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So You Think You Can Act?

Posted at 10:28 AM on July 24, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

It's been a question before on our Musicheads program, and today for the 9:30 Coffee Break, we put it to you on the air: who are some musical performers who have successfully made the transition to acting? (Actors who have made the transition to being a musician will have to be a topic another day ... as Jill pointed out, that seems to be the much more difficult task). Your suggestions we went with:

1) Tom Waits, "Jockey Full of Bourbon"
2) Cher, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
3) Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Higher Ground"
4) Frank Sinatra, "I Get A Kick Out Of You"
5) David Bowie, "Fashion"

Cher, Bowie and Sinatra should be obvious to most ... fewer people might be aware of Tom Waits' movie career, but it's been an extremely distinguished one: from Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law to Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula to Robert Altman's Short Cuts, and tons more. But what about the Chili Peppers? Well, Flea has actually had a number of bit parts over the years, such as in The Big Lebowski and the 2nd and 3rd Back to the Future movies. But it's in Point Break that you get to see Keanu Reaves beat both him and Anthony Kiedis at basketball. Ridiculous.

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