I GET PAID TO BE SUSPICIOUS WHEN I'VE GOT NOTHING TO BE SUSPICIOUS ABOUT: Philadelphia Weekly's Matt Prigge today lists Six Great Performances By Actors Cast-Against-Type, such as Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy (though, arguably, he was just playing his true self) and Catherine Keener in The 40 Year-Old Virgin.
To me, however, any such list is incomplete without including the previously ultra-serious Leslie Nielsen in Airplane! and the sine qua non of the category, Wilford Brimley's evil security chief in The Firm. There's also an asterisk for the political drama True Colors, in which James Spader plays the noble guy and John Cusack is morally compromised. What else are we missing?
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