list-making for the new year

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

*The airwaves are filled at this season with bests of (recent REAL TV
offerings included "Cutest Cats of 2010") and various chart-toppers, so
here's mine--DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME   Who agrees?*

DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES OF ALL TIME (as in “nobody else comes close”)





1)     Humbert Humbert—Jeremy Irons

2)     James Bond—Sean Connery

3)     Richard Nixon—Frank Langella

4)     Abraham Lincoln—Henry Fonda

5)     Howard Hughes—Leonardo DiCaprio

6)     Philip Marlowe—Robert Mitchum

7)     Juliet—Olivia Hussey

8)     The Faun—Nijinsky

9)     Sherlock Holmes—Basil Rathbone

10) Heathcliff—Laurence Olivier

11) Jay Gatsby—Robert Redford

12) Olivia—Helena Bonham Carter

13) Superman—Christopher Reeves

14) Count Dracula—Bela Lugosi

15) Anna Karenina—Greta Garbo

16) Lily Bart—Gillian Anderson

17) Lady Dedlock—Gillian Anderson

18) Queen Elizabeth I—Bette Davis

19) Queen Elizabeth II—Helen Mirren

20) Robin Hood—Errol Flynn

21) Errol Flynn—Jude Law

22) Elvis Presley—Jonathan Rhys Meyers

23) Marc Antony—Richard Burton

24) Helen of Troy—Elizabeth Taylor

25) Achilles—Brad Pitt

26) Richard III—Ian McKellan

27) Hamlet—Kenneth Branaugh

28) James Kirk—William Shatner

29) Moses—Charlton Heston

31) Satan—Al Pacino

32) Jesus Christ—James Caviezel

 33)God—tie!  Morgan Freeman and Alanis Morrisette (sorry George Burns)

34) Jenny Lerner—Tia Leone



-- 
Elaine M.M. Bell
860.833.2625
Have Laptop/Will Travel
(but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
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