" as a British lorry driver. Miss Piggy flags down his truck, and then throws him out into several garbage cans. Oscar the Grouch emerges from a can, and asks him what he was doing. Ustinov replies "a brief cameo". Oscar replies "yeah, me too".
On another occasion, at one of the awards shows, when they were giving out the awards for "best talk show host", they tried to persuade Johnny Carson to walk out, look at the guy reading the winner, turn around and walk off. This was several years after he retired. He thought about it, then said, "no, I'm retired."
As far as actual cameos, I remember about two months after Pee Wee Herman got busted in the porno movie house. It was an awards show, and Herman walked out, waved at the audience, and said, "Heard any good jokes, lately?" It was an attempt to revive his career, and return to the more risque night club humor he did before he became an actual children's television show star, but, of course, failed.
David Letterman in CABIN BOY.
I liked your comment. In the 1960s and 1970s I was so thin and being a little plump was popular. Now I am plump, and Hollyweird dictates that we should be pencil thin and pale. I am always living in the wrong decade. LOL
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