Which actor or actress will you forever identify by one of their roles?

[Mr. Ected]

I'll start with an easy one: William Shatner. No matter what role he has played since Star Trek, he will always be the inimitable Captain James Tiberius Kirk. Sorry, Bill.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Note the shape of the sideburns.

[sarge43]

2. Kate Hepburn, Eleanor, The Lion in Winter.

She was born to that role.

[Moondog]

5. Yes, she was. Excellent choice.

[begin_within]

52. Whenever I hear hear name I think of "The African Queen"

[tigereye]

105. that is exactly what I was going to say!

Although her presence was so strong in so many films...

[Submariner]

3. Christopher Walken

Nuff said...

[Moondog]

6. A great role. But I have always wondered whether

this was method acting .... He does do "psycho but high-functional" really, really well, doesn't he?

[sarge43]

16. On the other he was very subtle and subdued in Dead Zone.

Another role where it's hard to imagine anyone else doing it as well.

[Moondog]

19. I haven't seen that one. I'll have to look for it.

[sarge43]

20. Recommended

One of the best screen adaptations of a Steven King book.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Vivian Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara

[Moondog]

7. Her signature role, as it turned out. Too bad that she

peaked so early.

[Moondog]

8. ~

[nolabear]

24. delete (after a few hilariously failed attempts)

[Curmudgeoness]

15. I think it was because she was typecast in that role...

and how many egotistical Southern belle roles were there?

[Moondog]

17. A few, but Bette Davis seemed to get them.

[Demoiselle]

176. Aww..I wish Vivien Leigh had been half as tough as Scarlett O'Hara.

Yeah, she was wonderful in the part, but everything I've read about her leads me to believe she was terribly fragile. Bi-polar, most likely, and she suffered at least one cataclysmic breakdown. We see more of the broken places in movies like Streetcar and Ship of Fools.
Scarlett was the complete survivor. A cannibal, if necessary. (She swallowed her sister's boyfriend whole, remember?)

[nolabear]

23. Oh, she did okay in Streetcar. Stunning, actually.

[BillStein]

70. two words

"Blanche DuBois"!

[joeybee12]

72. She was brilliant in Streetcar...problem is she was trying to please Olivier

and appeared on stage over and over with him thus limiting her film career.

[Moondog]

9. Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard."

[Moondog]

10. Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like it Hot."

[Demoiselle]

177. That was the best part she ever got to play, I think.

[Moondog]

11. Gregory Peck

in either "Moby Dick" or "To Kill a Mockingbird" - take your pick.

[Moondog]

12. Alan Ladd in "Shane"

[CatholicEdHead]

13. Ted Danson - Sam Malone from Cheers

also:

Kelsey Grammar: Fraiser Crane (Cheers/Fraiser)
Bebe Newirth: Lillith Steren Crane (Cheers)
John Ratzenberger: Cliff Claven (Cheers)
Lenord Nimoy: Spock (Star Trek)
Woody Harrelson: Woody Boyd (Cheers)
Shelly Long: Diane Chambers (Cheers)
Sasha Alexander: Kate Todd (NCIS)

[SoxFan]

14. Terry O'Quinn

Locke. Or Lockes. Or Locke and Smokey. Or...well, you get the idea.

[XemaSab]

81. I have to give mad props to that Obama logo

(I got the box set, and rewatched the 6th season. ToQ made it shine.)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

85. He often came into the Starbucks my sister worked at.

Accordingly, there's now a Locke Shrine in the back of the place.

Apparently he's a real nice guy.

[JTG of the PRB]

18. Orlando Bloom.

I'll always see him as Legolas from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Even when watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, I couldn't help but think that Legolas looked awfully silly with that little beard of his.

[femmocrat]

21. Andy Griffith.

He is a fine dramatic actor, but he will always be Opie's father to me!

[styersc]

22. Captain Kangaroo.

Just Captain Kangaroo.

[nolabear]

25. Paul Reubens. Heh-heh!

[carlyhippy]

32. I LOVED Paul Reubens in "Blow"

he played an awesome part. Never cared for his pee wee days. I found him kinda sexy in blow, which I find actually very disturbing haha.

[catzies]

134. I love both Pee-wee and Paul's other work, especially "Blow"

And I loved him for choosing that script and taking that chance!

[Patsy Stone]

26. Patrick McGoohan as Number Six

and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel

[TK421]

34. With Patrick McGoohan, I always think of Longshanks from Braveheart

what a frigging awesome role he played!

[Iggo]

36. Longshanks was a motherfucker!

Best role of the movie. Shoulda got an Oscar.

[TK421]

37. "Who is this person who speaks to me as if I needed his advice"?

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

one of my favorite scenes in that movie


"The trouble with Scotland...is that it's full of Scots"!!

[Patsy Stone]

41. The Prisoner was genius

and completely odd. I saw the whole thing at a very impressionable age. I guess it just stuck.

[TK421]

46. A classic, for sure! :)

[jobycom]

50. No way! He was the dad in "The Three Lives of Thomasina."

[BlancheSplanchnik]

75. Ohhhh I haven't thought of that movie in a million years

I loved it so much when I was a kid.... always made me cry too!

Thanks for reminding me of it!

[peekaloo]

78. Aw man now I have "Thomasina why do you like to roam?" ear worm.

:D

[WinkyDink]

93. Sorry! BIG PMcG fan here! He's "Secret Agent Man"!

[LongTomH]

126. Oh yeah!!! I'll second both of those!!!!

Although McGoohan was great in his Danger Man / Secret Agent series in the 60's. I think John Drake could beat James Bond hands down.

[Orrex]

27. Julie Strain

As "creature" in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108447/">The Unnameable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter.

[kwassa]

28. The fate of most TV actors, unfortunately. Many are one hit wonders.

[denbot]

29. Sir Anthony Hopkins

He is truly a great actor but to me he will always be Hannibal Lecter, thip' thip' thip'.. :scared:

[WolverineDG]

30. Yul Brynner--The King & I

Can't believe no one mentioned him yet.



dg

[MrScorpio]

96. And as Ramses!

[JNelson6563]

173. Yes! Loved it!

Etcetera. etcetera, etcetera! :-)

[Kat45]

31. Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker.

I've seen him in a lot of other things, but he'll always be Archie Bunker.

[carlyhippy]

33. Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[GReedDiamond]

35. Maynard G. Krebs, Gilligan...

...aka Bob Denver.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001134/

[Lasher]

115. Hey no fair, that's two roles.

Denver liked his Mary Jane when he moved here to my state toward the end of his life.

[Drale]

38. Got a bunch

Micheal J Fox will always be Marty McFly
Mark Hamil will always be Luke Skywalker
Jason Mewes will always be Jay
Kevin Smith will always be Silent Bob
Nathan Fillion will always be Captain Malcolm Reynolds

[RobinA]

163. Micheal J Fox

is forever Alex P Keaton to me.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

39. Henry Winkler is The Fonz

He's not some balding fat old guy leeching off his doctor son in the Hamptons!

[charlie and algernon]

40. Michael Emmerson will ALWAYS be Ben from LOST

[XemaSab]

86. The real curse of that role is that there were several different "Bens" wandering around

There was Henry, who was at turns terrified, resigned, and a real wiseass (Got Milk? :P )

Then there's Ben, who was a total loose cannon (stabbing people, shooting people, strangling people), scary as hell (like when he was torturing Sawyer or telling Juliet YOU'RE MINE), freaked out, cold and ruthless, commanding, manipulative as hell, thoughtful, snarky, self-righteous, self-pitying, suspicious, worried, and nice (but even when he's being nice, there's a lot of other stuff going on). There's a deep, angry undercurrent in almost every scene.

Then Dr. Linus is very smart, quietly sad, protective of others, and sweet, but he also appears to have some of the instincts of "original flavor" Ben, though his evil instincts aren't as developed.

The bummer for Michael Emerson is that the role of Ben was so broad and demanded so much that it would be hard to play another role without some overlap.

I'm wracking my brains, and I honestly can't think of him playing any kind of role without being compared with Ben. (Panamanian drug kingpin? Country veterinarian? Big-city cop? Child molester? Shrink? Park ranger? Hardbitten colonel? Zombie apocalypse survivor?) Yeah, it's going to be a tough act to follow.

And on edit: I think with the possible exception of ToQ, Evangeline Lilly, Jorge Garcia, and Matthew Fox all the other actors from LOST could escape their characters if given the right role. (For Evangeline, Jorge, and Matthew, I think I combination of the ranges of the characters plus typecasting is going to be a hard thing to escape.)

[Robeson]

42. Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan. Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz.

[auntAgonist]

43. Patty Duke

The Miracle Worker.
as Helen Keller

AND...

Patty Duke Show.

[csziggy]

146. And no one ever remembers her as Sister Bertrille

aka The Flying Nun.

[Oceansaway]

157. wasn't that Sally Fields ?....nt

[csziggy]

164. You could be right - I never could tell those two apart

At least as teenagers. Both so damned cute I wanted to smack them.

[auntAgonist]

184. That was Sally Field

[elocs]

44. I can't believe nobody chose Don Knotts as Barney Fife:

[Bennyboy]

45. First thing I thought of...

"move along, nothing to see here"....

[Art_from_Ark]

56. I'll always think of him as "Mr. Chicken"

[qnr]

59. Interestingly, I tend to associate him more with Mr. Henry Limpet. n/t

[elocs]

71. I think with Don Knotts that this is generational. Those who grew up watching Andy Griffith

will always identify him with Barney Fife.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

76. But he was perfect in "The INcredible Mr. Limpet"

That was another of my favorite childhood films...... just loved it. Wished I could turn into a fish and swim away like him.

[tigereye]

106. that's the only other thing I"ve seen him in!

:rofl:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

122. moi aussi!

heh!


OK, I couldn't resist... just had to google for his filmography (not counting Andy Griffith and other TV series appearances)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Hermie: A Common Caterpillar (2003) (TV)
Cats Don't Dance (1997)
The Little Troll Prince (1987) (TV)
I Love a Mystery (1973) (TV)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) (TV)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987)
How to Frame a Figg (1971)
Return to Mayberry (1986) (TV)
The Private Eyes (1980)
Tom Sawyer (2000) (V)
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
No Deposit, No Return (1976)
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
The Love God? (1969)
Chicken Little (2005)
Gus (1976)
Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)
Jingle Bells (1999) (TV)
Quints (2000) (TV)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
The Prize Fighter (1979)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Air Buddies (2006) (V)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Big Bully (1996)

Wow, pretty extensive! Who knew? :shrug:

[tigereye]

159. as a kid in the 60s, I am sorry to say I saw many of those! (after further perusa

:rofl: Wonder what "The Love God" was about? :scared: :crazy:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

161. you have my sympathy!

Love God?















hoo boy.

[KamaAina]

88. He was also the landlord on Three's Company

the second one.

[flvegan]

47. Ray Liotta will always be Henry Hill to me.

[Love Bug]

48. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes

[Auggie]

60. Basil Rathbone too

[WinkyDink]

94. "Too"? TOO?! ONLY and ALWAYS! :-)

[tigereye]

107. yes, that will always be true for me... so wonderful

[LongTomH]

127. Rathbone was great; but Jeremy Brett was the definitive Sherlock Holmes

'nuff said!!!!:thumbsup:

[JNelson6563]

174. My favorite Sherlock Holmes, forever!

:toast:

[Brother Buzz]

49. Ben Kingsley as Gandhi

He's done fine work since then, but nothing rises to the level he gave us in Gandhi.

[blueraven95]

101. agreed

I often think the name Gandhi, before his actual name when I see him. Can't help it.

[begin_within]

51. Peter O'Toole

Even though he's been terrific in many films ranging from "The Stunt Man" to "My Favorite Year," it's almost impossible to think of him without thinking of "Lawrence of Arabia."

[LongTomH]

128. I'll always think of his role as Henry II in 'The Lion in Winter'

A great movie!

That's also the movie I'll always associate Katherine Hepburn with! Even though she and O'Toole were different generations; she was very convincing as his queen.

[csziggy]

148. That movie always will make me think of

Anthony Hopkins as Richard and
Timothy Dalton as Philip - I LOVED his Philip!

Hepburn was perfect as O'Toole's Queen Eleanor. The age difference is pretty much appropriate considering that Eleanor had already been Queen of France and that marriage was annulled before she married Henry. Henry was only nineteen to Eleanor's thirty when they married then Eleanor had eight children with him. The movie is set in 1172, twenty years after they married. Eleanor was then fifty to Henry's thirty nine. I think the age difference in that time would have been very apparent.

[jobycom]

53. Johnny Depp, A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I've been out of touch for a while, has he done anything since then?

[Binka]

54. Barbara Streisand As Fanny Brice In Funny Girl

Omar Sharif as Nikki. My first love. God Damn dead gorgeous and charming. Funny Girl is one of my top 5 movies ever.

[donheld]

169. Barbra

[Dr Morbius]

55. Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.

I think that it's very easy with TV shows to identify an actor/actress with a role. The shows themselves may have run only two or three seasons, but we all grew up watching the reruns. Hence, Adam West will always be Batman; Don Adams will always be Maxwell Smart; Barbara Eden will always be Jeannie, and Elizabeth Montgomery will always be Samantha Stephens. It's a little harder to think of iconic roles for film actors. But I have a few.

How about Bela Lugosi?
Lon Chaney Jr.?
Boris Karloff?
Arnold Schwarzenegger?

[LongTomH]

129. Lugosi as Dracula, Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster, and Lon Chaney as The Wolf Man

Although, I will always remember Boris as the narrator of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.' What's Christmas without Boris Karloff?

By the way, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi teamed up for some great old-time horror flicks (This was before 'Horror' became synonymous with chainsaws, blood and sadism.). Check out these films in the classics section at your favorite video store:

The Black Cat (1934)


The Invisible Ray (1936)


Karloff was also great in The Mummy (1932)


I'm old enough to remember seeing these on the Friday Night Late Show on TV. Yeah, I know!!! That makes me old enough to fart dust.

Edited to add: Arnold Schwarznegger's only role as a monster is his tenure as governor of California!

[Art_from_Ark]

57. Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

Barbara Eden as Jeannie
Barbara Felden as Agent 99
Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha Stevens
Richard Dawson as Corporal Newkirk
Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink
Adam West as Batman
Burt Ward as Robin
Jack Lord as McGarrett
Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster
Bob Denver as Gilligan
Robert Conrad as James West
Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon
Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford

[qnr]

58. Angela Cartwright as Penny Robinson n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

61. Barbara Eden as Jeannie and Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha.

[Deep13]

62. Ed Herrmann as Max, the head vampire...

in The Lost Boys.

[Tom_Foolery]

63. Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden...

and Art Carney as Ed Norton. Hello, ball!

[Dr. Strange]

64. Larry Linville IS Frank Burns, now and forever.

I have a suspicion that Jim Parsons is traveling down that same road with Sheldon Cooper.

[deutsey]

100. Linville was excellent in that role

However, he was never able to break out of the pigeonhole it placed him in. Same with Gary Burghoff and McClean Stevenson, I guess.

Alan Alda somehow made it out of his Hawkeye/Sensitive '70s Guy persona, though.

[chrisa]

65. Ray Romano, Brad Garret, Kiefer Sutherland, Patricia Heaton, Charlie Sheen

For their past movies, as well as new ones that come out, I always see them as their TV characters.

[MissHoneychurch]

66. Tom Hulce as Mozart

[tigereye]

109. that was a great role- great film!

[guitar man]

67. Linda Carter

[uncommon]

68. Unfortunately, Kevin Bacon - Sleepers.

I haven't been able to look at his face without becoming nauseous since I saw that movie.

[tigereye]

110. hmm, I always think of him in Footloose, although he's done plenty of other

good work..

[Burma Jones]

69. James Gandolfini - Tony Soprano.....

[elocs]

73. My childhood hero: Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain in The Rifleman.

I think that role pretty much got him typecast. For most people at the time he was Lucas McCain.

[deutsey]

102. I remember watching re-runs of The Rifleman when I was a kid and

was so confused when I saw him as a bad guy in Soylent Green.

[Odin2005]

74. Nimoy as Spock!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

77. Clint Eastwood is Harry Callahan

Whatever else he does, he's still Dirty Harry
:hi:

[GoCubsGo]

79. William Shatner as "Denny Crane"

"Denny Crane" from "Boston Legal" has eclipsed "Captain Kirk" in my book. He's one of my most favorite TV characters ever!

[Rambis]

80. Shelly Long as Diane Chambers in Cheers (NM)

:o

[TZ]

82. David Duchovney as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully

Geeze people. :P

[tigereye]

111. yup- although he was pretty cool in Californication

[Tommy_Carcetti]

83. James Gandolfini.

No matter what he does, he'll always be Tony Soprano.

Also, pick your main 4 Seinfeld actor. There's a reason any other show featuring them fails miserably.

[JonLP24]

103. The New Adventures of Old Christine didn't "fail miserably"

It was recently syndicated. Also Julia-Louis Dreyfus won an Emmy and was nominated for one other years. Not the greatest show but not one that failed miserably.

[semillama]

84. Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper

I don't see him escaping the role as defining him as an actor, which is an indication of the absolutely fantastic job he does as Sheldon Cooper.

[Kaleva]

87. Don Knotts as Barney Fife

[KamaAina]

89. Dixie Carter as Julia Sugarbaker

Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux.

[WilliamPitt]

90. Mark Hamill

Cuz of Corvette Summer, of course.

[Kaleva]

91. The entire cast of Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island, F Troop

[WinkyDink]

92. Fess Parker = Davy Crockett; Tom Selleck = Magnum; Peter Falk = Columbo.

[Lilith Velkor]

95. Sigourney Weaver will always be Ripley

Everyone on Firefly will always be everyone on Firefly.

Same with everyone on BSG, except for Crashdown, who will always be Starkiller.

[oxymoron]

97. Faye Dunaway

Don't fuck with me, fellas.

[tigereye]

112. hmm I always think of her in Chinatown..

[Kat45]

162. And I always think of her in Bonnie & Clyde

[Bennyboy]

98. Ronald Reagan as a right wing douchebag...(NT)

[XemaSab]

113. FTW

:D

[lexx21]

99. Paul Reiser as Carter Burke in Aliens

After seeing him in this role I could never picture him as anything other than a corporate weasel no matter the role he played in later films.

[Mad_Dem_X]

104. The cast of "Seinfeld."

I couldn't watch any of their other shows, because I kept seeing them as Elaine, George, etc.

[mnhtnbb]

108. Sarah Jessica Parker

as Carrie Bradshaw

[GoCubsGo]

132. She'll always be SanDeE* to me

From the movie "L.A. Story". That was the best character in the film, IMO.

[mnhtnbb]

136. wrong place

[suninvited]

114. John Travolta

as Vinnie Barbarino.

[alphafemale]

116. Who can now imagine anyone other than Gregory Peck as Atticus? nt

[old mark]

117. S Epatha Merkerson as Lt. Van Buren on the original Law & Order.

I first saw her in Terminator, then again as the mother of a murdered child in a L&O episode. A year or so later, she came in as the LT. She has the record for the longest running female character in any TV series, ever-since 2008.

She was also the longest running character in the series.


She is a fine actor and I really feel a loss since she is no longer on TV.

mark

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Epatha_Merkerson

[YellowRubberDuckie]

118. We have a lot.

Nicholas Brendan will always be Xander from Buffy.
Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Buffy.
Allison Hannigan will always be Willow.
Nathan Fillion will always be Mal from Serenity (Firefly).
Alan Rickman is Snape.
While he's a chameleon in no matter what he does, Bill Nighy will forever be SlartyBartfast, mainly because it's just so much fun to say.
There are many more, but I will not bore you.
Duckie

[alphafemale]

120. DUCKIE! Chose Duckie you silly, stupid girl!

Can't you see how much he loves you?

That silly boytoy you're infatuated with will dump you within 6 months.

Or worse, when your thirty-five and pregnant with your third child, he'll realize he'd prefer a twenty-year old again.

sigh

[YellowRubberDuckie]

121. LOL

I told you there were too many to name or even remember!! LOL

[alphafemale]

125. On re-reading i realize that was a sig and not a character.

The stoopid is strong with me today.

:silly:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

130. LOL. It's OK. I thought you were reminding me of Jon Crier.

So we're even. LOL

[alphafemale]

131. I Was going for the Pretty in Pink moment

i am a Child of the Eighties after all

[sakabatou]

145. I got two

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard and...

Vic Mignogna, for Edward Elric.

[RagAss]

119. Dennis Hopper as ...well.....Dennis Hopper.

[Lindsey]

123. There are many for me but the one that stands out the most is

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.

[LiberalAndProud]

124. Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton will always be the Bunkers.

[NoPasaran]

151. And Rob Reiner will always be Meathead

[madmom]

133. Nobody said Penny Marshall as Laverne?

[catzies]

135. Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, you know the movie.

[mnhtnbb]

137. Lucille Ball playing, who else, but Lucy!

[mnhtnbb]

138. Raymond Burr as Perry Mason

[Brother Buzz]

158. That was, indeed, a tough role to bust out of

Eight years playing Ironside did little to erode the Black-White images of Perry Mason branded in my mind.

[PADemD]

139. Sean Connery as James Bond

[pepperbear]

140. Jimmy Walker

[Saboburns]

141. Jeff "The Big" Lebowski, (Jeff Bridges)

I abide.

[Radical Activist]

142. Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan.

If you play James Bond more than once then you are James Bond. Daniel Craig may be an exception. He has never seemed like a Bond to me and probably never will.

[Broken_Hero]

143. ....

Christopher Reeve, as Superman...he will always be Superman

[hyphenate]

144. It is difficult to pin down

any one performer who I will always associate with a role they performed, but I know two right off the bat who fill that category.

One, Jack Webb will never be anyone except Joe Friday. He is one of the few people who lived his life to play the same character more than once.

The second is also, coincidentally, Jack: Jack Lord. Steve McGarrett is the role he made famous, and it will remain so. (I'm a little worried about the "new" Hawaii Five-O coming this fall, but I'll give it a try, at any rate.)

[csziggy]

149. If you love Joe Friday, check out The Mentalist

I swear Tim Kang is playing Sgt. Kimball Cho as Joe Friday. He's fun to watch at it.

[hyphenate]

150. Yes, I do

You're right. lol! I never considered that. I just thought he had to be serious because of his (the character's) association with gangs when he was a teen, and because people might laugh at his very strange name--I can't think of two many people as it is with the first name, "Kimball," nevermind an Asian-American with it as a first name.

[csziggy]

166. I never thought about that

I just thought he was playing up a Joe Friday type persona to contrast with the Simon Baker/Patrick Jane character's irreverence. It does make for an interesting dynamic, especially with the soap opera antics of the other detectives.

[hyphenate]

175. Yeah, there is an interesting dynamic there

on the other agents. It's a little bit contrived (IMO) for killing Bosco, though. It would have been an interesting situation if Bosco and Lisbon continued to play out their scenario, just as Rigsby and van Pelt played out theirs at the same time.

I think there needs to be a lot more interference from the team to make a 3rd season better. This past season, Jane was annoying more than helpful. Each episode was the same: homicide, Jane asking some questions, Jane doing his own version of meddling, including manipulating witnesses and of course, the murderer, the team gets stuck, and Jane's secretness brings about revelations on who the murderer is. Sometimes, they place the team--or Jane--in trouble just to see him someplace uncommon. It's like you can almost hear the writers saying, "Oooh, I've wanted to see Jane in the circus!" So they write him into the circus. It's what happens in TV after awhile, because the writers get lazy and won't spend time to actually write a new story, they just copy another episode's formula.

[csziggy]

188. I need to go back and watch the first season to get all the interaction

I pretty much missed it, between moving and the campaign. For instance, I still do not have the whole story line of Jane's family getting killed and the serial wacko killer deal sorted out in my mind.

You are right about the writers getting lazy - I'm pretty sure that is what killed N3mbers. They were just recycling old plots and not coming up with any new application of mathematics to their situations. The best long run series come up with new plots - like Law & Order would take real life crimes and court room scenarios, shake them up and create different plots. Sort of a "truth is crazier than fiction" deal. The more exotic the original premise (mathematician or psychic con artist) the harder it is to sustain the originality since real life does not allow prolonging those applications to police work. Psych is reaching that point now and I don't expect it to last much longer.

[Capn Sunshine]

147. Keanu Reeves: Ted

Everything since is just Ted in a costume.

[Luciferous]

189. "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K" :)

One of my favorite movies when I was a kid!

[UTUSN]

152. Anne Bancroft as Mrs ROBINSON. She asked why not The Miracle Worker

I barely like to hash movies when they first come around, much less 30 yrs later. But last night I sat through it on AMC and BANCROFT stole it all, was the focus really. She should have gotten the knickknack. The AMC reviewer agrees, at least in saying that ALL FOUR of the losers deserved it more than HEPBURN.

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http://www.filmsite.org/aa67.html

Katharine Hepburn hadn't won an Oscar since 1933 - 34 years earlier, although she had been in many fine roles since then. She finally won her second Oscar (and it wouldn't be her last) as liberal-thinking Christina Drayton whose daughter is considering inter-racial marriage with a distinguished black surgeon (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. It was Hepburn's tenth career nomination, tying her with Bette Davis (also with two Oscars) as the most-nominated actress. Hepburn would go on to surpass Davis with two more Oscars and a total of twelve career nominations.

The performances of the other Best Actress nominees were probably more deserving, including:

* Anne Bancroft (with her third of five career nominations) as the cunning, tempting, menacingly-seductive Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
* Faye Dunaway (with her first nomination) in her break-through role as Clyde's bank-robbing partner Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde
* Britain's Dame Edith Evans (with her third and last unsuccessful career nomination) as Mrs. Ross - an elderly, senile old woman living in poverty in director Bryan Forbes' melodramatic The Whisperers (the film's sole nomination)
* Audrey Hepburn (with her fifth and last career nomination) as Susy Hendrix - a blind, terrorized woman in director Terence Young's thriller Wait Until Dark (the film's sole nomination)

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[dixiegrrrrl]

153. Farah Fawcett.

by her poster, if not Charlie's Angels.

Richard Boone--Have gun, Will Travel.

James Arness.....you KNOW why!!

[Tikki]

154. Kiefer Sutherland for that Jack Bauer guy...

Tikki

[Paladin]

155. The Psycho Nutcase Killer Guy In "Dirtry Harry,"......

....and the psycho nutcase killer gal in "Play Misty For Me." They did such good jobs, I think both their careers tanked afterwards. I wonder what Eastwood thinks about it......

[RFKHumphreyObama]

156. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

[Iggo]

160. Not an obvious one, but Adrian Brody as the killer in 'Oxygen'.

Every time I see him on screen in any movie, all I can think is "He put that lady in a box."

*shivers*

[soleft]

165. Whoa, someone besides this Maura Tierney fan saw that movie?

[Iggo]

167. I know, right?

She was munchable in that flick.

[abq e streeter]

168. Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal--Al and Peg Bundy

[AllenVanAllen]

170. Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller.

and Judd Nelson as John Bender from The Breakfast Club.

[alphafemale]

171. every so often someone reminds me that Mr "Heisenberg" from Breaking Bad

is the same guy that played the dork dad on Malcolm in the Middle

[Danmel]

172. Judy Garland

As Dorothy Gale.

[CBR]

178. Idris Elba as Stringer Bell. nt

[Bennyboy]

179. James Spader as Alan Shore...(NT)

[Drunken Irishman]

180. Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode.

[A Cooper]

181. Maureen McCormick

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, Brady.

[A Cooper]

182. Sean Penn

Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

[A Cooper]

183. Ray Liotta as Henry Hill

Goodfellows

[Babel_17]

185. Milla Jovovich

"Me... Fifth element... supreme being... me, protect you"

http://www.moviesounds.com/element/meprotct.wav

And since that role she's best known for playing a heroine.

iconic pic



http://www.millaj.com/

[no_hypocrisy]

186. Three on a match

Rosalind Russell, Angela Lansbury, and Lucille Ball are ALL Auntie Mame.

[Generic Brad]

187. Jason Lee will always be Earl to me

The name of the show was "My Name Is Earl" and I took him at his word.