Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Round 1 - Part 1/2 (Polls 1-99)
Round 1 (All Polls)
Ted Bessell Vs. Dick Van Dyke
Jonathan Frid Vs. William Hartnell
Claude Rains Vs. William Hopper
Eric Idle Vs. Peter Tork
Henry Winkler Vs. Tom Smothers
Martin Kove Vs. Tom Selleck
Jeff Conaway Vs. John de Lancie
Dave Foley Vs. Michael J. Fox
David Hyde Pierce Vs. Tony Shalhoub
Jason Bateman Vs. Rob Lowe
Ted Cassidy Vs. Boris Karloff
Eddie Albert Vs. Russell Johnson
Bobby Sherman Vs. Micky Dolenz
Robin Williams Vs. Fred Grandy
Kevin Smith Vs. Bruce Campbell
Brad Dourif Vs. LeVar Burton
Seth Green Vs. Brandon Quinn
Matthew Perry Vs. Tim Daly
Mike Farrell Vs. Judd Hirsch
Matt Bomer Vs. Timothy Olyphant
Larry Hagman Vs. Kent McCord
Fred Rogers Vs. Bobby Troup
David Cassidy Vs. Luke Halpin
George Takei Vs. Richard Hatch
Ricardo Montalban Vs. John Forsythe
Richard Dean Anderson Vs. Bruce Willis
Anthony Head Vs. Paul McGann
Thorsten Kaye Vs. Michael Horse
Darren E. Burrows Vs. Dana Ashbrook
Adam Brody Vs. Milo Ventimiglia
Adam West Vs. Richard Chamberlain
Randy Boone Vs. Dean Butler
Clint Walker Vs. George Maharis
Erik Estrada Vs. Paul Michael Glaser
Billy Dee Williams Vs. Rock Hudson
Ted Danson Vs. Jameson Parker
Sylvester McCoy Vs. Armin Shimerman
Joe Lando Vs. Spencer Rochfort
Ben Browder Vs. Keith Hamilton Cobb
Richard Ayoade Vs. Kevin McDonald
Patrick McGoohan Vs. Robert Vaughn
Chad Everett Vs. DeForest Kelley
Jon Pertwee Vs. Mark Lenard
Darren McGavin Vs. Peter Falk
Terry Jones Vs. Alan Alda
Michael Tylo Vs. Timothy Dalton
Sean Bean Vs. Valentine Pelka
Ioan Gruffudd Vs. Colin Firth
David Tennant Vs. Robert Carlyle
Jason Priestley Vs. Tom Welling
Martin Milner Vs. James Garner
David Soul Vs. Lee Majors
Derek Jacobi Vs. Andrew Robinson
David Hasselhoff Vs. Stephen Nichols
Jimmy Smits Vs. Hal Linden
Brent Spiner Vs. Ted Raimi
Patrick Troughton Vs. Andreas Katsulas
Miguel Ferrer Vs. Mitch Pileggi
David James Elliot Vs. Andre Braugher
Blair Underwood Vs. Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Don Adams Vs. Cesar Romero
Bob Crane Vs. John Astin
Walter Koenig Vs. Davy Jones
Tom Baker Vs. Jamie Farr
Woody Harrelson Vs. John Schneider
John Goodman Vs. Joseph Marcell
Danny John-Jules Vs. Marc Alaimo
Michael Praed Vs. Kevin Sorbo
Mark McKinney Vs. Colm Meaney
Neil Patrick Harris Vs. David Schwimmer
James Arness Vs. Robert Fuller
Clint Eastwood Vs. Robert Conrad
Jonathan Frakes Vs. Michael Hurst
David Duchovny Vs. Michael T. Weiss
Luke Perry Vs. Jeremy Sisto
Matt LeBlanc Vs. John Stamos
Reece Shearsmith Vs. Alexander Siddig
Eric Close Vs. William Shockley
Daniel Dae Kim Vs. Robert Beltran
Scott Cohen Vs. Scott Patterson
Dick Gautier Vs. Michael Landon
Wayne Rogers Vs. Alejandro Rey
Gerald McRaney Vs. Robert Wagner
Simon Williams Vs. John Cleese
Brian Blessed Vs. James Earl Jones
Noah Wyle Vs. Kyle MacLachlan
James Marsters Vs. Paul Gross
Paolo Montalban Vs. Robert Duncan McNeill
Garrett Wang Vs. Nate Richert
Christian Kane Vs. Michael Vartan
David McCallum Vs. David Selby
Leonard Nimoy Vs. Colin Baker
Randolph Mantooth Vs. Michael Nesmith
Demond Wilson Vs. Tony Danza
Ron Perlman Vs. Mr. T
Ron Glass Vs. Dirk Benedict
John Shea Vs. Michael Ontkean
Jeffrey Combs Vs. Rowan Atkinson
Tim Russ Vs. Bruce Boxleitner
Round 1 Polls 100 - 128
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
“I love you, and... you don't pay me.”
Everyone is always talking about Kurt Cobain, but as far as I’m concerned, another icon of the nineties that died too young is just as tragic: River Phoenix was born, showed a brilliant, seemingly unforced natural talent in films like 'Stand By Me', 'Running On Empty' and especially this one 'My Own Private Idaho', he took drugs and died.
He was barely 23 when, after an overdose, he collapsed in Johnny Depp's nightclub, The Viper Room. A few days later, a photographer broke into the morgue to take a picture of him, which was then swapped for $ 5,000 to The National Enquirer.
'My Own Private Idaho' is probably his best film. Gus Van Sant, who had just gained a bit of commercial credibility with 'Drugstore Cowboy', made this film in 1991 a daring mix of road movie and love story, about homosexuality and a desperate nostalgic longing for youth. And although the motto of the film is "wherever, whatever, have a nice day", it’s also all based on Shakespeare.
Phoenix plays Mike Waters, a young gay hustler who suffers from narcolepsy and never knew his mother a fact that he carries with him everywhere. One of his best friends is Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), the son of the mayor who rebels against his privileged background by selling himself.
They are both parts of the street gang of Bob Pigeon (William Richert), an eloquent petty thief who collects the lost youth of Portland as a private army. After a traumatizing visit to his father, Mike decides to find his mother together with Scott, a search that will lead them along endless American highways, all slightly different from the others, and will even lead them to Rome.
What’s most striking about 'My Own Private Idaho' is the almost surrealistic atmosphere that Van Sant is able to capture in the film. Mike is narcoleptic, and the whole film is viewed from his sleep drunken state.
We are constantly in a state somewhere between dream and reality, in which people look bizarre without being able to pinpoint why and in which voices sound distorted, without being able to say what exactly it is that’s wrong with them. It's reality, but then also... different.
To achieve that astonishing effect, Van Sant uses a true arsenal of cinematic tricks. Whenever Mike is about to fall asleep, we get a shot of fish swimming against the current and blue skies with a few milky white clouds.
Not because there is a rational reason to use these shots, but simply because they convey the appropriate atmosphere. When Bob appears in the film, the dialogues suddenly turn into a sort of 20th century version of Shakespeare's English (We are minions of the moon!), With all theatrical effects that come with it, including characters who suddenly go into a whole monologue about how they’re feeling and what they’re going to do.
We get absurd interludes, like a German customer of Mike and Scott. Who keeps a lamp under his face to sing a song for them. Sex scenes are in turn portrayed as tableaux vivants: sequences of static shots in which the actors do n’t. No still images, but just literally the actors who try not to move as long as the shot lasts.
And that's how it goes: Van Sant throws in all those effects and more to keep the tone of his film on a certain wavelength. This is what the world looks like to Mike, almost a child still who is obliged to behave like an adult, and consequently walks around in a somewhat dazed manner: is this my life? How did that happen?
The theme of the film is not surprisingly innovative in itself: we get one boy who doesn’ really know his parents and goes to look for them, and another one who often fitting with adolescence, loathes them and runs away from them as far as possible.
The difference, of course, is that Scott, when it comes down to it can always fall back on Dad's money, while Mike goes through life without a safety net, traveling from one highway to another. That’s why the support and friendship that they find together is probably doomed to end in a disappointment.
'My Own Private Idaho' is a film that happily ignores reality to do something more interesting: Van Sant crawls into Mike's head and then begins to build his story, he starts from the distortions of reality that take place between Mike's ears, and the result is a unique film.
Literally: I have never seen another film that did exactly the same thing, gave exactly the same feeling as this one. The whole thing is made up of the depressing, muted gray colors of rainy Saturday mornings. You feel the wind blowing in your ears and the damp air sticking to your face.
Add to that the performances: here Phoenix creates a character that has remained innocent in a corrupt environment, always sleepy, actually still a child, and yet with a sharp mind.
Keanu Reeves also does an excellent job. 'My Own Private Idaho' came out around the same period as 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' (where he got his dude reputation) and 'Point Break'. My Own Private Idaho shows, that contrary to what’s sometimes believed, Reeves actually can act, with a varying emotional degree.
Set on the groovy rhythm of a not entirely unpleasant daydream,... Have a nice day.
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The Gizmos, Mk I
The first lineup of the Gizmos was fertilized in the rich compost of the 1970s fanzine landscape. Ken Highland, eventual Gizmos guitarist, had edited the zines Trash and Rock On! while living in Brockport, New York, and developed a loyal readership in other parts of the country that included future Gizmos singer Eddie Flowers, who was himself writing about the antics of the fictional band Heavy Mother for the Teenage Wasteland Gazette, and the members of a band called Cerberus, based in Highland, Indiana. If you refer back to the set of demos I just posted, there’s a song about the life of a young and popular fanzine editor that begins about halfway through.
Around the time that he went to visit Cerberus in Indiana, Ken connected with Bob Richert, a Bloomington scenester who was at the time writing a fanzine called Beyond Our Control. He recruited Ken and Eddie to write for his new project a magazine called Gulcher, that would later transform into the record label that released the Gizmos’ early recordings. Ken and Eddie began writing their own songs and planned to record them with the members of Cerberus, plus Ted Niemiec and Davey Matlock, both students at the local university. Their, uh, studies are memorialized in one of the songs from the first EP that I am, as with much of the early Gizmos material, hesitant to type out in full on tumblr dot com in 2019. Here is a link to the first EP; Willkie South is or was a college dorm.
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