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Clooney’s Buddy Richard Kind To Play Lead In The Coen Bros.’ A SERIOUS MAN!!
I am – Hercules!!
Richard Kind, known almost as well around Hollywood for being George Clooney’s best friend as he is for his regular role on the sitcom “Spin City,” will star in Joel & Ethan Coen’s “A Serious Men.”
His co-lead is stage actor Michael Stuhlbarg, a Tony-nominated stage actor who played Jerry on “Studio 60.”
Tuesday morning's Variety describes the plot:
Set in 1967, story centers on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor whose life begins to unravel when his wife sets out to leave him and his socially inept brother (Kind) won't move out of the house.
"Burn After Reading," the latest Coen project starring Clooney, opens Sept. 12.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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It's better than first
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Sounds good to me. Keep pumping 'em out, Coens. I wonder if this is due before Yiddish Policemans Union?
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He's "That One Guy From Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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145 episodes of "Spin."
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Thank you, MST3K...
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The David Warner Rem fair fest. A ball of pain that was.
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Been waiting for Kind to get a lead role for years. And Stuhlberg was phenomenal in the Martin McDonaugh play The Pillowman. Color me excited. Then again, I always get excited for a Coen Brothers film.
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on Speed? Ferris Bueller's best friend? Who IS this man?
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It's kind of exciting when big filmmakers go for unknown - or relatively unknown - actors. One thing you can count on in every Coen Brothers movie is superb acting, whether they're doing drama or comedy. The news of this casting intrigues me.
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You know, I remember him more for Mad About You than Spin City. Also did great voice work in A Bug's Life.
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for kids!
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I always remember Kind as the dude from Mad About You, I don't know why but i doGreyspector, he was the fat one on Spin City
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He was recurring hypochondriac Harvey Korman. The name didn't get him as much action as you'd think.
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That would've been awesome, too.
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With ridiculous characters and over the top performances, then you knuckle draggers can go to sleep a wee bit enriched. Remember, you are beautiful, no matter what they said. Words won't bring you down :-(
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No wonder Spacey was angry all the time!
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This movie will likely come out after "Yiddish." The Coens' pattern of release tends to be Great-Goofy-Great-Goofy-etc; "A Serious Man" sounds like one of the "Goofy" films. (NOT meant as a putdown, I think their "goofy" films, like "Lebowski," are Great!)
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Aug 19, 2008 12:47:45 AM CDT
He was also the voice of Frugal Lucre in Kim Possible!
by derlanghaarige
This man is hilarious!
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Aug 19, 2008 12:50:09 AM CDT
BTW, when will the Coens make their ultra violent western?
by derlanghaarige
They said in an interview that they wrote a script for an italo-style western, which will definitely earn an NC-17 for violence. I always wanted to see a western from the Coens. Or a horrormovie. But any new Coen is good news :D
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I used to see him listed alot a few years ago at UCLA extension for Acting workshops (if my memory is good). I always was curious about them but schedules never worked out...
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So he is hardly a fucking unkown. I guarantee when he pops up in a movie or show 8 out of 10 people go 'oh it's that guy'. The name may not be known but the face certainly is...
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Although I know him primarily from Spin City, I enjoy his work in anything he does, usually guest roles. I'm looking forward to seeing what he will bring to a lead character. He reminds me of the great characters who used to pop up in Preston Sturges movies. Too many actors want to be the big star, but character actors bring the greatest dimensions to film.
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Thought he best role was as Kevin Spacey's dumb brother in A Bugs Life. "Give'em Pie. GIVE'EM PIE!" I don't mean that in a bad way I think Kind is very funny.
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Still got that to look forward to. Glad they are back on form. Anyone read To The White Sea? They were thinking of doing that for a while there.
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he has
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Because back then he would be right. (One Fine Day? The Peacemaker? Batman & Robin? Out Of Sight?) But now, 10 years later, Clooney made lots of good movies. As actor and director.
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Out of Sight is GREAT very much in the spirit of the original Leonard book, and Lopez's one GOOD performance, that's a smart, sexy, fun caper movieplus it features a cameo from Keaton reprising his char. from Jackie Brown
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Maybe I would like Out Of Sight more if I would have read the book, so I give you this (Although it's also possible that I don't like the book, because I don't like the movie anyway), but Lopez is as bad as usual in it (Just look at the scene at the end, where she isn't unsure if she should arrest Clooney or let him go and looks like he is falling asleep), not as smart as it thinks (I think the smartest idea was the gangster who shot himself when he tripped over a stair. You don't see accidents like that happen in movies. They happen in real life, but not in movies, unless there will be a huge explaination scene afterwards) and I probably missed the fun in it, because it bored the hell out of me.
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This is great news; hopefully it'll work out as well for Richard as starring in SIDEWAYS worked out for Thomas Haden Church... minus the mediocre SPIDER-MAN movie, of course.
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I read an interview once where Clooney said he made all of that crap in the mid-90's to support him so he could do stuff he WANTED to do. Anyway, Out of Sight was very good. I have to go with Bloo. It's the only time I've ever found Jennifer Lopez charming. It's scoring a 7.2 on IMDb and an 85 on Metacritic. Seems to me lots of people like it. I thought it was a lot of fun; it's one I can watch repeatedly. And let's not forget Three Kings. Another fine under-appreciated film.
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Hope this doesn't conflict with Quentin's plans to cast him in Inglorious Bastards.
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He is in negotiations.
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I think he is an extremely funny actor, but what really impresses me is that I had no idea that he was George Clooney's best friend. None whatsoever. That means that my attention is turned to more meaningful things.
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I was at a buddy's bachelor party in downtown Fort Worth the other weekend. We saw this guy walk by the window of our private room and a few of us recognized him, but couldn't think of his name. The next day we read in the paper that Richard Kind was in town for a play. That is the story.
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this guy might be a 1 trick pony, but he uses that pony to make regular trips to the bank. Referring to him as being known as a Clooney hanger-on is really weak and lazy copy.
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or is it "The Close Talker" aka Ray Baronne's Cousin.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:52:42 AM CDT
Yiddish Policemans Union is coming after A Serious Man...
by backrivercatfish
...according to IMDBpro. The casting on it hasn't even been announced but I'm really interested to see who they get.
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You'll recognize his voice right away, at least. It's almost as distinctive as Warburton's.
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I'm glad they are casting character actors in this. The Brothers do their best work when they don't cast stars or at least stick to people who aren't huge. Who do you remember more in their movies? Clooney, Hanks, and Newman? I know I recall John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, William H. Macey, and Irma P. Hall more.
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...I liked Richard Kind already when he was on the Carol Burnett show, together with the guy from 'Weekend at Bernies'. So there. Also, this man does not age. Good that he finally got a lead role.
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to out-practical-joke Clooney. That's gotta be good.
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And you know this from all the time you spend at Spago's, Herc?
I love it when people take celebrity factoids they picked up on Entertainment Tonight and refer to it as "the word on the street in Hollywood" as if they're insiders. Hey Herc, have your people set up a meeting with my people so we can discuss Lindsay's next project. -
Clooney and Lopez SIZZLE together, and the screenplay is brilliant and laugh-out-loud funny. One of the best films of 1998, and one of my favorite movies, PERIOD.
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A Bug's Life resemble him, which made his voice work doubly enjoyable.So is this the Coen Bros version of Madhouse? Except this time Kirstie Ally plays the house?
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Great actor but his extreeme involvement in leftist politics has lowered him to doochebaggery status. Sorry "buddy"...
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I hate to sound like a pig, but he may be the most fortunate man alive.
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I guess trying to stop genocide is the ultimate douchebag move.
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He's becoming a Ratsenberger in training!
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Im sorry but I must have missed the on-site investigative reporting that Clooney did in Darfur. And Uzbeckistan. And Georgia. And Pakistan. And the northern regions of Iraq. And Haiti. And Liberia. And Indo-China. And heck why not throw China in there as well? So because I somehow missed Clooney's preventative measures in all these regions of our planet, can you enlighten me as to his efforts to stop genocide? Oh wait I know - he goes on Entertainment Tonight and says, "duurrr genocide is bad. If we elect a Democrat, it will stop." If that actually worked, how come Clinton was powerless to stop it? In fact, he ushered in a new era of domestic genocide or do we already forget the purging by fire of the Branch Davidians?
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Clooney did a documentary about Darfur and actually traveled there and I don't think it was to "elect a Democrat". The sad truth is 90% of Americans either don't know where Darfur is or don't give a shit about it, at least he's trying to do something. If you knew anything about Darfur you'd know the current problems started in 2003 and I don't believe Clinton was still President. And since is mass suicide considered genocide?
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Bullshit
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