Because of this weekend's release of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, today's edition of Sunday Blessings is devoted to co-star Dennis Quaid. I'm kind of having an appreciation for the older guys this weekend, having just devoted Friday's "End" of the Week posting to the 54-year-old Bruce Willis, and now devoting this post to the 55-year-old Quaid. Honestly though, the actor does not look his age. What deal with the devil did he have to make to retain his looks for this long? Quaid still has the ripped abs he first put on display in the 1979 film Breaking Away. How is that possible? Sigh. Anyway, I don't understand why Quaid took a supporting role in a crappy action movie like G.I. Joe. I'm guessing it's for the paycheck, which I completely understand. His profile has waned over the second half of the decade, after the huge career upswing he had beginning in 2002 with the surprise hit The Rookie and Far From Heaven, which featured his best perfromance to date. I'm still mad over him not receiving an Oscar nod for the film. Seriously Academy how could you have passed him over. Quaid followed up with In Good Company and a starring role in the successful disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. However, after those pictures came a remake of Yours, Mine and Ours with the almost forgotten Rene Russo, the bizarre American Dreams, and the forgettable Vantage Point. On the plus side, Quaid's currently in the process of filming The Special Relationship, in which he plays President Bill Clinton, opposite Hope Davis as Hilary Clinton and Michael Sheen as, once again, Tony Blair. The casting of Quaid was an interesting choice, and hopefully it will remind people of what a great actor he can be. Amen.
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