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Which Burroughs is the best?
1 - Peter Weller (Naked Lunch) 67%  67%  [ 2 ]
2 - Kieffer Sutherland (Beat) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
3 - Vigo Mortensen (On The Road) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
4 - Ben Foster (Kill Your Darlings) 33%  33%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 3

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07 Dec 2014, 10:18 pm

Beat author William Burroughs, doubtlessly because he was such a fascinating, if bizarre character, has been portrayed in film more than once. Which actor do you think played Burroughs the best?


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08 Dec 2014, 1:12 pm

Peter Weller nailed it.



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08 Dec 2014, 6:29 pm

I've never seen any of those four films, but I saw Burroughs himself make a cameo in Drugstore Cowboy (playing - guess what - a drug addict). I found him pretty annoying, but maybe that's just because I'd recently tried reading The Naked Lunch, which I considered to be a pile of s***.



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10 Dec 2014, 4:03 pm

Peter Weller was the best Burroughs.


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