Cher

It’s got to be Bowie hasn’t it, he’s fab

“Your jokes are disrespectful.”

Then don’t read them.

supersonic | 11/20/2007, 4:23 am EST

“be careful of what i say? oooo, this sounds threatening!”

Your jokes are disrespectful.

be careful of what i say? oooo, this sounds threatening!

i got a better idea, why don’t we have his remains cremated and his ashes can be put into pepper shakers in restaurants all over seattle!

supersonic | 11/17/2007, 8:51 pm EST

“c’mon, what’s the big deal?
he’s dead; he’s not gonna feel anything!”

That’s what you think. Be careful of what you say.

Vanessa Williams(in addition, one of the most remarkable light skinned honeys ever, and not to get twisted with the OTHER Ms. Williams)

DMX

PATRICK SWAYZE! In addition to his hit song “She’s Like The Wind,” he also acted

bob geldof is not my favourite musician, but he’s doing rather well in pink floyd’s “The Wall”

Levon Helm–Coal Miner’s Daughter and The Right Stuff. And he’s not so bad at his day gig.

How about Stephen Jenkins’ (Third Eye Blind) cameo as the lead singer of the rival metal cover band opposite Mark Wahlberg in “Rock Star”?

Robbie Robertson in “The Crossing Guard,” getting put in a headlock by Jack Nicholson. Justifiable on so many levels…

Kristofferson is very good. Bowie and Yoakam are also good.
I know its a “rock” magazine, but Tim McGraw is actually not bad and hasn’t been mentioned once. (Friday Night Lights).
And Dolly Parton, 9 to 5 baby.
Tupac was actually very good, too.

Ice-T in Law And Order SVU.
And Maybe Bruno, you know, Bruce Willis.

Iggy Pop-Cry Baby
Jack Black-in anything
Flea-My Own Private Idaho, The Big Lebowski
nothing better than a German Nihilist who likes pancakes…played by Flea

Tom Waits (Short Cuts)
David Bowie (Hunger, Man who Fell .. ,Prestige)
Björk (Dancer in the Dark)

On the worst list of -/slash/-actors:

Prince
Ma donna
Michael Jackson

Richard Simmons- Sweatin to the Oldies.
Shaquile O’Neal- Blue Chips.
Don Johnson- Miami Vice.
Andy Griffith- No Time for Sargents.
Robert Goulet- Follow That Bird.
Ed Norton- Rounders

sting: Lock stock and two smoking barrels
mos def: 16 blocks, italian job etc

kristofferson without a doubt

harpo & chico marx, anyone?

david bowie from the rock era, no doubt.

but no one comes close to sinatra in “manchurian candidate”, “from here to eternity” & “man with the golden gun.”

then i would have to say fred astaire, judy garland, levon helm & steve van zandt.

KISS, lol

but seriously, Bowie, Jack Black are my favorites

Ringo Starr was the best actor out of all The Beatles

Ringo Starr was the best actor out of all The Beatles

Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.

Billy Ray Cyrus in Mulholland Drive.

Iggy Pop in Dead Man

Stevie Wonder on Saturday Night Live playing a Stevie Wonder impersonator with Eddie Murphy

Jack Black
Jack White (the preview for walk hard with him as elvis looks hilarious)
Mos Def
Will Smith (not a good musician but a great actor in the Pursuit of Happyness)
Kieth Richards (if it wasnt for him I would have asked for my money back in Pirates 3

Can’t really argue with that list. David Bowie is usually pretty good in anything he’s cast in. Bowie finds a way to meld his musical eccentricities into his acting (The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Prestige.) The same for Tom Waits. He’s brilliant in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I generally enjoy watching Iggy Pop in anything (Coffee and Cigarettes) and love Willie Nelson in Half-Baked and Wag the Dog.

Flea - Back to the Future Pt. II

Sinatra hands down number one… Will Smith is a better actor than singer… Kristofferson not too shabby… Beatles… NOT Elvis… NOT any of the rappers besides Smith and LL Cool J… NOT

mos def-something the lord made

Levon Helm - Coalminer’s Daughter and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Dwight Yokam - Sling Blade

Mos Def - The Woodsman

Queen Latifah

JACK WHITE

WILL SMITH

Tupac
Ice Cube
David Bowie (Iwas so scared of the labrynth my friends would lock me in a room and play the soundtrack)
Tupac in jucie is hard though.
Ice cube in boyz in the hood not to mention how funny friday is!

Jack White(acts nd sings civil war a tunes in Cold Mountain…can’t wait to see him as Elvis)

Jack Black(come on…his rendition of ‘Let’s Get It On’ in High Fidelity, not to mention the overlooked,’Tommy’ influened gem ‘The Pick Of Destiny’…don’t hate on comedy)

RHCP in everyday life. They act like they have talent but we know better.

Keith Moon

Dave Matthews

Sting

Roger Daltrey

My Favorites are Dwight Yokum, Chris Isaak, Levon Helm, David Bowie, David Johansen and Elvis.

DAVID CASSIDY (yes, he was a musician before an actor)

Two more that haven’t been mentioned yet.

Bing Crosby

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Mick Jagger in Ned Kelly

Performance and Freejack

Glen Campbell. He couldn’t act worth a shit, though.

Olivia Newton John in Grease

Bobby Darrin

Dean Martin

re:Tattoo U | 11/16/2007, 3:41 pm EST

“Anthony Kedis and Flea in Point Break

Fuckin reconize!!!”

Yeah, you’re right; they should’ve been nominated for Oscars! You should try to hook up with the one who thinks “The Chase” was a great movie.

Back to reality, how about Frank Sinatra?

will smith
flea
alicia keys

No you fuckin’ idiots! That wasn’t Bjork in the “Dancing in The Dark” video, that was the chick from “Friends”! How can you confuse the two, they don’t look anything like each other.

I do like the bear in the “Human Behavior” video, though.

a lot of musician/actors are only good at making music or acting but not both. bjork is excellent at both. i wish dancer in the dark hadn’t been such a bad experience for her because she would have been awesome in the science of sleep. actually, though, charlotte gainsbourg is also a good musician and actress. carrie brownstein has done a couple of online things with fred armisen. she’s pretty funny and one of the best guitarists ever, so maybe she will become another good example.

Phil Collins in Buster.

Ice-T in New Jack City

mee tooo. i love dave matthews as much as sunshine, lemonade and a smile and a wave from a sweet souled senior citizen. gush!

dave matthews in because of winn dixie and in where the red ferns grow .

Bono in Born Into This

Tom Waits in Born Into This

sting–who played an excellent ace-face in the who’s quadrophenia in england while simultaneously touring in america. even though ace-face was a jerk you love to hate him

The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton in Sgt. Peppers. If they had given it a different title, it would be much tolerable film.

“RIP Layne”

nah, that’s boring. why don’t we dig him up, set him on fire and throw him from a plane wearing a parachute?

c’mon, what’s the big deal?
he’s dead; he’s not gonna feel anything!

Roger Daltrey

Prince

Steve Van Zant

Tina Turner

Will Smith

Ice Tea

Chris Issak

Elvis Presley

John Doe

Keith Moon

Little Steven as Silvio Dante in The Sopranos. None better.

The cast of singers and musicians in The Commitments

Jennifer Lopez (as Selena) in Selena

1. Meat Loaf - pretty much any of the handful of movies he’s been in
2. Jared Leto - Fight Club and def. Lord of War
3. David Bowie - The Labyrinth
4. Steven Van Zant - The Sopranos
5. Flea - Back to the Future Parts 2 and 3
6. Joe Walsh - a handful of episodes of the Drew Carey Show
7. Kris Kristofferson - Blade trilogy
8. Alice Cooper - Wayne’s World
9. Just about the entire cast of both Blues Brothers movies (yeah, the second one isn’t that good, but you gotta admit that the musicians in the movie are just phenomenal, even when they aren’t acting)
10. Dwight Yoakam - just about anything he’s been in (he’s such a good bad guy)

levon helm in cole miners daughter

How about Elvis in the 1950’s? The 4 films he did thn are in a different universe than the stuff after 60.

-Jack Black
-Jamie Foxx
-Will Smith

They didn’t play themselves, played in movies that were really recognized…..

Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Jr
(Cannonball Run)

Ice Cube - Friday (or any other movie he’s been in)
Kris Kristofferson - Blade
Pearl Jam guys - Singles
Meat Loaf - Fight Club
Justin Timberlake - Alpha Dog
Method Man and Redman - How High
Zakk Wylde - Rockstar
Jason Bonham - Rockstar
Will Smith - Anything he has done
Jon Bon Jovi - U-571

Meatloaf (Fight Club)
Marc Anthony (Bringing Out The Dead)
Dwight Yoakam (Panic Room, Sling Blade)

Ok i’m not a fan of her music but when she did the movie the cell i thought it was awesome and nobody even thought of her….Jennifer Lopez

david bowie - zoolander

Jack Black? — Bob Roberts, Waterworld, The Cable Guy, Mars Attacks!, The Jackal, Enemy of the State, High Fidelity, Shallow Hal, The School of Rock, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, King Kong, Nacho Libre…

Eddie Vedder-Singles “A compliment for us; is a compliment for you.” Classic

Jamie Foxx?

jennifer lopez in selena

cher in moonstruck

alanis morissette as god in dogma

bjork in dancer in the dark

Bowie definitely, not just for Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell to Earth, but also for The Prestige, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Hunger.

Bjork - Dancer in the Dark.

How could she be left off the list? She won Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for this!!

Justin Timberlake was pretty good in Black Snake Moan, and he was hilarious on SNL.

andre 3000

i was pretty impressed by Bono in Across the Universe. it’s a small part but he plays it perfectly.
Bowie was also really good as Tesla in The Prestige.

Joe Strummer in Mystery Train

Bjork in Dancer in the Dark

Flea

Cher - She did win an Oscar

Chris Isaak in The Silence of the Lambs, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Little Buddha, That Thing You Do!, and A Dirty Shame, as well as his own Showtime series where he acted as himself with some of his band.

Norah Jones

Bjork

Art Garfunkel

John Mellencamp

Dwight Yoakam

Jon Bon Jovi (U-571)
Neil Diamond (The Jazz Singer)

Beatles
Bob Dylan

the beatles-help and a hard days night

The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night

Tina Turner in Tommy and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. It’s too bad she turned down the part of Shug Avery in The Color Purple. Steven Speilberg desperately wanted her to take the role and asked her many times. Who knows, if she had she might have been nominated for an Oscar and had a successful career in film. But none the less she rocked in both movies she was in.

Tina Turner in Tommy and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. It’s too bad she turned down the part of Shug Avery in The Color Purple. Steven Speilberg desperately wanted her to take the role and asked her many times. Who knows, if she had she might have been nominated for an Oscar and had a successful career in film. But none the less she rocked in both movies she was in.

And in reference to Mr. Kelly, I specifically meant the Trapped In The Closet set, not that OTHER notorious flick. Well, now that I’ve saved my own butt, good night/morning.

Swingline’s suggestion of André 3000 in Be Cool and Idlewild YEAH!!!

and Jack White, who has only had really small parts in a few movies (’Cold Mountain’, as himself w/ meg in ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, and what I’m imagining will be an entertaining role as Elvis in ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’)

And who can forget…KID ‘N’ PLAY!
Just wanted to promptly mention that as a proud owner of the House Party DVD set, plus Class Act(smiles).

Prince
Michael Jackson
R. Kelly(in guess what)
Janet Jackson
Aaliyah
Jill Scott
Alicia Keys
Diana Ross
LL Cool J
Ice Cube
Method Man
Diddy
Dr. Dre
Snoop Dogg
50 Cent
Eminem
Will Smith
2Pac
Beanie Sigel
Mos Def
Queen Latifah
Eve
The Beatles
Madonna

also

Will Smith in Men In Black, Independence Day & Ali

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray

David Bowie in zoolander
like a 5 minute part but still
amazing

Diana Ross - her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues

Henry Rollins in Heat

David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth

Anthony Kiedis & Flea in Point Break

Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Chris Cornell, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden in Singles
(RIP Layne)

johnathon richman

my 3 only serious candidates:
-frank sinatra in ‘the manchurian candidate,’ ‘guys and dolls’
-elvis presley in ‘love me tender,’ ‘jailhouse rock,’ ‘blue hawaii,’ ‘viva las vegas, ‘
-paul simon in ‘annie hall’

ringo starr as the pope, roger daltrey in ‘lizstomania’ or macca in ‘give my regards to broad street’
who can forget those three classics? (oh wait…)]

added sarcasm bonus: kiss in the phantom of the park. so bad that mystery science theater 3000 should have done an episode on it.

Neil Diamond had a great soundtrack. The acting was shooty in the Jazz Singer.

Flea and Keidas were great in Point Break. Don’t forget Flea in Gus Van Zants My Own Private Idaho.

Pearl Jam was entertaining in Singles.

David Johansen played a great role in Let it Ride.

Colonel Bruce Hampton was Epic along with Dwight Yoakam in SlingBlade.

Plus Iggy Pop and Tom Waits were memorable in Jim Jarmusch’s Cigarette’s and Coffee. Along with Rza and Gza with Bill Murray.

Aretha Franklin in the Blues Brothers is a keeper. Plus that whole band is full of Legends.

Plus Tupac’s new movie has some great acting.

Queen Latifah
Ludacris
Will Smith
Cher
Courtney Love

I love Bowie but his acting makes me cringe sometimes.. the Gun scene in Man who fell to Earth springs to mind.
Tom Waits doesn’t act. He plays himself..which is cool I guess.
Check out Sting in Brimstone & Treacle raping a comatosed girl. He’s always been a class act hasn’t he….

i don’t particularly enjoy either of them but I’ll second courtney Love and Mark Wahlberg

ice cube - Boyz n the Hood, Three Kings

Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights, Three Kings

Dwight Yoakam - Sling Blade

Maynard James Keenan - Sleeping Dogs Lie

Roger Daltrey Mc Vicar

Levon Helm- Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Right Stuff, The Last Waltz

You can’t leave Levon off the list… New album and all

Ricky Nelson

Henry Rollins in Heat.

And I know ONE of you is going to spend the entire weekend here doing NOTHING but posting stuff. Sad, sad, sad. Adios!

Bob Dylan in “Hearts of Fire”–truly wretched acting in a truly wretched movie. The movie was so bad that it had only one week of theatrical release in Europe and went straight to video in the US.

Tom Morello in an episode of Star Trek Voyager

Steven Van Zandt in the Sopranos

Dwight Yoakam, Slingblade.

Dwight Yoakam, Slingblade.

Eddie Vedder and the rest of Citizen Dick!

Cher in “Silkwood”, “Mask”, “Moonstruck”

Barbra Streisand

Bobby Darin - Captain Newman, M.D. (Nominated for an Oscar)
Art Garfunkel - Carnal Knowledge, Catch-22
Isaac Hayes - Shaft (2000), Escape from New York (Won a Best Song Oscar for Shaft (1971))
Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues (Nominated for an Oscar)
Tina Turner - Tommy, Mad Max Beyond Thuderdome
Michelle Phillips - Dillinger, TV shows
Roger Daltrey - Tommy, McVicar
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness, Ali, Independence Day, Men in Black (Nominated for 2 Oscars)
David Bowie - The Prestige, The Man Who Fell to Earth
Sting - Dune, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Nat ‘King’ Cole - St. Louis Blues, bit parts in Citizen Kane and Cat Ballou

And, just because of this website:
Jann Wenner - Perfect

Ringo in “Caveman”
Steven Van Zandt on “Sopranos”
Gene Simmons in “Runaway”
LL Cool J in “Toys”

Debbie Harry in “Videodrome”

Tina Turner in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”

CHER! - Moonstruck (won Oscar) and Mermaids!!!

Jared Leto in Requiem for a Dream

Tom Jones in “Mars Attacks”

David Byrne in “True Stories”
Sting in “Lock, Stock, Two Smoking Barrels”
Alicia Keys and Common in “Smokin’ Aces”
2Pac and Janet Jackson in “Poetic Justice”
Mac Davis in “North Dallas Forty”
Andre 3000 in “Be Cool” and “Idlewild”

Mick Jagger in Freejack

Flea- as a nihilist in The Big Lebowski
Keith Richards
Ringo Starr

oops, forgot, Willie Nelson in “Dukes of Hazard” as well.

He really stretched himself with those old man stoner roles.

Willie Nelson in Half Baked

The Monkees in “Head”

I guess Bowie and Tom Waits are the 2 best choices, but here are some other good and strange ones:

1. Iggy Pop, “The Crow 2″, “Cry Baby” (Iggy is funny and bizarre in any role)

2. Dwight Yoakam (Fantastic actor, dont know much about his music but love his acting)

3. Ice Cube in “Boyz N The Hood”

4. David Johansen (I Love The New York Dolls more but I still get a Kick Out of seeing him in “Scrooged” with Bill Murray)

5. James Brown, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin in “The Blues Brothers” (They all have the best scenes in the movie, dah!)

6. John Doe From “X” has done a lot of good acting in many B movies.

7. Snoop Dogg as “Huggy bear”, very funny.

8. Remember Phil Collins in those old episodes of “Miami Vice”?, that was bizzare, hehe.

9. Roger Dartley in “Tommy” (He’s done other stuff, I think I saw him in an episode of “Highlander” and “That 70’s show” once, very funny)

10. The Pear Jam Guys in “Singles”

We cannot forget Bowie’s amazing performance in “Zoolander.”

Don’t forget Bowie in The Prestige or his appearance in Extras.

I actually liked the RZA in American Gangster, too.

how about that movie “The Chase”?

it had henry rollins as a hilarious cop AND Flea and anthony kiedies as dumb stoners.

great movie.
anything rollins does is usually great though…..

2Pac - Gridlock’d
Ice Cube - Friday, Boyz N The Hood
Prince - Purple Rain
Will Smith - (he’s an ok actor, right?)

Well, I guess some people can’t . . .

Rick Sprinfield in “Hard To Hold”

Good film, a little goofy at times, but he was good in it, and the music was rockin’

DD

Meatloaf as “Bitchtits” in Fight Club

This topic always makes me long for Bono playing Mr. MacPhisto in the Batman Forever movie, which Joel Schumacher wanted but it never materialized

Anthony Kedis and Flea in Point Break

Fuckin reconize!!!

hmmm . . . How about Neil Diamond in the JAZZ SINGER. A much more substantial role than Saving Silverman. I believe he won an Oscar for “Love On the Rocks.”

Sorry, Dexter Gordon in ‘Round Midnight

Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues
Dexter Gorn in ‘Round Midnight
Tricky in the Fifth Element
Flea in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Don’t forget LONE STAR (1996)—wonderful, underrated film, and Kristofferson just steals the show.

Tom Waits-Rumblefish
Sting-Quadrop henia (what a tool)
Iggy Pop- Cry Baby
Meatloaf-Rocky Horor and Roadie
Neil Diamond-Saving Silverman(I know he plays himself, but it’s great)