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Slow tv night, we pulled up Monuments Men to watch in lieu of a baseball game....anybody else a Bob Balaban fan? Discuss his other roles from Miami Vice to Gosford Park and......as with other times I’m sure I’ll pickup some more viewing suggestions. Bill Gullette | ||
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I never thought of Balaban as someone who'd have fans, more of a character actor. I see him in something and I think Russell Dalrymple from "Seinfeld". I'll give him credit for being, well, kinda brave to basically start his big screen career with his "Midnight Cowboy" role. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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Close Encounters is the role I always think of when I see him. Followed by 2010. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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The only thing I really remember him from is Absence Of Malice. I enjoyed seeing him getting handing his walking papers at the end. Not a likeable character at all, but he did a good job of it. | |||
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Great in Best in Show. __________________ "Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." -Jeff Cooper | |||
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Bob Balaban's family were pioneers in the movie theater industry. Anyone remember him in Altered States? | |||
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He's a guy you always like to see in a movie. He always turns in a good, solid performance as a character actor. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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My favorite roles of his is probably Thora Birch's dad in Ghost World and his appearance in Wes Anderson movies like Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel. | |||
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Absense of Malice was the one I remember | |||
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He likes Pasta Primavera. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Gosford Park. He more than held his own when you consider some of the real heavyweights in that cast. Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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I like him in the 1989 film Dead Bang as the hapless Parole Officer. Yes, Altered States. I re-watched it recently and enjoyed his work in it. | |||
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