Lists of favorite things

[Richard Ryan]

Queen Elizabeth: Cate Blanchett
Winston Churchill: Simon Ward
Robespierre: Wojciech Pszoniak
Howard Hughes: Leonard DiCaprio (runner-up: Jason Robards)
Jesus: Willem Dafoe
Mary Magdalene: Barbara Hershey
John the Baptist: (tie) Michael York; Andre Gregory
Henry II: Peter O'Toole (twice!)
Batman: Christian Bale - though there's much to like about Michael Keaton
Hitler: Bruno Ganz
Nosferatu: Bloodsucking three way tie between Max Schreck, Klaus
Kinski, and Willem Dafoe
James Whale: Ian MacKellan
Winston Smith: John Hurt
O'Brien: Richard Burton
Hamlet: Richard Burton
Hamlet's Ghost: Paul Scofield
Lear: Paul Scofield
Lear's Fool: John Hurt
Sir Thomas More: Paul Scofield
Mark van Doren: Paul Scofield
Judge Thomas Danford: Paul Scofield....
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Elaine M.M. Bell
<elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Best portrayals of (person) by (actor):
> Jimmy Hoffa:  Robert Blake
> Queen Elizabeth:  Bette Davis
> Marilyn Monroe: Poppy Montgomery
> Fagin:  Timothy Spall
> Winston Churchill:  Timothy Spall
> Richard III:  Ian McKellan
> Humbert Humbert:  Jeremy Irons
> Heathcliff:  Tom Hardy
> Ann Darrow:  Fay Wray
> Al Capone:  Jason Robards
> King Lear: Laurence Olivier
> Romeo: Leslie Howard
> Juliet:  Olivia Hussey
> Lyndon Johnson:  James Cromwell
> Lucky Luciano:  Anthony LaPaglia
> Lord Byron:  Richard Chamberlain
> Sherlock Holmes:  Basil Rathbone
> Olive Chancellor:  Vanessa Redgrave
> Richard Nixon:  Frank Langella
> King Arthur:  Richard Harris
> Tesla:  David Bowie
> Elvis Presley:  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
> Buddy Holly:  Gary Busey
> Andy Warhol:  Guy Pearce
> Jesus Christ:  TIE--James Caviezel and Ted Neeley
> Satan:  Al Pacino
> God:  Alanis Morissette
> Worst portrayal ever:
> Jackie Kennedy:  Katie Holmes
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> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Someone needs to cite some favorite books, movies, music lists to reboot
>> the p-list.
>>
>> It works every time.
>>
>> P
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> --
> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
> 860.833.2625
> Have Laptop/Will Travel
> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
>



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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw