which actor/actress next and best deserves a travolta/pulp fiction style ressurection ?

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some people may be too young to remember
a time when travolta was hated. perhaps he'd
been over-exposed in his day, well obviously he had.
he'd been in a load of garbage, and even
'look who's talking' was considered better
than his previous 6/7 years output (since blow out).
hey presto, along comes tarantino, and all's forgiven
people remember why they liked him, *and* it was
well deserved.
he's pished it all away since mind.

who should be next to do a lazarus ?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Lazarus himself (again) would be neato.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 February 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Travolta was sort of a unique case, because his two big films were pop culture eventts in which he played iconic, if not cartoonish characters.

The people who deserve more attention probably aren't going to be in the same kind of movies or play the same kinds of roles.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 1 February 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, Paul Rubens. Totally.

― jm (jtm), Monday, 3 February 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I hear that Philip Seymour Hoffman guy could use some work.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 February 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Cryer needs to come out of Hiding

― Aaron A., Monday, 3 February 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

C Thomas Howell

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 3 February 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Patrick SwizleStick he did like a twee Dancing film, suffered the backlash, did some really crap stuff and kinda disappeared didn't he?

― smee (smee), Monday, 3 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

STEVE GUTTENBERG!!!!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Patrick SwizleStick he did like a twee Dancing film, suffered the backlash, did some really crap stuff and kinda disappeared didn't he?

he was recently good in Donnie Darko. but aye.

STEVE GUTTENBERG!!!!

now, that's what i'm talking about, yo.
that would be awesome.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I was happy to see Rutger Hauer in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. Pete beat me to it.

MORE STEVE GUTTENBERG IN FILMS! NOW!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Its a perenial theme round here certainly:

Steve Guttenberg: Did Tom Hanks steal his career?

Zeus & Roxanne - Classic Or Dud.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I want Steve Martin to be in a good movie. For a change.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

just watch the man with two brains and put the ukelele scene on repeat, yo.

works for me.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Guttenberg's actually trying for an arthouse comeback with some film called PS Your Cat is Dead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yep guttenberg. i'm right with ye -
the look on his face when he discovers that
them aliens in 'cocoon' actually *are* aliens...well,
worth the price of admission alone.

― piscesboy, Monday, 3 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve is actually DIRECTING PS Your Cat Is Dead, isn't he?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, a good friend of mine (non-ILX) once stumbled across that thread while Googling and still maintains to this day that Pete stole his Guttenberg/Hanks theory.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Its such an obvious theory I am sure that others would come up with concurrently.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew McCarthy needs to come back.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew McCarthy needs to come back

i'm down with this too.

best line ever delivered:
"oh my god.... you've lost my sunglasses"

first time i heard that, i laughed for almost a week.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 3 February 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Valerie Perrine, George Maharis, Angie Dickinson, Billy Dee Williams, Jill Clayburgh, Paula Prentiss, Carrie Snodgress, Shelley Duvall, Glenda Jackson, Karen Black, Mickey Rourke, Diana Rigg, Hayley Mills, Tina Louise, Michael J. Pollard, Horst Bucholz, Don Stroud, Dean Jones, Sarah Miles, Frank Langella, Sylvia Miles, Sue Lyon, Rae Dawn Chong, Candy Clark, Cristina Raines, Janice Rule, Anita Pallenberg, Michael DesBarres, Judy Geeson, Carol Lynley, Veronica Cartwright, Hart Bochner, Joann Pflug, Yvette Mimieux, Dennis Christopher, Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Cyndi Lauper, Samantha Eggar, John Phillip Law, Brooke Adams, Brenda Vaccaro, Karen Allen, Helmut Berger, Genevieve Bujold.

Then there are the people who need to be re-resurrected, like Peggy Lipton, Michael Parks, Louise Lasser, Traci Lords, Cher.

Sorry, I couldn't pick just one.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

we need another "Mannequin"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

RAE DAWN CHONG!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, so is that an affirmative scream, or one of horror and disbelief, Dan?

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw her trim in a movie once.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That was so affirmative it isn't even funny. (Although, unlike Chris, I have never seen her trim.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

She was great in "Commando".

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(No pun intended?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember that Mick Jagger solo video/mini-movie? She even managed to be charming in that.

I met her sister Robbie once in the 80s. She used to hang out at proto-goth clubs in LA. She was very beautiful.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 3 February 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll second the Billy Dee Williams...

― jm (jtm), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Tho he was in the Ladies Man.

― jm (jtm), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a really good David Thomson piece on Nick Nolte in the IoS this weekend, and he hasn't been in anything good or successful in a good while, so him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 February 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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