The Leroy Awards

The Leroys are to the Oscars…
As Glen Plummer is to Denzel Washington.

In other words, Glenn is the poor man’s version of Denzel.

Not only does Glenn look like he could, with some work, be groomed into a Denzel-lookalike walking through Hollywood boulevard - his resume is equally impressive… for every award-winning films that Denzel has starred in, Plummer has an equally-noteworthy movie.

For starters, Glen Plummer starred alongside Elizabeth Berkley and Leroy-winner Gina Ravera in Showgirls. Plummer is a poorly-dressed casino doorman who seduces Jessie Spano with cassette tapes, slick dancing moves and his ragged sense of fashion. His acting is superb (although I could star alongside Elizabeth Berkley and James Lipton would shower me with praise).

There are a wide range of films in between (like Saw II where he Glenn is exquisitely slaughtered), but the pinnacle of his career was in the starring role of the 2004 classic “Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘n’ Waffles”. Had Plummer never been in a movie before, he would still be a Leroy-nominee because Roscoe’s is truly memorable. Just ask Amazon top-reviewer S.M.Anderson:

I borrowed this movie from my local library. This has to be the most unfunny movie I’ve ever seen. This movie was BORING, BORING, BORING, AND MORE BORING!!! Since when did watching a bunch of movies make a person eligible to make movies? During the featurette, when one of the guys was asked what makes him qualified to make movies, he commented “I’ve watched over 1,000 movies.” That right there should have been my clue to take the DVD out of my machine and save myself the agony of watching this horrible feature film.

There is one character who is blind, in the mob and thinks he is Italian, but he is black. Clyde is a former numbers runner trying to help his stupid cousin pay back the mob. Mo Fo is a thug who keeps getting mistaken for Roscoe and getting his butt whupped, and there is Pam who is the “nut crusher”. Even the potty humor in the movie was not funny. This movie has terrible editing, terrible acting, this movie is simply TERRIBLE. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.

Denzel might have an Oscar… but Glenn Plummer has a Leroy and a resume that includes the names Elizabeth Berkley and Roscoe’s Chicken N’ Waffles.