their top 25 actors and actresses<\/a> as part of an end-of-the-millenium TV special back in 1999. We\u2019ll save the actresses for another day, so let\u2019s concentrate on the actors tonight.<\/p>\nAFI\u2019s cutoff point was that an actor had to have made their screen debut by 1950. That\u2019s a good cutoff point for a \u201cGolden Age\u201d list, although it does exclude Jack Lemmon, who didn\u2019t make his credited movie debut until 1954. (He had some uncredited roles before that.) Rock Hudson only had one bit part before 1950 and they didn\u2019t spell his name right. I\u2019m not sure whether they counted that.<\/p>\n
You can see the complete top 25 at the link, but their top ten were:<\/p>\n
Humphrey BogartCary GrantJames StewartMarlon BrandoFred AstaireHenry FondaClark GableJames CagneySpencer TracyCharlie Chaplin<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a pretty good list to start. So tell us who is your favorite and which movies he did make you love him?<\/p>\n
For me, the answer is easy. It\u2019s Grant. There\u2019s no one on this list whom I don\u2019t think is terrific, but Cary Grant stands out to me. I\u2019m not sure any actor of the era was as equally at home in drama and comedy, often in the same film. North by Northwest is a masterpiece. His comedies like The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday and Monkey Business are great. But he also made a lot of great dramatic pictures such as Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and Notorious are excellent too. Charade is fantastic spy drama in the same vein as North by Northwest. Yes, Grant appeared in some turkeys, as did every actor in the studio system. But I don\u2019t think he was ever in a bad movie that wasn\u2019t made a little better because he was in it.<\/p>\n
Welcome back to everyone who skipped ahead.<\/p>\n
The Cubs have made it clear that they expect that Seiya Suzuki will be activated for Friday\u2019s game against the Pirates. Suzuki has been playing in Knoxville all week and every indication is that he\u2019s ready to return to the majors.<\/p>\n
That means someone has to go, assuming no one gets hurt between now and Friday. (The Cubs don\u2019t think that Ian Happ will need a trip to the injured list.) Since teams must have 13 position players these days, the Cubs will have to remove one to activate Suzuki.<\/p>\n
There are basically three choices of players who can be removed. I think at the beginning of the season there was a possibility that Matt Shaw, who has options, could go down to Iowa to make room for Suzuki, but I think Shaw is proving himself too valuable so far to go down. If you disagree (or you have some other candidate), you can vote other.<\/p>\n
The three players, in reverse order of how likely I think they are to get removed, are:<\/p>\n
Michael Conforto: Manager Craig Counsell certainly seems to like Conforto and he\u2019s certainly had the most opportunity to play of the three choices. Conforto has played in seven games (and is in the starting lineup tonight as I write this) and is hitting .250 with a .438 on-base percentage. Sure, he\u2019s yet to have an extra base hit yet and he was pretty awful for the Dodgers last year, but he\u2019s definitely had the best career of our three choices. He was a pretty good outfielder for the Mets from 2o15 to 2021. He wasn\u2019t terrible for the Giants for two years after that. But maybe you think that he\u2019s about to turn back into what he was with the Dodgers last year.<\/p>\n
Scott Kingery: You\u2019d be forgiven if you forgot that Kingery was even on the Cubs. So far, all he\u2019s done is pinch-run twice. His only stat is one stolen base. I don\u2019t know the particulars of the minor league deal that Kingery signed with the Cubs over the winter, but he still has minor league options according to Fangraphs. Assuming that\u2019s correct, the Cubs could send him down to Iowa and still have him in reserve<\/p>\n
The only issue is that removing Kingery leaves the Cubs with five outfielders plus Matt Shaw, who has been playing outfield most of the year, and five infielders, with Shaw as the only backup. I suppose that Ian Happ could fill in at second or first in an emergency, but that\u2019s not something the Cubs want to rely on. Sending down Kingery leaves the Cubs thin in the infield. On the other hand, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s playing at all right now.<\/p>\n
Dylan Carlson: Carlson has barely played more than Kingery, despite Suzuki (and now Happ) being injured. He\u2019s gotten one start and that was in game two of the doubleheader in Cleveland. He went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts in that game. He pinch-ran in game one and scored a run, which was his Cubs debut. He pinch-hit for Conforto in Monday\u2019s game versus the Rays and flew out.<\/p>\n
So basically, Counsell has barely used Carlson despite having ample opportunity to do so. Perhaps he would accept an assignment to Iowa, which would make the decision to take him off the roster easy. But he\u2019d probably prefer to go somewhere where he might actually get an opportunity, since it doesn\u2019t look like Counsell wants to give him one on the North Side.<\/p>\n
But tonight\u2019s question isn\u2019t who will be removed from the roster, but rather who you would remove if you were in charge. So who\u2019s your choice?<\/p>\n
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