A few weeks ago, my good friend and confidante Tradd sent me a link to an Esquire blog post called "The 25 Best A-List Movie Cameos." Due to circumstances well within my control, I have not looked at it until today. Here is the list (in the same order in the post, which doesn't appear to be ranked in any way):
1. Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Bill Murray in Zombieland
3. Martin Sheen in Hot Shots! Part Deux
4. Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder
5. Buster Keaton in Sunset Boulevard
6. Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, and Steven Spielberg in Austin Powers in Goldmember
7. The Three Stooges in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
8. Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts in The Player
9. Gene Hackman in Young Frankenstein
10. Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction
11. Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
12. John Hurt in Spaceballs
13. Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver
14. Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street
15. Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers
16. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
17. Orson Welles in The Muppet Movie
18. Tim Robbins, Ben Stiller, and Luke Wilson in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
19. Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz
20. Charlton Heston in Wayne's World 2
21. Hulk Hogan in Gremlins 2: The New Batch
22. Chuck Norris in Dodgeball
23. Sean Connery in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
24. Michael Cera in This Is The End
25. Alfred Hitchcock in pretty much every movie he made
It's a pretty solid list, and the article has clips of each cameo, which is a great way to waste an hour. The terms "A-List" and "cameo" are kind of amorphous, but here are a couple I would add to the list:
-Lance Armstrong in Dodgeball
-Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore
-Jason Bonham, Nick Catanese, Blas Elias, Stephen Jenkins, Myles Kennedy, Jeff Pilson, Ralph Saenz (aka Michael Starr of Steel Panther), Brian Vander Ark, and Zakk Wylde as various musicians in Rock Star
-Roger Clemens in Kingpin
-Alice Cooper in Wayne's World
-Flea and Aimee Mann in The Big Lebowski
-Matt Damon in Euro Trip (per Ryan, who declared that the list "loses all credibility" as a result of this omission)
-Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous
-Stan Lee in Mallrats
-Alanis Morissette in Dogma
-Cam Neely in Dumb and Dumber
Any others?
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If you're including PSH in Almost Famous why not in Lebowski?
I didn't include his performance as Brandt because I wouldn't categorize it as a cameo, since he appeared throughout the film. Lester Bangs in Almost Famous was only in a couple brief scenes.
For the same reason, I didn't include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Airplane, although that one is more on the fence as to whether it's a cameo or not.
You are so learned.
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