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Try Walking In My Shoes - We Examine Recasting From Batman To Bond
David Bax , May 27th, 2009 09:12

All change! All change! David Bax of Battleship Pretension examines some roles that are bigger than any one actor.

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The Griswold Children
Given that the Vacation movies are really about Chevy Chase and no one could really care less, it’s amazing which actors have filled those roles over the years: Anthony Michael Hall, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Ethan Embry. And yet these roles are nowhere near the top of any of their resumes. Imagine that.