Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

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Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 7:52am

Ever see a movie and see perhaps the most unexplainable celebrity cameo?

As in you have absolutely no idea why the celebrity is cameoing?

My pick would have to be a tie between Lemony Snicket in which it seems as if Dustin Hoffman was just walking along and they asked him if he wanted to be in a movie.

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Jason Schwartzman's 2 second performance in Hitchhiker's in which he says "Zaphod is a guy..." in a strange accent before the film moves on. What the hell, man?

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 7:55am

Melissa Joan Heart in Not Another Teen Movie was pretty random!

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:25am

Nah MJH was totally appropriate. They kept putting stars from the movies they were spoofing in as cameos to add to the humor. Like at the end with Molly Ringwald. It was priceless. I love it.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:30am

Dustin Hoffman in Lemony Snicket was one that I can't explain.

Also, Bette Midler in What Women Want was a big surprise. If she had a bigger role in that movie, it could have been her best performance in years.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 9:48am

Jodie Foster in A Very Long Engagement speaking all her dialogue in French threw me for a loop. Have they run out of French actresses?

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 10:55am

How about Gary Shandling in Zoolander or Glenn Close in HOOK.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 10:57am

I'm going to vote for Jerry Lewis in IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 10:59am

Cher: Stuck on you. I still can't forgive her.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 12:05pm

Mel Gibson in THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 12:09pm

al sharpton in spelling bee @ the tonys. not a movie--but could have been TITANIC.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 12:14pm

Madonna on WILL AND GRACE. Did they really need her for that role? Her performance was completely amateurish. I cringed through the entire thing.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 12:17pm

Ted Danson in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN..it's like, "What the hell's SAM doing here???"

Naomi Campbell in GIRL 6...although the Madonna cameo is actually one of her better perfs.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 12:41pm

I agree with you on Madonna in Girl 6. She was pretty good.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 4:03pm

Madonna in that last James Bond movie - absolutely horrendous.

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re: Most Inexplicable Celebrity Cameo?

Posted: 9/21/05 at 5:12pm

This goes considerably further back, but what the hell was Marlene Dietrich doing in Touch of Evil as a Mexican?