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| | Fametracker :: 2 Stars 1 Slot :: Battle of the Generic Gentlemen :: Brad Johnson vs. Bill Campbell vs. Bill Pullman vs. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | In a sense, the clash between Bill Campbell, Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Jeff Daniels, and Brad Johnson has been the epochal Two (or, rather, Five) Stars One Slot battle of our time, a kind of celebrity cage match that left none of the combatants unscathed. |
 | | Meanwhile, Bill Paxton was busy stealing the show as Private "We're all fucked, man" Hudson in Aliens (1986), while Bill Pullman was smirking his way through Mel Brooks's 1987 Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs, and croaking out the now-immortal tagline, "Don't bury me...I'm not dead," in 1987's The Serpent and the Rainbow. |
 | | Rather than become a generic leading man, Pullman became a kind of ironic stand-in for the Generic Leading Man. Similarly, Daniels discovered a hitherto unknown talent for slapstick comedy, and diverted himself into a lucrative niche as the goofball sidekick in Dumb and Dumber, Trial and Error, and My Favorite Martian. |
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