tapping out on Rihanna....(there's a bunch of new channels on over the air tv.....I caught Slow Burn the other night on one of those channels...had never heard of it before..and about 25 minutes I understood why)

Rihanna and James Franco in This is the End
James Franco and Christoph Waltz in The Green Hornet
Christoph Waltz and Samuel L Jackson (Stacks) in Django Unchained.

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes and Stacks(SLJ) in Soul Men


Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin and Dan Aykroyd in the Blues Brothers
dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in trading places
Eddie Murphy and Samuel L Jackson (Stacks) in coming to America.

Eminem

Eminem and Mekhi Pfifer as buddies in 8 Mile

Mekhi Pfifer as the dealer and Spider (Michael Imperioli)as the crooked cop in Clockers


DMX

DMX and Chris Rock in Top Five
Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy in Boomerang
Eddie Murphy and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in Coming To America.

T.I.

T.I. and Idris Elba as robbers in Takers

Idris Elba and Denzel Washington as heroin dealers in American Gangster

Denzel Washington and Stacks (SLJ) in Mo Betta Blues


Dr Dre

Dr. Dre and Denis Leary in Who's The Man
Denis Leary and Kevin Spacey in The Ref
Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in The Negociator.

Oh wait. This wasn't the Dr. Dre you were referring to? http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/064/MI0000064651.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

I can't make it work with the other Dre. #TapoutWitAttitude

Dr Dre as one of the rogue cops who worked under/with Denzel Washington (Alonzo) in Training Day(Ethan Hawke punches him in the face)

DOCTOR DRE was part of the comedy/radio team..Ed Lover and Doctor Dre....


Denzel Washington and Stacks(SLJ) in Mo Betta Blues



Wood Harris (aka Avon Barksdale from the Wire)

Dr., Doctor. Doctor, Dr. etc.

Another tapout from me.

Wood Harris as football player and Denzel Washington as coach in Remember the Titans

just to switch it up though

Denzel and Jodie Foster in The Inside Man

Foster and Jimmy (Deniro) in Taxi Driver


Dominic West (aka McNulty from the Wire)

OK..there is no longer a time frame or limit to reveal the answer. 24 hours sounded good, but a person is either gonna come up with the first film immediately and work around to the connection....or they are gonna tap out because they don't know the actor or can't picture any film he's been in.
So if you post it......you can reveal a solution whenever you want.



Dominic West and Gerard Butler as political rivals in 300

Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx as adversaries in Law Abiding Citizen

Jamie Foxx and Stacks(SLJ) as adversaries in Django Unchained


Franco Nero (the original Django)
remember different film for each link

Franco Nero in Django Unchained having a brief convo with Jamie Foxx at the bar.

Jamie Foxx as part of a boxer's entourage exchanging funny dialogue with thinly veiled Don King character played by Stacks(SLJ)..in The Great White Hype


I'll let anybody else go next.

Sorry, have been using most of my internet time preparing for fantasy football. Don't think I would have gotten any of those anyway.

Since you asked, let's go with James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini and Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill In Moneyball

Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in Wolf Of Walt Street

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro (Jimmy) in This Boy's Life

Richard Harris

Richard Harris and Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Gene Hackman and John Travolta in Get Shorty
John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in Pulp Fiction.

Joe Pantoliano

Jim Carey

Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz in The Mask
Cameron Diaz and Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro (Jimmy Conway) in Heat.

Was trying to do a Sopranos theme but everyone else is either to hard, too easy, or was IN GoodFellas. So try...

Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry and Janet Jackson in Why Did I Get Married?

Janet Jackson and Tupac in Poetic Justice

Tupac as the psycho and Stacks(SLJ) as the neighborhood guy who knew EVERYTHING the moment it happened in Juice


Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci and Merryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Merryl Streep and Robert DeNiro (Jimmy Conway) in The Deer Hunter.

Heather Graham

tap out

@Blonde @Dude and @AG,
thanks for breathing new life into this thread...we all only have a limited amount of leisure time so whether it's real life, real sports, or fantasy life or fantasy football...go have fun and try to peak in here every now and then...and since time is limited....again....you can reveal the solution to the 3 degrees of stars anytime you want...

Heather Graham and Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights
Julianne Moore and Ray Liotta (Henry Hill) in Hannibal.

Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby

Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in Django Unchained

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in Virtuosity
Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in Mo Better Blues.

Billy Bob Thornton

b b thornton and halle berry in monster's ball

halle berry and stacks(slj) in jungle fever


george clooney

George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven
Brad Pitt and Robert DeNiro (Jimmy Conway) in Sleepers.

Rob Riggle

Rob Riggle and Bradley Cooper in The Hangover
Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro (Jimmy Conway) in Silver Linings Playbook.

John Cusack

John Cusack and Nicholas Cage in Con Air

Cage and John Travolta in FaceOff

Travolta and Stacks(SLJ) in Pulp Fiction


Joe Piscopo

Joe Piscopo and Danny DeVito in Wise Guys
Danny DeVito and John Travolta in Get Shorty
John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson (Stacks) in Pulp Fiction.

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in Speed

Keanu Reeves and Larry Fishburne in The Matrix

Larry Fishburne and Stacks(SLJ) in School Daze


Mickey Rourke