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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned

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A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 4:21:00 am PDT #511 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago?

How old are you? Would you say that Jodie Foster is too young and too old to be on either side of your divide? I can't remember who was a former child actor 20 years ago -- because I was young myself, and hadn't been paying attention.

Fred Pete - Jul 14, 2004 4:24:29 am PDT #512 of 10001

Ann, that's a ferret.

are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago?

Admittedly, for me it's 30 years ago. But successful child actors of my childhood who are still in the public eye --

Jodie Foster (thanks, ita!)
Brooke Shields
Rick(y) Schroeder (although he disappeared for many years)
Danny Bonaduce (ok, more a celebrity than an actor these days)

Polter-Cow - Jul 14, 2004 4:27:06 am PDT #513 of 10001

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Movie about time travel that hasn't been mentioned: Frequency. It's a decent movie, though I was going to shoot myself if I had to watch that thing drop behind the radiator or whatever in slow-motion one. More. Time.

Awesome computer game with time travel fun: Day of the Tentacle.

Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2004 4:29:49 am PDT #514 of 10001

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Mickey Rooney
Judy Garland
Elizabeth Taylor

Hil R. - Jul 14, 2004 4:30:54 am PDT #515 of 10001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Tom said what I was about to, but I add Jackie Cooper.

Hil R. - Jul 14, 2004 4:32:02 am PDT #516 of 10001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Also, Robert Blake.

Steph L. - Jul 14, 2004 4:38:27 am PDT #517 of 10001

the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

It's probably too soon to really say if he's making a comeback, but Macaulay Culkin, Former Annoying Child Star, impressed me in Saved.

§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 5:00:10 am PDT #518 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Don't call it a comeback. He been here for years.

Vonnie K - Jul 14, 2004 5:18:12 am PDT #519 of 10001

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Mickey Rooney was a child once? Duuuude.

Diane Lane and Anthony Michael Hall come to mind from my age bracket, although they were more teenager-to-adult than child-adult transitions.

ETA: I take it back about Mickey Rooney. I was thinking of Mickey Rourke, who's an entirely different kettle of fish.

Jess M. - Jul 14, 2004 5:48:58 am PDT #520 of 10001

Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse

are former child actors much more likely to be successful adult actors now than, say, 20 years ago?

How about Leonardo DiCaprio? I'm not a fan, but he's come a long way from that sitcom the name of which is escaping me.

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