There’s discussion over at Mig’s Daily Dirt about a Bobby Fischer movie and who should star as the man. Tobey Maguire not well received there; Josh Lucas and Ryan Gosling both put forward as better suggestions for looks and/or ability.
More interesting: What would be the WORST choice for playing Bobby? Remember, Bobby was tall, intense, moody, dashing, charming at times, and incipient-crazy.
So, for starters:
- Sylvester Stallone
- Kevin James
- Leslie David Baker (Stanley Hudson from The Office)
- Charlene Tilton* (*I make one Charlene Tilton joke per year because Matt P laughed at the first one.)
Your nominees?
UPDATE: Matt wins, both for ingenuity and for exceptional photo editing skill.
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Har! Thanks for that.
Arnold Schwarzeneger (After Spassky-Fischer, Siegen 1970, “I’ll be baaaack.”)
Clint Howard
Brian Dennehey
Paul Giamatti
-Matt
Clint Howard – genius.
Gary Busey!
Clint Howard! ROFL…have to have Ron Howard on board as director then!
I humbly submit one Danny Devito.
Devito, nice – a bad choice for almost every role! (Martin Weir and Louie DePalma excepted.)
Tony Danza
Ice-T
Carmen Electra
Gary Coleman
Brett Favre
Clint Howard wins the thread. I’m not even going to try to top that.
All horrible. Well done.
Ooh, ooh, DJ Lance, in character!
Clint Howard can at least act. I’d rather see him than Chuck Norris
I think a fascinating choice might be Sacha Baron Cohen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yAhz1CK9BiNtsN1qaUjWIg?authkey=Gv1sRgCPqYnZ3Uo6CCGw&feat=directlink
HAHAHA!!! The Clint Howard “My 60 Memorable Games” cover is priceless!
Sacha Baron Cohen…inspired! Yeah, I think so too.
@regondi: You say that Clint Howard can act, but he was also in “Santa With Muscles” and “Leprechaun 2”. That’s the kind of thing that will haunt him forever.
@Matt: Brillant!
Egg – Santa with Muscles? Your knowledge of bad movies is truly impressive.
R&R – Sacha Baron Cohen would certainly make it interesting. For that matter, who likes playing crazy more than Johnny Depp?