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I'm assuming AFI set their criteria that way because most of them ARE giant stans of classic Hollywood. But I imagine they justified it by saying they were looking for "stars" with an established body of work and a legacy that has stood the test of time. There's nothing Elizabeth Taylor was going to do in her waning years that would negate her "star" legacy, but what if they picked some multiple Oscar winner in their late forties, and then that person has a late life conversion and becomes a born-again right wing extremist who only makes shitty religious propaganda films for the next two decades? Or imagine Cosby had been more actor than comedian and then one of their choices turns out or be a serial rapist? Nobody on this list is perfect, but I think reputation and character plays a role in selection as well. Nothing too egregious.
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
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Lol, unimaginable! Like the guy who sold us pudding pops for all those years is some kind of monster. Next you'll be telling us Max actually is "Mad" or something. Haha good one.
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AFI top stars, #11:
Female: Barbara Stanwyck
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Barbara_Stanwyck_-_early_still.JPG/150px-Barbara_Stanwyck_-_early_still.JPG)
Male: Gary Cooper
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Female: Barbara Stanwyck
Male: Gary Cooper
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Gary_Cooper_%281952%29.jpg/150px-Gary_Cooper_%281952%29.jpg)
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So sick.
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AFI top stars, #10:
Female: Joan Crawford
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Joan_Crawford_-_1936_-_Hurrell.JPG/151px-Joan_Crawford_-_1936_-_Hurrell.JPG)
Male: Charlie Chaplin
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Female: Joan Crawford
Male: Charlie Chaplin
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I'm surprised Jon Stewart qualified.
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AFI top stars, #9:
Female: Marlene Dietrich
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Male: Spencer Tracy
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Female: Marlene Dietrich
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Male: Spencer Tracy
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Watched some of Adam's Rib tonight -- Spencer Tracy was often paired with his amore Katherine Hepburn, but Hepburn always outshines him, as she was one of the great greats. But this watch I enjoyed a bit of his acting work, he holds his own, and he really gets quiet grumpiness down, aka I see a lot of me in him. ![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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AFI top stars, #8:
Female: Judy Garland
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Male: James Cagney
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Female: Judy Garland
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Male: James Cagney
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/James_cagney_promo_photo.jpg/150px-James_cagney_promo_photo.jpg)
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Watched "Meet Me in St Louis" over the weekend -- never seen such St. Louis propaganda. Judy so good tho.
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St. Louis propaganda. Classic St. Louis.
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AFI top stars, #7:
Female: Elizabeth Taylor
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Studio_publicity_Elizabeth_Taylor.jpg/150px-Studio_publicity_Elizabeth_Taylor.jpg)
Male: Clark Gable
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Female: Elizabeth Taylor
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Male: Clark Gable
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St. Louis invented peanut butter.
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AFI top stars, #6:
Female: Marilyn Monroe
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Monroe_1953_publicity.jpg/151px-Monroe_1953_publicity.jpg)
Male: Henry Fonda
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Female: Marilyn Monroe
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Male: Henry Fonda
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Henry_Fonda%2C_1940.jpg/150px-Henry_Fonda%2C_1940.jpg)
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St. Louis is the only city in the continental US to win both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize for Economics in the same year.
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AFI top stars, #5:
Female: Greta Garbo
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Male: Fred Astaire
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Female: Greta Garbo
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Male: Fred Astaire
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Still so sick.
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AFI top stars, #4:
Female: Ingrid Bergman
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Male: Marlon Brando
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Female: Ingrid Bergman
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Male: Marlon Brando
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AFI top stars, #3:
Female: Audrey Hepburn
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Male: James Stewart
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Female: Audrey Hepburn
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Male: James Stewart
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St. Louis solved the AGORA Wordle in two.
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Who is that, Nelly?
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St. Louis wrote and directed the pilot episodes of ER, St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues.
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AFI top stars, #2:
Female: Bette Davis
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/BETTEDavis_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-BETTEDavis_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Male: Cary Grant
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Female: Bette Davis
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Male: Cary Grant
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My favorite actor! I love Cary St Louis....
Nooooooooooo!!!!!
Nooooooooooo!!!!!
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St. Louis taught me to love again.
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
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St. Louis created the character of Miles Morales Spider-Man.
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AFI top stars, #1:
Female: Katharine Hepburn
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Katharine_Hepburn_promo_pic.jpg/100px-Katharine_Hepburn_promo_pic.jpg)
Male: Humphrey Bogart
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Female: Katharine Hepburn
![Image](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Katharine_Hepburn_promo_pic.jpg/100px-Katharine_Hepburn_promo_pic.jpg)
Male: Humphrey Bogart
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AFI top 50 movie villains (this was done in 2003, so if there are any spoilers, it's your fault for waiting this long), #50:
Detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), Training Day, 2001
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Detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), Training Day, 2001
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The Other Guys is actually a biopic based on the life of St. Louis. Will Ferrell played it in the movie.
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #49:
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe, voiced by Michael Collins), Goldfinger, 1964
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Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe, voiced by Michael Collins), Goldfinger, 1964
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #48:
Roger "Verbal" Kint / Keyser Söze (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995
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Roger "Verbal" Kint / Keyser Söze (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995
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Awful villain. But I guess the character he played was fine.
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Good morning!
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #47:
Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), Scarface, 1932
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Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), Scarface, 1932
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Pete's Top 36 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai #26
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The tree is fun. So is making mount Fuji the lowest and smallest hill! Like the guy on the horizon but everything else in the foreground is a bit forgetable.
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The tree is fun. So is making mount Fuji the lowest and smallest hill! Like the guy on the horizon but everything else in the foreground is a bit forgetable.
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #46:
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Die Hard, 1988
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Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Die Hard, 1988
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #45:
The Joker (Jack Nicholson), Batman, 1989
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The Joker (Jack Nicholson), Batman, 1989
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Are we going to have multiple Jokers and multiple Jack Nicholson villains?
Because this might be his number three best or ... Edited to add... by my account he has at least half a dozen and maybe seven or eight villains that are better than his joker!!!! And he's definitely not the best Joker? What?
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Because this might be his number three best or ... Edited to add... by my account he has at least half a dozen and maybe seven or eight villains that are better than his joker!!!! And he's definitely not the best Joker? What?
This list has self-destructed.
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I completely agree. I've actually never understood the love for Nicholson's Joker. Tim Burton's Joker was over-the-top cartoonish, and was amazingly over-acted. But it fell short for me, even at the time, because i couldn't ever NOT know that I was watching Jack Nicholson in Cesar Romero's makeup.Phoebe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:57 pm Are we going to have multiple Jokers and multiple Jack Nicholson villains?
Because this might be his number three best or ... Edited to add... by my account he has at least half a dozen and maybe seven or eight villains that are better than his joker!!!! And he's definitely not the best Joker? What?
This list has self-destructed.
Any time the solution is "banjo rifle", I'm in 100%.
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I rewatched the original about a year ago. Nicholson's Joker is brilliant. It's truly an amazing performance. It's also my favorite Joker. Heath Ledger was also amazing. But Nicholson's Joker is the best one.Mike wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:16 pmI completely agree. I've actually never understood the love for Nicholson's Joker. Tim Burton's Joker was over-the-top cartoonish, and was amazingly over-acted. But it fell short for me, even at the time, because i couldn't ever NOT know that I was watching Jack Nicholson in Cesar Romero's makeup.Phoebe wrote: ↑Mon Feb 21, 2022 1:57 pm Are we going to have multiple Jokers and multiple Jack Nicholson villains?
Because this might be his number three best or ... Edited to add... by my account he has at least half a dozen and maybe seven or eight villains that are better than his joker!!!! And he's definitely not the best Joker? What?
This list has self-destructed.
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Again, this list is from June 2003, so I'm guessing it's going to miss a lot of Batman remakes and pretty much all of the Marvel Universe stuff. This will be the only Joker in the list, but it's not the only Nicholson in the list.
AFI top 50 movie villains, #44:
Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #44:
Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962
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It is officially against the rules to post this in the "deathless" thread!!
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"Deathless" is a word Morrissey puts in like every song.
Tell the Queen I'm deathless, deathless,
and ruthless with a tie and a unwrapped lettuce head
Tell my mum I'm deathless, hopeless,
Keep a million skinny white lads buttered on the ground,
smothered in the Union Jack like my flat mate Tim
oh how I can't stand him
but not as much as
no not as much as her
Tell the Queen I'm deathless, deathless,
and ruthless with a tie and a unwrapped lettuce head
Tell my mum I'm deathless, hopeless,
Keep a million skinny white lads buttered on the ground,
smothered in the Union Jack like my flat mate Tim
oh how I can't stand him
but not as much as
no not as much as her
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AFI top 50 movie villains, #43:
Regina Giddens (Bette Davis), The Little Foxes, 1941
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Regina Giddens (Bette Davis), The Little Foxes, 1941
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