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No, but Cal did. And it was the shared sentiment expressed by the two of you together that upset me. It really makes no difference what specific words either of you said.

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Yes, you did. But I wouldn't go so far as to call it contempt.

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I think everyone knows that. I'm pretty sure Nicolas's comment was a joke. I very much doubt that anybody here was truly offended by what you said about him.

I'm sorry I brought this up again. I just feel like the issue was never resolved, and I'm the type of person who holds a grudge forever unless things are settled properly. You can send me a private message if you want. I promise I'll be civil. And I promise I won't bring it up on the public forum again.

As Shakespeare so aptly put it, beauty (boy or any other variety) is a subjective thing, so I would like to submit a kid of years gone by who I have always considered beautiful, in my eyes at least.

David Henesy, co-star of 'Dark Shadows' (1966 - 1971).



 

"Joseph Mazello was a decent child actor in many of his films, but some were quite mundane."

One thing I've noticed about Joseph is his ability to cry at the drop of a hat. He could cry convincingly any time he wanted to. The same was true for Henry Thomas and Bobby Edner. It was Henry's ability to cry on cue that got him the part of Eliot in E. T. Plus he's a talented actor.
Joe is a very skillful actor. He does his job. But I just haven't often been overly impressed. Have you heard about how he and Brad Renfro didn't get along while making "The Cure"? Yet you'd never know it while watching them act in that movie. They are both true professionals.

I thought Joseph was excellent in "Shadowlands", easily equal to anything achieved by Henry Thomas. In fact I'm surprised he missed out on at least a Young Artist Award Nomination for that role.

He did however get nominations for Desperate Choices, Radio Flyer, The Cure and Simon Birch. He won for Jurassic Park. His Simon Birch nomination was added to by receiving a win for that role from the now defunct YoungStar Awards.

So that's 5 performances he's be acclaimed for.


Henry Thomas got a win for ET, and received two other nominations, for Raggedy Man and Cloak and Dagger.

So that's 3 performances he's been acclaimed for.

The winner is clearly Joseph Mazzello.


On a more subjective note, I think that they were of similiar ability however because Joseph was in twice as many films as Henry as a kid, I'd rate Joseph slightly ahead of Henry as a kid actor.

The big difference is simply this.....

When watching E.T. we see a child in the film, and we say.... "Oh, there's Elliott".


When we watch "Simon Birch" or any of the aforementioned films, we say..... "Oh, there's Joseph Mazello".


Henry Thomas was in a horrible film, "Cloak & Dagger", and could be one of the worst children's films ever created.  Mazello was almost always cast in a very good film, (story-line and plot, etc.... we never saw Thomas in a huge epic such as Jurassic Park). 

As great as the incredibly gifted and talented actress Sissy Spacek is and always has been...... it is Henry Thomas who made "Raggedy Man" a very good film.

It is merely differing opinions here, and Mazello somehow seems to have more votes.  Perhaps, as Cal stated, he was in twice as many films while being a child actor, so the deck is stacked against Thomas in this aspect. 

Mazello, as stated previously, was quite good in "Radio Flyer"..... but then again, he was acting alongside a truly great child actor in Elijah Wood.

Wonder if Steven Spielberg credits Henry Thomas for E.T.'s success?

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More more than others I love this boy:

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this is Iegor Druzhinin from "Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkyn"

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There isn't one role of Mazello's that would be difficult for nearly any child actor to have filled.

That's a ridiculous statement to make.  thought we'd done with this already. You seem to be flogging a dead horse.  It seems to me you have a problem with Joseph Mazzello for some reason. Nicolas you are not going to convince me at all. He was every bit as good as the other three actors you mentioned. You only have to look at the movies he's made and compare them.