Happy Birthday to
Jackie Earle Haley
49 today
Following Jackie extraordinary performance and subsequent Academy Award nomination for Little Children I suspect he knew he only had a limited window in which to establish a legitimate career in movies, being short of stature on top of his ethereal facial structure means parts are harder to come by. But now he's made his money with Watchmen and the Elm Street remake he'll hopefully have more opportunity to experiment on film.
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(If you don't count a nasty appearance in 1975's "Day of the Locust" in which a young Haley gets stomped to death by Donald Sutherland in a parking lot...)
His career really began in 1979 with "Breaking Away", a well-liked sleeper hit about a college bicycle race. While Daniel Stern's and Dennis Quaid's careers took off after appearing in that Oscar-nominated Best Picture, Haley was too quirky to be used much. Hope he manages a solid comeback....age and maturity have served him well.
I had heard he was in Day of the Locust, but I never knew which part. Not that is a deeply disturbing film.
I shall have to get hold of a copy of Breaking Away - it's just been re-released over here - and probably before the end of the Tour de France.
DOE'S NOT look like Walter Kovacs(Rorshach) from Watchmen. :O
I bow to your better judgement on that one. Nice to revisit one of my older posts too.
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