50 Actors We'd Watch in Anything

A pretty neat list from EW. It includes the obvious choices like the fabulous Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Hellen Mirren, and Emma Thompsom, but it also has some nice unexpected surprises, including a number of stage actors and up-and-coming TV/movie stars: Mary-Louise Parker, Kristen Bell, Cherry Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Rosario Dawson, Amy Adams, and others.
I disagree with some of their choices like Nathan Fillion, Will Ferrell (ugh), and a few others, especially since the likes of Sally Field, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, Natalie Portman, Matt Damon, and Toni Collette weren't included.

Part I
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20190207,00.html

Part II
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20190294,00.html

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Updated On: 4/20/08 at 04:32 PM

Bet they don't have my choices.

*goes a-hunting for Bruce Campbell, Philip Quast, and Geoffrey Streatfeild*

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Oh, Paul Rudd! I adore him.

I don't know...I kinda liked A Series of Unfortunate Events. But yes, many of his recent movies have been pretty horrible.

I heard he will be playing Robert Ripley in a new movie though, so I'm excited.

I am plesently suprised by some of their choices (Regina King, Joseph Gorden Lovett) but I would have included Reese Witherspoon and Sandra Oh

Blethyn and Collette were not included? How sad.

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True, Sandra Oh should have made the list. I'm just glad they didn't necessarily go for all the big celebrities (Katherine Heigl, Jessica Alba, etc) and actually included a lot of talented people that are not really that well known.
I'm surprised Blanchett wasn't included.

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It's been forever since I've seen Tom Selleck in anything. Is he still at it?

Robert Downey Jr popped into my head first.

and of course, my fave camera-shy 70s counter-culture icon.^^^^^

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Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to see Jane Alexander - one of my all-time favorites - live, for the first time. Someone asked me about the piece I'd be seeing, and I replied, "I've never heard of it - but it doesn't matter, since I'd watch her read the phone book."

Well, the piece turned out to be an embarrassment - complete with the reading of a grocery list (which was singled out by critics as the highlight).

I no longer think there is anyone I would see in anything.

I'm missing Stockard Channing, Vanessa Redgrave, Judi Dench, Toni Colette, and Maggie Smith. What gives?

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I think this list says more about the crap the writers watch than it does about the talent of the actors.

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My 50 actors I’d watch in anything (not in any order):

1. Meryl Streep
2. Judy Garland
3. Bette Davis
4. James Stewart
5. Cate Blanchett
6. Toni Collette
7. Jack Nicholson
8. Johnny Depp
9. Joan Crawford
10. Ethel Barrymore
11. Beaulah Bondi
12. Fay Bainter
13. Guy Kibbee
14. Thomas Mitchell
15. Hattie McDaniel
16. Sandra Oh
17. Peter O’Toole
18. Jane Fonda
19. Norma Shearer
20. Charlie Chaplin
21. Sidney Poitier
22. Doris Day
23. Sally Field
24. Burl Ives
25. Gene Kelly
26. Paul Newman
27. Charlton Heston
28. Fred Astaire
29. Ginger Rogers
30. Deborah Kerr
31. Ann Miller
32. Ethel Merman
33. Daniel Day-Lewis
34. Claudette Colbert
35. Fred MacMurray
36. Barbara Stanwyck
37. Maggie Smith
38. Judi Dench
39. Mildred Natwick
40. Edna May Oliver
41. Alec Guinness
42. Giullietta Mesina
43. Betty Hutton
44. Lon Chaney
45. Emma Thompson
46. Anthony Hopkins
47. Esther Williams
48. Alfre Woodard
49. Patricia Neal
50. Jack Lemmon

Hey, some of mine are dead, but who cares? I stay tuned when I see them in something.

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Coffee is now spewing thru my nostils at the Mos Def comment

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