1. John Goodman
Who who doesnt like John Goodman?! Ill tell ya who, friends. FREAKS. Freaks, thats who! Theres something comforting about John Goodman. Hes like buttered toast, or a warm hug, or a soft blanket that smells like its been newly washed. And even though Nathan Lane has a great voice, man, John Goodman has a
fantastic voice. A continuous rumble, with a slight Southern drawl. John Goodman could ring me up right now and talk to me for hours about how lint at the back of the couch is formed, and I would hang on to his every word. Starting out as Dan Connor on
Roseanne, John Goodmans gone on to have a long and varied career. Hes been on television (
The West Wing, Treme, Community), done voice over work (
Monsters Inc, The Emperors New Groove), and even tread the boards in the same version of
Waiting For Godot that Nathan Lane was in (man, I would have sold my left kidney to have seen that). And of course, it must be mentioned that when it comes to film, hes a regular cast pick for the Coen Brothers. The Coen Brothers and John Goodman go together like Jack Daniels and Coca Cola. Charlie Meadows, Gale Snoats and of course, Walter Sobchak, are quirky characters that are immediately identifiable to those familiar with the world of indie cinema. At sixty years of age, Goodman is still an in-demand actor, appearing in
The Artist last year, and hes also in the soon-to-be-released
Argo. And because hes a living treasure, may he appear in many more films and TV shows in the future.