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Subject: Biopics

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Susan

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Date Posted: 10:48:43 12/17/01 Mon
In reply to: Cin�philia 's message, "Re: Milo O'Shea or Michael Richards???" on 09:37:07 12/15/01 Sat

Alan Bates?? Hmm, *there's* a possibility! In that same vein, you just reminded me of another one (as long as we're including actors of the past)--what about Oliver Reed?

OK ... which one or two of all those choices should I put on the ballot?! (Quick, before somebody actually votes!) Or maybe it's just a bad question and I should remove it.

>Remember the guy who played John Lennon in the TV movie
>"John and Yoko" back in the early 1980s? You don't... :-)

You're right! But that's cuz I never saw that movie. I do remember the guy who played him in *two* biopics--the Hours and Times and Backbeat (Ian Hart). He's a very good actor (he's in Harry Potter, BTW), but it's hard not to associate him with that role because he did it so perfectly. (And it doesn't help that he looks just like Julian Lennon.) However, he's one of those chameleon-like actors who's so good at what he does, you don't recognize him from one film to the next!

>I usually don't find biopics very convincing or impressive.

Same here. From what I've seen on the commercials, it's hard to believe that they're talking about an Oscar for Will Smith in the Muhammed Ali movie! So far, the only biographical performance that's really impressed me to the point where I don't have to keep reminding myself who the actor is supposed to be is Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. I would never have thought it possible having mainly known him as Commander Koenig on Space: 1999, but that was a well deserved Oscar!

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