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quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Although technically Abbott & Costello were not characters, but comedians who played various characters.
quote:Originally posted by Malvolio: And Laurel and Hardy were also real people, just like Abbott and Costello.
Yes and no. By all accounts I've ever read, their real-life persons were nothing like their on-screen ones. While this might be true of almost any celeb, these combos in particular consistently played the same on-screen roles.
Also, I do recall other playing (or rather trying to play) Abbott and Costello. SCTV of the late 70s comes to mind.
But rather than quibble, I suggest we stay away from this line, and I apologize for delving into it. I'd rather not see us getting into casting David Letterman (for example, whose over-the-top show personality seems to be very different than when he's himself) or even Stephen Colbert (who never seems to 'break character').
So no more real (or 'real') actors, unless someone actually has played them (Robert Downey Jr.'s Charlie Chaplin, for instance) in a well-known performance (in which case, it might not be a bad idea to cite such performance, as we sometimes note a movie/TV show a character comes from).
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BTW, aside to cleome, no offense, but let's keep the editorializing on film choices out of this thread please? (I'll gladly debate you in a separate thread, though)
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Maurice Chevalier
Next Gigi
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Richard Anderson
Next: Oscar Goldman ( The Bionic Woman -- original version)
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-------------------- The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Adam Arkin
Next: Mrs. Howell
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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David Boreanaz
Next: Roseanne
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Jill Hennessey
Next: Claire Kincaid ( Law & Order - original series )
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