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Fri 22 Nov, 2002 11:06 am
This question started as a coffeehouse conversation...my friends and I were trying to figure out if any stars of today will be remembered in years to come? In other words, who will reach icon status like Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart? Only ones we could think of are Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington....
What do people here think?
Lorn
Hate to say it, but probably Tom Cruise (and I think he's a lousy actor, BTW), mainly because he's a pretty boy and he seems to be everywhere - much like Errol Flynn.
Another candidate, far more serious in my estimation, is Dustin Hoffman. I rank him with Jack Lemmon.
Hey, No one has mentioned any women actors. How about Meryl Streep?
Phoenix, i was thinking of her as well, and Sigourney Weaver, and Kathleen Turner, and Jodie Foster . . .
Among the men, no one has mentioned Anthony Hopkins . . .
How could anyone forget Elizabeth Taylor?
:wink:
I'd certainly like to . . .
Sean Connery
Al Pacino
Julia Roberts
Sentanta- You probably never saw many films of Liz' when she was in her heyday. She was a magnificent actress (and probably the one with the most longevity) in her time!
There's some being mentioned here who are already qualified as Hollywood icons like Al Pacino who are not from the Hollywood Golden Age.
Maybe the cut-off should be the new stars of the last twenty years.
Gwenyth Paltrow
..... I thought she was great in 'Shallow Hal', along with everything else she's done....
Phoenix, her American Velvet performance would have sent diabetics into insulin shock . . . she looked pretty good in that white bathing suit in that other early movie--but really, to me she was always overweight, and i never liked her personality, either in the roles she played (which does mark her down as a competent actress) nor in her encounters with the public. It's just one of those things, Boss, sometimes you meet someone, and immediately dislike them . . .
Yeah, National Velvet, that was the one . . . i coulda puked . . .
As for that pic: gag, gag, choke . . .
Cool Phoenix, Maggie the Cat.
Here ya go, Ladies . . . here's ol' Lizzie at present:
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