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inexplicable leading men

Every so often, Hollywood tries to foist upon an unexpecting public a Leading Man who has no business being there. Maybe a modicum of talent, yet without personality, star-power - PIZAZZ!!

Here's my choice as most inexplicable Leading Man ever:

Craig Wasson

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Wasson starred in some movies in early 80s Hollywood fare like Four Friends, Ghost Story and Body Double. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the reasons you've probably never heard of these movies (except maybe for the last one) is because Wasson's charisma level - that being ZERO - sunk these pictures before they could find an audience.

He's not bad. He's kinda charming in that Steve Zahn kind of way, you know? But you don't build a $20 million movie around him.

In recent years, Wasson maintains a career with a steady diet of guest roles on TV shows like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Craig Wasson - Most Inexplicable Leading Man ever.

who's yours?

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He was deeply uninspiring in Body Double, but I don't think the film did badly in the box office, and it had many flaws -- laugh out loud ones. It was definitely De Palma at his worst in many spots.

I think his character was supposed to be bland, like Hitchcock characters are(DePalma has always been aping Hitchcock). But being bland like Cary Grant has a hell of a lot of spark in it. Hitch's "everyman" characters were sometimes anything but. This dude, though, definitely made bland believably bland.

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Yeah whatever. Like The Animal and The Hot Chick weren't the two greatest films in American history.

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I've mentioned this before, but every time Nicolas Cage gets a $20,000,000 paycheck, I scratch my head. I just don't understand it. He's the worst actor I've ever seen.

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