Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Sweeping Away The Competition




Paul Gross, aka. George Clooney North, may have stolen women's hearts in Aspen Extreme but can he steal votes away from his competitors? With average eyes you could get lost in and an adequate smile that makes teenage girls weep, Gross serged across the small screen after a career on the stage and in movies no one has heard of.

As one button presser said:

"Paul Gross is a wooden, uninteresting actor with aspirations to be a mediocre scriptwriter. He received front-page acclaim in Maclean's magazine when he jumped from his boring TV show to a boring bit part in a forgotten Hollywood movie. Then he entered the stratosphere of Canadian moviemaking through the taxpayer-funded sedative "Men with Brooms". His mediocrity was almost averaged out by co-starring with the (only) slightly-less mediocre Leslie Nielsen. Astonishingly he has not yet been given his own late-night CBC variety show, but since they haven't yet settled on a replacement for Ralph ben Mergui there is still time."

But is making a financially successful Canadian movie enough to crown him as the most mediocre? You decide.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Look around you. You could find mediocrity everywhere; Canada hasn't cornered the market. You could do this blog for any country, although I can't say I see the point. Talk about mediocre.

I don't think it's realistic to expect something earth-shattering from everyone who's in the public eye. But if they had the gumption to get themselves there, regardless of whether they have the cure for cancer or the answers to life's greatest mysteries, that shows they at least have some passion for something besides denigrating other people.