Spotlight :: The Eyes of Barbara Steele : Volume I : The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Meme Leech :: 20 Actors I Love -- And Then Some!

A couple of years ago there was a meme floating around asking for bloggers to tic off their 20 favorite Actors and Actresses. Back then, I managed to post about the leading ladies that I love, but never got around to doing the men -- until I found the aborted file a few days ago while cleaning up the archives, dusted it off, and -- well, here we are. And like I did with the ladies, I went off the beaten path a bit and eliminated the Newmans, the Scotts, and the Mortensens and concentrated on the character guys and second bananas who make the Newmans and the Scotts and the Mortensens that much better. And also, as before, I decided against narrowing the list down and just posted all of them. That's right. I'm still a dirty stinking cheater.

Adam Roarke :: Art LaFleur :: Billy Drago

Boris Karloff :: Brion James :: Burl Ives

Claude Akins :: Darren McGavin :: Keith David

Dan Blocker :: Dean Jones :: Ernest Borgnine

xxxGary Cole :: Gene Evans :: Haruo Nakajima

Jack Elam :: James Whitmore :: Jo Shishido

xKennan Wynn :: Ken Tobey :: M. Emmet Walsh

Michael Dudikoff :: Nathan Fillion :: Ned Beatty

Oliver Reed :: Richard Boone :: Robert Ryan

Ron Livingston :: Shintarō Katsu :: Strother Martin

Timothy Carey :: Tim Thomerson :: Timothy Olyphant

Vic Morrow :: Vincent Price :: Warren Oates

And as a bonus, a few more actors that I do like individually,
but absolutely love when they're paired together::

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi

Paul Soter, Kevin Heffernan, Erik Stolhanske,
Jay Chandrasekhar and Steve Lemme

Meme Leech :: 20 Actresses to See

A couple weeks ago there was a meme circulating throughout a number of blogs I frequent, focusing on twenty actresses whose flickering image you really enjoyed watching. The selections I found were all impressive, but it got me to thinking again on the difference between best and most favorite. And since I haven't been around long enough to get tagged properly and have a bad habit of gate-crashing these things anyways, I decided to make my own list of actresses who may have not have made the A-list (-- or those who had but weren't all that shy about venturing into the underbelly of the Bs --) but are total aces in my humble and slightly warped estimation.

Allison HayesxxxxxxAngela BettisxxxxxxAnne Francis

Betsy Jones-MorelandxxxCaroline MunroxxxxCathy O'Donnellxx

Cheri CafaroxxxxxClaudia JenningsxxxxxDiana Rigg

Dorothy MalonexxxxxDyanne ThornexxxxxEdwige Fenech

Gloria GrahamexxxxxHazel CourtxxxxxxJane Darwellx

xxKumi MizunoxxxxxxxLiana OrfeixxxxxxLuciana Paluzzi

Mamie Van DorenxxxxxxMara CordayxxxxxxxMarilu Toloxx

Mary WoronovxxxxxxxMiki SugimotoxxxxxxxMyrna Loyxx

xxPaula PrentissxxxxxxxxReiko IkexxxxxxxSusan Strasbergxx

xxxSuzy KendallxxxxxxxYvette VickersxxxxxxYvonne Craigxxx

Yeah, I know that's 30 entries, not twenty. Couldn't be helped. I'm a dirty, stinking cheater. And frankly, this list could have easily been bumped up to fifty and I still would have left out a dozen or so ladies that I truly admire. (And for the record, Beverly Garland belongs on this list somewhere. But since I just did a mammoth memorial for her, I omitted her to make room for someone else.)

The whole thing started over at The Film Experience, and you can click on over to see how this got started, and then come back to see how far it has fallen and augered into the earth.