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ImpeachBush Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:28 PM
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Actors who thought they could sing but sucked the most?
My pick - William Shatner and/or Leonard Nimoy
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:29 PM
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1. Don Johnson and Eddie Murphy
they rank up there as well
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:29 PM
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2. Those are good choices... ever see Paint Your Wagon?
Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin with a duet in the rain.

:scared:
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:03 PM
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21. I think the singing was suppose to be part of the funny act?
How could one take it serious?
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:30 PM
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3. David Hasselhoff (sp?)
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BOHICA06 Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:30 PM
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4. Clint Eastwood ...
but I really liked Lee Marvin in "Paint Your Wagon"!
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BOHICA06 Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:31 PM
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5. Of course I don't think
either of these guys thought they could sing!
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:34 PM
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10. 'Wandrin' Star' Just Can't Be Heard Any Other Way....
besides Lee Marvin's gravelly and flat monotone style.
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tekriter Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:31 PM
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6. And Shatner couldn't act so hot, either...
n/t
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:35 PM
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11. Hey...don't bad mouth Captain Kirk
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:32 PM
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7. Lorne Greene
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:33 PM
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8. David Soul and Patrick Swayze
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:42 PM
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16. I never understood why "She's Like The Wind" was so popular.
Swayze's not a horrible singer, but he's not more than mediocre either.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:34 PM
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9. Bruce Willis and Eddie Murphy
Ugh!!!
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:40 PM
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13. I actually didn't mind Bruce Willis
the first few times I heard him. Don Johnson, tho' - UGH!:thumbsdown:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:42 PM
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15. Yeah, Don Johnson's "singing career" was mercifully short.
Bruce Willis just pisses me off, so I can't say anything about him with any objectivity.
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BlueFlu Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:37 PM
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12. Richard Harris... MacArthur's Park had to be tweaked
repeatedly to bring his voice into tune with the orchestra. I read that the original tapes are unbearable to listen to. I tried to listen to the entire album MAP was on, and I thought I would have to pour straight bleach in my ears to get the stench out!
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:41 PM
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14. William Shatner does not really think he can sing.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:44 PM
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17. Oliver Reed in "Tommy"
That was just too hideous for words.

Of course, Jack Nicholson wasn't any great shakes as a singer, either.
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:47 PM
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18. are you sure William Shatner qualified as an "actor"?
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 01:50 PM
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19. Rob Lowe
When he did that Proud Mary cover or whatever with some female singer dressed up like Snow White at the Oscars or something.

I have a whole CD of Nimoy and Shatner's various covers and original songs (the Hobbit). The only song I ever heard Dr. Demento interrupt and say, "That's enough of that" was Shatner's cover of "Lucky in the Sky with Diamonds."

TlalocW
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:01 PM
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20. I haven't seen it, myself...
Edited on Tue Jan-04-05 02:03 PM by Crankie Avalon
...but I've heard that Kevin Spacey did a bad job singing (and even worse dancing) in the new Bobby Darin biopic.

It's not that he's a terrible singer, it's just that he's mediocre when the story calls for him to be so very good that audiences of bobby soxers are supposed to go wild when he's done. I've read it would have been better if he had lip-synched the actual Darin, but he apparently has some obsession with Darin and thought he could pull off an impression of him. Of course, Spacey is about 15 years too old to play Darin in the first place, but when the subject of this thread (actors who thought they could sing something and ended up biting off more than they could chew) came up, what I've heard about this current movie immediately came to mind.

I'm sure there are Spacey fans who will disagree, and remember, I admitted I've only seen small bits of the movie and only heard about the rest, so what do I know?
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:21 PM
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22. Oh, good.
Maybe you can serve as a buffer between me and the onslaught that is likely to come from the Kevin Spacey fans on this board when I say that Kevin Spacey sucks it when he sings. I haven't seen the Bobby Darin movie but I did see Spacey sing on Letterman a couple of years back and, quite honestly, I don't even remember what he sounded like because I was so blown away by how full of himself he seemed to be. I haven't liked Kevin Spacey since that night.
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:29 PM
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24. Heh...
...well, as you may have noticed from how I ended my last post to this thread, I'm not looking to get into a flame war with anybody.

I offered what I had heard, which was consistent with my impression of the bits I'd seen of Spacey's singing and dancing in this one particular movie, "Beyond the Sea."

I've admired his acting in other movies I've seen him in.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 02:24 PM
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23. James Caan
I watched Funny Lady this weekend, in which he plays Billy Rose, and he sang a bit. It was just miserable, especially since he sings right after Streisand in one scene.
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