Category:Actors

1. – Guy Marchand, Loulou, France, 1980. For yet another wannabe-Cassavetes slice of the obnoxious realisateur Maurice Pialat’s life, the auteur had trouble enough casting himself, aka Loulou. Ditto for André, whose wife Loulou steals. The (weak) singer-actor Alain Souchon was one (weak) idea – having debuted that year in Je vous aime by Pialat’s …
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Nicholas Hammond, The Sound of Music, 1964.       Four of The Osmonds’ family singing group –  Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne – tested for Friedrich of the Von Trapp family singing group.  Brothers as brothers, it made sense.  On paper.   Duane Chase, The Sound of Music, 1964.     The Mormon brothers  also …
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Linda Fiorentino, Dogma, 1999.      Said Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers: Thou shalt not stop laughing//. As New Jersey’s askew auteur Kevin Smith explained many times: not casting his ex-lover, Joy Lauren Adams, as the descendent of Mary and Joseph was a major error. There were days when Linda wouldn’t even talk to him. …
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