Round Three

RESULTS AS OF FEBRUARY, 1999

It's been awhile since we update the ol' Dirk Pitt Poll Results page - but there's a method to our madness. We wanted to see what a little time would do to the rankings. Strangely enough - it didn't do much in most categories.

DIRK PITT
Mel Gibson caught up with George Clooney as the most often chosen star to portray Dirk Pitt. Harrison Ford and Tom Selleck made a good showing also, pulling into third and fourth place. David James Eliot - formerly a third place contender - dropped down several notches as did Sean Bean. Basically, it went like this:

No response/no idea: 24
GEORGE CLOONEY: 12
MEL GIBSON: 12
HARRISON FORD: 11

Receiving 5 votes each were:
Alec Baldwin - Hunt for Red October
Sean Bean - Patriot Games, Goldeneye
Pierce Brosnan Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Dante's Peak
David James Elliot - TV's JAG

Receiving three votes were:
Adrian Paul - TV's Highlander

Receiving two votes each were:
Antonio Banderas - Mask of Zorro, Evita, Assassins
Michael Biehn - Aliens, Terminator, The Abyss
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves, The Postman, Waterworld
Matthew McConaughey - Contact, A Time to Kill
Brad Pitt - Meet Joe Black, 12 Monkeys, Legends of the Fall
Kurt Russell - Soldier, Escape from New York, Backdraft
Steven Seagal  - Under Siege, Marked For Death
Michael T. Weiss - TV's The Pretender

And with one vote each:
Tom Cruise - Top Gun, Mission Impossible
Richard Dean Anderson - McGuyver, Stargate SG-1
Robert DeNiro - Taxi, Raging Bull, Goodfellas
David Duchovny - The X-Files, Kalifornia
Jeff Fahey - Silverado, Sketch Artist
Ralph Fiennes - English Patient, Strange Days, Schindler's List
Jonathan Frakes - Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: Insurrection
Thomas Gibson - TV's Dharma & Greg, Chicago Hope
Bruce Greenwood - TV's Nowhere Man
Paul Gross - TV's Due South, Aspen Extreme
David Hasslehoff - TV's Baywatch, Knight Rider
Tommy Lee Jones - U.S. Marshals, The Fugitive, Under Siege
Vinnie Jones
Val Kilmer - Batman Forever, The Saint
Christopher Lambert - Fortress, Adrenaline
Matt LeBlanc - Lost in Space, TV's Friends
Jason Patric - Speed 2, The Lost Boys
Dennis Quaid - The Right Stuff, Savior
Mickey Rourke - 9 1/2 Weeks, Johnny Dangerously
Kevin Sorbo - TV's Hercules, Kull The Conqueror
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man
Fred Ward - The Right Stuff, Remo Williams, Uncommon Valor
Bruce Willis - Armageddon, The Siege, Die Hard I/II/III
Billy Zane - Titanic, Memphis Belle

AL GIORDINO
With six votes, Sly Stallone took the lead as Dirk's longtime pal Al Giordino, but Sly has some stiff competition: NYPD Blue's Dennis Franz is hot on his heels with five votes and Taxi's Tony Danza and superstar Bruce Willis right behind them with four each. Armand Assante earned a couple of votes himself, pushing his way into the top five. Still, a whopping 54 voters either couldn't decide or chose not to decide on someone as Al. The voting looked like this:

No response/No Idea: 54
SYLVESTER STALLONE: 6

DENNIS FRANZ: 5

TONY DANZA: 4
BRUCE WILLIS: 4

With three votes each were:
Armand Assante - Striptease, Gotti, Mambo Kings
Jerry Doyle - TV's Babylon 5
John Goodman - TV's Roseanne, The Flintstones, Always
Ed Harris - Apollo 13, Absolute Power, The Abyss

With two votes each were:
Robert DeNiro - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas
Franco Columbo - Pumping Iron
Bob Hoskins - Roger Rabbit, Super Mario Brothers
Michael Madsen - TV's Vengeance Unlimited, Species, Reservoir Dogs
Cheech Marin - TV's Nash Bridges, From Dusk Til Dawn, Tin Cup
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam

And with one vote each:
Jason Alexander - TV's Seinfeld
Tom Arnold - True Lies, Nine Months
Alec Baldwin - Hunt for Red October, Miami Blues
Danny DeVito - Twins, Junior, Throw Momma from the Train
Frank DiLeo - Goodfellas, Wayne's World I/II
Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
James Gandolfini - Crimson Tide, TV's The Soprano's
Andy Garcia - Untouchables, Godfather III
Michael Hurst - Hercules
Tommy Lee Jones - US Marshals, The Fugitive, Under Siege
Richard Kairn - TV's Home Improvement
Dennis Leary - Wag the Dog, Small Soldiers, Thomas Crown Affair
John Leguizamo - To Wong Fo, Executive Decision, Spawn
Ray Liotta - No Man's Land, Goodfellas, Field of Dreams
David Marciano - TV's The Last Don, Due South
Sam Neil - Jurassic Park, Hunt for Red October
Al Pacino - Devil's Advocate, Godfather, Scent of a Woman
Joe Pecsi - Lethal Weapon, Goodfellas, Casino
Brad Pitt - Seven
Jeremy Piven - TV's Cupid, Ellen
John Rhys-Davies - Indiana Jones, Living Daylights
Michael Rooker - Days of Thunder, JFK, Bastard Out of Carolina
John Travolta - Get Shorty, Pulp Fiction, Civil Action
John Tuturro - Rounders, Do the Right Thing, Quiz Show
Nicholas Turturro - TV's NYPD Blue

ADMIRAL JAMES SANDECKER
There's no question: Most readers think James Bond should be Dirk Pitt's boss. The legendary Sean Connery continued his dominance as the favorite to play Admiral Sandecker with a lead of nearly four times that of his nearest competitor: Star Trek's Patrick Stewart and over four times that of the #3 contender, the Grandmaster of Adventure himself. Sandecker's voting went like this:

No response/No Idea: 34

SEAN CONNERY: 22

PATRICK STEWART: 6

With five votes each are:
Clive Cussler - Grandmaster, etc.
Gene Hackman - Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Get Shorty
Rip Torn - TV's Larry Sanders Show, By Dawn's Early Light

With three votes were:
Charlton Heston - True Lies, Ten Commandments, Ben Hur

The following received two votes each:
Robert Duvall - The Apostle, Days of Thunder, The Godfather, MASH
Harrison Ford - Air Force One, Indiana Jones
Ed Harris - Apollo 13, The Abyss, Absolute Power
Anthony Hopkins - Mask of Zorro, Silence of the Lambs
John M. Jackson - TV's JAG
Paul Newman - Nobody's Fool, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman, Godfather III, Devil's Advocate
Jason Robards - Raise the Titanic
Roy Scheider - TV's Seaquest, Jaws, The Seven-ups
Tom Skerritt - TV's Picket Fences, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It

And with one vote apiece were:
Ernest Borgnine - McHale's Navy, Poseidon Adventure
James Coburn - In Like Flynt, Our Man Flynt, Eraser
Robert Conrad - TV's Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Blacksheep
Brian Dennehy - FX, Cocoon
Danny DeVito - LA Confidential, Get Shorty, Man on the Moon
Robert DeNiro - Jackie Brown, Raging Bull, Backdraft
Sam Elliot - Gettysburgh, Lifeguard, Roadhouse
Richard Farnsworth
Scott Glenn - Hunt for Red October, Silence of the Lambs
Alec Guinness - Star Wars, Bridge on the River Kwai
Tom Hanks - Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia
Tommy Lee Jones - US Marshals, The Fugitive
Robert Loggia - Independence Day
William H. Macy - Fargo, Air Force One, Pleasantville
John Mahoney - TV's Frasier
Billy J. Mitchell - Goldeneye, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Jerry Ohrbach - TV's Law and Order, Crimes & Misdemeanors
Jack Palance - City Slickers I/II
George C. Scott - Patton
Hector Scott
William Shatner - Star Trek
Donald Sutherland - Virus, Shadow Conspiracy, MASH
Ray Walston - TV's My Favorite Martian, Picket Fences

RUDI GUNN
"Jurassic Park's" SAM NEILL held onto his lead as NUMA's Rudi Gunn with six votes, nearly twice that of his nearest competitors, Mac pitchman Jeff Goldblum, Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, and David Straitharn. By far the biggest votes, however, came in the "no idea/no response" arena with a whopping 54. The voting went like this:

No response/no idea: 54

SAM NEILL: 6

With three votes apiece were:
Jeff Goldblum - ID4, The Big Chill, The Fly
Ed Harris - Apollo 13, The Abyss, Absolute Power, Right Stuff
David Straitharn - River Wild, Sneakers

Receiving two votes were:
Alec Baldwin - Hunt for Red October
Anthony Edwards - ER, In Cold Blood, Top Gun
Tom Hanks - Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump
Marc Harmon - TV's Chicago Hope, Reasonable Doubts, Tombstone
Mitch Pileggi - TV's The X-files, Basic Instinct; dead lookalike for our attorney
Eric Stoltz - Pulp Fiction, Memphis Belle
Gary Sinese - Ransom, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, George Wallace
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting, Jumanji, Good Morning Vietnam
James Woods - Contact, Vampires

And with one vote each were:
Woody Allen - Antz, Celebrity
Richard Dean Anderson - TV's Stargate SG-1, McGuyver
Ed Asner - TV;s Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant
David Duchovny - TV's The X-Files, Kalifornia
Robert Duvall - The Apostle, Something to Talk About
Ralph Fiennes - English Patient, Schindlers List, Strange Days
Richard Gere - Officer and a Gentleman
Bruce Harwood - TV's The X-Files
Nathan Hudson -
Ice T - Actor/Rapper
Michael Ironsides - TV's Seaquest, Top Gun
Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive, US Marshals, Under Siege
Wayne Knight - TV's Seinfeld, Jurassic Park
Chad Lowe - TV's Life Goes On
Michael Moriarty - TV's Law and Order
Liam Neeson - Star Wars I, Schindler's List, Michael Collins, Rob Roy
Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman, Devil's Advocate
Bill Paxton - Titanic, Twister, Aliens
Joe Pecsi - Lethal Weapon II/III/IV, Goodfellas, Casino
Campbell Scott - The Spanish Prisoner
Kevin Spacey - Usual Suspects, LA Confidential
James Spader - Stargate, Sex Lies & Videotape, Crash
Billy Bob Thornton - Armageddon, Sling Blade, Primary Colors
James Woods - Contact, Vampires

CONGRESSPERSON LOREN SMITH:
The lovely and talented SHARON STONE expanded her lead as Dirk's leading lady with a total vote count of seven, versus only five votes each for the next three runners-up: Teri Hatcher of "Tomorrow Never Dies," Oscar winner Helen Hunt of "As Good As It Gets" and Mrs. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman. The voting went a little something like this:

No response/No Idea:  39

SHARON STONE: 7

TERI HATCHER: 5
HELEN HUNT: 5
NICOLE KIDMAN: 5

With four votes each were:
Gillian Anderson - TV's The X-Files
Sandra Bullock - Speed 1 & 2, The Net
Rene Russo - Lethal Weapon 3 & 4, Get Shorty

Receiving three votes were:
Julia Roberts - Pelican Brief, Conspiracy Theory, Steel Magnolias
Mimi Rogers - Rapture, TV's The X Files
Meg Ryan - City of Angels, Courage Under Fire

Getting two votes each were:
Catherine Bell - TV's JAG
Lorraine Bracco - Medicine Man, Goodfellas
Geena Davis - Beetlejuice, A League of Their Own
Terry Farrell - TV's Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Demi Moore - Striptease, Ghost
Michele Pfieffer - Fabulous Baker Boys, Up Close and Personal
Shannon Tweed - Assault on Devil's Island, Singapore Sling, No Contest

And with one vote each were:
Anne Archer - Raise the Titanic, Patriot Games
Cindy Crawford - Supermodel
Glen Close - Air Force One, 101 Dalmatians, The Big Chill
Wendy Crewson - Air Force One, From the Earth to the Moon
Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween I/II/H20, True Lies, Trading Places
Dana Delaney - TV's China Beach
Linda Fiorentino - Jade
Linda Hamilton - Terminator 1 & 2
Mary Hart - TV's Entertainment Tonight
Goldie Hawn - First Wives' Club
Lauren Holly - TV's Picket Fences
Holly Hunter - Broadcast News, Home for the Holidays
Heather Locklear - TV's Melrose Place
Mary Stuart Masterson - Fried Green Tomatoes, Bed of Roses, Benny & Joon
Gates McFadden - TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Insurrection
Lena Olin - Havana, Romeo is Bleeding
Kathleen Quinlan - Apollo 13
Theresa Russell - Whore, Black Widow
Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking, Bull Durham
Joan Severance - TV's Love Boat: The Next Wave, Black Scorpion I/II
Cybill Shepherd - Texasville, The Last Picture Show
Elizabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas, Back to the Future II/III
Jaclyn Smith - TV's Charlie's Angels
Meryl Streep - River Wild, Out of Africa, Sophie's Choice
Uma Thurman - Avengers, Pulp Fiction
Maura Tierney - TV's News Radio, Instinct
Janine Turner - TV's Northern Exposure
Kate Winslet - Titanic

HIRAM YAEGER
Star Trek's BRENT SPINER (whose character is appropriately named "Data") more than doubled his lead as first choice for NUMA's computer expert with ten votes, exactly twice that of his nearest competitor ID4's Jeff Goldblum. Still, a lot of people - 57 - either did not respond to this question or had no idea. The voting broke down like this:

No response/No idea: 57

BRENT SPINER: 10

JEFF GOLDBLUM: 5

With four votes each were:
Dean Hagland - TV's The X Files
Dennis Miller - Murder at 1600, The Net

Garnering two votes were:
George Carlin - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Outrageous Fortune
Jeff Daniels - Fly Away Home, Arachnophobia
Peter Horton - TV's ThirtySomething, From Earth To The Moon, Brimstone
Denis Leary - Wag the Dog, Small Soldiers
Joe Pecsi - Lethal Weapon II/III/IV, Goodfellas, Casino
Eric Stoltz - Pulp Fiction, Memphis Belle, Jerry Maguire, Anaconda

And with one vote each were:
Harry Anderson - TV's Night Court, Dave Barry
Jeff Bridges - Tucker, Big Lebowski, Fabulous Baker Boys
Matthew Broderick - Godzilla, The Freshman, Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Steve Buscemi - Armageddon, Fargo, Trees Lounge
Bruce Campbell - Dracula, Army of Darkness, Brisco County
David Carradine - TV's Kung Fu
Tommy Chong - Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Brad Douriff - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Harrison Ford - Air Force One, Indiana Jones, The Fugitive
Kurt Fuller - TV's Timecop, Wayne's World, Running Man
Danny Glover - Lethal Weapon I/II/III/IV, Color Purple
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
Lenny Henry - True Identity
Val Kilmer - Batman Forever, The Saint, Top Gun
Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda, The Big Chill
Christopher Lloyd - Back to the Future, Taxi
Bill Paxton - Titanic, Twister, Aliens
Brad Pitt - Seven, Legends of the Fall
Oliver Platt - Flatliners, Three Musketeers, The Imposters
Charlie Sheen - Young Guns, The Rookie, Shadow Conspiracy
Christian Slater - Very Bad Things, Robin Hood, Bed of Roses
James Spader - Stargate, Sex Lies and Videotape, Crash
Donald Sutherland - Shadow Conspiracy, MASH
Jon Voight - Mission Impossible
Al Yankovich - Johnny Dangerously

ST. JULIEN PERLMUTTER
John Rhys-Davies of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Sliders" fame maintained his lead as Dirk's maritime expert/gourmand but Dom DeLuise stayed close behind, trailing by only one vote. James Earl Jones was a distant third with five votes. The voting went like this:

No response/no idea: 48

JOHN RHYS-DAVIES TV's Sliders, Raiders of the Lost Ark: 16
DOM DELUISE Cannonball Run, Hot Stuff: 15
JAMES EARL JONES Clear and Present Danger: 5

With four votes was:
MICHAEL McSHANE Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: 4

With three votes each were:
Sir Richard Attenburough - Great Escape, Hamlet
Danny DeVito - Get Shorty, Taxi, Twins, Parenthood
William Shatner - TV's Star Trek, TJ Hooker, TekWar

With two votes each were:
Bob Hoskins - Roger Rabbit, Super Mario Bros.
Nathan Lane - The Birdcage, Lion King (vo)
Paul Sorvino - Godfather, Law & Order
Bud Spencer - Trinity
David Ogden Steirs TV's MASH

And with one vote apiece were:
Drew Carey - TV's The Drew Carey Show, Who's Line Is It Anyway?
James Coburn - In Like Flint, Payback
James Doohan - Star Trek's Scotty
Noel Ferrier
Michael Gough - Batman, Batman Forever
Ricky Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - U.S. Marshalls, The Fugitive, Under Siege
Lucianno Pavrotti - Three Tenors
Paul Prudhome -  Famous Cajun Chef
Oliver Reed - Three Musketeers, Flatliners
Charles Nelson Reilly - Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Peter Ustinov - Logan's Run
Jesse Ventura - Predator, Gov. of Minnesota, Wrestler

BEST NOVEL TO MAKE INTO A MOVIE
INCA GOLD doubled its votes to easily maintain the lead as Best novel to make into a movie. SAHARA and SHOCKWAVE tied for second place with TREASURE following close behind. The voting went like this:

No response/No Idea: 2

INCA GOLD: 32
SAHARA: 15
SHOCK WAVE: 15
TREASURE: 11
DRAGON: 10
FLOOD TIDE: 8
CYCLOPS: 7
VIXEN 03: 6
NIGHT PROBE!: 5
ICEBERG: 4
DEEP SIX: 3
MEDITERRANEAN CAPER, THE: 3
RAISE THE TITANIC!:


BEST DIRECTOR FOR A DIRK PITT MOVIE
The world's most popular film director, Steven Spielberg, continued to prove he is just that with a whopping 40 votes - more than twice that of his nearest competitor, TITANIC's James Cameron. Following with only 6 votes was RANSOM's Ron Howard. The voting went like this:

No Response/No Idea: 26

Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, ET - 40
James Cameron Titanic, Aliens, The Abyss - 17
Ron Howard - Apollo 13, Backdraft - 6

With five votes each were:
Richard Donner Lethal Weapon I, II, III, IV
George Lucas - Star Wars series

With four votes each was:
Michael Bay - Armageddon, The Rock, Bad Boys

Receiving three votes each were:
Martin Campbell - Mask of Zorro, Goldeneye
John Woo - Face Off, Broken Arrow, Mission Impossible II

With two votes each were:
Clive Cussler - Grand Master of Adventure
Jonathan Frakes - Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Total Recall 2 (tentative)
Paul Verhoeven - Starship Troopers, Robocop II, Basic Instinct

And receiving one vote each were:
John Carpenter - They Live, Vampires, The Thing
Coen Brothers - Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona
Brian DePalma - Mission: Impossible, Dressed to Kill
Jan DuBont - Speed 1 & 2, Twister
Mel Gibson - Braveheart, The Man Without A Face
John Glen - License to Kill, A View to a Kill
Peter Hyams - TimeCop, Presidio, Running Scared
John Landis - Animal House, Twilight Zone: The Movie
Mimi Leder - Deep Impact, The Peacemaker
Nicholas Meyer - Star Trek II, VI
Phillip Noyce - Clear & Present Danger, Patriot Games, The Saint
Ivan Reitman - Twins, Junior
Barry Sonnenfeld - Men in Black, Wild Wild West
Simon Wincer - The Phantom, TV's Lonesome Dove
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump, Back to the Future I/II/III

And the voting continues...

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