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Re: The BBLAA-Redux

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Bambi, if I may, I'd like to latch onto your excellent Awards post for a few grievences of my own:

1. Non-American actors with fake American accents-playing the parts of Americans. Examples abound, but most notably:

Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor in the recent Big Fish (2 in one movie! and...both doing a "southern" accent! Decent film, tho).

Nicole Kidman in everything of late; ditto N.Watts.

I know that talent (and a big name at the box office) is required for modern day movie making, but did I miss a meeting...are there no American actors with talent/box office appeal for these parts? Kidman in the Civil War? C'mon. One exception works for me...Russell Crowe...for some reason, and it is probably A Dangerous Mind, doesn't bother me.

2. Waaaaay to old actors playing roles/characters younger than themselves. Worst offender: My beloved Clint Eastwood, who will be 73 this year, played the 45 year old Terry McCaleb in Blood Work recently; he also played a lothario of a journalist/reporter a few years ago in a forgetable film that I can't remember the name of...Clnt's character actually seduces his editor's (Denis Leary) much younger wife...Clint takes off his shirt in this one, and it ain't pretty. Stay with directing, Clint...or characters your own age.

3. Two of a kind with one name each: Roseanne and Madonna.
Oh, please, Great God of all things entertainment... don't let either of these creatures grace (?) the silver screen ever again...or the tv screen, for that matter. Ditto the getting-nastier-by-the-day Rosie O'Donnell.

4. Somebody please shoot that irratating no-talent Andy Dick, making it impossible for him to appear in anything ever again.

5. Let the phenom of "reality television" die the slow painful death it deserves...my only fear is that the networks will come up with someting even more crass and disgusting. There is probably no chance of ever seeing new and well done television dramas in the future, but I hold out hope for more like The West Wing, Sopranos, and...eh, well, I'll have to think of some others.

You're right, Bambi, I feel better! thanks for the rant.


all the best,
Gary


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