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Post by petrolino on Mar 3, 2024 18:13:08 GMT
Martin Sheen (born Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez, August 3, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.)
'This episode was initially pre-empted due to the coverage of the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963. When the episode did air (in December) it was one of the most watched television episodes aired at the time, and the most-watched television broadcast of any show that week in every television media market in Maine, Wyoming, Alabama, South Carolina & Tennessee as well as in every media market in Georgia outside of Atlanta.'
- Wikipedia
'Nightmare'
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 6, 2024 9:11:15 GMT
He was good in The Incident a few years later. He’s a good actor.
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Post by amyghost on Mar 7, 2024 1:01:45 GMT
He had some bitchin' hair back in the day, that's for sure.
But yes--an incredible actor. Although he had starring roles in some fairly high profile films over the years (and of course a stellar one like Apocalypse Now), he never became a star on the order of a Redford, Pacino, Hoffman and other contemporaries. I've always felt it was at least in part because he placed more emphasis on his craft than on becoming an A-lister. He's always been among the best of the best, even when he was way above his material.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Mar 7, 2024 10:21:35 GMT
He had some bitchin' hair back in the day, that's for sure.But yes--an incredible actor. Although he had starring roles in some fairly high profile films over the years (and of course a stellar one like Apocalypse Now), he never became a star on the order of a Redford, Pacino, Hoffman and other contemporaries. I've always felt it was at least in part because he placed more emphasis on his craft than on becoming an A-lister. He's always been among the best of the best, even when he was way above his material.  The baddest of bad boys’ hair as a Charlie Starkweatherish psycho in Badlands. He had some serious health issues while filming Apocalypse Now and I guess he decided to focus more on life and family than his career. God knows what raising Charlie was like. 🙏🏻 Even so, he has had stellar body of work on Broadway, movies, and television. He’s an A-lister as he’s work with the best directors and major projects but more backburner. He wasn’t even nominated for AN. Crew cut bad in The Subject Was Roses.   Cord-cool and bad in That Certain Summer  Just badass in The California Kid  Button-down bad in The Final Countdown.  Here Martin’s hair badness starts to lose confidence in The Dead Zone.  But perks bad up when he decides to {spoiler.}
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Post by petrolino on Mar 9, 2024 2:29:48 GMT
He had some bitchin' hair back in the day, that's for sure.But yes--an incredible actor. Although he had starring roles in some fairly high profile films over the years (and of course a stellar one like Apocalypse Now), he never became a star on the order of a Redford, Pacino, Hoffman and other contemporaries. I've always felt it was at least in part because he placed more emphasis on his craft than on becoming an A-lister. He's always been among the best of the best, even when he was way above his material. The baddest of bad boys’ hair as a Charlie Starkweatherish psycho in Badlands. He had some serious health issues while filming Apocalypse Now and I guess he decided to focus more on life and family than his career. God knows what raising Charlie was like. 🙏🏻 Even so, he has had stellar body of work on Broadway, movies, and television. He’s an A-lister as he’s work with the best directors and major projects but more backburner. He wasn’t even nominated for AN.
"Hollywood is usually decried for its liberal outlook, but if that were really so, surely its most ardent, virtuous leftie Martin Sheen would have been invited to its annual rally just once? Long before he won awards and adulation as the US's dream president on TV's The West Wing, it's unthinkable he wasn't rewarded for standout work in two 70s classics. Sheen anchors showboating turns from Brando and Duvall in Apocalypse Now, his commitment nearly killing him in the process; and Badlands' Kit Carruthers is one of the all-time great portraits of alienated youth, a James Dean wannabe as deluded sociopath."
- Leigh Singer, 'Oscars : The Best Actors Never To Have Been Nominated' (article published at The Guardian on February 19, 2009)
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Post by amyghost on Mar 9, 2024 3:48:56 GMT
The baddest of bad boys’ hair as a Charlie Starkweatherish psycho in Badlands. He had some serious health issues while filming Apocalypse Now and I guess he decided to focus more on life and family than his career. God knows what raising Charlie was like. 🙏🏻 Even so, he has had stellar body of work on Broadway, movies, and television. He’s an A-lister as he’s work with the best directors and major projects but more backburner. He wasn’t even nominated for AN.
"Hollywood is usually decried for its liberal outlook, but if that were really so, surely its most ardent, virtuous leftie Martin Sheen would have been invited to its annual rally just once? Long before he won awards and adulation as the US's dream president on TV's The West Wing, it's unthinkable he wasn't rewarded for standout work in two 70s classics. Sheen anchors showboating turns from Brando and Duvall in Apocalypse Now, his commitment nearly killing him in the process; and Badlands' Kit Carruthers is one of the all-time great portraits of alienated youth, a James Dean wannabe as deluded sociopath."
- Leigh Singer, 'Oscars : The Best Actors Never To Have Been Nominated' (article published at The Guardian on February 19, 2009)
Ignoring actors such as Sheen for decade after decade is probably the very best reason that can be given for refusing to take the Academy and its yearly back-patting festival in any way seriously. |
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Post by mowlick on Mar 11, 2024 17:41:50 GMT
It is crazy. It was a choice between Crazy Donald, Dead Joe or Jed Bartlett and the Yanks elected the first two
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Post by drystyx on Mar 22, 2024 15:19:50 GMT
I remember him most for being in better versions of Natural Born Killers and Abandon Ship. In one, he was the original with the remake of "Natural Born Killers" being one of the stupidest movies ever made, and in the other he was actually in a remake, which was far better than the original.
One thing about both movies is that they were less "contrived" than Natural Born Killers and Abandon Ship in the writing and directing. Sheen, or his agent, had a good eye for avoiding things being "contrived", although "Apocalypse Now" was a bit contrived.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Mar 27, 2024 12:11:19 GMT
"Hollywood is usually decried for its liberal outlook, but if that were really so, surely its most ardent, virtuous leftie Martin Sheen would have been invited to its annual rally just once? Long before he won awards and adulation as the US's dream president on TV's The West Wing, it's unthinkable he wasn't rewarded for standout work in two 70s classics. Sheen anchors showboating turns from Brando and Duvall in Apocalypse Now, his commitment nearly killing him in the process; and Badlands' Kit Carruthers is one of the all-time great portraits of alienated youth, a James Dean wannabe as deluded sociopath."
- Leigh Singer, 'Oscars : The Best Actors Never To Have Been Nominated' (article published at The Guardian on February 19, 2009)
Ignoring actors such as Sheen for decade after decade is probably the very best reason that can be given for refusing to take the Academy and its yearly back-patting festival in any way seriously. I'd like to think that Sheen doesn't even care. The Academy Awards show is proving itself to be more and more of a farce after each year passes. It is not about best, but what is popular and what can promote their questionable agenda/narrative. Sure, it is nice to be honored with the industry top award, but it is meaningless when technicalities prevent more deserving films and performances from being recognized, if they aren't entered, or don't reach certain "woke" quotas, or bias rears its corrupted head because someone in an influential position wants to promote their own film over a better one. If the Oscars was truly about who is best, (all subjective of course), then it would rely on a panel of film experts that know what they are talking about and not in it for the industry hype and profit and insider pats on the back. |
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