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Posted by Tory, July 23, 2008 on 12:12 pm | In Amusements |Nestor Carbonell plays the Mayor — beneath his eyeliner you might recognize Bat Manuel from The Tick TV series.
This thoroughly American mewvie includes:
- Welshman Christian Bale
- Brit Gary Oldman
- Australian Heath Ledger
Somewhere John Mahoney is proud and doesn’t know why.
Paul Bettany was considered for the Joker, and if you have to have a non-Heath-Ledger Joker, Paul Bettany is not a bad option. If you can forgive him for Dogville.
Here’s a really awesome picture of Gary Oldman for your Wednesday anjoiment:
Next week on American Idol
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It’s funny, because I recognize him more from Lost than the Tick these days.
What is the deal with the constant eyeliner though?
Conundrums.
Comment by Random_Tangent — July 23, 2008 #
Methinks it is a semi-natural phenomenon that the makeup department decides to ‘enhance,’ thereby destroying it utterly.
I know not. Also, my primary association for N. Carbonell is ‘Just Shoot Me.’ -5 cool for me.
Comment by Tory — July 24, 2008 #
The referee needs to weigh in here. Do you get -5 for remembering that he was on “Just Shoot Me,” or do you get -5 for *thinking* that he was on “Just Shoot Me” when he actually wasn’t? Because if you’re confusing Nestor Carbonell and Enrico Colantoni then we may have to bump it up to -6 or -7, depending on whether this is a case of “great character actors I confuse” or “all those Mexicans look alike to me.”
Comment by Your Anomalous Fan — July 24, 2008 #
No, no, no. I’m actually confusing ‘Just Shoot Me’ with that terrible fashion magazine show with Brooke Shields. Frick. What was that? Kathy Griffin was on it.
Ah.
Not ‘Veronica’s Closet’…
GLARGH. I will not Google, I will not Google…
They have to stop naming sitcoms and movies after figures of speech. They have no meaning. They impart no knowledge.
I am blaming the victim here…
Forget it, I’m Googling…
Dag, Nestor’s been busy…
‘Suddenly Susan.’ BLARGH. I can’t believe I just dedicated that much brain power to this issue. BLARRRGH.
That was my thought process in real time. Thank you. Thank you.
Also, Colantoni is CANADIAN. Or is this a case of ‘all those border countries look alike to me’?
(With many apologies to Nestor Carbonell, who is cool.)
Comment by Tory — July 24, 2008 #
Yes, I know that Colantoni is Canadian. That was just a cheap attempt at humor about all furriners looking alike. You still win, though, because I knew Carbonell was on “Suddenly Susan” without having to resort to the power of Google. It’s similar to my inability to keep Kathy Griffin and Vicki Lewis sorted between “Suddenly Susan” and “NewsRadio.” You’d think I could get it straight by now…
Comment by Your Anomalous Fan — July 25, 2008 #
I also had a heinous problem with the wacky redheads distinction. Then I saw Vicki Lewis’ midriff one ep and her identity was sealed in my memory, so that “NewsRadio” became that show with that redhead with THE THIRTEEN INCH WAIST.
“Suddenly Susan” continued to be THAT TERRIBLE SITCOM WITH THE FEMALE NAME IN THE TITLE. No, not “Veronica’s Closet.” No, not “Just Jesse” or wotever that thing with Christina Applegate and other actors who were way too good for it. The other one. The one with the tasty Latin guy. No, not the tasty Italian guy. No, not that tasty Latin guy. The one with the eyebrows. Yeah, that one!
Gawd, that was a dark time for TV.
Comment by Tory — July 25, 2008 #