{"id":8689,"date":"2013-08-08T01:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2021-03-21T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:35:54","slug":"15-real-life-tough-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8689","title":{"rendered":"15 Real Life Tough Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z080813marvin_toughguys.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Yahoo Movies<\/strong><\/a> recently posted their list of <strong>15 Real Life Tough Guys<\/strong>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s their list and my thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dennis Farina:<\/strong> was a <strong>former cop<\/strong> and came off as a <strong>legitimate tough guy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mel Brooks<\/strong>: served as a <strong>demolitions man<\/strong> in the war. \u00a0Lacked the size to be considered a classic tough guy and probably <strong>had a better chance of killing someone with laughter<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Steve Buscemi<\/strong>: a former <strong>fire fighter<\/strong> who returned to help out in that role after 9\/11 makes <strong>Buscemi<\/strong> tough guy in anyone&#8217;s book. \u00a0However, <strong>not a classic tough guy<\/strong> in the movie tradition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bryan Cranston<\/strong>: He is the one who knocks. \u00a0Of course he was also the dad in a sitcom I never watched. \u00a0Then again, he was <strong>questioned in a real life murder<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Not a traditional movie tough guy<\/strong>, but I ain&#8217;t tellin&#8217; him that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>James Doohan<\/strong>: a<strong> WWII hero<\/strong>. \u00a0In his day, I&#8217;ll bet <strong>Doohan<\/strong> could kick some buttocks. \u00a0Never made it big as a movie tough guy, but that&#8217;s not what this list is about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Clint Eastwood<\/strong>: would make <strong>anyone&#8217;s top five movie tough guys<\/strong>. \u00a0Glad to see him on a real life tough guy list as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>R. Lee Ermey<\/strong>: Movie tough guy? Check. \u00a0Real-life tough guy? Check.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong>: Cool in the movies and real life. <strong>\u00a0Tough in the movies<\/strong>, I&#8217;ll buy. \u00a0Real life &#8212; not one of the actors whose name rushes to mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dolph Lundgren<\/strong>: Yes, a <strong>movie and real life tough guy<\/strong>. \u00a0Heck, any man who dated <strong>Grace Jones<\/strong> had to be tough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lee Marvin<\/strong> would be my <strong>first or second choice<\/strong> for <strong>movie and real life tough guy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Steve McQueen<\/strong>: I was never a big <strong>Steve McQueen<\/strong> fan. \u00a0I liked him in <em><strong>The Getaway<\/strong><\/em> though. \u00a0He wouldn&#8217;t have made either list for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Robert Mitchum<\/strong>: is a<strong> genuine tough guy<\/strong> &#8212; movie or real life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jack Palance<\/strong>: is another that <strong>should easily make both lists<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mickey Rourke<\/strong>: later day <strong>Mickey Rourke makes both lists<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Mickey Rourke<\/strong> that started out as the pretty boy actor, was a real life tough guy, but not a traditional movie tough guy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Danny Trejo<\/strong>: has made his <strong>career being a tough guy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have just one question. \u00a0How could <strong>Charles Bronson<\/strong> not have made this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Movies recently posted their list of 15 Real Life Tough Guys. \u00a0Here&#8217;s their list and my thoughts&#8230; Dennis Farina:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26641,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/26641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}