question of the day: What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?

So who does need that boost, or a career rejuvenation, and who deserves it? My top candidates:

Zac Efron: This multitalented kid would have been Fred Astaire once upon a time. Hollywood doesn't bend that way anymore... but the Coens might. Isn't it time they deconstructing the big, glitzy Golden Age musical? Efron would be the perfect star for such a lark.

Katharine Heigl: When I say that I hate Heigl, I mean of course that I hate that this woman -- who is cute, bubbly, and bursting with screen presence -- appears to have given herself over to idiotic romantic comedies that do nothing but make women look like moronic children. In a grownup role in a grownup but still silly story, the Coens could show off Heigl as a new screwball queen.

Anna Faris: Another funny woman stuck in stupid movies. Hollywood once had plenty of room for The Ditz, and plenty of work for her. I bet the Coens would find a way to let her be her outrageously scatterbrained and enormously engaging in a way that no other filmmakers yet have quite managed.

John Cusack: The awful Hot Tub Time Machine cinched it: Cusack doesn't know what to do with himself anymore. But combine the acid satire of his War, Inc. with the Coens' trick of making the meanspirited light and frothy, and he could find his way again.

Robert Pattinson: He's got talent and brains, but that pretty face will be the ruin of him if he doesn't get away from mopey vampire fantasies and melodramatic romances... and soon. He could get down and dirty and nasty in a Coen Brothers' drama, or goofy and nimble in a Coen comedy. Either would help wash away the stench of drippy adolescent mooning that is clinging to him: he's better than that.

What do you think? What actor could most use the Coen Brothers as a director?

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