I watched “The Out of Towners” staring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn with John Cleese in a small supporting role the other day and was surprised to see that Rudy Giuliani had a cameo playing himself. I won’t explain the circumstances in case you want to watch it. It is on Hulu. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie even though Rotten Tomatoes gave it 28/32% ratings.
Today Salon published a story with a clever subtitle:
"Oh boy, here come the demands for a recount," says the Razzies announcer
I was wondering how many other movies and TV shows Rudy had cameos in so I looked him up on IMDb. What I found made interesting reading. (Donald Trump beats him in the cameo department.)
I thought the last paragraph in his mini-bio calling him a liberal Republican was noteworthy:
Giuliani, a liberal Republican, made a very poor showing in the 2008 race for the Republican Presidential nomination. His career is hardly through, and history has yet to write its final pages on the former mayor of New York City.
This also jumped out: “….history has yet to write its final pages on the former mayor of New York City.”
Here are my bullet points (with my emphasis added) from the Trivia about him:
- His first marriage was annulled after 14 years when he says he discovered he was married to his second cousin.
- Married longtime girlfriend Judith Nathan on the lawn of his former residence, Gracie Mansion, by mayor Michael Bloomberg. The 400 guests included Yogi Berra, Henry Kissinger, Beverly Sills, Vera Wang, Donald Trump, former New York governor Hugh Carey, and Barbara Walters.
- Dressed as Marilyn Monroe and performed "Happy birthday, Mr. President" at the Inner Circle dinner, where New York City journalists satirize city, state and national politics, then was joined by Julie Andrews, also in drag, on stage. (8 March 1997)
- Celebrities Kelsey Grammer, Adam Sandler, Bo Derek, Kevin James, Jon Voight, Joel Surnow, John Elway, Jeff Gordon and Johnny Damon all endorsed his bid for President in 2008.
The last of six quotes shows a Trumpian ignorance of the English language:
[arguing for the invalidity of the 2020 election result] In the plaintiffs' counties, they were denied the opportunity to have an unobstructed observation and ensure opacity. I'm not quite sure I know what opacity means. It probably means you can see, right?
At least he admits he’s not quite sure of the meaning of opacity when he defines it with the opposite of its meaning.
