Articles tagged with: Actor
hecklerspray spent its formative years living on a nude-ranch. It had its pros and cons. On the plus side the people were nice, the weather was warm, and in our later teen years we could still ring doorbells even when our hands were full. On the down side, if you forgot to cover up while the shot-puttin' paper boy road past you risked getting very tiny cuts in very sensitive places. Oh the memories. While we're on the topic you should know it was in a nude-theatre that we first took in that Harry Potter film. We should probably recommend that place to Rupert Grint, him apparently being a recently converted nudist and all. Oh you read that right.
Previously, the only way you'd see Tom Hanks fighting Mel Gibson was to watch the unmade movie Forrest Gump Punches Mad Max In Space. But now Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson have emerged as figureheads on opposing sides of a dispute over whether actors should go on strike because there aren't enough fame-blinded young nymphomaniacs who'll indulge their every fleeting sexual whim or whatever. Mel Gibson is for the strike, Tom Hanks is against it. Sadly Mel Gibson will win, because the dispute will be settled by charging at each other across a field. Poor Tom Hanks - if only it involved growing a crap mullet and ranting about Jesus.
As everybody knows, although onscreen Grey's Anatomy can be almost fatally tedious, off-screen Grey's Anatomy is brilliant. You want a comparison? OK. Onscreen, the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy revolved around a bunch of doctors wondering who'd be asked to perform some surgery on a patient. For approximately the billionth time. But off-screen? Off-screen the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy revolved around dollop-faced actor TR Knight throwing the mother of all strops and walking off the show because nobody's giving him the attention that he obviously deserves. See - which one would you watch? Oh, neither? Actually, us too.
You want success? Try playing exactly the same yammering, flab-faced huckster character in every film you star in. It seems to work for Vince Vaughn, because he's just been named as Forbes' most valuable actor. For every dollar that Vince Vaughn was paid for Dodgeball, The Break-Up and Wedding Crashers, he pulled in $14.71 of gross income for his studios. That's impressive stuff, and Vince Vaughn should be incredibly proud of his achievements. Speaking of which, Vince Vaughn should also be incredibly proud next year when Forbes calculates his salary against Fred Claus and that awful-looking Christmas movie he's making with Reese Witherspoon and names him as its most overpaid one-note, off-script, pointlessly rambling unfunny egobeast.
It looks like 2008 has turned into the year of strikes - even the most comically pointless, vanity-fuelled professions are packing up their tools in a huff.
By which we, of course, mean acting. Just a few short months after the Hollywood writers strike came bumbling to an end, the two big actor unions are squabbling over whether or not they should go on strike too. And in times as troubled as these a wise, near-biblical hero figure is needed to set everything back on course.
And, with thudding inevitability, that figure is George Clooney. George Clooney has written a letter to both the Screen Actors Guild (which wants to strike) and the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists (which doesn't) proclaiming his clear and ineffably correct opinion on who's right and who's wrong. Turns out he thinks that everyone's right. Nice going George, that could have got nasty.
