I think they are all equally great!
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Paul P. Powell — 3 months ago(December 25, 2025 06:34 PM)
"some of the biggest actors in the last …"
That makes them just "celebs", not actors of any true, proven, established talent.
We're drowning in phony, faux, fraudulent celebs. We're in the world predicted by Andy Warhol.
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Paul P. Powell — 3 months ago(December 25, 2025 06:41 PM)
Advanced degrees from one of the best schools in the country.
What's puzzling you here is that I just don't waste my time with sub-par, garbage-y popculture.
It's a matter of maintaining high standards and refusing to settle for what is bourgeoise.
I only give my attention to what is proven to be excellent. Nothing but the best.
Whereas you and your pals will watch any movie that is generating 'buzz'. You are pawns of the media, led around by the nose by advertisers and spin-doctors.
Manipulated by the money-men and the hype-mongers.
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Paul P. Powell — 3 months ago(December 25, 2025 06:51 PM)
Hallo –if your reply is to me –then, I appreciate your input on this.
I acknowledged in my post that there may be a few names I might be overlooking.
In this specific case, no. He's not a name I would include in my personal rankings.
See, I didn't just round up every famous name I could think of, I gathered together only those actors who's work I've admired.
Never seen Cheadle in anything notable, which I recall enjoying. He seems to be just another black celeb from this schlock, modern-day Biedermeier-Period we're trapped in.
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Paul P. Powell — 3 months ago(December 25, 2025 07:18 PM)
I still say that when you size them all up pound-for-pound …in terms of their achievements …no one even comes even remotely close to Sidney Poitier.
He alone is the most significant African-American actor ever to have emerged since World War Two.
Everyone else simply follows in the path he cut. He was the pioneer, he was the trail-blazer. His name towers over every other.
He's the only actor with chops not
'furnished for him'
by the hype machines in LA and New York.
All the agents, all the managers, all the PR lackeys…it's easy to follow in someone's wake when you've never navigated on your own.
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