"Whoever did write it doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut"

film babble blog has a terrific list of 20 Great Modern Movie Cameos which was so well recieved, they did a follow up of reader suggestions The Cameo Countdown Continues. A well-placed cameo is a thing of beauty, while sometimes it's just been done to death (Will Farrell and Ben Stiller, I'm looking in your general direction). They break down some terrific bizarre but fitting cameos like:

• David Bowie in "Zoolander", complete with freeze frame intro and a clip of "Let's Dance".
• Orson Welles in "The Muppet Movie".
• Neil Patrick Harris in "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle": I'm tripping balls.
• my number one pick: Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall".
• The post title comes from Rodney Dangerfield's "Back To School", where Rodney has to write a term paper on Kurt Vonnegut, so of course he goes and pays Kurt Vonnegut to write the paper. After receiving an F, we see Rodney yelling into the phone "Next time I'm gonna call Robert Ludlum!" Very Simpsons-esque moment.

Both lists are terrific and have a lot of "He was in that? I have to rewatch it now" movies. I mean Spike Milligan in "Life of Brian"? I had no idea.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my, and ALOTT5MA's, favourite cameo missing from the initial list: Samuel L. Jackson as an escape artist con in the under-rated "Out Of Sight".

Jack Foley: "You broke out?"
Hejira Henry: "I prefer to think of it as an exodus from an undesirable place."

via ALOTT5MA