@Mike_From_Chicago:disqus - then Goldblum got to sit in the big chair on Jurassic Park: The Lost World. He's indisputably the star! Ha ha! Nobady can take that away from him!

You could make a good list of "would-be leading men who never quite broke out." Treat Williams is a perfect example. Nathan Fillion (although I realize he's on a hit TV show) feels like someone who might have been a big movie star in an alternate dimension. Who else? Don Johnson? John Krasinski (who seemed poised for…

I guess "milquetoast" has more of a negative connotation than I intended. Mostly I just think it's funny that there was an era in which guys like Gould were considered movie stars — it's not a bad thing, but it's certainly not the norm.

I don't know, that line's great but I don't think it tops "we don't need two stretchy guys."

@avclub-63706c2231765ca840e9a60a76fae00a:disqus , I'm not implying that I dislike either of them. For the record, I think Gould is great, though O'Neal is only good when he's used in exactly the right way — Paper Moon: he's pretty good. Barry Lyndon:…they probably could have done better, casting-wise.

Oh, I've seen The Long Goodbye. I've seen M*A*S*H. And I say: milquetoast!

And remember, only one of them was capable of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Better 70s milquetoast leading man:Ryan O'Neal or Elliott Gould?

SCIENCE!

That's what I thought — in scenes where he's trying to be funny, he does something weird. In "straight" kissing scenes he's pretty much just doing normal screen kissing.

I was recently slimed by him!

He has slimed me!

I don't even know how to process my weird feelings about this whole thing.

Yeah, he's right-on about U2, at least.

Well, I implied it, but that's neither here nor there.

I can't think about Lorelai or Rory without thinking about whack jobs.

Sweet Georgia Brown — if that scene in MacGruber where Will Forte is fucking a ghost doesn't make you laugh, then I don't know what to tell ya.

This might be my favorite gimmick.

Blah! I vant to suck your blood! Blah! Blah!

I'm Positively Bleeding with confusion over your point.