I don't mind Meryl Streep, Shimrod...but I don't think I want to see her in a musical. ;-)

Sacha Baron Cohen I find hard to evaluate. He varies from tasteless to excruciatingly funny. I can't sort it out, but he can be very amusing and wickely satirical at times. I loved some of the scenes in the recent "Bruno", but the general public seems to have been a little too uncomfortable with what he was showing them to really go for that movie. He rattled their cages most effectively. That is something I can appreciate about his work. He's good at exposing hypocrisy and stupidity where it calmly dwells in everyday stuff that most people take for granted.

As for "Taken", yeah, that was crap all right. But the fact that Liam Neeson was the protagonist made it watchable. The man really has presence. He was way too good for that movie.