Posted on 09/28/2010 9:43:12 AM PDT by MissTed
Though I am curious why this role was not offered to Tom Selleck. He may have turned it down not wanting to step in the Duke’s shoes.
Will you be in character, Rooster?
I guess you like skinny dykes....to each his own.
It was actually the Coens themselves who said it.
Well, of course, the Coens are publicists for their own films. I’ve seen this game many, many times with remakes. This “Of Mice and Men” will make the old one with Burgess Meredith sick! This “Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman” will put away once and for all the myth of Lee J. Cobb!” “This version of Ann-Margret in “Streetcar Named Desire” will make you forget all about Elia Kazan and Vivien Leigh. And yet...after a few years...we all travel back to the originals, lol.
I didn’t realize the first one needed to be re-made.
Looks pretty doggone good to me.
I happened to be in the same place at the same time as my two brothers earlier this month, due to the funeral of a family member. It's rare we're together.
Post-funeral, one of the women in the home mentioned a movie and how bad an acting job someone had done in it.
We three brothers immediately looked at each other and, in unison, said "I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker." Then we each shuddered.
You see, that was one of Glen Campbell's lines in True Grit, which we saw together as young teenagers.
Campbell's acting was so bad that it burned an indelible space in our brains. The Pavlovian response to the words "bad acting" was for the three of us to spontaneously quote Glen Campbell from True Grit.
To use the current vernacular "I'm just saying" he must have been pretty bad for three of us to remember it for that long.
Although he and Kim Darby (and Joe Namath) later starred in "Norwood." I'd say his acting was worse in Norwood, except that it didn't rise to the level of acting.
Hey pal, you the one who goes for Hepburn who was a skinny dyke. If that’s your style fine. Talking about my wife though, that would get you knocked on your ass if you tried it in my presence. But you’re safe, a bitch but safe.
A second thought...maybe you’re a girl. That would save you from being knocked down but then one would wonder, but not very hard, about what it is that you see in the skinny dyke...
Never said the man deserved an academy award, just that I've seen worse from so-called "seasoned" actors....even very successful ones...of which it is supposedly "their craft".
But hey, I'm not one to judge ANYTHING hollywood....especially today's "stars".... most of which if you gave me their names I'd probably say...."who?"
Funny thing is, True Grit was one of the last(and only)movies I've ever seen on the big screen....heh, and that's when it first came out(1969?).
It’s not a great film at all. They wouldn’t give Wayne an Oscar until he did engaged in this piece of self parody.
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