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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Who'll Be The Next In Line? Posted on 12/17/2002. First, there was Danny Aiello... who was then replaced by Joe Mantegna... who was superceded by Chazz Palminteri But now America doesn't have it's Default Middle-Aged Italian American Big-ish Guy. The representative of the community who seems to get all those kinds of parts. Who will Central Casting provide? Some might argue James Galdofini, but he has too much of a distinct personality. (As a point of reference, Graham Greene was like this for Native Americans. There was a period where you didn't have a Native American in a movie that wasn't played by Graham Greene.) 7 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "As Goes The Typewriter Repairmen..." Next entry: "The Donster Responds" Comments: COMMENT #1 Silly Peter: *nobody* will ever replace Danny "This is *my* pizzeria" Aiello. Posted by Adam @ 12/17/2002 08:32 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 You overlooked Dennis Farina: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Farina,%20Dennis Peter Posted by Peter @ 12/18/2002 06:00 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 not to mention Paul Sorvino Posted by Gene @ 12/18/2002 03:26 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 James Farentino. Posted by phreakydude @ 12/18/2002 04:46 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #5 And before Graham Greene we had Chief Dan George, who either opened the door for a new look at native American actors and movie stories, or at least was standing on the threshold as that door opened in the late '70s \ Posted by BJMe @ 12/19/2002 11:08 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #6 Andy Garcia? Posted by Steve Gershik @ 12/20/2002 03:30 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #7 Surely Anthony LaPaglia should get a look in, Australian heritage nonwithstanding. Posted by Martin Blank @ 01/04/2003 03:39 AM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.