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If Dr. Sam Beckett’s Quantum Leap accelerator was fixed and marketed to the masses whose body would you inhabit for a while? I’m guessing the majority of men would jump into a Scarlett Johansson or a Mila Kunis and fudd themselves silly until Al showed up and you turned all blue and shiny.

Personally, and this is the ’10% gay’ part of me talking, I think you could do a lot worse than inhabiting Sam Rockwell’s lovely, lovely body and life (and possibly get a shot at both Mila and Scarlett anyway). Of course, if either me or you, did leap into his frame he’d automatically become massively less awesome, therefore leaving me with the feeling that the Quantum Leap accelerator is really a bit poo. Unlike Sam…

That Cat Can Boogie

In the ridiculously great Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, as the infamous whack-job Chuck Barris, Sam the man showed the kind of acting range that most thespains would give both their balls for. He also shook his ass like it was a poloroid picture, Gene-Gene the dancing machine ain’t got shit on Sam. See also Charlie’s Angels 2 and Iron Man 2. The former only for Sam’s performance though.

Big Or Small? You Decide

Recently I coined the phrase ‘Jude’s Law’ (ooh clever me!) a term that describes an actor that should stick to supporting roles seeing as whenever they attempt to lead a film faeces rain from the heavens. Mr. Rockwell does not suffer from ‘Jude’s Law’. The best thing about The Green Mile, Galaxy Quest and the aforemnetioned Charlies sequel, he can also carry the weight of any subject from ‘mistaken peado’ in Lawn Dogs (find it, watch it) to sex addict in Choke.

Sam Is Batman

Forget Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney and Bale, the one man that nailed Batman over the past few decades is Rockwell. In Robin’s Big Date, Robin tries to score with a girl. The Bat-Man, suave and arrogant, cock blocks his little buddy with stories of beating up “a fat man in a tuxedo”.

All You Need Is Sam

To carry a film as the lead is one thing. To carry a film as the sole man on screen for an hour and a half is almost impossible. Even Will Smith struggled in I Am Legend and that dude’s gonna play Obama one day. In Moon Sam Rockwell threw in not one, or two, but several great performances as a man trapped on a lunar module waiting to go home.

That awards weren’t littered all over the guys front lawn is a traversty up there with Quantum Leap being cancelled.

And now we’ve gone full circle…so, Bye!