Am I the only one that just never "got" Richard Beymer? I mean he stars in one of the biggest, most honored and acclaimed movie musicals in history and well..... he can't sing (all of his singing is dubbed), he can't dance (not that TOny really has to, but PLEASE) and he really can't act and he's sort of ODD-looking to me (that overbite has scared me since childhood). I mean, Natalie Wood is miscast, but at least she's beautiful and was a big star at the time. But, Beymer???? He was so bad here, he never got cast in anything else, despite starring in one of the biggest blockbuster films of that era? How did he land that role over what I assume must have been hundreds of young, more attractive and more talented white male 20-something actors in Hollywood at the time? If Tony doesn't have to be able to sing or dance then why not Warren Beatty or Tab Hunter or George Hamilton or Robert Wagner? Was Beymer sleeping with Robbins or somebody?
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 11/9/04 at 09:35 PM
