Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Soft Kitty

In every decade or so you get ONE character on a television show or a movie that is truly inspired genius. Writers struggle their whole lives to give voice to such a character but you will NEVER find it until the universe pairs up a specific unforgettable actor who just GETS who the person he is playing is right from the beginning. Then the writing is easy. Examples - William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Peter Falk as Columbo, Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, Michael Richards as Kramer and Jim Parsons as Sheldon on Big Bang Theory. If you can't sing all the words to 'soft kitty' then you sir, are dead to me. Sheldon is so singularly unique a character that we will not see his like in many many years. It's a rare treat. Please add your choices for iconic characters in the comment section so I can use them in an upcoming post.

5 comments:

Drake said...

Patrick Macnee as John Steed, Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett are two i can think of.

Megan said...

Tom Selleck as Magnum. Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce.

brigitte said...

David Tennant as Dr Who

TS Hendrik said...

Richard Ayaode as Moss on The IT crowd.

Fnord said...

Michael C Hall as Dexter Morgan. Zachary Quinto as Sylar.