Sina's favorites : Robert De Niro (+2)

Sorry again for the interruption of our special! We continue today with an actor you probably all know quite well. There's nothing much left to say and write about him, everyone's got a positive opinion on him, isn't it?

Robert De Niro is THE guy in Hollywood. He fits into every big role, he is a guarantee for well selling movies and after all he's really one of the best actors of our days! He's been around for 20 years at the business now and there are only a few people left he hadn't worked with yet. We saw him in action movies, gangster movies, comedy, dramas, actually he did it all - he even produced some really good movies, for example "A bronx tale" with his friend Palminteri, I bet you didn't know that. We actually see Robert De Niro on such regular bases every year in alot of movies that we just don't consider him "someone special" anymore, isn't it? But we really should because he does some great work and he definitly is an all time favorite of mine!

Just because everyone seems to know an actor it doesn't automatically mean that he's "mainstream", he just does his thing for 20 years now, get some respect for that man! Robert De Niro is really one of the rare to find people who deserve to be "stars"!

My personal Top 5 roles:

• Hide and seek
• A bronx tale
  
• Analyze this
  
• Meet the parents
• The untouchables

Editor's note:

There is none. Our editors (including me) are kinda scared of writing to Mr. De Niro. And we admit it.

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Today we also wanna remind you that JebbyMovies DID tell you about other actors in the past, too! Please make sure you check out the following reviews because these guys are my personal favorites, too!

Jeff Goldblum



Gabriel Byrne

Sina's favorites : Chazz Palminteri

There are a lot of movies from the late 80's you could have known Chazz Palminteri from but most people just got to know him when in '93 his biographical movie "A bronx tale" was released. It became a movie classic even though most people just saw it as a nice fictional story. The man played his own childhood and teenage friend Sonny and became famous with it. After that many top roles followed like in "Faithful" with Cher, "The Usual Suspects", "Bullets over broadway" and about 50 more Hollywood productions.

Who's that guy and why doesn't everyone remember his name if he's that famous you may wonder. Well, it's the "It's this guy again"-phenomenon again. Everyone's seen Chazz in some movies but no one would recall who again he is. Well I can assure you at least he's a great actor!

Last year Chazz Palminteri started a broadway show on "A bronx tale" as a sold out one man thing. There again he showed everyone what kinda actor he is - a legend who's on one level with his friend DeNiro!

My personal Top 5 roles:

• A Bronx tale
  
• Faithful
  
• A guide to recognizing your saints
  
• Down to earth
  
• Mulholland Falls
  

Editor's note:

Dear Mr. Palminteri,

I am still sorry I couldn't make it to the show but I am optimistic your coming up (currently 5) movie productions will be just as good! Man, you really are one of if not the best in your field! Keep it up!

Extras - Even moviestars are only human

Being an extra is alright but watching „Extras“ is even better! (Sorry, that one just slipped out)

„Extras“ is or was however a 12 episodes BBC series (plus one final movie lenght special episode) with Ricky Gervais as the main character Andy. Andy is an extra who wants to be a star instead of working with the big ones. Asked for what his job is, he always answers he's an actor and he tries to make his dream come true after 40 years waiting for it.

His friend Maggie (Ashley Jensen) is also a bit desperate about her full time job as an extra, being single, just as Andy, and on her side dreaming of going out with the movie stars. And so they use every single shooting day trying to get their thing done. Andy tries to get short speaking roles and Maggie meanwhile tries to catch the attention of the best looking guys on the set. But the so called stars are only human. Some are totally unlikeable and if one isn't Maggie does the trick to ruin it anyway by saying something very, very stupid.

In Season 2 which is episode 7-12 Andy even made it through to get hi own scripts produced as a weekly series but unfortunately it isn't as easy as he thought it would be and finally he is unhappy again with his so called fame.

This series is a must see, there is no way around it if you like movies, actors, some nice humor and likable characters. The 13 episodes are over far too fast in the end and you maybe even gonna miss the series a bit.

Beware, even your favorite actors will seem a bit too human to you after watching that but just give it a try. In those 13 episodes there do appear:

Ross Kemp & Vinnie Jones, Ben Stiller, Kate Winslet,Les Dennis, Samuel L Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Orlando Bloom, David Bowie, Daniel Radcliffe , Chris Martin , Ian McKellen, Robert De Niro

That is a damn lot of stars with some self irony to play themselves and even that makes it totally recommendable! The series won a Golden Globe and 7 other prices and now it won the status of one of the best concepts I've ever seen on screen! Go, watch it!