Samuel L Jackson

[mar_2343]

flipping through the channels last night I listened a little to Sam Jackson talking about his movie's on Letterman. I normally don't like Letterman but Jackson has had some entertaining movie's over the years. The point to this is Jackson was talking about some film festival he had attended, Letterman ask him about how the press over there covered his movie's and such. Jackson responded saying they just want to talk about our elections this year saying ( according to Jackson this is the European press statements to him ) they just want to know if Obama will get elected so we ( The U.S. ) can finally join the rest of the world...............lol
Oh well I guess another round of foreign media is about to have their readers or subscribers start contacting us to please vote the way they think this election should go like they did when Kerry ran for office

 

[Crystalship1]

Hmmm.... If WE join the rest of the world, who would WE ask to fight OUR wars and pay for OUR disaster relief????

 

[mosesiscarryingapdw]

English, please. I know the Indiana Public School System isn't the greatest (at least we're not South Carolina!), but spending a little bit of time proofreading one's posts for readability goes a long way towards making this forum a lot more enjoyable for everyone.

 

[4sarge]

Samuel Jackson has made some good movies and some real stinkers but he's always been a liberal radical politically

Samuel L. Jackson

AKA Samuel Leroy Jackson
Born: 21-Dec-1948
Birthplace: Washington, DC

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Pulp Fiction
Jackson grew up in a deeply segregated time and place, Chattanooga in the 1950s, where he was raised by aunts, uncles and grandparents. His mother did not live with him until Jackson was in fourth grade. His father, a drunk, never did. He played the French horn and trumpet in high school, then attended all-black Morehouse College, majoring in drama and creating some of his own. In 1969, Jackson was among a small group of radical students who took several members of the school Board of Trustees hostage, demanding curriculum changes and other school management reforms. For his crime, Jackson was suspended but not prosecuted.

He was a student at Morehouse again in 1972, when he made his film debut with a supporting role in Together for Days, a low-budget drama about interracial dating. After graduation, Jackson made local TV commercials, and eventually joined New York's Negro Ensemble Company in 1976. During his years as a struggling actor, he worked as a doorman, had a tiny role in Ragtime (James Cagney's last film), worked as Bill Cosby's stand-in on The Cosby Show, and appeared in two episodes of Spenser: For Hire with Robert Urich.

Jackson also drank heavily and did more than his share of cocaine. He completed drug rehab in 1991, later playing a drug addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, his first post-rehab role and his breakthrough performance. Genuine stardom came with Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, opposite John Travolta as a pair of hit men.

If you do the math just right, Samuel L. Jackson is the biggest movie star in history. He has often been second- or third-billed, or even farther down the credits, but if you just tally the money his films have earned, it adds up to over $3,000,000,000 -- more than any other actor in history. Harrison Ford is in second place, Tom Hanks is third.

In Eddie Murphy's stand-up movie Raw, Jackson played Murphy's uncle in one sketch. In assorted minimal "bad guy" roles, Jackson was in Murphy's huge hit Coming to America, Al Pacino's Sea of Love, and he was killed by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. As Jackson's star was rising, he was Ford's sidekick in Patriot Games, and a technowiz in Steven Spielberg's mega-blockbuster Jurassic Park. His post-stardom blockbusters include three Star Wars films, Die Hard: With A Vengeance with Bruce Willis, A Time to Kill with Sandra Bullock, xXx with Vin Diesel, S.W.A.T. with Colin Farrell, and The Incredibles, where Jackson voiced the frozen sidekick Frozone ("Where is my super-suit, woman?"). Most recently he tangled with Snakes on A Plane, and he has said he wants to play comic book superhero Nick Fury.
Father: (d., alcoholism)
Mother: Elizabeth Jackson (office worker)
Wife: LaTanya Richardson (actress, b. 1941, m. 1980, one daughter)
Daughter: Zoe Jackson (b. 1982)



University: BA Drama, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA (1972)

Obama for America
Hollywood Walk of Fame 7018 Hollywood Blvd (motion pictures)
unknown detox facility upstate New York 1988
Wedding: Al Reynolds and Star Jones (2004)
Risk Factors: Cocaine, Alcoholism, Stuttering
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2]FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR[/SIZE][/FONT]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (14-Aug-2008) [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
Jumper (6-Feb-2008)
1408 (22-Jun-2007)
Farce of the Penguins (30-Jan-2007) Narrator [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
Resurrecting the Champ (20-Jan-2007)
Home of the Brave (15-Dec-2006)
Black Snake Moan (9-Dec-2006)
Snakes on a Plane (17-Aug-2006)
Freedomland (17-Feb-2006)
The Man (9-Sep-2005)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (18-May-2005)
xXx: State of the Union (27-Apr-2005)
Coach Carter (14-Jan-2005)
The Incredibles (27-Oct-2004) [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (4-Sep-2004) [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (16-Apr-2004)
Twisted (23-Feb-2004)
In My Country (7-Feb-2004)
S.W.A.T. (8-Aug-2003)
Basic (28-Mar-2003)
xXx (9-Aug-2002)
The House on Turk Street (29-Jun-2002)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (16-May-2002)
Changing Lanes (7-Apr-2002)
Formula 51 (7-Dec-2001)
The Caveman's Valentine (19-Jan-2001)
Unbreakable (14-Nov-2000)
Shaft (16-Jun-2000)
Rules of Engagement (31-Mar-2000)
Deep Blue Sea (26-Jul-1999)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (19-May-1999)
Our Friend, Martin (1999) [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
The Red Violin (10-Sep-1998)
The Negotiator (29-Jul-1998)
Sphere (13-Feb-1998)
Jackie Brown (25-Dec-1997)
Eve's Bayou (7-Sep-1997)
One Eight Seven (30-Jul-1997)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (11-Oct-1996)
A Time To Kill (24-Jul-1996)
Trees Lounge (11-May-1996)
The Great White Hype (3-May-1996)
Hard Eight (20-Jan-1996)
Fluke (02-Jun-1995) [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-2][VOICE][/SIZE][/FONT]
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (19-May-1995)
Kiss of Death (21-Apr-1995)
Losing Isaiah (17-Mar-1995)
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (9-Nov-1994)
Pulp Fiction (14-Oct-1994)
The New Age (13-Sep-1994)
Against the Wall (26-Mar-1994)
Assault at West Point (27-Feb-1994)
Fresh (Jan-1994)
Hail Caesar (1994)
True Romance (10-Sep-1993)
Jurassic Park (11-Jun-1993)
Menace II Society (26-May-1993)
Amos & Andrew (5-Mar-1993)
Loaded Weapon 1 (5-Feb-1993)
Fathers & Sons (6-Nov-1992)
Jumpin' at the Boneyard (18-Sep-1992)
Patriot Games (5-Jun-1992)
White Sands (24-Apr-1992)
Juice (17-Jan-1992)
Strictly Business (8-Nov-1991)
Johnny Suede (Aug-1991)
Jungle Fever (5-Jun-1991)
Goodfellas (19-Sep-1990)
The Exorcist III (17-Aug-1990)
Mo Better Blues (3-Aug-1990)
Betsy's Wedding (22-Jun-1990)
Def by Temptation (23-Mar-1990)
A Shock to the System (23-Mar-1990)
Sea of Love (15-Sep-1989)
Dead Man Out (12-Mar-1989)
Do the Right Thing (14-Jan-1989)
Coming to America (29-Jun-1988)
School Daze (12-Feb-1988)
Eddie Murphy Raw (25-Nov-1987)
Magic Sticks (25-Jun-1987)
Ragtime (20-Nov-1981)

One of my favorites

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[munky_3434]

and according to dave chappelle he has a tasty beer

 

[mar_2343]

English, please. I know the Indiana Public School System isn't the greatest (at least we're not South Carolina!), but spending a little bit of time proofreading one's posts for readability goes a long way towards making this forum a lot more enjoyable for everyone.

No thanks I liked it the way I wrote it. You don't have to like it or read it for that to matter. Stick to the subject not to the way in which it was presented. You will be a happier sort of liberal.........don't tell me how to present something to anyone.....thats what liberals attempt to do

Peace Out

 

[Bigum1969]

flipping through the channels last night I listened a little to Sam Jackson talking about his movie's on Letterman. I normally don't like Letterman but Jackson has had some entertaining movie's over the years. The point to this is Jackson was talking about some film festival he had attended, Letterman ask him about how the press over there covered his movie's and such. Jackson responded saying they just want to talk about our elections this year saying ( according to Jackson this is the European press statements to him ) they just want to know if Obama will get elected so we ( The U.S. ) can finally join the rest of the world...............lol
Oh well I guess another round of foreign media is about to have their readers or subscribers start contacting us to please vote the way they think this election should go like they did when Kerry ran for office

Not really surprising.

Hollywood blah blah.

I'm sooooper concerned what the rest of the world thinks.

 

[turkeykiller]

No thanks I liked it the way I wrote it. You don't have to like it or read it for that to matter. Stick to the subject not to the way in which it was presented. You will be a happier sort of liberal.........don't tell me how to present something to anyone.....thats what liberals attempt to do

Peace Out
[/QUOTE]

Its a gun forum not English class.

 

[Benny]

Jackson's movies haven't been entertaining since I was 12 and didn't know what a good actor/movie is.

Angry black man(what his role is in every movie) yelling into the camera =/= good acting.

 

[4sarge]

Jackson's movies haven't been entertaining since I was 12 and didn't know what a good actor/movie is.

Angry black man(what his role is in every movie) yelling into the camera =/= good acting.

Good Point He's just being himself - an angry black man

 

[Bill of Rights]

I don't recall him being angry or yelling into the camera in the Star Wars movies... but those're the only exceptions I can think of at the moment.

Blessings,
B

 

[haldir]

You all are typical white people... next thing you know you will be bitter and cling to guns and God.

 

[sanzo87]

ok whats funny to me about the whole fuss about a black man running for office or a woman running for office is this is not the first time. (look it up) a woman and black ex slave ran on the same ticket about 50 years before women even had the right to vote.

sorry if its off topic

 

[bwframe]

Guess I'm simple minded. I really like Sam Jackson. I think he's a great actor for my taste.

When Sam, or any other entertainer, choose to use their celebrity to promote the Dems, they will no longer receive my money. I will go out of my way not to support them financially.

No Sam Jackson
No Matt Damon
No John Mellencamp
...

 

[Benny]

I don't recall him being angry or yelling into the camera in the Star Wars movies... but those're the only exceptions I can think of at the moment.

Blessings,
B

You got me.

Although he did ask for the only purple light sabre(sp?), so that has to count for something.

You all are typical white people... next thing you know you will be bitter and cling to guns and God.

Guilty!

 

[mosesiscarryingapdw]

No thanks I liked it the way I wrote it. You don't have to like it or read it for that to matter. Stick to the subject not to the way in which it was presented. You will be a happier sort of liberal.........don't tell me how to present something to anyone.....thats what liberals attempt to do

Peace Out

Actually, I am a liberal on a lot of social issues!

Getting upset that people outside the United States have an interest in this election is absurd. There's nothing that says people from outside this country can't make suggestions on how people should vote. Everyone in the world should be paying close attention to this election, as it will change the course of this country and by extension the rest of the world, for better or for worse.

 

[CarmelHP]

There's nothing that says people from outside this country can't make suggestions on how people should vote.

There's nothing that says we can't tell them to butt out either.

 

[Paul]

There's nothing that says we can't tell them to butt out either.

Yup, none of their business. I think if they want Obama, it obvious who we should vote for, McCain They are not looking at our best interest.

 

[mosesiscarryingapdw]

don't tell me how to present something to anyone.....thats what liberals attempt to do

Hmm, looks like the previous two posters are liberals as well by this definition, by suggesting how non-US citizens present their views on the presidential elections to US Citizens. Imagine that!

McCain isn't really in our best interests either, unless you are a single-issue voter. I try hard not to be.

 

[mar_2343]

Liberals want to tell everyone how to do everything(just ask them), liberals I belive think those that don't believe or think like they themselves are stupid or ignorant. Meaning your not smart enough, your not cultured enough, your not liberal enough. I don't like it when a liberal confuses my rights as a citizen of The United States under the Constitution with the rights of a foreign nation, a subject not a citizen, You want to live your life as you see fit by all means do so. Just don't tell me what to do, don't tell me I have to pay for what you as a liberal on some social issues think is right.
Your so called social issues are still SOCIALISM.