I didn't realize he/she was in that

Don Cheadle had a supporting role in Volcano as Tommy Lee Jones' top assistant in the emergency center. He's the only recognizable name I remember from the credits other than Jones and Anne Heche.

 

I didn't remember the movie Volcano.

I thought he was dead...

 

Watcing "For Love of the Game" the other day. The doctor at the hospital they take Billy Chapel to when he hurts his hand before he gets heloed out is Chin Ho Kelly from Hawaii 5-0.

 

Not exactly on topic, but the same type of thing as this thread.

I don't watch The Mentalist, but my mother loves the show. I caught the first few minutes and saw Pedro Pascal in a recurring role as an FBI agent. He is also currently playing Dornish Prince Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones.

 

Was watching "Stranger Than Fiction," which I consider to be an enjoyable, underrated Will Ferrell movie, and noticed the guy from the Sonic commercials who sits shotgun in the car with his buddy and acts a little askew. Then I saw another guy who looked familiar and thought, "Where do I know him from?"

The other guy in the Sonic commercials.

 

Hadn't seen an old favorite, Steve Martin's 1991 opus "L.A. Story," in ages before I came across it on TV this week. Forgot about all the cameos.

Patrick Stewart as the snooty owner of the hip, new restaurant "L'idiot." Rick Moranis as the British gravedigger. Chevy Chase, too.

 

That movie is one of my great guilty pleasures. It's an enjoyable TV flick. The part where the guy jumps from the train and does a lava-fueled version of the "I'm melting" scene in The Wizard of Oz is great unintentional comedy. They should've ripped off Terminator 2 while they were at it, and had him give a thumbs up on his way down.
But good god, does that ending suck.
City in ruins, and the guy in charge just says,"Fuck it. I was on vacation before it started, I'm on vacation now."
Yeah, way to pull your weight, Tommy Lee Jones. The Sam Gerrard you would kick the Volcano you's ass so bad you'd be crapping lava for a week.

But, bad as that is, it's not nearly as bad as the little fuckwad who wants to run into the path of lava AND a collapsing building. God, that kid sucks.
After nearly getting a half-dozen people killed because he needs to loot a toy store or some shit, he points out in the most nauseating way possible that "they all look the same," while looking at hundreds of Los Angelenos with ash-covered faces.
Well, no shit, asshole. They all look the same because they hate your little 6-year-old ass that almost stopped the one thing that could keep lava from melting their faces off.
The first time you watch it, you want the kid to live, I guess. That's what the writers were going for. By the third or fourth viewing, I not only want the building to fall on him, I want the lava to carry his charred carcass out to sea.

Oh, and looking at the credits to see who that twerp grew up to be, I see that Shepherd Smith had a cameo as part of a media horde. That's neat.

 

I was rooting for the Volcano the entire way through. First off - they all live in LA, so they're Dodger and Laker fans, but the movie was intended to mock LA. It's also why whenever their is disaster coverage and I see a sidebar on pets I realize the real danger must be over - Harvey Levin (TMZ) played the reporter who asks, "but what about the patients that can't tell you where they hurt?"

 

Saw Bubble Boy on TV a couple days ago and stumbled upon this guy in the "bus-stop-in-the-middle-of-nowhere" scene ...



Zach Galifianakis

 

Matt Ross, who plays the CEO of Hooli in the new HBO series Silicon Valley, was Dan, the somewhat dickish boyfriend of the third roommate in Whit Stillman's Last Days of Disco

 

Yeah, they completely re-wrote Frasier's family background when they did the spinoff.

On Cheers, he was the son of snobby old money New England academics. I recall an episode featuring his mom as this devious scheming shrew trying to get rid of Diane because she was a waitress too low class for her prestigious family. But on Frasier he's from Seattle with a working class cop dad and mom long ago deceased.

 

Speaking of Game of Thrones, it just recently dawned on me that Pycelle is played by the same guy who played Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.