Dissect your favorite actor/actress

I saw this at another forum and liked the idea. Feel free to add your own catagories.

HOLLY HUNTER (ain't she purty)



Birth date and location:
March 20th, 1958
Conyers, Georgia, USA

Best Movie:
The Piano (1993)

Worst Movie:
Copycat (1995)

Favorite Movie:
Raising Arizona (1987)

Most Overrated:
Always (1989)

Most Underrated:
Crash (1996)

Awards:
NYFCC Award - Best Actress: Broadcast News (1987)
NBR Award - Best Actress: Broadcast News (1987)
LAFCA Award - Best Actress: Broadcast News (1987)
BSFC Award - Best Actress: Broadcast News (1987)
Silver Berlin Bear - Best Actress: Broadcast News (1987)

Emmy - Best Actress: Roe vs. Wade (1989)

Emmy - Best Actress: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
CableACE - Best Actress: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)

SEFCA Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
NYFCC Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
NSFC Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
NBR Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
LAFCA Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
ALFS Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
DFWFCA Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
CFCA Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
BSFC Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
BAFTA Film Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
AFI Award - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
Golden Globe - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)
Oscar - Best Actress: The Piano (1993)

Cognac Festival du Film Policier - Special Mention: Copycat (1995)

Boston Film Festival - Film Excellence Award (1998)

Bronze Leopard - Best Actress: Thirteen (2003)
Sierra Award - Best Actress: Thirteen (2003)

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"Today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

• Only child to Bruce and Betty Glover
• Attended a private K-8 school for mentally gifted children
• Is the author of several books and essays
• Has a CD called The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution=Let it Be
• Has written and directed a film entitled What Is It?

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Bri....great idea and list...
....now I'd love to read the warm and fuzzies.

What in particular is it about her is it that you love? I know she's talented, but....What is it that she does that speaks to you?
The way she portrays a chartacter?
Her voice? Her warmth? Her humor?
Why is Raising Arizona your favorite picture with her?

I think this is interesting, because it's also about chemistry. Everyone relates to what an actor/actress (even people in everyday life) on how they present themselves differently.

I'll post my own list tomorrow. Nice thread.~

Have you seen River's Edge? I'm just curious why you don't consider that among his finest work.


Thanks cutie. But like I said, somebody else had the idea at another forum.

Let's see...Holly Hunter became one of my favorites with her role in Raising Arizona. She played somebody kooky, quaint, and still cute as hell. I loved her exaggerated accent and how easily she could break down into over-the-top sobs with a blink of an eye. She's also lovely. I remember when I saw Alway's for the first time. The scene where she comes into the lounge wearing the pretty white dress...wow. Yes, I think she's a beautiful woman. But there's more to her than her beauty. In a lot of her roles, she doesn't depend on it at all, and that shows me...no, proves to me...that she's the real deal. There just isn't anything that I don't like about her. Oh yeah, I also have a lot of respect for her because she is aging gracefully; no plastic...and she's hot!

Clint Eastwood

Date of birth (location)
31 May 1930
St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA

Best Film
Unforgiven

Worst Film
Blood Work

Favorite Film
For a Few Dollars More

Most Overrated film
Mystic River

Most Underrated Film
Play Misty for Me

Best Charecter
Insp. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool

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It's a god-awful small affair, To the girl with, the mousy hair, But her mummy is yelling "No", and her daddy has told her to go, But her friend is nowhere to be seen, Now she walks through her sunken dream, To the seat with the clearest view, And she's hooked to the silver screen, But the film is a saddening bore, For she's lived it ten times or more...

The Coen Brothers


Date of birth (location)
Joel: 29 November 1954
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ethan: 21 September 1957
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Best Film
The Man Who Wasn't There

Worst Film
Intolerable Cruelty

Favorite Film
The Big Lebowski

Most Overrated film
Intolerable Cruelty

Most Underrated Film
The Man Who Wasn't There

Best Direction
Fargo

Best Screenplay
Miller's Crossing

Best Performance By A Male Actor In One Of Their Films
Billy Bob Thornton - Edward Crane - The Man Who Wasn't There

Best Performance By Female Actor In One Of Their Films
Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson - Fargo

Jennifer Connelly


Birthday & Location:
December 12, 1970
Catskill Mountains, New York, USA

Best Film:
Dark City [1998]

Worst Film:
Hulk [2003]

Favorite Movie:
Dark City [1998]

Most Overrated:
A Beautiful Mind [2001]

Most Underrated:
Dark City [1998]

Fun Facts about Jennifer Connelly:
- Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights
- Her acting debut was in an episode of a british horror series called "Tales of the Unexpected" [1979].
- Her first film role was in Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America [1984]
- Her middle name is "Lynn"
- She speaks fluent Italian and French.
- She is married to actor Paul Bettany
- Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002
- She has 1 child, his name is Stellan.

Awards:
AFI Awards - AFI Featured Actor of the Year - Female - Movies: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Academy Awards - Best Actress in a Supporting Role: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
BAFTA Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Golden Globes - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Golden Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Drama: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Online Film Critics Society Awards - Best Supporting Actress: A Beautiful Mind [2001]
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress: A Beautiful Mind [2001]

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress: House of Sand and Fog [2003]

I would've said The Rocketeer.

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Let us go, Through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells

From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S.Eliot

Yeah...I have seen it and I really love his performance in that movie but I didn't want to list too many best movies. Of course...pretty much all of his movies are his best movies to me. LOL

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One of the biggest myths told is that being intelligent is the absence of the ability to do stupid things.

Welcome back, Firegod. Back from the dead, eh?

after Bunny having offered The Dude a blow job.


Other memorable roles in great movies:

As "Young Craps Player" in Hard Eight (1996) a.k.a. Sydney
As Scotty J. in Boogie Nights (1997)
As Allen in Happiness (1998)
As Phil Parma in Magnolia (1999)
As Joseph Turner White in State and Main (2000)
As Lester Bangs in Almost Famous (2000)
As Dean Trumble in Punch Drunk Love (2002)
As Jacob Elinsky in 25th Hour (2002)

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

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I am the Beauty that killed the Beast!

Nice job with the post!

Thank you sugar.

Toshirô Mifune


Birthday & Location:
April 1, 1920
Tsingtao, China

Best Film:
Throne of Blood [1957]

Worst Film:
Stray Dog [1949]

Favorite Movie:
The Seven Samurai [1954]

Most Underrated:
Throne of Blood [1957]

Fun Facts about Toshirô Mifune:
- Mifune was 5' 9".
- He attended the Port Arthur High School in China
- After he graduated, he studied photography
- He took a test for Toho Studios but failed, but he was noticed by Director Kajiro Yamamoto who then recommended him to director Senkichi Taniguchi who put Mifune in his first film role in Shin Baka Jidai [1947]
- Mifune appeared in sixteen of Akira Kurosawa's films
- Was considered early on by George Lucas for the role of Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars [1977].
- Died on December 24, 1997

Memorable Mifune characters and films:
Kikuchiyo in The Seven Samurai [1954]
Sanjuro Kuwabatake in Yojimbo [1961]
Sanjûrô Tsubaki in Sanjuro [1962]
Musashi Miyamoto in the Samurai Trilogy [1954][1955][1956]
General Rokurota Makabe in The Hidden Fortress [1958]
Det. Murakami in Stray Dog [1949]
Taketori Washizu in Throne of Blood [1957]

Uma Thurman

Date of birth (location)
29 April 1970
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Best Film
Pulp Fiction

Worst Film
The Avengers

Favorite Film
Pulp Fiction

Most Overrated film
The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Most Underrated Film
Tape

Best Charecter
????? (aka The Bride) - Kill Bill

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Johnny Depp

Favourite Movie
Sleepy Hollow
Least favourite movie
none
most underrated movie
What's eating Gilbert Grape?
most recent movie
Secret Window

Johnny Depp is not only a really good actor, but he's also very modest and he doesn't act only in blockbuster movies...and i really can't leave out the fact that he is really, really hot

Nice choice for an actor, but I liked Stray Dog

Have you seen 1941?

Also a movie I haven't watched that was one of the worst box-office disasters was Inchon.

Here is an MSN article on it http://entertainment.msn.com/news/ar...px?news=131054