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Tim Cavanaugh | December 22, 2004

Is it the starlets and the planes, or the Mormon slaves? What's the real Howard Hughes attraction?

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|12.22.04 @ 9:06PM|#

Wow, sour grapes at their finest.

|12.22.04 @ 9:15PM|#

I just posted on Virginia's thread that I'm sorry I wasn't an aviator. Now I'm glad I wasn't an aviator?
I'm going to buy a neckbrace at RxAll first thing tomorrow.
(Assuming the blizzard abates somewhat.)

|12.22.04 @ 9:54PM|#

Burns: Aw, my beloved plant. How I miss her -- bah! To hell with this. Get my razors! Draw a bath! Get these kleenex boxes off my feet.
Smithers: Certainly, sir. And, uh, the jars of urine?
Burns: Oh, we'll hang onto those. Now, to the plant! We'll take the Spruce Moose. [picks up the model] Hop in!
Smithers: But, sir --
Burns: [pointing a gun] I said, hop in.

Kevin Carson|12.22.04 @ 10:48PM|#

DiCaprio as Howard Hughes has got to be the worst case of miscasting in history.

When Titanic was the "big thing," I wanted to take that little shit apart with a pair of bolt-cutters and make Celine Dion watch.

Tim Cavanaugh|12.22.04 @ 11:13PM|#

Sour grapes against a guy who died when I was six? No, I save my bitterness only for people who are currently doing better than me.

Kevin, I kind of like DiCaprio. Catch Me If You Can was a great performance. Even Gangs of New York wasn't really his fault: Dick Burbage himself would have been blown off the screen by Daniel Day Lewis.

|12.23.04 @ 12:30AM|#

This strikes me as one of the few NON-miscastings of DiCaprio (along with The Basketball Diaries).

If there's something that Leonardo's boyish countenance induces in the viewer, it's the ease with which one can imagine him abusing his precious young body and/or selling his ass for heroin.

|12.23.04 @ 2:56AM|#

Tim Cavanaugh,

Nice Barthes pull. :)

|12.23.04 @ 3:03AM|#

Kevin Carson,

There are worse actors. Like Keanue Reeves or Wil Wheaton. Indeed, I used to be a regular poster at usenet group alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die :)

|12.23.04 @ 9:10AM|#

Wil Wheaton had terrible lines. He was great in Toy Soldiers.

I don't think you can judge anybody's acting ability by their appearance in a Rick Berman production.

"No, you're too natural. Best Boy, take that rod and shove it in more until he looks like I want."

|12.23.04 @ 10:11AM|#

Does anyone know if Ted Turner has begun hoarding his urine?

drf|12.23.04 @ 12:03PM|#

what about willard whyte? has anybody heard from him now that burt saxby has left his employ?

GG: ROFLMAO! awesome. "this doesn't look like the hollideck" -- "energize".

like portnoy wanted to do to opus spock: beam him into a wall.

that is all.