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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-25 14:28:09 +0000

Aside from 'Resevoir Dogs' did he do anything notable? Pale Rider?

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-01-25 14:30:58 +0000

Short Cuts?

Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-25 14:42:52 +0000

-Footloose -At Close Range -Mulholland Falls -the Funeral -All The Right Moves -Rumble Fish -Starsky and Hutch (Dont forget Corky Romano or Beethoven's 2nd) and a whole bunch of others... (check out all the TV credits alone)

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-25 14:48:27 +0000

Um, I might take "Footloose"... but he was pretty bad in it, so I guess that's 'notable'.

Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-25 14:50:38 +0000

what do you mean "take"?

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-25 14:52:40 +0000

take = "agree with"

Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-25 14:55:11 +0000

you should repent and Netflix At Close Range Brothers Penn and Christopher Walken and arguably the best Madonna song of all time 'Live to Tell' great flick.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-25 15:22:51 +0000

Sorry, I don't 'Netflix'. Chris Penn has always played a nag even when the character doesn't call for it. I liked him cast in Res. Dogs, part of Tarentino's genius, because his charcter needed to be a 'chip on the shoulder' jerk, but normally he detracts from movies for me. I'm sure he was great guy personally, but his performances in things like 'True Romance' hurt the film. Would he have been successful if his name wasn't Penn?

Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-25 15:40:33 +0000

I agree that the Tarantino collab. would have to be near the top. I think I should clarify my language - Im not trying to advertise or use some corporate name as a status symbol - a wide audience knows what those corporate terms are and they get adopted into popular english Corporate names sometimes quickly become used as verbs (i.e. I am now podcasting (doing a radio show by mixing down several audio tracks into one mp3 that you can get off of any computer made in the last 6 years) instead of djing a radio show, or you should really netflix that (rent / check out / see / Tivo / DVR). When we were growing up, i guess it must've been a Texas thing, all sodas were globally referred to as Coke. (I'd visit my cousins in the midwest and 'Coke' became 'Pop') Anyway, back to my original point: However flicks come into yr life, 'At Close Range' is worth checking out. I have no idea how to answer your "successful" question. Looking at his resume on imdb, and the familiarity most Americans with a TV or a filmmaking appetite would have with Chris Penn's face as a character actor, I would attempt to answer YES. I would argue if you held out a head shot and showed it to a lot of people on the street, they would say, oh that's the guy from ___________. Maybe a few would say, hey that's "Sean Penn's brother!", but that's not the first thing that comes to my mind. He's no Cheadle, I'll give you that.

Posted by tgl on 2006-01-25 16:53:40 +0000

Such a poignant reminder of the encroachment of corporate branding, hold on while I get my Kleenex(r). Penn's had a successful film career, maybe a not so critically acclaimed career.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-01-25 17:16:25 +0000

Expression of the day: Proprietary Eponym. A cursory glance of their list notes that they're missing one of my favorites: Escalator. But I may have some new favorites: Dumpster and Crescent Wrench. Wow. Also, I'd like to note that I dropped the word "portmanteau" on my realtor yesterday when she described a house as a condex, which is something betwixt a condo and a duplex.

Posted by tgl on 2006-01-25 17:25:56 +0000

Escalator was also my favorite until you dropped "Crescent Wrench". Damn.

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-01-25 17:46:57 +0000

I'm a Xerox guy, myself. TiVo is big, so is Google.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-01-25 18:33:35 +0000

I don't see the Google one. When I say I'm going to google something as in, to search for it... I actually use google. Unless you mean the interweb, in which case, I'll give it to you, I use "google" to refer to the whole internet.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-26 04:09:03 +0000

Exactly. I actually search for things w/o using Google, though admittedly rarely (ever try to search rs.n using the rs.n search function, oh boy...). And I wasn't trying to be a dick to N.P. either. I just don't use Netflix. I like to go to my neighborhood video store, peruse the titles, and rent them. And, of course my favorite Genericized TM is heroin: "Bayer registered 'Heroin' (meaning 'heroic treatment' from the German word heroisch) as a trademark. From 1898 through to 1910 it was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough medicine for children."

Posted by tgl on 2006-01-27 02:14:26 +0000

New search for you.

Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-02-14 13:01:24 +0000

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