First and foremost I’ll have to say my favorite celebrity of all time has to be the lovely Lucy Liu. Of coarse she’s a knock out, but I’m not making that statement just because she’s a far out groovy chick, but only because all her movie characters are simply awesome. However, I wasn’t much of a fan of the TV series Ally McBeal, but loved her in “Play it to the Bone, Kill Bill, Charley’s Angles” and was totally blown away with her snake scene in Flypaper. Lucy Liu has that rock star status every time she pops up in any film, even if it just for a few seconds.
The Blues Brothers does indeed top the list of my favorite film of all time, so why not add John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd to my list of favorite celebrities of all time. Both John and Dan had block buster hits apart from one another, but the two comedians from the 70′s Saturday Night Live era together made the best damn piece of film nostalgia ever produced. Just writing about this movie makes me want to see this all over again. On another note, probably the only musical I could ever stomach.
The late David Carradine is a guy who could kick your ass but never brag about it. Playing the humble character as the Sholin Temple monk in the legendary TV series “kung Fu,” he went on to other great films, martial art related and many not. The list is too long for me to write. I would of loved to had seen the never going to be released film “Stretch” that was apparently going to be shot in Bangkok. While on location making that film Carradine was found dead hanging by a rope naked in his Bangkok hotel room’s closet. Rest in peace David Carradine.
Jack Lord, or Detective Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-0 was most definitely the best cop ever portrayed on American television. Lord played the classy swift detective that so many tried to imitate but never duplicated. The show always gave me a tropical Hawaiian crime fighting flavor from the beginning to end with that kick ass theme song. The show aired twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980. They just don’t make Television like they did back then, and Hawaii Five-0 was the best of its time.
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Michael Richards, AKA Cosmo Kramer has to fall somewhere on my list of Hollywood favorites. Although I’ll admit I never really focused on his career outside of Seinfeld, no less Kramer was truly a hilarious class act. Many would agree that it would be very difficult for Richards to achieve main stream success again. In 2006 Richards made some extreme racial remarks on stage after being heckled by two African American men. Despite the racial slurs Richards made, it still doesn’t stop me from watching Seinfeld reruns and laughing my ass off at Kramer. At any rate Michael “Kramer” Richards is truly an original funny guy.