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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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Crispin Hellion Glover

Birthdate and Location:
April 20, 1964
New York, New York

Best Movie(s):
Willard and Rubin and Ed

Worst Movie:
No Crispin Glover movies are bad!

General Facts:
  • 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.~



Originally Posted by LTwedge
Crispin Hellion Glover
Have you seen River's Edge? I'm just curious why you don't consider that among his finest work.


Originally Posted by Aniko
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.~
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!



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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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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



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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]



Originally Posted by Ezikiel
Worst Film:Hulk [2003]
I would've said The Rocketeer.
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Originally Posted by LordSlaytan
Have you seen River's Edge? I'm just curious why you don't consider that among his finest work.
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



Kevin Spacey

Birth date and location:
07/26/59
South Orange, New Jersey, United States


Favorite Movie:
Seven

Least Favorite Movie:
Consenting Adults

Favorite Performance:
The Usual Suspects

Most Overrated:
K-Pax

Most Underrated:
A Time to Kill

Favorite Quote::
"Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane."

Favorite Line:
"Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*ck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus." - American Beauty
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Philip Seymour Hoffman


Birth date and location:
07/23/67
Fairport, New York, United States


Favorite Movie:
The Big Lebowski


Least Favorite Movie:
Twister



Favorite Performance:
The Talented Mr Ripley


Most Overrated:
Flawless (not because of him though)


Most Underrated:
Hard to say... When a Man Loves a Woman Can't even remember that he was in that one, but I like the film.


Favorite Line:
Hard to say. It's mostly how he says it, not what he says. But I think it's hillarious when he as Brandt in The Big Lebowski says: "Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited"
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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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.




Steve Buscemi

Birth Date and Location:
December 15
Brooklyn, NY


Favorite Movie:
Reservoir Dogs


Favorite Performance:
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (Mr. Shhh)

Most Overrated:
NEVER!

Most Underrated:
The Wedding Singer

A Must See:
Ghost World

Favorite Role in Series:
The Soprano's (Tony Blundetto)

Works Great With:
Adam Sandler
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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]



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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




Kiefer Sutherland



Birthdate & location
21 December, 1966 (London, England)

Parents
Father: Donald Sutherland
Mother: Shirley Douglas

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Favourite Movie
The Lost Boys

Least Favourite Movie
The Three Muskateers

Favourite Performance
Young Guns

Most Overrated
24 (TV series)

Most Underrated
Stand By Me

Favourite Line
'You are not a god.'

Awards (IMDb Link)


My Top Five Movie Choices
The Lost Boys
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Stand By Me
Flatliners




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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



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Originally Posted by Ezikiel
Toshirô Mifune

Worst Film:
Stray Dog [1949]
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