Why was Dennis Quaid included in Vanity Fair cover 2003?

You really think he's not on the same level as Jude "Box Office Poison" Law or Hugh Grant?!

He was big - then.

This was after the Meg Ryan divorce and he got a lot of sympathy at the time.

He wasn't on the cover. He was on the flap.

Big difference.

His fiancée was 9-years-old in 2003.

R2 Not in 2003, come on.

He was promising actor in the 1980s.

R1 Jude Law was a hot big star in the early 2000s. He was everywhere at the particular time.

He had received a lot of good press from his role in "Far from Heaven" which had come out the previous Fall.

Far From Heaven

R3 Makes sense. I think this could be the only reason to include him on that cover.

He's had a 40 year career. You really think he can't compare to Jude Law or Ewan McGregor or Edward Norton? Btw, he was coming off a critically acclaimed film (Far From Heaven) and a box office hit (The Rookie) at the time

It was either him or Randy Quaid.

we were bombarded with Jude Law in those aughts. And, America declined.

17 years is a long time to be hysterical over this, OP.

R14 I'm not hysterical. On DL, We discuss topics from 50 years ago!

His 2002 movie The Rookie did surprisingly well commercially and critically, there was even talk of a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but that was not to be, so people thought for a time he would be a leading man.

Jude Law looks gorgeous there. It's a shame he aged so poorly.

I like Dennis Quaid and used to think of him as leading man material. He was great in Far From Heaven. But whoo boy has he made some shitty choices in the past 15 years or so. I tried to watch this P.O.S. only because he was in it (as a serial killer!). Could not get through it, not even for the camp factor. And yeah, it's fucking gross that he's dating a fetus. Old egos clearly surpass brain cells.

In pictures like this, demand to be on the right. Poor Matt Damon was relegated to the far left and ended up on the third flap of the foldout cover! How embarrassing!

R19: I think Matt Damon has had the last laugh.

the real question is whether these people were in the same photo together, or was this the magic of combining cropped photos.

i can't see these guys all clearing their schedule at the same time. also, that strange background seems designed to hide fakery of this sort.

they might be all headliners, but the only real actors are Nicholson, Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson, with Law getting an honourable mention for character work.

What’s that yellow blob centre left?

Ugh, You do like Hammy actors, r21.

R21 They were. I remember this issue and they had pics of the behind-the-scenes of the shoot, which included a photo of Brad Pitt lifting his arm to show his gross pitt (heh) stain.

Tammy looks good there too.

R23 go big, or go home. Ford, Quaid, and Pitt can't really act. Grant plays the same douche over and over. Damon has been good in one thing i've seen him in (afflack outdoes him, which is somewhat sad). 3 expression Tammy--the less said, the better. this list is comprised of box office headliners from the look of things. so out of this group, yes, i would say that those are the best ones. most of the better actors are actually character actors, so wouldn't be here anyway.

oh, and i almost missed Cheadle there, hiding under someone's armpit. he's good, and too rarely seen. maybe he's too low key to be in there.

Why was Don Cheadle included?

Who is the white guy seated in front of Edward Norton?

Don Cheadle was never a big star. Dennis was a major heartthrob. Fraus LOVED Dennis

Jude Law, R28.

I watched a bit of his Christmas sitcom Merry Happy Whatever last December and it was unforgivable.

It makes me sad that no magazine today would be worth the time for A Listers and legends of that magnitude (particularly the front panel) to take a break and pose for a cover like that. The star wattage in that photo is insane. And how far VF has fallen in particular which is covered quite a bit in another thread. That I’m too lazy to link.

What actors would be included in the 2020 version?

The Rock, Zac Efron, Chris Hemsworth, Tyler Perry, Adam Driver, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, Timothee Cabernet, John Krasinski, Chris Pine, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Simu Liu, Tom Holland, Tom Hiddlesworth, Henry Golding, Connor Jessop, Colton Haynes

Only on DL is Colton Haynes an A lister.

So you would NOT include him?

Add Rami Malek, Harry Styles, and James Marsden to the list.

Sure he was, Op. That’s a ludicrous statement in your title.

I see Brad’s small dick made the cover.

Why was Ben Afleck not invited? Oh wait, nevermind.

[quote] I watched a bit of his Christmas sitcom Merry Happy Whatever last December and it was unforgivable.

Whose?

Henry Cavill, R33? He’s no box office draw and no actor.

Colto.

[quote]Jude Law was a hot big star in the early 2000s

Correction: Hollywood was trying to make Jude Law a hot big star in the early 2000s, shoving him down our throats, despite proof positive he was box office poison, until Chris Rock called him and Hollywood out in his Oscar monologue in 2005. Yes, Chris Rock killed Jude Law's career in one swoop.

[R8], [R9]: Dennis Quaid channeled some "Old Hollywood", leading man glamour in, "Far From Heaven".

Before far from heaven was released, Dennis Quaid dropped his representation for making him “play a faggot”. I know for a fact it happened. And it revitalized his career. He made millions of dollars as a leading man In major movies In the decade that followed (Usually as an actor for hire when all of the big names passed).

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R46 was SUPPOSED to say I had no idea he turned down Big, Sleepless in Seattle and League of Their Own, but was replaced by that tiresome Daily Mail disclaimer.

He's been in a couple of dog movies in recent years...real tear jerkers! but quite good and whole family can enjoy.

My friend met him in a restaurant downtown years and years ago. He was by himself and a nice guy, was chatting with my friend, they were outside smoking a cig at the same time.

Probably because of Far From Heaven.

[quote]I like Dennis Quaid and used to think of him as leading man material.

He was definitely leading man material in "The Big Easy" -- sexy as hell. I thought he was serviceably charismatic in his late 80s early 90s roles but I think the drugs did him in.

Remember how he referred to Brokeback Mountain as a "chick flick" while introducing the film at the 2006 Golden Globes? That was a super cringe-worthy moment. I wonder if he came up with that lousy joke himself or if it was fed to him by the screenwriters via teleprompter?

Jude Law took any role he could get after he got divorced from Sadie Frost to recoup what he lost in the divorce. Then Chris Rock mocked him at his Oscar monologue. The overexposure did him in. I believe it was also that time when that dick slip pap pic was published. His receding hairline didn't help either.

I never understood Law's appeal. Never found him beautiful or attractive and he's a shit actor. I hope he reads this.

He was selling them insurance and got in the way.

I always thought he was sexy. He was good in that Billy Bob show 'Goliath' recently.

Jude Law was never attractive. But the media (and women) raved about him so much so everyone started believing it.

Women never cared about him, that's why his movies bombed

Remember when Jude Law played the ideal male in AI. He was the fantasy robot hooker. I was like “who would hire that?!?”

I fell in love Jude Law after seeing him in Wilde when I was a teenaged galying.

Jude was pretty hot in Ripley. In that rich frat boy asshole way.

[quote] Jude Law was never attractive

[quote] He was the fantasy robot hooker. I was like “who would hire that?!?”

I utterly disagree. I adored his beauty from the time I was a young teenager. I was in awe of it.

[quote] I fell in love Jude Law after seeing him in Wilde when I was a teenaged galying.

Same here.

Having Jude Law emerge from a bathtub full frontal center stage in Broadway's "Indiscretions" was not a bad thing.

Jude Law has found this thread.

I have to agree with the majority of posters regarding Jude Law. He is the pear of hot actors. He was good looking for, like, a day, but not good before or after. But make no mistake, during that one day he was hot as fuck (or ripe, if he were a pear).

R64 This pear metaphor you speak of is unknown to me, where do you come from?

[quoteDamon has been good in one thing i've seen him in (afflack outdoes him, which is somewhat sad).

Affleck only outdoes Matt in drinking.

R65 Minnesota

The reason why Ben Affleck isn't part of the cover?

One word: Gigli (released 2003)

Two words: Gobble gobble

That relationship with J-Lo, and how it played out in the gossip rags, ruined Ben's career at the time, but he made a comeback when he settled down with Jennifer Garner.

Has he ever won an Academy Award? He should have for Far from Heaven.

I wanted some daddy boy play when he was Jake Gyllenhaal’s father in The Day After Tomorrow.

Chris Rock was not "calling out" Jude Law. What Rock was doing was commenting on how during his lifetime the idea of what made a huge movie star had changed so that now someone his own age like Jude Law was considered a big star, when to his mind a big star had to be someone older like Jack Nicholson.

But he delivered the joke badly so that humorless Sean Penn (like you) thought he was "calling out" Jude Law.

Jude Law is/was hot to some here because he’s British. And we all know how America’s obsession with Britishness was back then. Lot’s of awards and roles wasted on the mediocre based on their accent. Some were straight on failures in the UK who upon landing in America became classy, highbrow and cultured.

It takes time before people get on to their con and they get discarded. They will have made a lot of dough in the meantime. But the actual British invasions never brought little actual talent.

R71. Jack Nicholson wasn’t mentioned anywhere in that monologue. Jude Law was contrasted with Tom Cruise. And boy, was Chris Rock correct! Hollywood dropped him like a hot potato.

[quote] And we all know how America’s obsession with Britishness was back then.

Then?

Jude Law was stupid hot in his 20s. What is wrong with you?

Even in his 20s, he was balding bad. This is not hot.

Quaid used to get some good roles. I loved him in "Breaking Away" and "Postcards from the Edge". His career has hit the wall and he makes shit. When did his nose get huge?

They needed someone for the pivot position after the shoot. The real story was H ugh Grant's insisting that a circle jerk was just a really obnoxious dude with a hula hoop.

Dennis Quaid was very good in The Right Stuff. Pancho Barnes herself called him a pudknocker.

R77 Another of the brutal eventualities we all must face.

All gay. Surely someone straight can act?

I *DEMAND* to know why there are NO transpersons on that cover. Fuck Vanity Fair and their trans erasure! They LITERALLY murdered trans folks with their exclusion!

R82 must be a Republican

R82 well, Pitt has trans kids.

Why are these gay actors so good at appearing straight. In real life, it's much more obvious that someone is gay.

Dennis Quaid always had a sexy smile. Matthew McConaughey took over from him until he ruined his looks and became a humorless twat with a stick up his ass. Now we’re waiting for the next Texas charmer.

To provide diversity perhaps?

We all been losing sleep over this for the last 17 years OP.

The pretension is palpable.