Sheen Titles

Platoon
Wall Street
Major League
Men at Work
Young Guns
Hot Shots Part Deux
The Three Musketeers
Eight Men Out (John Cusack)
Tale of Two Sisters (Written and Narrated by Charlie Sheen, a whopping 2.5 stars on IMDb)
The Wraith (John Cusack)

• Crazy on the Outside (Comedy, Starring none other than the venerated, T-Giving veteran, Tim Allen and Ray Liotta)
• The Girl in the Park (2007) (Drama, in which Weaver plays a mother whose daughter was abducted 15 years ago, and comes to believe that a troubled girl she meets in the park is her long lost daughter.
• The TV Set (2005) (Comedy, Drama, Co-starring David Duchovny)
• Snow Cake (She plays a high-functioning autistic woman, co-starring Alan Rickman)
• The Village (scary! J)
• Imaginary Heroes (Drama, in which she plays a pot smoking mom)
• Holes (Family Comedy/Adventure) (Weaver plays the villain!)
• Copycat (thriller)
• Heartbreakers (Comedy, co-starring Jennifer Love Hewitt)
• Alien, Aliens, Alien³, Alien: Resurrection (Trilogy if we choose, Quadrilogy if we dare!)
• Dave (Comedy)
• Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II (enough said)
• Working Girl (Comedy, Brilliant – Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford)
• Gorillas in the Mist (Drama)
• Half Moon Street (Thriller, in which Weaver plays a scientist who moonlights as a prostitute and gets caught up in international intrigue with one of her clients)
• Deal of the Century (Comedy, Co-starring Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor)
• Eyewitness (Thriller)

The barrymore list

E.T

Irreconcilable Differences

Firestarter

No Place to Hide

Waynes World 2

Bad Girls

Batman Forever

Donnie Darko

Riding in Cards with Boys

Charlie's Angels

Grey Gardens

Whip It

Christmas send off:

Olive, the other reindeer

A Chronological List

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010): Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

2012 (2009): An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

1408: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences check into the fable room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after setting in, he confronts genuine terror. Co-starting Samuel L. Jackson.

The Ice Harvest (2005): A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. Directed by Harold Ramis and co-staring Billy Bob Thorton.

High Fidelity (2000): Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress. Classic Cusack at his best!!!

Being John Malkovich (1999): A puppeteer (i.e., John Cusack) discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of a movie star, John Malkovich!

Con Air (1997): A newly released ex-con and former US Ranger finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control. Co-staring Nicholas Cage, Ving Rhames, & Steve Buscemi.

Bullets Over Broadway (1994): In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced. Written and directed by Woody Allen.

Roadside Prophets (1992): Two strangers meet on the road and travel through Nevada on a motorcycle to find an elusive spot where they can dump another man’s ashes. You have to see the trailer. It looks pretty awesome!!!

Say Anything (1989): A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

Better Off Dead (1985): A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier. Co-staring Curtis “Booger” Armstrong. Need I say more?

Sixteen Candles (1984): A young girl’s “sweet sixteenth” birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. This is where it all started for Cusack. His first film and one of his best!

The worst of the worst

As we near the twighlight of our first decade of Thanksgiving, let us honor the TRADITION with a Razzie nominated Actor for his work, not once, not twice, but 6 times. Not only did he garner a win for worst actor in 2005 with Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, but earned an inspiring nomination for worst actor of the decade! This is our golden boy. Below are some of the nearly insufferable films of our ultimate anti-hero.

The Hot Chick
The Animal
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
The Chosen One (directed by Rob)
Big Stan (directed by Rob)
The Waterboy (classic Rob)
Hollywood Stories (a set of vignettes including Jason Alexander, Gary Oldman,
Pierce Brosnan, & Tia Carrere)
Surf Ninjas (Classic Rob + Leslie Nielson!)
The Benchwarmers (with David Spade)
American Crude (uncharted territory)
American Virgin (part of the American Pie franchise)

And the Christmas Sendoff
Eight Crazy Nights


Let's join together, and agree, that we have saved the worst for last. A vote for Schneider is a vote for Tradition, Suffering, and Endurance. What Thanksgiving should be all about.

Shimmering Angel

Since we're all so anxious to get these T-shirts printed and put on our bodies so we can get skid marks all over them, let's consider the only man whose face is worth printing. For the sake of time, I will skip the wordy introduction. But suffice it to say, this man has proved himself deep and wide, from the low brow to the high. An American bad boy.

The Magna Carta (Lowell's Nomination)

Well, here we are. Another year, full of high caliber actors as our nominations. Every year we get farther away from the essential qualities that started the tradition. Every year we get closer to the snooze fest of knowing every film will be quality and enjoyable, where pain is a thing of the past, and the idea of T-giving endurance is a distant memory.

I reject this. I call for a return to the past. I call for another Tim Allen. I realize this seems like I am joking, but I am not. If we allow another high caliber 'respected' actor to win the nomination, how much different are we than the laughable Oscars. Already we are Golden Globing the hell out of the holidays, and my heart breaks a little just to think of another holiday with thought provoking story lines and acting that we can respect.

Where has Guttenberg gone? What about Arnold? Just because he is losing his day job, doesn't mean his spirit must also die. We set the bar high with the Michaels and Patrick. And those years gave us happiness, and let us fearlessly sit through hours of films.

This is it. This is the last year before our 10th anniversary. After this year all the rules change. Oscar winners are allowed. Our icons will surely be lifted to the greatest heights. We have all been saving our favorites, and our golden secrets.

But I plead, I beg, lets muddy it up one last time. Let's groan at the guffaws. Let us once more suffer through the same character played over and over again.

I come to you not with bravado and confidence in my nomination. Instead, in the spirit of Thanksgiving pasts, I beg, I crawl, and I grovel, for one last debacle of acting.

Good movies are easy with good actors. We can breeze through the 12-16 films if they are all quality. But what is the fun of that? Where is the magic? Without the suffering the T-shirt might lose some of its meaning.

So, with a pathetic appeal to your sense of tradition and desire to take the first 9 years out with a whimper, I nominate one of our generations worst and least respected actors.

The one, the only, Rob Schnieder

Obviously, with this nomination is the built in partner of another one of our generations least respected actors.

Flower power (Elizabeth's nomination)

For some people it's all about how she comes from hollywood royalty, or the fact that she has been delighting audiences since she was just 11 months old, or that she overcame a turbulent and drug filled adolescence to recapture the hearts of fans, or that she has a varied and peculiar taste in men (tom green?), but one thing that we can all agree on is that this hippy will make us happy this thanksgiving.

A New Level of Class...

Dana Barrett. Dian Fossey. Ellen Ripley. Helen Hudson.

Sophistication...Turkey...Beauty... Potatoes... Strength...

T-Giving...Sigourney.

My Official Nomination

He is, like most of his characters, an unconventional hero. This chicago-born actor is a true sex symbol. At 6' 3" his presence has cast a broad shadow over all of hollywood but his humility has kept him out of the spotlight. At 17, he made his acting debut alongside such household names as Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy. He has played an assassin, federal agent, and hopeless romantic. Yet, he has also been willing to take on more unconventional roles as an offbeat puppeteer and outcast ballplayer alongside Christopher Lloyd. His name is is known to us all and he is my official nomination for the 2010 T-Giving Festivities!!!

Elizabeth's UNOFFICIAL nomination

Forget has been actors, what about the car that's more human than some humans? I give you Herbie, that adorable incorrigible love bug.

My Early Pick by Lowell Frank

One Quick Correction

Guttenberg, not Gutenberg

Thanksgiving Commish List

Members of the Committee:

Open season is upon our shoulders! Soon we will cash it all in for that grotesque existence we've yearned for all year long. Oh yes, soon we will sweat on couches, fill our mouth holes with pure lard and our eye holes with heavenly light from the television screen. One special man or woman stands at the readies, waiting for the highest honor. Gutenberg, Dream, Allen, Keaton, J. Fox, Schwartzy, Elwes, Swayze. Who will be NUMBER 9? Now's the time to prepare your nomination. Keep your fingers crossed for exposed bottoms and partial nudities of any sort!

I took a quick journey through our blog history. The following names have been brought up, real or fake, as possible T-Giving stars (not including the above mentioned Actual Stars of Thanksgiving). I have included from memory some names not written in the blog.

Bronson Pinchot
Gary Busey
Christian Slater
Jeff Goldblum (Official Runner-Up)
Kurt Russell
Charles Grodin
Daniel Radcliffe
The Baldwin Brothers
Demi Moore (Official Runner-Up)
Richard Dreyfuss
Dustin Hoffman
Kevin Farley
Eriq La Salle
Leslie Jordan
Keanu Reeves (Official Runner-Up)
Tom Cruise
Winona Ryder
Carrot Top
Paul Reiser
Dennis Quaid (Official Runner-Up)
Brendan Fraser
John Travolta

And now I would to like to present my T-Giving Commish List. He's the friendly guy next door who's tough on crime. A hound dog with the most defiant hairdo in Hollywood. You've loved him for years on prime-time's biggest hit of the 90s. The first UNOFFICIAL nomination of the 2010 season.

Michael Chiklis