Thursday, June 14, 2007

The art of the cameo


Film Babble has a post today listing "20 Great Modern Movie Cameos," which is a great idea in and of itself, but qualifying it as "modern" is definitely a must. The cameo is a fairly recent innovation, in part because today actors, directors, athletes, and celebrities in general are more apt to pop up in the films of others as a favor, for the money, or merely to revive a stalled career.

Their top choice: David Letterman in 1994's Cabin Boy. Interesting. We'd have gone with Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts in Robert Altman's The Player, but that film was so stuffed with cameos it almost feels like a copout. Whatever. It's almost quitting time and we had fish tacos for lunch. We're dying.

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