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Disregarding the man's recent and heart-breaking untimely demise, I think Joe Strummer's turn as Johhny in "Mystery Train" is one of the finest examples that musicians *CAN* sometimes act and do it with credibility. Screamin' Jay Hawkins also hands in a respectable performance in that film.

Madonna, meanwhile, has demonstrated time and again that she simply doesn't have what it takes to make it as an actress, "Desperately Seeking Susan" (wherein she basically played herself) notwithstanding.

Cite the bests and your worsts.

Lights....Camera....ACTION:

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Tom Waits in "Down By Law"
Destroy: David Bowie in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me"
?: James Taylor in "Two-Lane Blacktop"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: David Bowie's haunted and hapless John Blaylock in "the Hunger," as he gradually deteriorates from the vampire's spell.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy anything Henry Rollins has ever attempted, especially The Chase.

Most things with Tom Waits are good, though he very rarely gets a big role. He was amusing in the otherwise cheezy/cringe-worthy Mystery Men.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and Al Burian was in the hilarious Dungeons & Dragons spoof Good Grief. Said movie was filmed locally and follows Burian and his cohorts around as they become creepily obsessed with their Dungeons & Dragons game world--also features a 'hip' and 'rockin' soundtrack.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:56 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: David Bowie's haunted and hapless John Blaylock in "the Hunger," as he gradually deteriorates from the vampire's spell.
Anyone have an opinion of his "Goblin King" in Labyrinth or as Warhol in Basquiat?
Destroy anything Henry Rollins has ever attempted, especially The Chase.
I found it hilarious that he was a *cop* in that movie.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search MOS DEF!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought he made a charismatic villain for Labyrinth, though I was always disappointed in that movie. It could have been so much more...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie's Warhol in "Basquiat" was well-intentioned but a bit shallow, I thought. His turn as the diminutive assassin in the Jeff Goldblum/Michelle Pfeiffer sleeper, "Into the Night" was pretty entertaining, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

J Lo... funny, she was an actor first, but still can't quite do it.

― David Allen, Saturday, 4 January 2003 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Will Oldham, MATEWAN; Lyle Lovett, SHORT CUTS; Faye Wong, CHUNGKING EXPRESS; Art Garfunkel, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE and BAD TIMING; Michael Stipe, COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY (though the movie itself isn't great, he's pretty good); Will Smith, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and ALI; Jack Black, HIGH FIDELITY; Jason Schwartzman, RUSHMORE and CQ; Chris Thomas King, OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?; J. Lo, OUT OF SIGHT; Mark Wahlberg, THREE KINGS; Mos Def, BAMBOOZLED; Ice Cube, THREE KINGS; Rudy Ray Moore, DOLEMITE; Donnie Wahlberg, THE SIXTH SENSE; Eminem, 8 MILE; Kris Kristofferson, LONE STAR; Meat Loaf, FIGHT CLUB; Frank Sinatra, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; Elvin Jones, ZACHARIAH; James Taylor, TWO LANE BLACKTOP; David Bowie, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST; everyone in THE BLUES BROTHERS (even though half of them can't act, it's great fun); and the aforementioned Jarmusch stuff. (Plus Iggy Pop and Gibby Haynes in DEAD MAN, and John Lurie in DOWN BY LAW.)

(And, performancewise, Nick Cave et al in WINGS OF DESIRE, Yo La Tengo as Velvet Underground in I SHOT ANDY WARHOL and as street band in THE BOOK OF LIFE, The Yardbirds in BLOW-UP.)

I heard largely positive things about Carrie Brownstein's turn in GROUP. PJ Harvey's okay in THE BOOK OF LIFE. Jello Biafra has a brief turn in TAPEHEADS that's fine. Rollins was fine in his brief turn in LOST HIGHWAY.

D: the entire cast of HALF-COCKED. every industrial band to appear in an apocalyptic/dystopian flick. And the clips I've seen of the Flaming Lips movie look pretty awful. And Ice-T, JOHNNY MNEMONIC. (Plus oh my god look up his career in IMDB. Guess who was in JOHN WAYNE BOBBITT'S FRANKENPENIS?)

― doug (doug), Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Jimmy Cliff
Destroy: Madonna

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Ice-T's role as a futuristic warrior kangaroo in "Tank Girl" should've buried his career.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

And Flea and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

Felicity is very very OTM with Jimmy Cliff as well.

― doug (doug), Saturday, 4 January 2003 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Performance.
Destroy: Ned Kelly. God is it brutal.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 4 January 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Dwight Yoakam in Sling Blade
S: Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth
D: Ice-T in anything, even New Jack City. Exactly one note.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 4 January 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Tupac in everything, easily a better actor than rapper

― dave q, Saturday, 4 January 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Should we even mention Britney and Mariah?

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 4 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy : Sting in everything he has appeared in, besides Plenty and Lock Stock and Smoking Barrel.

Search : Bowie and Sakamoto in Merry Xmas, Mr. Lawrence

― bahtology, Saturday, 4 January 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Bowie specifically:

Neither Search nor Destroy Fire Walk With Me. It is what it is, and you'll like it or hate it based on Bowie-irrelevant factors. It's pointless to watch it if you're not a Twin Peaks fan, and probably frustrating if you are.

Search:
Labyrinth, if you dig Muppets.

The Linguini Incident, if you dig caper movies (this is actually my favorite Bowie movie).

The Man Who Fell To Earth, if you want to have sex with me (likewise, file under Destroy if you don't want to have sex with me and I happen to be in the room: I've never seen this movie. I've tried to see this movie many times. Every single time I put it in with the intent of watching it, I end up having sex and missing the whole thing. I trust the kind folk of ILXor not to abuse this.)

The Hunger, if you dig stylish pre-Lost Boys vampire movies.

Last Temptation of Christ, if you honk because you have an ironic crush on Jesus. Okay, maybe this is technically my favorite Bowie movie, but his role (Pontius Pilate) is very small.

Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy. Not a movie, but a video with dialogue and such at the beginning, so hey. Close enough. Bowie is just fine here, but watch for the thrilling and amazing performance by Bing Crosby as someone who has heard of David Bowie. Breathtaking.

Destroy:

Basquiat. I just plain didn't like the movie, it fell flat. Bowie wasn't horrible as Warhol, but I think any portrayal of Warhol is going to come across as caricature, and his certainly didn't make any real attempt to avoid that. If the movie had had a different tone, that might have worked.

Mr Rice's Secret. It's probably not a terrible movie, but it bores the shit out of me every time it comes on HBO Family and I flip to it half an hour or so in.

Absolute Beginners. Great title song, one of my favorite Bowie tunes, but the movie's just dull.

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Other folks. Search - Tom Waits in Fishing With John (all right, not a film, a television show), Ice Cube in Three Kings and Boyz in the Hood, Mark Wahlberg in Three Kings and Basketball Diaries (and I thought Fear and Rockstar were popcorn fun), Donnie Wahlberg in The Sixth Sense and Southie, and hell, everyone doug mentioned.

Maybe Search Sting in Brimstone and Treacle, but it's pretty much only worth doing if you plan to be drunk and just sit there going, "Sting, you're eeeeevil! Stop being eeeeevil!" which is only funny five times if you don't keep drinking.

Destroy Madonna (except Desperately Seeking Susan) and Mariah, but although Crossroads was amazingly dull, Britney wasn't any worse than the material, so she might end up being perfectly fine in a different movie.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 4 January 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

And would it count to say Search: Janet Jackson in Good Times?

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 4 January 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Sting in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Dune, Meat Loaf in Fight Club, Flea in the Back to the Future series
Destroy: All Madonna roles

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Sting in Quadrophenia, where he gets to be both the coolest mod ever and a total dorkass in a hideous bellboy costume.
Destroy: Everything Ja Rule has done in the movies, ever. His "Fast and the Furious" bit part is high unintentional comedy.
Wait and see: Ludacris is going to be in the next Fast and/or Furious, and if they let him be funny then SEARCH SEARCH SEARCH. If they make him a dumb thug goon then destroy.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Jason Schwartzman, RUSHMORE and CQ

But destroy Phantom Planet. And Rooney.

― dub you hell (wl), Saturday, 4 January 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Bowie in Labyrinth, Tom Waits in Dracula and Mystery Men, Sting in Lock Stock.

Destroy: Sting in Dune!

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Frank Sinatra in Manchurian Candidate, Man with a Golden Arm , and From Here to Eternity; Bjork in Dancer in the Dark; Harry Belafonte in Carmen.

Destroy: Stephen Maklmus in Sweethearts, Madonna, and Elvis.

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Saturday, 4 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Michael Hutchence in DOGS IN SPACE. Good movie, I thought.

― matt riedl (veal), Saturday, 4 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Mandy Moore in A Walk To Remember, Britney in Crossroads.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 4 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Kris Kristofferson, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Destroy: Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Ok, Madonna can't act, but would we have gotten that Sondheim album out of her if not for Dick Tracy?

― gabbneb, Saturday, 4 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: Sting in Dune!
and his friggin metal speedoes, too!

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Sunday, 5 January 2003 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm very surprised no-one has mentioned Mick Jagger's performance in Nic Roeg's "Performance".

Bowie is cool as f**k in TMWFTO, so search that.

Destroy: Anything with Sting in it. What a pranny.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 5 January 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Performance was mentioned upthread. I haven't seen The Man From Elysian Fields, but he's supposed to be credible in that.

How about Su Tissue in Something Wild. Paul Simon in One Trick Pony, it wasn't anything special as a film but he did a good enough job in the lead (much harder than the bit parts most of these roles are).

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 5 January 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: most Ice Cube roles, most Mark and/or Donnie Wahlberg roles
Destroy: Joan Jett in Light of Day

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 5 January 2003 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: anything w/Jacques Dutronc, Privilege with Paul Jones

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 5 January 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Dislikable and creepy Art Garfunkel in "Bad Timing". I'm not sure it's Search or Destroy. Similarly, I'm not sure if Bowie actually acts well in "The Man Who Fell to Earth", but he is perfectly cast.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 5 January 2003 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

D: Tricky in 5th Element

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 5 January 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

And Flea and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in THE BIG LEBOWSKI.

God yes. I think both Flea and Meatloaf are better actors than musicians.

― original bgm, Sunday, 5 January 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone see Nick Cave in 'Johnny Suede' ? the whole thing is just beyond weird.

― daria g, Sunday, 5 January 2003 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Flea in Suburbia (1984) is priceless.

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 5 January 2003 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Cherie Currie in Foxes, Queen Latifah in Set It Off, Dennis Wilson in Two Lane Blacktop.

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 5 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Art Garfunkel in "Catch 22" was pretty great.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 5 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

he's even better in bad timing

meat loaf is good in everything (fite club, spice world...)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Isaac Hayes in 'Escape from New York'. Great twitch.

Destroy: Morrissey in that Brookside spin-off, 'South'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: John Doe in "Georgia", Levon Helm, David Johansen
Destroy: Slamdance (worst. film. ever.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

courtney love in everything ever

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishbone playing in a bar in Tapeheads, on the beach (with Annette MFn Funacello of all people) in Back to the Beach, following along after a pimp in I'm Gonna Get U Sucka.

In fact, between Fishbone, Sam & Dave, & Jello Biafra, Tapeheads is jam packed with muso cameos.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Fishbone perform in "Tapeheads" as a C&W act called, brilliantly, Ranchbone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Bad Livers in the Newton Boys; Joe Strummer in Straight To Hell, hell entire cast of S to H, even C.Love, but especially Elvis Costello; Lou Reed in Blue in the Face; Dave Chappelle in Screwed (okay, he's not a musician, but he IS on the new Talib Kweli alb)

D: any and all vehicles, esp. those starring Dolly Parton (except 9to5, I love Dolly, but that one with James Woods is just slightly worse than the one Stallone)

― Horace Mann, Monday, 6 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

courtney love in everything ever

search or destroy? (both?)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 6 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: most Ice Cube roles, most Mark and/or Donnie Wahlberg roles

Especially search D. Wahlberg in Diamond Men.

Search: Marshall Crenshaw as Buddy Holly in La Bamba; Queen Latifah in Chicago; Greg Dulli in Monument Ave.

Destroy: Courtney Love in Basquiat.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

DESTROY: Mark Wahlberg in "Planet of the Apes"

SEARCH: Ian Dury is "the Cook, the Thief, his Wife, her Lover".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Iggy Pop's performance in "The Crow 2" gives new meaning to the sad and pathetic "I did it for the money" mantra.

Witness the Godfather's utterance of his greatest line: "Eat shit, bird dick."

BIRD DICK.

Think about it, it makes NO SENSE. Birds don't even have dicks...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 January 2003 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Huey Lewis in "Back to the Future"!

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Iggy Pop's performance in "The Crow 2" gives new meaning to the sad and pathetic "I did it for the money" mantra.
Weirder and more pathetic than that: He actually played a bit part as an alien on Star Trek.
They didn't need to put the shiny scleral contacts on him, his eyes were already glassy enough to play the part. Ho ho.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

what's that film that j.lydon was in which he said was going to be better than every film bowie AND sting had ever been in? is it the one about werewolves at war with native americans on the tops of skyscrapers?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Wolfen?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Lydon in Wolfen though? I think what I'm remembering is that PiL did a soundtrack for Wolfen that never got used, and Lydon is in some other — much worse!! — movie. < / can't be bothered either to google or access imdb today >

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned Mojo Nixon in SUPER MARIO BROS.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Lydon was in a police psychodrama film that came out under two different titles (one for video release), called -- alternately -- "The Order of Death" and/or "Cop Killer" (I may be slightly mistaken re: the latter).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

with harvey keitel, no?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Birds don't even have dicks...

avian genitalia (scroll down, no pictures THANK GOD)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Dexter Gordon in Round Midnight
¥

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone in desp seeking susan

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Search MOS DEF!!!!!!

Any recommendations in particular?

I would give money to see Donut Bitch and Jake Anderson in a road movie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sure ian williams (storm &stress / don caballero) is in "high fidelity" for just a second at some point. can anyone confirm?

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Cop Killer but can't remember a thing about it.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Iggy Pop in The Adventures of Pete & Pete!!! Search!

And whatever the name of that movie that stars Ad-Rock and the dude from X riding motorcycles across the country, I think it's called Road to El Dorado, but I remember that phrase in particular 'cause there's a part where Ad-Rock yells while they're riding "Is this the road to El Dorado?", and I swear to God it might as well be a Beasties chorus. Search that muthafucka.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Mos Def in Bamboozled is amazing. His role begins as entertaining and funny ("cause I'm blacker than black, yeah, I'm black y'all/I'm bliggitty-bliggitty black y'all") and ends up disturbing and harsh and one of the few downright PAINFUL roles I've witnessed for some time.

Also, search whatever the movie is that stars Black Thought and the rest of The Roots that kinda involves a jungle-fever love story and a Rasta/Zionist-Jewish gang warfare factor, whatever it's called.

God dang, I really can't remember the names of movies for shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Iggy Pop in Deadman.

And whatever the name of that movie that stars Ad-Rock and the dude from X riding motorcycles across the country
"Roadside Prophets"

..And Iggy in Pete & Pete as Mr Mecklenburg - classic. (What a show... when will it all be released on home video?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy L.L.

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

search: Cher in 'Silkwood' (and maybe 'Mermaids')
haven't seen but no doubt grebt: Appletons in whatever that silly brit gangster flick was

― zebedee, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Iggy Pop in "Deadman" is a brilliant answer. Gibby "Butthole Surfer" Haines' cameo in "Deadman" (pulling a gun on Depp whilst getting a rough-hewn blowjob in an alley) is also a stroke of master thesbianism.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

RE: Mos Def performances. The aforementioned "Bamboozled" is urgent and key (search also Savion Glover in that movie), as is "Monster's Ball".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

S: Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers in CB4, that's also Shaq's best appearance in film, but there must be some debate as to whether he gets to be called a musician.

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Gibby Haynes has one of the best lines in CB4, no diggitty.

Thanks for the reminder on "Roadside Prophets", which was pretty cool...it has BOTH Cusacks AND Dennis Hopper in it!

And I actually thought LL was pretty grebt in Toys.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Tom Waits' cameo in Fisher King. He makes a good homeless guy.

― Callum (Callum), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, ooh, just remembered, Joe Perry was on Homicide: Life On the Streets once and was a lot better than you'd think. Basically he just sorta had to look put out and wear shades, I think he was a DEA officer or something.

should TV be another thread?

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Jello Biafra had a funny cameo as a customs agent in Highway 61, which is a great rock-and-roll road movie, BTW.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

search also, the entire oeuvre of Bruce McDonald.

simutaneous with above! Joey Ramone is Roadkill

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

You couldn't make this one up. But if anyone is in the UK tomorrow and in the vicinity of a TV set at around 10am then Van Dyke Parks is in a "Heidi" film as a child actor.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Sinatra in Suddenly as presidential assassin!

― rw, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Carl Perkins and David Bowie were both pretty funny as hitmen in "Into the Night", especially in the scene where both square off against each other.

Willie Nelson as the small role as the songwriter in "Wag the Dog" and his role in the "Electric Horsemen" are both good, but not much of a stretch.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

flea was fairly amusing in "my own private idaho"

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I like RZA's meaningless cameo in "Ghost Dog," mostly because he's wearing really cool rings.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Tom Waits in Dracula, Richard Hell in that movie with the one-word title, Sting in Quadrophenia, Bowie in The Labyrinth & TMWFTE, Jagger in Performance.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone mentioned the Circle Jerks in "Repo Man"?
"Doobity doo wop say what, yeah!"

― Sengai, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

musicians acting in coffee & cigarettes hierarchy: gza > rza > jack white > tom waits > iggy pop > ... > meg white

too bad theatres can't offer the c & c vignettes a la carte: pay $2.50 for gza/rza/bill murray, see if you can get a two-fer on cate blanchett and steve coogan/alfred molina, skip the rest

― common_person (common_person), Monday, 31 May 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowie was pretty good in "Last Temptation of Christ". Probably because his scene was brief and to the point.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing beats Tom Petty gone post-apocalyptic in the Postman, when Kevin Costner finds the Petty tribe and utters with a glint of recognition: "I know you, you were famous before..." and TP cuts him off with "Yeah, but that was before..." then swings from a 100 foot rope over a long chasm. Wow.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 31 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked The Red Hot Chili Pepper vocalist's agonized facial expression of blinding pain when he receives a shotgun blast to the foot in the surfing bank robery master piece POINT BREAK. I am a fan of his music incidentally.

― theodore fogelsanger, Monday, 31 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Rats. Ian beat me to it.

The Untouchables and Zander Schloss were essential in Repo Man. Mr. Costello less so in the subsequent Straight to Hell. But the Pogues were awesome. But Courtney Love wasn't.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tonight, and spent ages trying to convince my husband that Ian Brown was one of the punters in the Leaky Cauldron right at the start.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

SEARCH: The Czech film "Year of the Devil", a pseudo-documentary about a rock tour. Wonderful performances by real-life Czech musicians and, apparently, the lead singer from Killing Joke. Differs from most fake documentaries because it's not a comedy, but a rather poetic flick.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

RE: Mos Def performances. The aforementioned "Bamboozled" is urgent and key (search also Savion Glover in that movie), as is "Monster's Ball".

Perry, Mos was just on HBO in a new flick, too. (Something The Lord Made) It being cable, it will prolly be on a million times.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

he will be playing ford prefect in the upcoming hitchhixor movie, which could be a case of inspired casting. tim from the office which i haven't seen but am sick of hearing about (but would still like to see) will be arthur dent

― common_person (common_person), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

We know. Been drooling for months, now.....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Marilyn Manson was fantastic in Party Monster.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Willie Nelson in 'Barbarosa.'

Search: Tom Waits in 'Ironweed.'

Destroy: Another vote for Ice-T. He has got to be one of the worst actors of all time.

Another reason to search out 'The Hunger' is it has one of the best sex scenes between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Denuve. I wore out that VHS tape when I was a kid.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No overview of Ice-T's ouevre is complete without acknowledging his masterful turn as "Mack Daddy" in Leprechaun V: Leprechaun in the Hood.

Rick Wakeman in Lisztomania was mentioned on that Tommy vs. the Wall thread - now that's a funny performance.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nothing beats Tom Petty gone post-apocalyptic in the Postman, when Kevin Costner finds the Petty tribe and utters with a glint of recognition: "I know you, you were famous before..." and TP cuts him off with "Yeah, but that was before..." then swings from a 100 foot rope over a long chasm. Wow."

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that the video for "You Got Lucky"?

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Isaak was whatever in Silence of the Lambs.
Rollins was a convincing lunkhead in Lost Highway, although Rammstein had more screen presense and were not even in the movie (two songs).
John Doe didn't speak in The Good Girl so he was good.
Ian Dury was suitably slimey in The Crow.
Bowie was brill in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
Duranie John Taylor was impressive as an ex-rockin' 12 step asshole in Sugar Town.

― Ian G, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary & Martin Kemp in The Krays own this thread

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Art Garfunkle was good in Carnal Knowledge.

Another Big D. for Ice-T.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Elvis OTM. Also Gary Kemp on the Larry Sanders Show- surprisingly tasty

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, at least Ice-T played the kangaroo in Tank Girl, which I thought was a rather decent adaptation of the comic.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Ian Brown really in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? He's not listed on www.imdb.com.

― Unknown User, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No but Harry Potter is in Ian Brown, the Prisoner of British Airways

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Search:
J Mascis as burn-out in "Gas, Food & Lodging"
Alice Cooper as zombie homeless man in "Prince of Darkness"
Bo Diddley as pawn shop dealer in "Trading Places"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Altman has a knack for getting musicians to give good performances: Harry Belafonte, Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis and especially Ronee Blakley (unforgettable & heartbreaking way back in Nashville).

Harry Connick, Frank Sinatra, Mark Wahlberg have all given performances that I liked more than any music they'd ever recorded.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Florian Fricke - Signs of Life AND The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronee Blakley also shows up as the mom in "Nightmare on Elm St"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Connick, Frank Sinatra, Mark Wahlberg have all given performances that I liked more than any music they'd ever recorded.

Sinatra is superb in "Tony Rome". But better than anything he's recorded? I don't think so. When you grow up, you'll understand.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: EVERYBODY in Alan Arkush's rock-n-roll spoof "Get Crazy," especially Lee Ving as outta-control punker-dude "Piggy", Lou Reed as Dylanesque rock-poet "Auden," Robbie Densmore as Keith to Malcolm McDowell's Mick, Flo & Eddie as Dead-type hippies, and Bobby Sherman & Fabian as toadies to the evil Ed Begley, Jr.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

When you grow up, you'll understand.

I was under the impression Myonga was somewhat older than both you and I, Tuomas (and I'm 33).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't the first drummer from sonic youth have a bit part in ferris bueller's day off?

jagger AND david johansen in freejack... johansen also in let it ride and scrooged... etc etc...

what... no tina turner for mad max beyond thunda dome?!?! raggedy man!
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Search Iggy in "Cry Baby" taking a bath in a bucket!

― BrianB (BrianB), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
Richard Edson was on the first Sonic Youth ep (as well as a few Liquid Liquid sessions) and was featured as the the pony-tailed parking attendent guy in FBDO. His other claims to fame are playing the nice-guy son of Danny Aiello's character in "Do The Right Thing" and the non-John Lurie guy in "Stranger than Paradise."

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy: tricky in the fifth element

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Cosey Fanni Tutti in lots of, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, specialist interest films ........... not called upon to do to much acting, as such

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

To clarify re Ian Brown - he's just an extra, uncredited, and I have seen no evidence that it is actually him except it looks really really like him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

To clarify re Ian Brown in the Harry Potter film - the chap in question's just an extra, uncredited, and I have seen no evidence that it is actually Ian Brown except that it looks really really like him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea if it actually was Ian Brown, the actor in question was uncredited, just an extra in one scene...it looked really really like him though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Anyway The Wind Blows directed by dEUS' Tom Barman. I think he plays a bitpart in his own movie.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, no idea what happened there. Anyway apparently it is Ian Brown.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Gene Simmons should be destroyed regardless.
(and so should these movies he acted in)
---------------------------
Wish You Were Dead (2002)
The New Guy (2002)
My First Mister (2001)
At Any Cost (2000) (TV)
Red Surf (1990)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
Trick or Treat (1986)
Never Too Young to Die (1986)
Runaway (1984)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

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