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03 Mar 14
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These days you just pretend to be disabled, have cancer or riddled with Aids to be a shoe in.
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surely he could just play himself
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BINGO you got my point within one reply.....
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why not get the real guy or someone with similar disability to play the part in My Left Foot.
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can you do the mouth dribble
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Im sure Di Caprio would consider this for a shortcut to greatness.
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Are you suggesting Ron Woodruff would have been better portrayed by Magic Johnson?
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hawking would struggle to play himself in the early years scenes
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Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man (autistic)
Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot (severe disability) Al Pacino - Scent of a women (blind man) Tom Hanks - Philadelphia (aids) Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump (mentally disabled) Geoffrey Rush - Shine (mental breakdown) Jamie Foxx - Ray (blind man) Sean Penn - Milk (aids) Meryl Streep The Iron Lady (Alzheimers) Colin Firth - The King's Speech (stutter) Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club (aids) |
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hawking would struggle to play himself in the early years scenes
Benedict Cumberbatch has already played him in Hawking2004 BBC film, in the early days of the motor neuron disease diagnosis. |
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Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man (autistic)
Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot (severe disability) Al Pacino - Scent of a women (blind man) Tom Hanks - Philadelphia (aids) Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump (mentally disabled) Geoffrey Rush - Shine (mental breakdown) Jamie Foxx - Ray (blind man) Sean Penn - Milk (aids) Meryl Streep The Iron Lady (Alzheimers) Colin Firth - The King's Speech (stutter) Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club (aids) Ray Winstone - Nil By Mouth (common) Seth Rogen - Knocked Up (ginger) |
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next year..... Joey Deacon
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Had to look him up : (Wiki)
In 1981, the last year of his life, Joey Deacon was featured on the children's magazine programme Blue Peter for the International Year of the Disabled. He was presented as an example of a man who achieved a lot in spite of his disabilities. Despite the sensitive way in which Blue Peter covered his life, the impact was not as intended. The sights and sounds of Deacon's distinctive speech and manner had a lasting impact on young viewers, who quickly learned to imitate them. His name and mannerisms quickly became a label of affectionate ridicule in school playgrounds across the country.[4][5] To this day the term "Joey" is used as a relatively mild form of insult, in the category of "Mong" and the rather more offensive "Spaz", accompanied by the gestures and mouth movements of the original Joey himself. Given the high proportion of 7 to 13 year-olds who watched Blue Peter in the early 1980s familiarity with Joey Deacon is surprisingly prevalent amongst a cohort which has now reached its early to mid-40s. However, amongst anyone outside that relatively narrow age band there can be total bewilderment as to the original inspiration for the Joey "brand" of humour and insult. |