Can We Talk 2

My Favorite Actors

         It's impossible to make a short list. Near the top is Gregory Peck. He could make any role classy, a criminal, a cowboy, a parent, even the devil himself. Chrleton Heston; I never saw a movie with him that I didn't like. And he was a big man! Cary Grant was always good, and excelled in city boy roles; he would never have been able to play a mountain man or a cowboy. Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe, two very different ladies, but both skilled at what they did.

         Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones (used to be crazy about him), Katherine Hepburn, and Cissy Spacek are all people that I will stay up late to watch in reruns. Glen Ford was a good actor; you don't think of him as a western actor, but 50 of his 99 movies were westerns. I also like to watch Richard Widmark.

         There's a lot of supporting actors that I like and will watch repeatedly. Jack Elam, for instance, the one eyed man who played funny roles as well as evil ones. Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, L Q Jones, Edgar Buchanan (think Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction) Many were on TV shows as well as movies. All of the original Star Trek actors were in westerns. James Drury and Clu Gulager played major roles on TV and supporting ones in movies. They're both still around with plenty of female followers and admirers.

         Of the younger set, I admit I like Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reaves, and Ryan Gosling. I have to remind myself I'm too old to have crushes on them. I love watching movies, so I like most anyone who can act convincingly. Just because I don't name them on my short list doesn't mean that I don't idolize them.