The Best&Worst in one person's work

[Gojirob]

A person involved in entertainment of any kind has their winners and their losers, in terms of the product they produce. But how often do we see an instance where one person produces one of the absolute best you ever saw/heard-etc., and also one of the absolute worst? Here's a few of mine, for starters. JMHO, as always.

1 - Judd Hirsch - Taxi vs. Judd Hirsch - Dear John. One makes me want to laugh and think. The other will face me in Hell, I think, if I lead an evil life.

2 - John Byrne - Batman/Captain America vs. John Byrne - SpiderMan Chapter One/Reboot - In the first instance, a more perfect comic book doesn't exist. The second will have you yearning nostalgically for the Clone Saga. The Later Issues Of The Clone Saga.

3 - Bobby Goldsboro - Little Things vs. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey - In the first case, I don't care if its the song or the commercial with the puppies and the vacuum cleaner, I could listen just about forever. In the second case, weeellllll--DJ's apologize for playing it, and try to talk requesters out of it. If I have to hear it more than once a year, I want that to be the year I win the Powerball - max jackpot, sole winner. Third time, and I get mistaken for a long-lost monarch.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Here are a few classic film stars:

Humphrey Bogart:
Best: Casablanca (or maybe The African Queen)
Worst: Swing Your Lady (I can still hear this movie sucking, and it was made over 60 years ago)

James Cagney:
Best: Yankee Doodle Dandy (or maybe White Heat or The Public Enemy)
Worst: The Oklahoma Kid (doesn't get much more lame than Cagney in a western.)

Cary Grant:
Best: North By Northwest (although there are tons of other worthy candidates)
Worst: The Howards of Virginia (Zzzzz.......period pieces waste his talent)

Clark Gable:
Best: Gone With The Wind (or It Happened One Night)
Worst: Parnell (Zzzz.....)

William Powell:
Best: My Man Godfrey (some might say The Thin Man, however)
Worst: The Girl Who Had Everything (this movie makes me wanna hurl)

Errol Flynn:
Best: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Worst: Cuban Rebel Girls (made during the last year of Flynn's life, when he was down to his last two or three functioning brain cells, having destroyed all the others through the consumption of vast quantities of alcohol)

Omar Sharif:
Best: Doctor Zhivago
Worst: More than a Miracle (classic film on acid)


I think I'll do music in another post after I think about it some...