Actors and Actresses
 

Hi GCers,
It's hump day and as I work my way over, I got to thinking about a question I heard on Tom Joyner Show a few months back.

QUESTIONS:
1. Who are your favorite actors and actresses?

2. The movie of your life is coming to the big screen!! Which actor/actress would you want to play YOU?!!? WHY?!

I will give my responses at the end of the day or when I get good & ready http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif


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It's too early in my intellectual day for that, CT4.

I'm struggling, but I'll go with Debbi Morgan, Cicely Tyson, Alfre Woodard, Ving Rhames, Delroy Lindo, I like the old school. As far as younguns, Regina King is underappreciated, as is Ricard T. Jones (my future hubby).

My life story on the big screen would be a COMEDY! Slapstick, I tell ya! Who does good slapstick? I don't see too many codeic actresses who aren't acting stereotypical. The closest I can think of is Regina, Loretta or maybe one of the Lowery twins. And I look nothing like any of those women. In fact, I don't resemble anyone who's currently "in" in Hollywood.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CrimsonTide4:

QUESTIONS:
1. Who are your favorite actors and actresses?
Well I love Hill Harper. He is not as "main stream" as most but him and my baby-daddy Omar Epps hmm hmm good http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif
For Actress, I don't know her name, but she play the main love interest in Mission Impossible 2 and on Beloved.

2. The movie of your life is coming to the big screen!! Which actor/actress would you want to play YOU?!!? WHY?!

My life hmmm.....in different angels:
Comedy : Monique from the "Parkers" She is funny as all get out with a twist of truth. :P

Drama: Vivica Fox, she is sassy and classy when she wants. :O

I do have others, but I will also wait for others.
This is a good topic


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Good topic CT4!!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Now let's see...my favorite actors and actresses include Vivica Fox, Nia Long, Lorenz Tate, Jackee Harry (ex-Sandra on 227), Morris Chestnut, Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman, Sanna Lathan, Omar Epps, Ice Cube---yes, I like him fine. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif To be honest I can't think of any other BLACK actor or actresses that I would PAY to see. But I guess you know how THAT goes.

Who would I want to play me? Jackee Harry. She's funny (my life on film would probably end up being a comedy also), beautiful (just like me) http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif , and good.

fave actors and actress...

anybody who is convincing...male or female

who would play me in a drama, because now that is all i seem to have in my life....vanessa williams for new jack city and soul food....

rock a bye baby....

Good topic, CT4!

My favorite actresses are Angela Bassett, the mother from The Brothers (I forget her name), Nia Long, Regina Kina, and Julia Roberts.

Actors, Robert DeNiro and Denzel Washington

If there were a movie about my life, none other than Regina King. She has spunk!!!

My favorite actors:
1. Gregory Peck (TKAM is phenomenal and no other actor will ever come close to his portrayal of Atticus Finch)

2. Denzel Washington (EVERYTHING he does is Phenomenal)

3. Samuel L. Jackson (A Time to Kill leaves me breathless)

4. Omar Epps
5. Morgan Freeman
6. Charles Dutton
7. Bill Cosby
8. Michael Beach
9. Mekhi Phifer
10. Wesley Snipes
11. Isaiah Washington
12. Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile)
13. Tom Hanks

FAVORITE ACTRESSES
1. Sanaa Lathan (Girlfriend is going to be FIERCE)
2. Nia Long
3. Alfre Woodard
4. Angela Bassett
5. Lela Rochon
6. Regina King
7. Lisa Nicole Carson
8. Jada Pinkett
9. Vivica Foxx
10. Phylicia Rashad
11. Jenifer Lewis (IDEAL08)
12. Cicely Tyson


The 2 actresses I would most want to portray me on the big screen would be Sanaa LAthan and Regina King. Both of them bring an intensity to the screen as well as a realness. Regina King has her FIRECRACKER moments and her sweet and tender moments, i.e. my favorite lines from Jerry Maguire.

Sanaa Lathan is just phenomenal. She was the leading actress in my FAVORITE T Mc book and was fierce in Love and Basketball.

I would want Kyla Pratt (played the 11yr. old Monica in L&B) to play my teen years.

My life would be a dramatic comedy.

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He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.

Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings.

Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.



[This message has been edited by CrimsonTide4 (edited June 04, 2001).]

Her name is Thandie Newton

My favorite actor would have to be Danny Glover. I haven't liked him since "The Color Purple" (my fav. movie), and you KNOW someone is a good actor if you don't like the actual person because of a character they played. Other very good ones would be Morgan Freeman, Ice Cube and Samuel L. Jackson.
I don't have a favorite actress, but I like many including Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah, Sanaa Latham, Regina King, Loretta Divine, and Alfree Woodard (sp?).

Someone who would represent me well would be Kim Cole (Sinclair from Living Single). Everyone says I look like her and act goofy like her.

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okay,

I know that this post was not supposed to be a political one, but...

I wouldn't have anyone whos name you know play me on screen. I have never been, never desired to be, nor expect to ever be as skinny as it takes to be noticed by hollywood. It's not attractive, and it's not healthy. I wonder how many of these "ultra feminine" women even have enough body fat to have a period!
No reflection on their acting but...

I'm feeling ya on that Gina....I guess that's why I didn't post because I was thinking too hard and long on WHO in the world would I like to see portray ME! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

My favorite Actor's and actresses would be Omar Epps, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, and Angela Bassett

The actress that I would want to play me is Nia Long, because we have similar styles and I think that she is a beautiful woman like myself.

Favorites:

Cicely Tyson
Jessica Tandy
Nia Long-Au natural
Danny Glover-we have pics together
Danny Devito
Bill Cosby-I miss the Cosby Show
Samuel L. Jackson
Jada Pinkett Smith
Lela Rochon-She's so innocent, lol
Whoopi Goldberg-breaks the supermodel stereotype
Sanaa Lathan-upcoming, future Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett-she's getting all the roles isn't she.

1. Lela Rochon / Vivica Fox / Angela Bassett / Blair Underwood / Chris Rock / Chris Tucker / Nia Long / Gywneth Paltrow (yeah got to give it up for the white girl lol http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif ~ She is down to earth)

2. Lela Rochon ~ Just because she is my favorite actress!

TTT
 

just giving you all something to talk about today as I attempt to pack. :eek: :( :o :rolleyes:

my favorite actors are:
Morgan Freeman, Nick Cage, Robert Dinero, Tom Hanks

Actress:
I can't think of any

If my life were to hit the big screen Kellie Williams from Family Matters would play me because everyone seem to think I look like her and that we act the same.

Favorite Actor: Morgan Freeman, and Samuel L. Jackson. Denzel is cool, a little overrated if you ask me.

Favorite Actress: Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Reshod, Loretta Devine, and Susan Surandon.

If my life had to hit the big screen, I think that kat from the Ashanti video "Foolish" would play me well. He's a great actor and we both are light skinned with green eyes.

My favorite actor: Denzil Washington
Favorite actress: Angela Bassett, Nia Long

Who would play me: Nia Long because we're about the same size and I just love her.

RIP Gregory Peck
 

I forgot to post this last week. :(


Oscar-winning movie legend Gregory Peck dead at 87
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - One of Hollywood's last great leading men, Gregory Peck (news), famed for his heroic roles in such classics as "To Kill a Mockingbird," died at the age of 87.


Peck, known for his quiet dignity, became an icon of cinema's golden era with starring roles in more than 60 films, including "Roman Holiday," "Cape Fear" and "Spellbound" and won the best actor Oscar for "Mockingbird" in 1962.


A classic star who became a respected elder statesmen of cinema, Peck died peacefully in his Los Angeles home at 4:00am Thursday (1200 GMT) with his French-born wife of 48 years, Veronique, holding his hand, publicist Monroe Friedman said.


His death is a stunning loss to the movie industry and cuts one of the last remaining links to Hollywood's golden age.


"He was one of the great leading men of all time. His name became part of the English language. He was like a monument, not a man, he was one of the touchstones of cinema all over the world," Friedman said.


Peck retired from active filmmaking several years ago but was in good health, Friedman said, denying rumours that he had been ill.


Actor Charlton Heston (news), who starred with Peck in 1948's "Big Country," mourned the loss of his friend.


"Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit," he said adding that Peck "faced life's challenges with great vigor and courage."


French actor Louis Jourdan, a friend of Peck's for more than 50 years, was saddened by his death. "He was an exceptional man, an implacable man," he said. "I more than loved him. I admired him immensely."


Nominated for five Oscars (news - web sites) in a career spanning nearly 60 years, the velvet-voiced Peck became synonymous with morally courageous heroes such as Atticus Finch, the right-minded southern lawyer in "To Kill A Mockingbird."


"They'll probably even put it on my tombstone," Friedman recalled Peck once saying. And he may have been right. Last week, the American Film Institute (news - web sites) named Peck's character in the movie as the greatest screen hero of all time.


The handsome actor, born Eldred Gregory Peck in the southern California city of La Jolla in April 1916, shot to stardom in the 1940s and remained in the spotlight for the rest of his life, never touched by scandal.


Setting out to become a doctor, student Peck soon switched majors to English literature and began a lifelong passion for acting.


After moving to New York in 1939, he badly injured his back in a fall while studying with legendary dancer Martha Graham, an accident that was to prove fateful for Hollywood.


Barred from military service by the injury, Peck made his Broadway debut in a 1942 drama which won him glowing reviews and Hollywood came a-knocking two years later.


As one of the few actors who was not in uniform, Peck won leading roles in movies including "Keys of the Kingdom" (1944) which won him his first Oscar nomination.


He worked with top directors John Huston (news) in "Moby Dick," Alfred Hitchcock (news) in "Spellbound" in 1946, King Vidor (news) in "Duel in the Sun" (1946) and Elia Kazan (news) in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), which got him a second Oscar nod.





And he went on to win further Academy Award nominations for best actor for "12 O'Clock High" (1949) and "The Yearling" (1946) before finally winning the coveted award when he was 45.

Known for his portrayals of upright men of moral fortitude, he occasionally departed from that character slot, as in the role of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Josef Mengele, in "The Boys from Brazil" (1978).

Peck worked until 1998 -- when he made his last TV movie, a cameo role in a remake of "Moby Dick," and was famously paired with such leading ladies such as Audrey Hepburn (news) in "Roman Holiday" and Ingrid Bergman (news) in "Spellbound."

In another odd flashback to his glory days, he also took a cameo part in Martin Scorsese (news)'s 1991 remake of "Cape Fear."

Peck, who worked tirelessly for charities, has been compared by those who knew him with the heroes he played on screen, but he rejected the comparison.

"I'm not nearly as confident as those hero characters are. Sometimes I've been courageous, and sometimes less so."

In recent years he indulged in his passion for watching basketball, reading, writing and relaxing at home.

Peck leaves his wife, four children from two marriages and several grandchildren. Plans for his funeral have yet to be announced.




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Actor Brock Peters (L) is shown in this February 2, 1998 file photograph in Beverly Hills with actor Gregory Peck (news) after a screening of their 1962 film 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' Peck died at his Los Angeles home at age 87 on June 11, 2003. Peters is scheduled to deliver the eulogy at a public memorial mass for Peck on June 16 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels. Peters portrayed 'Tom Robinson (news)' in the film in which Peck won an Academy Award for his portrayal of small town lawyer. REUTERS/Fred Prouser/Files

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1. Favorite Actor(s): Denzel Washington, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Hill Harper, and all of these DELICIOUS "box office chocolates"
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Favorite Actress(es): Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah, Halle Berry, Nia Long, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cameron Diaz

2. In the movie of my life, I would want Queen Latifah to play me. She is very real, down-to-earth, and funny. She also favors me.