"Laurence" Fishburne-Dud or Dude?

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You're not fooling anyone, LARRY!!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

is it nice to see that pockmarked skin and gappy teeth don't mean you can't be famous kinda?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like him, anyway, but I went to the cinema with my mum and dad on my mum's birthday, recently, and we went to see the 'mystic river' and my dad made reference to something l fishburne's character said/did and then we went home and there was a prog on about the matrixes and l fishburne was on it and my dad said "laurence fishburne! is that his name?" and I said "yes" and something else that made my dad realise that it was l fishburne he'd just been watching in the 'mystic river' and then my dad said something that made me realise that he hadn't realised that and, boy, we laughed. I guess l fishburne is OK, actually.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Othello = "dude," or something.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

He's awesome!

He was only 14 years old when they started filming Apocalypse Now!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally, it's all about the King Of New York/Deep Cover/What's Love Got To Do With It troika.

http://ibelgique.ifrance.com/cinedestin/films/J/justecause4.jpg
Here's a photo of Sean Connery, right after seeing him play Jimmy Jump in King Of New York, calling Fishburne to announce that he's the man now, dawg.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and it is SO not about the damn Matrix movies.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 November 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/pee16.jpg

I could never diss Cowboy Curtis.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/pee18.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1145502.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

kinda lame surely? faux gravitas par excellance i guess.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Jumpin jehosaphatyeehaa!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's not forget his electrifying role as Ike Turner in 'What's Love Got to Do With It."

That was him? Wow, respect.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, he got nominated for an Oscar for that role!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he was great in that.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicole I kiss you!! Cowboy Curtis!! OMG I totally forgot.

― allyzay, Monday, 3 November 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved him in Boys n the Hood (Cuba's father) and Searching for Bobby Fischer....among others, that is.

― ed dill (eddill), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yay cowboy curtis!

he is great, I think, though not so much in that last matrix movie, but really, who coulda survived that

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen it but I bet he comes off better than fucking Cornel West!

― hstencil, Monday, 3 November 2003 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

actually he does not

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

damn. But he hasn't recorded a "rap" album, so he still wins.

― hstencil, Monday, 3 November 2003 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd buy that for a dollar!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/01/10/west.harvard.ap/story.vert.ap.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

even if the Neptunes produced that shit, it would suck.

― hstencil, Monday, 3 November 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

if fishburne did a rap album in character as morpheus I would just die

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what if morpheus found true love in a wacky spinoff 'romcom'!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

a spinoff of the album?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it would be good if he covered lauryn hill's "zion" on this hypothetical album

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the movie!

it could be called 'the matrix of the heart, actually'

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it's too bad the machines didn't track lauryn down and stop that unplugged taping.

― rob geary (rgeary), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Total career highlight = the bit where he says "I think we've seen enough!" in 'Event Horizon'

― dave q, Monday, 3 November 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

He's kinda plump in mystic river -- and one of the only falses note in that movie, excluding that terrible scene where tim robbins pretends to be crazy.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Neptunes ft. Morpheus "Zion" (Red Pill remix)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Matrix ft. Cowboy Curtis "What's Love Got to Do With It" (I Was Nominated for an Oscar as Ike remix)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

also there should be a single called "on this night"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It could be a duet with Clay Aiken.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, 3 November 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Timbaland ft. Othello & Clay Aiken "On This Night" (Everyone Who Lives In Zion Is a Bootylicious Reveller-Hippy remix [isntrumental])

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawrence Fishburne == The EEEEVIL Sidney Poitier.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

in what way exactly?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

How he can be all serious and dignified like Sidney Poitier......and then be Ike Fucking Turner and play a total bugfuck psychopath.
Great acting range.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume all you muthafuckas have never seen King Of New York or else we'd be seeing a LOT more Jimmy Jump references.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
Seen: Whats Love Got to Do with It, Event Horizon, Matrix I

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i like him a lot

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

he is one of the directors of the national film preservation foundation!!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Bad Company

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

me too

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

whoa he is?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Deepcoverposter.jpg

― omar little, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

Here's hoping he'll be good on CSI.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

when the hell did he last make a good film?

Very sexy in his prime tho.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Thomas Paine2012
0 minute ago (12:13 PM)

I would love for someone to explain to me what is wrong with being a porn actress?

I've always looked for a job where I could do something I love, get paid a living wage at it, and not grow to hate the job eventually.

If any woman believes she has found that kind of job working in the porn industry, more power to her.

RasputinsLiver
2 minutes ago (12:10 PM)

"Chippy D"

Why bother now. Everyone in the world knows now, including daddy.

How sad. How sad that there are young women growing up who will emultae her for having emulated the no-talent bi-mbo Kim Kardashian.

Feminism, despite it's contemporary state, has been set back decades because of this stuff. The Snookis. The Octomoms. The Parises. The Britneys and Lindsays. The Kardashians. And now this. Just for notariety, infamy, attention, and most of all money.

Guess there really is a price for everyone to compromise themselves for.

How sad for us all.

― buzza, Monday, 2 August 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

Wow, what exactly did Larry do to get lumped in with that group?

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/laurence-fishburnes-daughter-makes-porn-film-to-ju,43669/

― the penis cream pilot walked free (Phil D.), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

Montana Fishburne, daughter of Laurence Fishburne, is glad her father's cronies weren't able to stop the release of her porno tape -- telling TMZ, "I want people to see my movie."

TMZ bumped into Montana yesterday in L.A., where she said she was "surprised" that her dad's pals tried to buy up all her XXX DVDs from Vivid Entertainment for a million bucks -- but was "happy" they failed because she says, "I want people to see it. I want people to buy my movie."

On a different note, Montana also said, "I want my whole family to be proud of me in anything I do" ... whether she was "a doctor" or a porn star.

― buzza, Saturday, 7 August 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

there's only one snooki

― bucmarkersot lefonque (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 August 2010 00:05 (fifteen years ago)

I just saw LF in the one-man play Thurgood (Marshall) - really fine performance, both entertaining and educational

― sexual intercourse began in 1963 (m coleman), Sunday, 8 August 2010 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Here's hoping he'll be good on CSI.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 9:07 PM (5 years ago)

i've been watching csi all the way through, mostly just for research and to have something to watch, it's kind of not that good, but it has some small tv craft to it and it gradually gets more watchable several seasons in - and once william petersen (who was doing quite well with pretty mediocre writing) leaves and they slot fishburne in, there's like this real step up in quality! which is weird for a tv show. his presence is just different, he has more of a touch. and after his 'hannibal' role it's noticeable that he's actually in character as the doctor-professor-newbie csi, kind of reserved, modest, waiting for other people to take the lead so he can learn from them. even in the way he listens to witnesses, his reaction shots etc.

i don't know if they changed staff or made some different production decisions - seems like there's a lot less of the blatant soundtracked-lab-montage filler than there had been - but there's definitely a shift in the tone/perspective because fishburne's character replaces petersen's, but not as the new head of the lab, so suddenly the focal character's status as focal is more tangible since most of the other stuff is only adjusted slightly to make up for grissom's departure. i wonder how often that happens in long-running tv production.

― j., Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:54 (eleven years ago)

he's been great on hannibal!

― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 04:29 (eleven years ago)

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