Reply #35: That's a good one. Mine is...

[Westegg]

"Chef" in "Apocalypse Now." First of all, he was a saucier from N'awlins. You gotta love that. Second, he was just a stand-up gent thrown into the hell that was 'Nam. Didn't deserve having his head tossed into the lap of Marty Sheen, to be sure. On the other hand, if anyone's gonna toss your head, I suppose having Brando do it is some kinda reward. Now I'm blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction. But it goes back to Quint in "Jaws," in that I've always thought the great Robert Shaw shoulda won best supporting actor for that performance. Shaw was an exceptional actor/writer/adventurer, and it's sad that younger film fans (I'm 42) aren't hip to his genius in films like "A Man For All Seasons," of "From Russia With Love."

Or are you?