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Best Cameo Appearance of All Time?
5/26/06 | Reaganesque

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: best; cameo; movies; tv
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To: ThomasThomas

I VOTE FOR THIS ONE! NIXON.


241 posted on 05/27/2006 8:22:15 AM PDT by buffyt (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
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To: Jaysun

I see some of what you say as a reflection on the barely bridled lust of closet pedophiles who, like patient gardeners, await a day of harvest.


242 posted on 05/27/2006 8:23:30 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: buffyt

See post #164


243 posted on 05/27/2006 8:29:06 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: theDentist
... went onto her new sitcom set while she was offstage awaiting her queue.

You know... the proper word, "cue", is a lot easier to spell...

244 posted on 05/27/2006 9:08:00 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Reaganesque
In the movie "Defending Your Life" with Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, they go to the "Past Lives Pavillion," a place where you can see who you were in "past lives."

I don't want to give this away to anyone who hasn't seen the movie, and you really should, it's terrific. Highlight for the spoiler...

The host at the Past Lives Pavillion is Shirley MacLaine.

Mark

245 posted on 05/27/2006 9:18:20 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: MarkL

That's one of my all time favorite movies, and yes, it was the perfect choice.


246 posted on 05/27/2006 9:19:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: Reaganesque
One of the saddest cameos was seeing the Three Stooges in "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World." It was sad seeing how old they had gotten...

Mark

247 posted on 05/27/2006 9:19:58 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: yawningotter

Also there was Count Basie in Blazing Saddles.


248 posted on 05/27/2006 9:20:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: antonico
Much as I don't agree with him politically at all, truth is that Alec Baldwin's cameo in "Glegarry Glen Ross" was outstanding, especially when you consider the other talent in that flick.

Baldwin's flaky liberal politics aside, he is one of America's greatest actors. His monologue in Glengarry Glen Ross was hair-raising brilliance.

249 posted on 05/27/2006 9:43:52 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: MarkL
One of the saddest cameos was seeing the Three Stooges in "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad World." It was sad seeing how old they had gotten...

The brilliant Buster Keaton in the same film.

250 posted on 05/27/2006 9:44:47 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: WV Mountain Mama

Sorry-great minds think alike


251 posted on 05/27/2006 9:51:10 AM PDT by MattinNJ (Strahan, Osi, Arrington...someone go over to Bledsoe's house and pry him out of the fetal position.)
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To: rbg81

"Your part eggplant"-Awesome scene.


253 posted on 05/27/2006 9:53:49 AM PDT by MattinNJ (Strahan, Osi, Arrington...someone go over to Bledsoe's house and pry him out of the fetal position.)
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To: SaveTheChief

Joe Cocker walking onto the "Saturday Night Live" stage while John Belushi was in the middle of a superb imitation of Cocker singing "With A Little Help From My Friends".

Belushi was shocked for a second, but kept right on going with Mr. Cocker for back-up.

The Bob Newhart/Sizanne Pleshette scene has been mentioned many times.

John Wayne on "Laugh-In":
"The sky is blue
"The grass is green
Get off your duffs
And join the Marines!"

Don Siegle as the taxi driver driving Kevin McCarthy out of Santa Clara in the original "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers". Then reprising the same role in the re-make, while dodging a frantic Kevin McCarthy.

If you pay attention, you'll also catch a glimps of Robert Duvall standing in a line holding an alien pod in the Donald Sutherland re-make.

Stanley Kubrick as a war correspondent leading his camera crew to film Joker, Cowboy and the Lusthog Squad behind cover in "Full Metal Jacket".

Jack.


254 posted on 05/27/2006 10:33:16 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: rbg81
Rick Moranis was pretty good in "Head Office" too. "My Mercedes is leaking more oil than......aahhhh.......Poland!".

"I LOVE THIS JOB!!!!!!

Mark

255 posted on 05/27/2006 11:55:58 AM PDT by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Reaganesque
Jesus, in the history of the world.

To see why our Lord chose the cameo route, see the John Candy movie Delerious for a hilarious counter-example. Candy plays a soap-opera writer who wakes up inside his creation after a blow to the head, WITH the magic typewriter that allows him to re-write the script from inside! As he flaunts his powers, his creations have their characters warped, and find themselves inexplicably acting out of character. Whereas the Lord of Glory clothes Himself in frail humanity, so that unbelievers have the luxury of continuing in unbelief, if that's what they really want. And in the end, no one will have grounds for complaint.

256 posted on 05/27/2006 12:16:54 PM PDT by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Yes.


257 posted on 05/27/2006 12:30:11 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

BUMP!


258 posted on 05/27/2006 1:41:33 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Jaysun

Yeah,Bob Saget, that was Classic


259 posted on 05/27/2006 1:45:26 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Please ! For The Love of God Verizon !!! NO MORE MICHAEL McDONALD !!!)
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To: Mustachistan
Merv Griffin as the killer in The Man with Two Brains. Brilliant!

Agreed
260 posted on 05/27/2006 1:48:07 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Please ! For The Love of God Verizon !!! NO MORE MICHAEL McDONALD !!!)
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