BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 07:55 AM

For best, my votes go to Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Alan Arkin, Bobby Darin, Paul Robeson, and Cher. Impossible for me to pick one from that bunch. All of them had and have outstanding natural acting ability. Honorable mention to Burl Ives as Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Teribus
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 07:13 AM

Absolutely amazed that no-one from the UK side of the pond has mentioned John Tams excellent portrayal of Daniel Hagman, the "dead shot" ex-poacher turned Rifleman, in the Richard Sharpe Series.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 07:00 AM

I agree with Gorgeous Gary - Sting in "Dune" was beyond bad, he managed to make an important role weirdly irrelevant.

On the other end of the spectrum, I was impressed by the acting of Will Young in "Moulin Rouge".

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 05:26 AM

Whatever possessed Richard Harris, one of the finest actors and brawlers of his generation, to try his hand at singing?

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Dick The Box
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 04:48 AM

Interesting that most replies are centred around film and TV. What about the stage? There are a lot of stage productions that use music (as opposed to musicals which are a different kettle of fish). My first introduction to this was "The Mysteries" back in the early 80s. The obvious name from that production was John Tams who is a fine musician and a good actor. I think you wil find that the crossover of actors and musicians has been much more widespread on the stage, but of course the ephemeral nature and scale of stage productions means that fewer people see them and there is no lasting record.

In those days there was no formal training available (I think) but that is now changing. My son Jared has recently graduated from Rose Bruford college with an actor/musician degree. He is a fine actor and also a talented multi-instrumentalist. There are many more like him and the theatre is changing with more and more productions using music as an integral part of the production i.e. the run of Brecht's "The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui" based at the Watford Palace that has just finished. Hopefully the right people will get the jobs in future but I doubt it while Hollywood feels that a big name is better than acting talent!

Richard Ashe

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: ard mhacha
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 04:45 AM

Mario Lanza, he was able to blast out the odd song, but what a bloody awful actor.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Newport Boy
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 04:17 AM

This looks like it could run and run. I'd also choose Burl Ives, Johnny Cash & Harry Belafonte.

I saw Ewan MacColl on stage at Stratford East before I first heard him sing at Soho Square. The theatrical background was always evident in his singing.

Extending the style boundaries a little, how about Paul Robeson. Best in his stage roles, although some of the films were not bad, and his singing was top-class.

A current favourite is John Telfer. A few extracts from a BBC biog when he joined the cast of "The Archers":

"He went on to study at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has appeared in more than 35 plays with the Bristol Old Vic Company.

These include Titus Andronicus, The Golden Pathway Annual, Comedians, All My Sons, A Midsummer Night's Dream – which transferred to The Old Vic London – and most recently the premiere of Black/White. He played Mortimer and Westmoreland in the recent Henry IV parts 1 and 2."

He has written music for stage, television and radio, and a CD of his songs and occasional music for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory productions is now available.

John also fronts a big band, singing standards, and is lead singer and keyboard player with rock band afgm (Afewgoodmen). The band released their third album in October 2004 and are looking for a record deal."

Full biog here:
John Telfer biog

The only thing I don't like about John is that he was the dream man of both my wife and my daughter in the early 80's. Glad to say they've both gone off him now.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 03:32 AM

Theo Bikel and Alan Arkin starred together in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming."

And let's not forget Hamilton Camp! Along with other good performances, he gave us an absolutely hilarious turn as wired up discount stereo store owner Del Murdock in an episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Severn
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 01:27 AM

Sheb Wooley didn't only do Pete the scout in "Rawhide" and the Principal in "Hoosiers", he was also in a horrible film called "Hootenanny Hoot" which was an attempt to do for the Folk Scare what some of the Rock & Roll movies did for th 50's.


Still in country, Ferlin Husky and Don "Wildwood Weeds" Bowman starred in the truly horrible "Hillbillies in a Haunted House" and "Las Vegas Hillbillies" which had Sonny James, as well.


Robert Mitchum actually had a hit record with the theme song from "Thunder Road" which featured Keely Smith of Louis Prima fame as a love interest. He also issued an album of calypsos under his name during that craze, for an example of doing it the other way round.


Robert Guilliomme was in a black folk trio called The Pilgrims in the 60's with an album, I think, on Columbia.


I even saw Limelighter Lou Gottlieb in a bad comedy as a Guru type.Did it have Peter Sellers in it? ("I Love You Alice B. Toklas"?, maybe?)

And his bandmate Alex Hassilev was on the submarine crew in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming", a crew commanded by.....


Theodore "You speak 16 tongues and whaddaya get" Bikel, a fine actor award winning in film and Broadway and member of the Newport Folk Festival Board of Directors. He was in anything from "The African Queen" to My Fair Lady" to "I Bury The Living" speaking every dialect known to man, most of them convincingly.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 01:19 AM

How about Tiny Tim? He appeared in several films, though I don't think I've seen any of them. Did he always play himself, or someone transparently like him?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 12:54 AM

I kind of liked calypsonian, Sir Lancelot, in a half dozen or six movies in the '40s & '50s. They were smallish roles--one was as a deckhand--
and in one his songs moved the plot forward. They (the films) turn up on Turner movies from time to time.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 12:29 AM

Diana Ross was wonderful in "Lady Sings the Blues." Of course, it helps that she was playing a singer.

How about Scatman Crothers? He had a memorable small role in "The Shining."

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 11:32 PM

Speaking of "A Face in the Crowd", Andy Griffith's well-known 1956 Martin D-18 was a prop in that movie. The prop department bought the guitar new, painted it black, and glued sequins to it. When filming was over, Griffith "rescued" the guitar, removed the sequins, sanded off the black paint, and had John D'Angelico refinish it.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 11:26 PM

On the other hand, Sid Vicious was absolutely terrible as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 11:24 PM

Anyone see Marianne Faithfull in a 1969 Hamlet with Nicol Williamson? Quite good.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 11:00 PM

Another example of Paul Simon's humor: his video of You Can Call Me Al with Chevy Chase.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 10:49 PM

Oscar Levant was clever, though he always seemed to play some version of himself.

I liked Streisand in a lot of her roles. They weren't all easy to watch because of the subjects, but she has overall done very well in film. Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, What's Up Doc?--what's not to love?

Shirley Jones was quite an accomplished musical performer and a natural for lots of Broadway musical roles and then in films like Oklahoma and The Music Man. When she was cast against type in Elmer Gantry she won an Academy Award. It was on television last week and I caught most of it. She earned it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 09:37 PM

I too like Andy Griffith in his dramatic role in "A Face in the Crowd." For those of you wth the Turner Classic Movie Channel (TCM), it is on tonight at 10:15 PM Eastern.......about 40 minutes from now.

Helluva' good flick! Done before we met Sheriff Taylor of Mayberry.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 09:32 PM

Actually, I much preferred Cab Calloway in the Betty Boop cartoons to the Blues Brothers. Aretha stole the whole movie in one scene in Blues Brothers, to my taste anyway. I don't remember the Ray Charles scene in the Blues Brothers, so that should tell you something right there. And I LOVE Ray Charles!

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 09:13 PM

It probably says something about my taste in films that the first examples that pop to mind are Grade A cheese, but here goes...

Sting in David Lynch's "Dune". Definitely a contender for worst!

The BeeGees, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Earth Wind & Fire, Billy Preston and any other musicians associated with the travesty that was "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". I think the only folks who escaped that waste of celluloid with any respect whatsoever were Steven Tyler and the boys, who at least made a hit of their "Come Together" cover.

And of course I must mention Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and James Brown's respective cameos in "Blues Brothers" (one of my all-time favorite movies)

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM

I have to agree with everything you said about "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", Neil. Kristofferson was horribly miscast in that movie, and Dylan was sort of doing his absurdist or minimalist thing...interesting for a real Dylan fan to watch, nonetheless, though you can't call it "acting". ;-)

Spaw, I don't understand what you mean about JT's "prepaid sendoff". Not in this thread, not in the other thread either. I just don't get it. Please explain what that means, if you would.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: pdq
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 08:56 PM

Yes, Sheb Wooley was is Rawhide, but so was a young jazz piano player named Clint Eastwood.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Neil D
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 08:55 PM

Frogprince mentioned Dylan as Alias in "The Ballad of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" as an especially bad performance and the movie as a garbled mess. I agree, but surprised he didn't mention Kris Kristofferson as Billy the Kid. Let me repeat: Kristofferson as Billy the Kid!?!?!? Not so much that the acting was so bad, but its the worst case of miscasting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan.
Billy The kid was 5'2" and died at 21. Kristofferson was 6'4" and 37 when he played the role. With a full beard even. The saving grace of the movie, besides Coburn as Garrett, was the scene where Slim Pickens lies dying in his woman's arms with the sun setting over a lake and Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" playing over the scene. How Peckinpah got that one scene so right and everything else so wrong is unfathomable.
    The best actor of the Beatles was Ringo.
    Check out Tom Waits in the Jim Jarmusch film "Down By Law".
    Spaw, thanks for the info about Alan Arkin. One more reason to respect one of my favorite actors. He once starred as Inspector Clouseau in the 1968 movie of the same name and was every bit as good as Peter Sellers who had a franchise with that character. His performance in last year's "Little Miss Sunshine" was sublime.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 08:46 PM

Why? Are you the guy JT was trying to sell the prepaid sendoff to?

Didja' buy?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 07:52 PM

Say, Spaw, there's something you oughta check out on the James Taylor thread up in the music section.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 07:50 PM

Didn't know this, found it by accident. Remember Radar?

(my emphasis)Gary Burghoff

Born 24th May 1943 in Bristol, CT
Started as a musician. He moved to New York to study acting. His first major role was in the stage musical Charlie Brown. A talented artist, he now spends most of his time painting wildlife pictures.

Who knew?!

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 07:48 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Steve Martin. Surely he picked banjo before he became an actor?

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Dave Swan
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:56 PM

I forgot to add that I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore is the official company song of Lane, Fielding, Patterson & Swan, Layabouts for Hire, and is sung before each and every company meeting. Something to think about for those of you who imagine that the job is a bed of roses.

D

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Dave Swan
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:54 PM

Kristofferson in Lone Star. Nice work, in my opinion.

Sheb Wooley in Rawhide and Silverado, as straightforward Western types. He gave us the Purple People Eater, but let us not forget I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore.

D

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:53 PM

Lest we forget, other side the pond, there is Ewan MacColl. I never know quite what to say about him & those like him. Theatre and music was closely entwined for many folkies from that era.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:40 PM

Well I'm enjoying this!

I think there are a number of good candidates for best acting. Most of the names mentioned have done more than credible jobs. Levon Helm has done a number of movies and I think he's always done quite well with limited recognition. Others like Cher have excelled. Johnny Depp, soon to be seen as Sweeney Todd, considered himself, and in fact was, a musician first. Alan Arkin has done the greatest range of subjects and all of them great!

Now while Bowie, Dylan, and the completely pathetic Glen Campbell(my #2 choice) are gawdawful, if you haven't seen "Two Lane Blacktop" with James Taylor and Charley Manson's mentor and roomie, Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, you don't know what bad is. JT indeed is almost catatonic in his acting and Wilson spends the entire movie saying they have to "re-jet the carbs," seemingly the only half-assed technical term the writer or anyone else new. The movie has developed a bit of cult status but even with Warren Oates at his weirdest, it sucks like a million Hoovers......and so do Wilson and Taylor. Neither of them have any music either with Kristofferson singing "Bobbi McGee" and Arlo doing "Stealin'" in the soundtrack.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:31 PM

And what famous musician trying out his acting chops uttered the line "May I rub your ball, sir?"

I agree Babs is usually dire. But Judy Garland, IMO, was a far better musician/actor than Frank Sinatra on both counts.

And her daughter Liza was stunningly good in "Cabaret", and a few other films.

Harry Connick Jr is also quite good as a comedic actor. Perhaps it's a timing thing. As is Bernadette Peters, though whether she started out as a musical theatre person, I'm not sure. Goodness knows there are plenty of excellent musical theatre actors who sing well, like Kristin Chenoweth, who has been in a lot of good & awful stuff (she is a trained opera singer, I believe). She's even got the distinction of having won a Razzie! I love her.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:29 PM

The Andy Griffith movie that PoppaGator referred to above was "A Face in the Crowd." Well worth seeing. He played an obnoxious character—quite the opposite of the wholesome image he cultivated later.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: David C. Carter
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 06:09 PM

Marianne Faithfull in-Irina Palm,was brilliant.
No frills,nothing.Just pure talent.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:56 PM

Ice-T is another actor that picks his roles well and doesn't attempt to do stuff that's out of his limited range.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:54 PM

And I'm surprised no one has mentioned Arlo in "Alice's Restaurant". And y'all claim to be folkies!

Sinead O'Connor in "The Butcher Boy" was quite believable, I thought.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:45 PM

Sam Shepard rocks it, no matter what he does. That dude is a genius even when he's awful.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:42 PM

Oh, yeah! Definitely Burl Ives. He got a well deserved Oscar for his role in "The Big Country" and followed it with a bravura performance as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Fantastic actor!

Barbra Streisand. Pretty good in several things. Loved her in "What's Up, Doc?" The whole movie was a riot, and she was hilarious!

"We're gonna make it! We're gonna make it!" Volkswagen beetle hurtles off the end of the dock. When it becomes obvious, as it arcs through the air, that it's going to fall about thirty feet short of the departing ferry:   "We're not gonna make it. . . ."   Or one of the funniest, best timed lines in the whole movie:   "Hi, daddy. . . ."   And if you had seen "Love Story," the final two lines in the movie, between Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, would crack you up entirely. Sort of an "in-joke."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,Ze Buddha
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:40 PM

How about Cate Blanchett as Dylan? Gotta see that one!

Also, wasn't Iggy Pop in Coffee & Cigarettes?

I think Whitney Houston makes a credible actor, in that way Willie Nelson does through choice of material that isn't beyond what they are capable of. But I wouldn't describe either of them as being as good at acting as they are at music.

Diana Ross, not so much. I really dislike that dude who played Ray Charles, and the movie sucked. But his portrayal of Charles was pretty good, and he sings really well.

And Sissy Spacek channeled Loretta when she did Coal Miner's Daughter. But as far as I know she considers herself more a baton twirler than a musician.

Reba, OTOH, can NOT act. Seeing her on the tv makes me want to spit.

How about Snoop, eh? The rappers haven't transitioned well into acting I don't think. Too stiff and wooden.

But to me, one of the best film performance by a musician was Bjork in "Dancer in the Dark". She was astoundingly good. It was a really painful film to watch, but really good, IMO.

And Cher in "Moonstruck".

Can't wait to see Monsieur Depp sing in "Sweeney Todd". It is to be our family Christmas outing this year.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:38 PM

Burl Ives was truly memorable in the great and seemingly forgotten film "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" (1960). As far as I know, you can't get it at all on DVD. It has vanished. I saw it once on daytime TV in the late 60s-early 70s.

It was based on a book written by the author who wrote "Knock On Any Door".

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:22 PM

In the early 1970s I saw Bobby Darin in straight dramatic roles in a couple of TV movies. Excellent!

Johnny Cash in an episode of "Columbo," playing a touring gospel singer who managed to do in his domineering wife (Ida Lupino). Columbo (as usual) knew he'd done the dastardly deed, but couldn't prove it (yet), and the gospel singer knew that Columbo knew, but couldn't prove it as long as he, the singer, was careful. Watching their polite verbal fencing and jockeying for position was both funny and suspenseful. Columbo got him, of course. Cash was great.

Harry Belafonte isn't a half-bad actor. I saw him in one non-singing role he brought off very neatly.

Cher. Oh, yeah! In "Tea with Mussolini," she managed to hold her own with the likes of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Joan Plowright. They're some pretty heavy-duty, industrial strength actors. And in "Moonstruck" and "Mask." Several others.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 05:21 PM

Burl Ives was actually pretty good...and was in a number of films.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: van lingle
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:41 PM

Best: Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come

Worst: Gotta second Ricky Nelson in one of those John Wayne "Rio" movies (Bravo?) and tied with the Pogues in that movie they made in Mexico.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:41 PM

I saw Ned Kelly when it came out, and I don't remember it being quite that bad! ;-) I mean, worst movie ever??? Think of the competition for that distinction! Just think...

I recall a "head" movie from the same era: "Zacharia" (the promo ads for the movie marketed it as "A Head of His Time.") LOL! You got to see a lot of young longhaired musicians in the Old West engaging in gunslinging and electric guitar duels and encounters with famous whores in lavish bordellos...sort of like Jimi Hendrix at the OK Corral.

Now I bet that one deserves to be at least considered among the top 20 worst movies of all time.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Doc John
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:31 PM

Cisco Houston played a few bit parts in some westerns; he certainly looked the part of a Hollywood actor. Does anyone know what the films were and has anyone ever seen them or spotted him.
The Mick Jagger film about Ned Kelly in some lists is reckoned to be the worst film ever made!
Fred Astaire - you don't actually notice his acting, his dancing is so superb. Ditto with Bing and singing.
Cher - wonderful in 'Tea with Mussolini'
Doc John

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST,frogprince
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:31 PM

4:13 was me. Didn't notice someone swallowed the cookie.
                         Dean

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:19 PM

Not long ago, I saw Andy Griffith's first movie on TCM. Can't remember the title, but he played a folksinger of sorts ~ a hobo guitar player "discovered" while locked up in a small-town Arkansas drunk tank and quickly promoted as a local radio personality and, soon thereafter, as an emerging TV star first in Memphis and then on the national stage in New York.

He did plenty of pickin' and singin' ~ must have developed tht ability somewhere, somehow, in his earlier years.

Dwight Yoakum was, indeed, really outstanding in Sling Blade. I think he's a better actor than Billy Bob is a singer...

Spaw, thanks for the background material on Alan Arkin. I think I had already known about his important role in the early development of Second City, but may never have learned about his musical talents. I do remember The Tarriers, but didn't know the individual members' names back then (not even Erik Darling's, I'm ashamed to admit).

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:19 PM

Another vote, by the way, for Johnny Cash. He was quite a good actor.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:14 PM

Yeah, Streisand can be pretty annoying, can't she? ;-)

Kristofferson was blessed with a great voice (like Kat says) and a great face. His acting is passable.

I recall Paul Simon's "One Trick Pony". It was pretty good all right. Didn't Art Garfunkel act in a couple of movies? Was he in "Carnal Knowledge" with Jack Nicholson? Now there was a creepy movie.

Subject: RE: BS: BEST/WORST--- Musicians as Actors
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:13 PM

I would agree that Cher and Sinatra are examples of the best. Also agreed that Kristofferson has blundered into too many movies so bad that there was nothing anyone could do with them; anyone else actually spend money to see the "A Star is Born" remake? Urrrrrp!
Streisand also has laid some other true stinkers.
Getting down to absolute rock bottom, it would be hard to choose between Bob Dylan as Alias in "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", and Glen Campbell's performance in "True Grit".
At the risk of drift, I thought "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" was a hopelessly garbled mess, in the midst of which the Slim Pickens death scene came off as sublime.