The Demented Knight
Talk to the hand
What the hell has happened to Sir Ben Kingsley?
Since 2000, Kingsley’s career has become a sickeningly unpredictable roller-coaster ride of strange highs and tragic lows. For every House of Sand and Fog, the Oscar winner happily plunges into a Thunderbirds or A Sound of Thunder. And Kingsley has to be the only actor who can claim they worked with Roman Polanski (Oliver Twist) and Uwe Boll (BloodRayne) in the same year!
This year, things are particularly grim. The less said about War Inc., the better. But who can stand by as Kingsley swaps spit with a grungy Olsen twin in The Wackness or plays (ugh) the cross-eyed, gas-passing Guru Tugginmypuddah in Mike Myers’ grotesque ego stroke The Love Guru.
Enough is enough. Time for an intervention, before Kingsley agrees to Suspect Zero 2.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Guy’s gotta eat.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
He could swallow his pride, if he had any left.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I think the tipping point was Kingsley’s appearance as Himself on The Sopranos.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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