O.K. 'The threesome with Jon Hamm' video was going NOWHERE...until the Guy in the White Oxford Shirt, finally, shows up! What's happened to my fellow New Yorkers, they all hemmed and hawed and had to ask their husbands. New Yorker's have changed; except for the guy in the white Oxford Shirt! Separately, Burt Reynolds really was (for me), 'one note'. All Reynolds carried around was that 'Stache and a hairy-chest. Jon Hamm has got talent, Emmy nominations and a win, and has been branching out into films, but he's got talent. Not to mention he looks great in Ray-Bans and is swing'n some serious pipe!
Jon Hamm has got talent, Emmy nominations and a win, and has been branching out into films
Burt Reynolds won his Emmy on his first nomination, for the first year of his show "Evening Shade". Hamm finally got his Emmy after his ninth nomination, a consolation prize as "Mad Men" was going off the air. As soon as Hamm gets his first Oscar nomination, he will have finally caught up with Burt Reynolds.
Question: WHO was 'the Burt Reynolds' BEFORE Burt Reynolds?
Before Burt Reynolds, no one was making "Burt Reynolds" pictures, i.e. light comic action films. So, there was no earlier Burt Reynolds; he was an original.
Jon Hamm has got talent, Emmy nominations and a win, and has been branching out into films
Burt Reynolds won his Emmy on his first nomination, for the first year of his show "Evening Shade". Hamm finally got his Emmy after his ninth nomination, a consolation prize as "Mad Men" was going off the air. As soon as Hamm gets his first Oscar nomination, he will have finally caught up with Burt Reynolds.
Is Burt's "Bandit" character an icon like Hamm's Don Draper is? Maybe in "Flyover Country."
I don't think The Bandit is even the most iconic character in his own films, since Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) gets all the yuks in that film series.
Hamm-as-Draper could get more comedic mileage out of one word ("What?") than any of Burt's characters did with their endless cackling.
Jon Hamm is a good actor--and he was magnificent as Don Draper--I just hope he doesn't fritter away his talent on sub-par projects like Reynolds often did.
Reynolds was a supremely likable screen personality on far too many bad and mediocre films, but he could have been one of the all-time greats.
If I were Jon Hamm the last thing I would want was to be pointed toward the career of Burt Reynolds, whose movie career was almost entirely filled with critical and commercial failures. It could be argued his television career on Evening Shade over 98 episodes was far more successful than anything he did in the movies except for Deliverance.
If I were Jon Hamm the last thing I would want was to be pointed toward the career of Burt Reynolds, whose movie career was almost entirely filled with critical and commercial failures. It could be argued his television career on Evening Shade over 98 episodes was far more successful than anything he did in the movies except for Deliverance.
There is no next, no next Gene Hackman, no next Harrison Ford. We are just given one and that's it. Never understood that "the next" or "the new" anyway. I think that started in the 90s and showed how much the new Hollywood breeds milk toasts and toastettes.
The thing with Reynolds is that he was good in comedies (those awful car films of his were not comedies though, they were just celluloid abortions) but he was also completely convincing as a hard edge action star (Malone, Rent a cop, Sharkey's machine). He had the capacity to be a really vicious and unpredictable street fighter. His eyes showed that he had the will and the "mad enough to get bad enough" to go all out, hang the legal consequences. That terrible film with him and Clint Eastwood shows that behind every smile there is a mean demon ready at a moment's notice. That, combined with a self deprecating sense of humour and self relativism , is a rare combination. It requires a past that few, if any, actors have these days. These times breed different actors, and it isn't the Burt Reynolds type.
If I were Jon Hamm the last thing I would want was to be pointed toward the career of Burt Reynolds, whose movie career was almost entirely filled with critical and commercial failures. It could be argued his television career on Evening Shade over 98 episodes was far more successful than anything he did in the movies except for Deliverance.
Many films were terrible but there are a few very very entertaining ones, and I don't give a rat's cahoot whether they are critically acclaimed as that is something that is completely irrelevant to me. When you go to Burt's TV work, go no further than "Hawk". A terrific show with a terrific theme. I so much want a proper DVD-set of that. The cars, the clothes, the buildings, the times: immensely interesting and very photogenic.
alright there D.S but I always find reasons for concern of the taste with people who always disagree with critics, it usually indicates not so much the critics being wrong as your tastes being, shall we say, "adjusted to a low bar"
