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Ya know Char, I too fleetingly thought of Spacey as I typed out my earlier reply to TB, as Kevin CAN do very good impressions of celebs. (...nobody has ever done a better "Johnny Carson", especially!)

Yeah, I agree. And yeah, good correlative point to make, as both bios of these two would have parallels, wouldn't they.

Okay, "Kay"! Now are you REALLY "crazyblonde" of old here??? 'Cause crazyblonde said this very thing months ago, and sorry, I had to disagree with her about this, and because, first, NOBODY could have been better than Errol Flynn in that role(in my opinion, of course), and secondly, while I'll grant that Cagney was great in almost everything HE was ever in too, there's just NO way in you-know-where that the guy who specialized in the roles of "modern American STREET toughs" could have come off as a subject of King Richard the Lionhearted as well as the Tasmanian-born Flynn did. (...and besides, Rathbone would have TOWERED over the guy!!!) LOL

Yeah, his story might be worth filming, but can you think of any present day actors who might fit THAT bill? I can't, right off the top of my head anyway. They'd have to be an excellent comic impressionist, first and foremost.

Hartman was indeed a very (multi)talented comic actor, TB, and probably one of the best that SNL ever featured. (...what a shame his fate turned out to be)

OH, and before we get to the issue of all the caucasian actors who played roles of a different race than their own here(and the subsequent can o' worms that THAT topic will inevitably cause in this baby...JUST wait and see!!! LOL)...how about the All-American Boy(and who I usually find somewhat boring) Kevin Costner donning those green tights in 1991's "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"??? (...now HE couldn't come of as "British" if he started spelling EVERY word in the English language with that superfluous letter 'u' they like to use over there, RIGHT???!!!) LOL

Okay. While I usually love Edward G. Robinson is just about anything he was ever in, I'll let Billy Crystal here tell ya how I always had a tough time figurin' out Eddie's casting in a certain religious themed movie that the ABC network shows every Easter...

I can't think of one either, Tom. However, the following film(which I think is excellent but didn't do well at the box office) while not made during nor about WWII and isn't a "Hollywood movie", doesn't place the Fascist Italian government and its military in the best of light is 1981's "Lion of the Desert" starring the great Anthony Quinn as the Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani.

MY guess? Well, that ain't no "mosque". That's that old abandoned Texaco station along old Route-66 just outside of Barstow...and all that sand is coverin' up all the pumps! (...and btw, yeah...this IS one of the best WWII movies made during that conflict in my opinion also...AND btw, nice write-up again here, Tom!)

LOL HEY now, Mr.R! I'll have you know that back in my day, I could give the first male lead in that "Palm Springs Weekend" flick, Troy Donahue, a run for his money in "the looks department"!

Eeh! Don't worry about it, TB. For YEARS I (mis)pronounced Malachi Throne's first name as "Ma-la-CHI" instead of "MAL-a-ki"! LOL

I certainly hope you know how THAT would've turned out, doncha TB?! SURE, they could've written you in as Fraser's and Niles' "long-long brother", but THEN they probably would have had you don a pair of water skis and jump over a tank containing a you-know-what in Puget Sound just off Seattle! (...and I think we ALL know what THAT means, don't WE?!)

Hey! It could've been WORSE, ya know! I COULD have said "The West VIRGINIA Story"...and THEN you and Joel would've been brother and sister AND married in this thing!!! (...I think I just lost the Huntington and Charleston markets and all points in between here...but THAT'S okay 'cause I know they'll be back eventually)

Uh-huh! I know! "The WEST Palm Beach Story", Char!!! (...and of course you'd take direction from none other than Preston Sturges!)

Word is Orson Welles would've KILLED for a nose like that!

LOL Yeah, I suppose Danny might fit the bill!

Yeah, I think you're right(or left...or right...or left..sorry), GayD. I think Claudette also had a particular side which she preferred to face to the camera. However, Jean was probably THE most known for this, as far as I know.

LOL Oh, I know better than to do THAT, Char!

ROFL!!!! Gotta admit that that WAS sheer "brilliance" HERE, Tom! AND so germane to this thread to BOOT!!! (...great job...I loved it!)

AND, to answer your question here... I dunno, maybe Alan Alda in MY case. (...'cause he TOO did a awful lot of Groucho impressions while starring in TV's M*A*S*H)

Hmmmm..."Jean Arthur" ya say, huh?! So tell us Char...Do YOU also have a one side of your face which you think is MUCH more photogenic than the other side is TOO??? (...sorry, couldn't resist)

Hmmmm...well...lemme see here. AH! I've got it! I'd play Major Rudolf Rassendyll in "The Prisoner of Zenda", BUT play the guy as your average everyday American(specially, as a Californian/Arizonan), and thus just call me "Rudy"...none of that whole pretentious European stand-on-tradition/stuff-shirt crap for ME, boy! I'd have, say, the elegant BUT down-to-earth Deborah Kerr play Princess Flavia. Yeah, THAT'S it. THEN maybe have all the rest of the cast of the '37 version in it, well EXCEPT for replacing the "matronly" Mary Astor as Antoinette de Mauban with the '52 version's MUCH hotter Jane Greer. Yeah, THAT'S the ticket! (...and THEN, just before I ride triumphantly into the sunset at the end of this flick, I'd have C.Audrey Smith as Col, Zapt say to me, "Goodbye, Yank. You're the finest Ellsberg of them all, dude!", and then he'd turn to David Niven and say, "He taught me to say "dude", and while telling me some other gibberish about not spelling certain words with what he called 'superfluous u's'!"...THE END)

Thanks. Sounds like a good suggestion, and I'll definitely look into that.

RATS!!! I just thought o' somethin' here. As you might remember, the only reason I'm now gettin' MeTV is because we went with a cable service that bundles the TV service with Internet service, and then dropped DirectTV. However, we've been havin' a lot of problems with their Internet service and they haven't exactly been good about fixin' the problem. And so the wife has just cancelled it and we're now goin' back to the original Internet provider we used to have and back to DirectTV, which means no MeTV anymore, and thus no "Hart To Hart" and all those other wonderful old TV shows I've now gotten into watching as a great "fall back" alternative. (...I HATE when that happens)

Thanks for the heads-up, lavender. (...ya know, this gives me an idea for TB's thread about "If YOU were a star, who would be your co-stars?"...yep, you guessed it, I'D replace that hack R.J. in that TV series he did with my old crush Stefanie!...yeah, THAT'S it!!!) LOL