Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan DeNiro? Please. Give me a break. Streep? Whateva. No, America's Greatest Living Actor Is DAVID CARUSO!!! How I have grown to love CSI: Miami. It's pure genius, I tell you! Not since Batman in the 1960's or Police Squad! in the 1980's has such a madcap, self-parodying show graced our television screens. Week after week, Mr. Caruso delivers those zingers that leave everyone else in the show stunned into silence, unable to match wits with his cagey delivery -- complete with the unexpected random sentence-pause. And he has raised the art of putting on a pair of sunglasses into something they'll be teaching at acting schools centuries from now. The camera work is worthy of an expensive Lexus commercial, everyone is bathed in dark, moody, atmospheric lighting, even on the beach. Thank you, Mr. Caruso, for making Monday nights something to look forward to! Here's an appetizer for anyone who isn't recording and archiving this show week after week after week like I do .... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_sarYH0z948</a>
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Did you actually sit through the entire 7 minutes? I only made it through 2 minutes before I felt an overwhelming urge to hunt him down and slap him.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I liked this one... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJ6k0iuEeo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =_zJ6k0iuEeo</a> hehehe. Dramatic Look Prairie Dog rules!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Love it!! It's so funny how Caruso made headlines when he left the very, very popular NYPD Blue -- to get into feature films. Appeared in a seris of duds, and then returned to T.V. in CSI. I remember him as the young recruit who almost drowns in 'An Officer and a Gentleman'
Originally Posted By friendofdd Never have seen the show, 2ooney, but, after your wonderfully descriptive opinion, I'll probably watch my usual evening fare - the Andy Griffith show on TV Land. Have you ever watched Barney Fife put on his sun glasses?
Originally Posted By threeundertwo I like this version better. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glvGfQnx3DI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =glvGfQnx3DI</a>
Originally Posted By Ursula How DARE you mock one of my biggest clients! Although, I am guilty of the same when CSI:M was first a hit. He was interviewed in the lobby of my facility and literally stood there in his eye-glass off pose and spoke at length to the camera how this show was much more of a feature than the features he worked on and that it was a breakthough performance.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ He's fascinatingly awful! I've been a major CSI fan, but simply can't stomach the Miami show any longer. Sometimes, I pop by to admire the eye candy other actors provide, though.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>that it was a breakthough performance<< That's certainly true. I'll take it a step further and declare that week after week, he goes where few other actors dare in terms of his performance. I think the writers on the show are totally in on the joke, too. No way could a professional team of writers keep coming up with those lines episode after episode and be unaware that they are 100% American cheese slices.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Have you ever watched Barney Fife put on his sun glasses?<< Believe it or not, Barney Fife is a much more intimidating figure than poor Horatio. You must tune in for an episode or two, FoDD. You won't be sorry!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I'm sure to get an argument here but in my mind, at this point in time, the greatest actor is Tom Hanks. Having started out as a crazy, funny sidekick in Bosom Buddies he was able to immediately break out of the clown type and do major dramatic roles. Winning Oscar's back to back portraying totally different characters is very impressive to me. Cast Away blew me completely out of the water because at least half of that movie was completely without dialog and yet he was able to convey every emotion possible without speaking. Great Movie and a great actor.
Originally Posted By jdub I don't think I've ever seen David Caruso in anything; and I would NEVER agree that Tom Hanks is the best (his biopic shall be called "Act Hard"); ...but have you ever considered--- ---Peter Billingsley?
Originally Posted By TDLFAN If I had little respect for Toonman after the Lutz topic, whatever was left is now gone after this. Besides, everyone knows Bette Davis is the greatest American Actor who ever lived.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Unfortunately, this is a topic about the greatest "living" actor not the greatest that "ever lived". So back to the drawing board.
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 <<<I'm sure to get an argument here but in my mind, at this point in time, the greatest actor is Tom Hanks.>>> I could definitely be convinced.
