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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:40 PM
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Subject: Movies with Rock Stars/Music Personalities..the good, bad & ugly
My favorites:

David Bowie..."The Man Who Fell to Earth"
John Lennon..."How I Won the War"
Joe Strummer..."Mystery Train"
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Emboldened Chimp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:42 PM
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1. Queen Latifah was good in Chicago
Mick Jagger needs to stay away from anything to do with filmmaking.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:43 PM
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2. Some Uglies...
Xanadu -- Olivia Newton-John
Glitter -- Mariah Carey
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:46 PM
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3. Madonna
Pretty much anything she was in has sucked, well, maybe not Desperately Seeking Susan
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:58 PM
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7. And League of Their Own
Evita was decent too.

Damn I see way too many movies...
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 04:09 PM
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9. I did forget league of their own
but Evita, nah, not for me :)
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:39 AM
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50. I liked Desperately Seeking Susan!
But I've managed to avoid all other Madonna films--I read the reviews!
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:47 PM
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4. Tom Waits...
He was perfect in _Dracula_, and played a role straight from his music when he played Earl, the alcoholic Limo Driver living in a trailer park in LA with his waitress wife in _Short Cuts_
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:50 PM
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17. He was good in Dracula, and that was hard to be. nt.
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Jean Louise Finch Donating Member (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:15 AM
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39. AND he was genius
as the mad scientist/constructor fellow in Mystery Men.
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Estel Donating Member (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:47 PM
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5. Sting
in Dune
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:51 PM
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18. Also good in
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 02:53 AM
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40. It took two viewings...
...before my friend finally awarded me the point for recognizing him in that. All like, "No, that's just a guy who kind of looks like him."
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 01:54 AM
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23. Also good in "Quadrophenia"
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 03:54 PM
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6. Al Johnson, "High Fidelity"
Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 03:54 PM by asthmaticeog
Johnson is the, um, "singer" for U.S. Maple, an experimental rock group from Chicago, and one of my all time favorite bands. In "High Fidelity," he cameos as the dorky fanboy trying to buy a Captain Beefheart album from Jack Black - a lovely intertextual joke, as U.S. Maple are constantly compared to Beefheart by critics at a loss for anyone else to compare them with.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 04:04 PM
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8. Mick Jaeger..."Freejack"
worst. movie. ever.

(well, almost)
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:34 PM
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13. That movie made me weep.
It was so damn bad and the book it was "based" on was so damn good.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:40 PM
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16. Also in Nicholas Roeg's "Performance"
Excellent but truly weird psychedelic-era movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066214/

--bkl
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pnb Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 04:10 PM
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10. Hmm...
Boyz in the Hood, Ice Cube
Rock Star, Mark Wahlberg
New Jack City, Ice T
Platoon, Corey Glover (I know, but he was in the damn movie!!!)
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 04:32 PM
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11. Being John Malkovic was either produced or directed by Michael Stipe.
That is a great movie.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:55 PM
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19. Directed by Spike Jonze, so Stipe must have been a producer
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:20 PM
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12. #1 movie of all time:
"Cool as Ice."

Okay, I'm just kidding.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:36 PM
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14. Aimee Man in "The Big Lebowski"
She was one of the Nihilists, as was "Flea".

--bkl
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Midnight Rambler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 12:13 AM
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21. Flea was also in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
As was Lyle Lovett. Also Peter Frampton makes a cameo in "Almost Famous" as Humble Pie's road manager, for another intertextual joke.

BTW, anyone remember the Nickelodeon show Pete & Pete? Iggy Pop was in at least one episode, as Michelle Trachtenberg's dad.
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Estel Donating Member (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 09:54 AM
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25. Lyle Lovett in
Cookie's Fortune
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 10:21 PM
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30. Lyle Lovett in "The Player"
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 08:18 PM
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47. Lyle Lovett in "Short Cuts"
although I hated the movie.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:37 PM
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15. Mandy Moore in "Saved"
--bkl
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:58 PM
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20. David Byrne in The Terror of Frankenstien
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076881/

Or True Stories, take your pick
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 01:47 AM
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22. anything with Tom Waits
Mystery Train, Short Cuts, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Fisher King

and coming soon (according to IMDb), "A Prairie Home Companion"! (holy shit!)
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Kashka-Kat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-16-04 12:24 AM
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38. Yeah!! Dont forget "Down By Law"
Edited on Tue Nov-16-04 12:27 AM by Kashka-Kat
One of my all time faves... just the way characters, story, mood, humor, cinemetography all comes together.

"It is a sad and beautiful world."
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 09:53 AM
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24. Tom Petty in The Postman...
He was a KICK-ASS mayor. The movie might have sucked to some extent but come on, Tom Petty!
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-13-04 06:10 PM
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26. Mick Jagger: Performance. Memo From Turner might be the best song that
has ever been in a movie in which the singer also acted in the movie. The movie is a little rough around the edges, but that song kicks so much. Martin Scorcese uses that song in Goodfellas, btw.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 08:41 PM
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27. Dexter Gordon in "Round Midnight"
he was nominated for Best Actor for that film.
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recoveringdittohed Donating Member (463 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 08:55 PM
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28. Reba McEntire in Tremors
Ok it is a sort of a schlocky Sci-Fi movie but fun to watch. Also good performances in movies by music personalities, Dwight Yokam as a crazy villain in Panic Room and Courtney Love in The People vs Larry Flynt.
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 09:06 PM
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29. What about Yokam in Slingblade? nt
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 11:03 PM
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31. Ann Magnuson in anything
ok, I happen to like her.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 08:58 AM
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32. Good: Levon Helm/Coalminer's Daughter n/t
MKJ
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 08:58 AM
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33. Good: Bette Midler/The Rose n/t
MKJ
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 09:10 AM
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35. Good: Gregg Allman/Rush n/t
MKJ
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 09:00 AM
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34. Bad and Ugly: Brittney Spears/Crossroads n/t
MKJ
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kiki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 11:10 AM
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36. I liked
Meat Loaf in Fight Club. Certainly compared to his mystifyingly awful music.

Angry Anderson in Beyond Thunderdome is good, ugly and the most obscure one I could think of.
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jackelope72 Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-04 11:25 AM
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37. One of my favorites:
Henry Rollins, Anthony Kiedis, and Flea in "The Chase" (1994, Charlie Sheen caper flick)
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 05:04 PM
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41. Keep an eye out for Mos Def
as Ford Prefect in the movie adaptation of Hitchikers Guide!
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cavanaghjam Donating Member (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 06:08 PM
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42. How can you name music personalities
who've been in movies and leave out Sinatra? Manchurian Candidate anyone? And the assassination movie (I forget the name) that was shelved after November '63.

BTW, Joe Strummer in Rude Boy was brilliant.
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DemVIctory Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 07:36 PM
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43. Bob Dylan was in
'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' from around 1971. Willie Nelson in Half-Baked (and others). David Johanson (singer from New York Dolls and aka Buster 'Hot, Hot, Hot' Poindexter) starred in 'Car 54 Where Are You.'
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 08:20 PM
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48. And while we're on the late greats, Bing Crosby in The Country Girl,
Going My Way, and a bunch of sentimental favorites. In The Country Girl, however, he played the unsympathetic role of an alcoholic who blames his wife for all his problems.
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9119495 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 09:50 AM
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49. "The assassination movie" was the Manchurian Candidate.
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cedahlia Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 10:37 PM
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44. Singles
Cameron Crowe's little gem about the game of love, Seattle style. It features members of Pearl Jam as Matt Dillon's bandmates and other Seattle musicians have bit parts as well (Chris Cornell and Tad Doyle, to name a couple.) Love it! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Oh, and since you mentioned Bowie, I must say I adored him in Labyrinth! He was awesome as the seductive, evil villain Jareth...I can't imagine anyone else playing that part.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 09:36 PM
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45. David Bowie and Carl Perkins in "Into the Night"
Michelle Pfeifer, Jeff Goldblum, directed by John Landis.
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dryan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 10:58 AM
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46. Actually....
I liked the movie "Into the Night".
Bobby Darin was also a pretty good actor. He was excellent in "Captain Newman MD"
Fabian had potential but bad scripts

Some stinkers....

Lucianno Pavoratti in "Yes, Georgio"
any movie that Liberace made
Eddie Fisher in "Butterfield 8" - stunt casting
Frankie Avalon in "The Alamo"
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puddycat Donating Member (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:41 AM
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51. Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer was good. n/t
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