WTF is wrong with Eric MacCormack?

I can't believe that little old lady hobbling down the aisle is Ann-Margret. As for Eric he's beginning to resemble George Maharis in his elder years.

I guess since he never has to work again ...

If you’ve ever seen him on a talk show (I.e. Graham Norton), it’s torture.

OMG I could not tell who she was until I read the comments. Poor thing.

She looks pretty good. I forgive the walk. I walk like the Frankenstein monster every morning when I get up.

She’s 84 years old.

It’s like watching a Christopher Guest movie. Both are phony baloneys.

She should have come out on her motorcycle.

Isn’t she now having to do conventions? Did she lose all her money or something?

I actually think she looks good for 84

Share more examples, OP.

He's an aging FAG

He looks like John McEnroe.

John McEnroe is ugly as black tongue.

IIRC she broke a lot of bones when something fell on her at a stage show and those injuries are probably acting up in her later years. Its a wonder she can walk at all.

She looks great to me.

Let's get back to the point.

R15, the injuries were mainly to her face. "Ann-Margret broke several facial bones, including a smashed cheekbone, and a brain concussion when she fell from a 22-foot-high platform during a performance in Lake Tahoe in 1972. She also broke her jaw in two places and broke her left arm."

Ann M??? 🤩

Eric just walked past me at the Weho pride parade. He looked good in person. My husband started watching some trash horror show on Shudder (Hell Motel) and Eric is TERRIBLE in it!

Whoever decided to dress Ann like that should be shot. if it was her decision then someone should have told her "no Ann, just NO".

Eric deserved a bigger career. He is famous for Will and Grace and a stint on Bway in The Music Man.

He’s talented and should have done more TV/stage

They should’ve at least had someone escort her down that aisle. Ridiculous.

Not a horrible actor, but not a lot of range. And yes, he looks like an aging George Maharis.

He's in some British show, "Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue". I haven't watched it.

His character of Will Truman was written to be like Max Mutchnick, so he was anxious and bitchy and caustic. I always thought that was a terrible role for an actor to be saddled with.

One of my former boyfriends once told me he greatly identified with Will Truman, and I thought, "And that's exactly why I broke up with you."

Ann-Margret Olsson (born 28 April 1941)

Eric James McCormack, 62 (born April 18, 1963)

A-M is actually a pretty good actress. As for her singing and dancing. Generally pretty sloppy stuff. She worked it but I always thought she was pretty mediocre.

I thought the woman was Elton John in a longer wig than normal.

[quote] As for her singing and dancing. Generally pretty sloppy stuff. She worked it but I always thought she was pretty mediocre.

Whether you like her personally or not, she was considered an absolutely electrifying performer back in the day.

There's a whole episode of "Mad Men" all about her appeal--the men at Sterling-Cooper try to copy her famous opening number for "Bye Bye Birdie" for an ad for a diet cola, but they can't make it work "because she's [i.e. the singer/dancer in the commercial] just not Ann-Margret."

Never thought he was handsome or hot.

WTF is wrong with the three leads from Will & Grace? It was a piece of shit gay minstrel show with horrible actors who seem to have mistaken their paychecks for having been granted sainthood. Useless, often revolting the three of them.

There were four leads on Will & Grace, r32, not three: McCormack, Messing, Hayes, and Mullaly. Who are you leaving out?

I always felt Will & Jack were patterned after Michael and Emory from The Boys In The Band.

A-M developed into more than a "pretty good" actress. She was an excellent Blanche in a TV STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and held her own very well with Glenda Jackson, Julie Christie, and Alan Bates in RETURN OF THE SOLDIER.

He seems like pretty much any other daytime talk show host in that clip. That's why I don't watch those shows.

[quote]She was an excellent Blanche in a TV STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

I thought she was miscast in Streetcar, far too sturdy and STILL did a very credible job. I also loved her with Julie Andrews in the tv movie Our Sons.

Ann-MargRock!

Bye bye Burr-hee!

Ann-Margret, Gene Hackman and Ellen Burstyn were brilliant in the bittersweet drama "Twice In A Lifetime."

WTF is wrong with YOU, OP? It was a perfectly delightful and respectful homage to Ann-Margret. Go fuck yourself.

R41 - well hello, Eric.

Barbara Stanwyck took time out in her Emmy acceptance speech for The Thorn Birds to give a special tribute to Ann-Margret's performance in the film Who Will Love My Children in which she was nominated against Stanwyck. Ann should have won.

Speaking of Frankenstein, Eric McCormick has a huge head.

He looks like John McEnroe at first glance.

R41 You ok?

R35 What’s the deal with A-M, when you spell out every other word?

I watch YouTube clips of Will and Grace and I have to say a lot of the episodes were really well written and hysterical

R48: Threy strength of the clips they show often rests on recurring characters played by Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Jordan, etc.

I don't understand - is he hosting some local TV Los Angeles daytime show now? That's a huge step down.

And Ann's been in the press a lot more lately - sounds like she hired a publicist to make some money.

Tik-tok? I mean - fine - but let's not think that was HER idea.

R21 He was on Broadway in The Best Man

I love how most of this thread just pivoted to talking about Ann-Margret! LOL

Eric McCormack (not Mac) was perfect in "Will & Grace." I had a big ol' crush on Eric-as-Will during the first run of that series, and I always will. Doesn't matter what he's done since, frankly.

Also, what is wrong with the clip @OP? If that's how you're trying to get us to find him "plastic" and "up his own ass," please try again.

R52 - I agree - I thought he was very handsome in W&G and I liked him. And the clip is fine.

R52 “lol”

Oh, dear

R52 - this is not about the character of Will Truman or whether EM played it well. He’s just a shallow gasbag in real life.

I’ve been watching “The New Adventures of Old Christine” for the first time, and Eric McCormack turns up in the last season as one of Christine’s boyfriends. I find it hard to distinguish his character from Will because his delivery of his lines is so similar. It may be because of his overexposure (so to speak) on Will & Grace for so long across several decades. I think he was brave to take on the role of Will when he did, so I find it hard to be down on him (you can interpret that any way you want)!

r55 "EM"

Oh, dear.

Is this an Eric McCormack or an Ann Margret Thread?

r58 What video did OP post?

Before Will & Grace he had a small guest role on a Canadian legal drama 'Street Legal' as a prissy receptionist. He unfortunately seems born to play gay roles.

R32, three? Who are you leaving out?

r61 See r33

ANY thread can (and should) become an Ann-Margret thread INSTANTLY!

We're ALL the better for it!

Speaking of Ann-Margret, here is one of my all-time favorite sequences on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.”

Ann-Margret chats with Johnny so softly that the boom mike over her is in the frame. She’s like a sweet, little shy girl in church. She even mentions that her mother is in the audience.

Then she gets up and practically shakes her pendulous breasts off in a dance number. I don’t know how it got past the censors.

Then she sits back down to talk with Johnny, and he does his embarrassment shtick for a few minutes and the audience howls with laughter.

That’s one example of why there’ll never be another talk show host like Carson.

R54 "[R52] “lol”. Oh, dear"

Lol

Went to theatre school in Toronto in the 80’s with Eric McCormack. An extremely nice human being.

Ann is an icon. Eric gets that. Thats all we want on DL, isnt it? Its so annoying the younger gays dont know and resoect the great legends.

He comes across like a non-musical Michael Feinstein who saves much of his smarm for himself.

[quote]Ann is an icon. Eric gets that. Thats all we want on DL, isnt it? Its so annoying the younger gays dont know and resoect the great legends.

Fuck off with blaming young people for not respecting "legends.". What's next, chastising young men for not have a secret language of pet female names for one another?

I'm 65 and wouldn't walk to my front door of Ann Margaret were handing out crisp hundred dollar bills. Her career, such as it was, ended 50 years ago...and gays are supposed to squeal with delight at her feeble self flubbing lines and thinking she's cleverer than she is?

r69 You seem uhinged over a simple topic.

I’m with you, R69. At her best, Ann-Margret was excruciating.

He looks a lot better now than the dog walking pic after his divorce.Big diff.

[quote]You seem uhinged over a simple topic

And you, R70, must be in support of hysterics and lock-step infantilism asking that 21stC gay men idolize and squeal over plastic, big-titted straight women B-list "stars" from more than half a century ago. What's that have to do with the life of gay men who are not fucking ridiculous as a full-time job?

[quote]I'm 65 and wouldn't walk to my front door of Ann Margaret were handing out crisp hundred dollar bills.

Well, smell HER!

He looks good, but he's a horrible host. Why does he need to read from the prompter? Can't he learn the details of her life beforehand? He's an actor after all.

[quote]I don't understand - is he hosting some local TV Los Angeles daytime show now? That's a huge step down.

Did you not read the Instagram caption?

[quote]The legendary Ann-Margret surprises the #LeadwithLove6 telethon benefiting @projectangelfood and reveals the secret to her dance moves. Watch on KTLA 5, KTLA+ and KTLA.com NOW until 9 p.m. To donate head to the link in bio.

R73 Sweetie, your meds are way off

So I've read through this entire thread and NOBODY has bothered to tell the rest of us the secret to her dance moves?

R78, it's in the video. "My heart and my seat." Guffaw, guffaw.

Jesus, R73, calm the fuck down.

r80 You bumped this thread just to add that?

R76 Confirms that media literacy is in the toilet.

You heard it here:

Ann Margaret.

[quote]Ann Margaret.

R73 - there is seriously something wrong with you.