So I was watching this fairly entertaining movie and easily recognized George's ex-boss "Kruger." However the radio station owner looked VERY familiar and for a while there I thought the "Kruger" actor had indeed played BOTH parts. So who WAS the blind radio station owner?
He had a Seindfelian quality.
In article , "Frank B." wrote:
Or, at least a sitcom quality. Stephen Root also played the radio station owner, Jimmie James, in NewsRadio. In Seinfeld, he was the bank manager who offered Kramer twenty dollars for a greeting that started with an "H", rather than paying $100 as a result of his employees failing to say "hello", in "The Invitations".
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Root,+Stephen+(I)
That movie was horrible. I could barely get through it.
"Frank B." wrote:
Really? I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it was pretty good, and it had a fair number of favorable reviews from the critics (78% at www.rottentomatoes.com). Do you like any of the other Coen brothers' films (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona)?
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:50:09 GMT, "John Twernbold" wrote:
John,
I am a major Coen brothers fan and Oh Brother is up to par with the other films, there is no question about it.
Sophie
P.-S.-- This reminds me of an incident two weeks ago; I rented "Best in Show" at my local small town Quebec video store and the clerks ganged up on me to tell me it was really, really boring.
Heresy! :-) I loved that movie! In fact, yesterday I rented "Waiting for Guffman", and am planning on watching it over the weekend.
"Don't look at the fathead losers--they're freaks! You look at MEEEEE!"
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:42:34 -0500, "John Twernbold" wrote:
Oh yeah, it was funny. Waiting for Guffman was very similar IMHO. Similar cast and similar tone; humour so dry, if you don't get a joke, you don't even know there was supposed to be one (hence my non-Vincent video clerks' judgement, I suppose).
Sophie
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Not sure personally. I'm a major Coen bros fan as well and I was a bit underwhelmed. Certainly not horrible but hardly Miller's Crossing.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:51:17 +0100, "Tod Friendly" wrote:
Maybe not Miller's Crossing, but not Barton Fink either.
Sophie
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You didn't like Barton Fink? It would make the top half of my Coen bros list.
The radio station owner is also the radio station owner on News Radio.Not sure of his name though. Kevin
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<< The radio station owner is also the radio station owner on News Radio.Not sure of his name though. Kevin >>
The actor's name is Stephen Root.
Stephen Root. gotta love him.
In article , "Wouter Visser" wrote:
Kramer: (knocks on desk) Is this oak?
Bank Manager: 'think it's pine.
Kramer: Pine is good.
Bank Manager: Yeah, pine's okay.