Best Actor Ever

[Jake_Sully]

(guydesavoy @ Jun. 04 2010,11:30)

(JaiDee @ Jun. 04 2010,22:11)  I said Chuck Heston also!!  

I'm in big trouble with the dead guys  

The NRA will take care of that...and those Welsh separatists like Foggy  

JaiDee just be careful, there might be a loaded rifle in those hands if they haven't taken it away yet.  

[Jake_Sully]

p.s. if we're not including favorite actors.. I just have to bring up this kid from the 80's I think we all saw and grew up on...

Scott Baio!

Ever saw zapped or Charles in Charge?

[JaiDee]

(azza33 @ Jun. 04 2010,22:28) I'm a gen X , and i suspect its why i like some of Sandlers work.... Jaidee....face it you are past your used by date  

Oh, there's no question about it!!

as a matter of fact, my generation was born just after the baby boomers and just before Gen X; so we got NO designation for our group at all! we are the LOST generation, or something like that.....

These days, I just feel like the generation with a bad back and aching joints

[whore]

(Lefty @ Jun. 04 2010,21:32)

(whore @ Jun. 04 2010,21:18)  Also turned 80 last weekend.

Brad Pitt didn't turn 80 last weekend.

Clint Eastwood did.

I type really slow and you had that Brad Pitt post in fairly quickly.

[guydesavoy]

Warning :  

Generation eX and Gen whY(?).

It's all crap. Just like saying the 70's was all about Disco  

And the 80's was this and the 90's that...

If there was ever a Baby Boomers, the next Generation must be the Baby Bummers  

Eat my shorts !  

[Lefty]

(JaiDee @ Jun. 04 2010,23:15)

(azza33 @ Jun. 04 2010,22:28) I'm a gen X , and i suspect its why i like some of Sandlers work.... Jaidee....face it you are past your used by date  

Oh, there's no question about it!!

 as a matter of fact, my generation was born just after the baby boomers and just before  Gen X;  so we got NO designation for our group at all!  we are the LOST generation, or something like that.....

 These days, I just feel like the generation with a bad back and aching joints  

You sure you're after the baby boomers? I don't think you are ten yrs younger than me.

Wiki:

The United States Census Bureau considers a baby boomer to be someone born during the demographic birth boom between 1946 and 1964.[9] The Census Bureau is not involved in defining cultural generations.

Landon Jones, who coined the term "baby boomer" in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1946 to 1964, when annual births declined below 4,000,000.

[guydesavoy]

The Census Bureau is not involved in defining cultural generations.

So who is Yes, exactly. Some guy....

[Lefty]

Well, the term and definition of baby boomer didn't just fall from the sky, of course someone was the first to coin the term. So? Even though JD didn't realize it, I'm guessing he falls within the baby boomer years.

[JaiDee]

Tail end.....

VERY tail end



{Read; Most baby boomers will be able to collect Social Security; the ones born in MY year? prolly not }

[azza33]

Lol it's pretty funny how easily we go off on tangents around here.

[deepthroat]

I'd actually rate Adam Sandler as a great actor - just watch his turn in Punch-Drunk Love. Fantastic, intense stuff from my 2nd favorite director (after Tarrantino) - Paul Thomas Anderson.

And I'm old enough that I can now regularly hurt myself and pull muscles while sleeping.

[Jake_Sully]

I agree with you a lot DT but I really have to disagree on Adam Sandler. I can't stand the guy.  

But I guess we all missed John Cazale. He was truly great.

[Lefty]

Good on ya DT.   I guess there are 3 of us here now who are less than 12 mentally. I'd rather be that way, than be a tight assed crusty curmudgeon though.

I think I'll go over to TukCom and look for a copy of Punch-Drunk Love today. That's one of his I ain't seen. Thanks for the recommendation.

[deepthroat]

Gosh, I hope I catch you in time then... I should have clarified, the ACTING is fantastic, and the direction is interesting as it is in all of P.T. Anderson's films, but the movie itself left me cold. It's the only P.T. Anderson film (other than his first: "Hard Eight") that I've only watched once. My least favorite of his ouvre, but then again I didn't like "There Will Be Blood" very much and it was nominated for Best Picture (meaning what do I know?)

A quick threadjack here: just looked up P.T. Anderson and found this interesting rumour: "In December 2009 Variety reported that Anderson was working on a new script tentatively titled "The Master", about a "charismatic intellectual" that founds a new religion in the 1950s. Frequent Anderson player Philip Seymour Hoffman was reported to be attached as the lead, with academy award nominee Jeremy Renner rumored to star opposite him."

Wow. That sounds fascinating. Thinly veiled account of the origins of Scientology perhaps?

[robbo]

the young Brando,in A streetcar named desire,and on the waterfront.
2nd comes George bush and Tony blair in Muppets the movie