October 22, 2003
STEPHEN SILVER'S BLOG SALUTES RON
STEPHEN SILVER'S BLOG SALUTES RON SILVER:
-Because he's played both Alan Dershowitz and Robert Shapiro in different movies, but never Johnnie Cochran.
-Because of his politics: an unabashed liberal, he nonetheless defends America at every turn, including the time at a conference in Switzerland that he shouted at an EU bureaucrat that "America is not an imperialist country, and you know it!"
-Because in playing a porn baron on the new show "Skin," he joins the starlet Cheyenne Silver and the legendary Long Dong Silver in the pantheon of pornographers who share my last name.
-Because like Long Dong, he may someday figure in the fate of a US Supreme Court nominee.
-Because he starred in the movie "Enemies: A Love Story," which was co-written by uber-blogger Roger L. Simon.
-Because his father's name was Irving Silver; my father's name is Alan Irving Silver.
-Because he's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" come to life: Before turning to acting, he considered doing intelligence work.
-Because HIS FATHER IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
-Because he's a much better actor than Bob Balaban, Oliver Platt or Ron Rifkin.
-Because he's the subject of this, the definitive Ron Silver fansite on the web.
-Because I'm not related to him, but damn I wish I was.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 22, 2003 08:12 PM