Sean Astin, Melissa Gilbert, Valerie Bertinelli.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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Kathy A - Jul 14, 2004 6:56:40 am PDT #541 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 6:57:14 am PDT #542 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have just discovered that Victor Garber and Erik Estrada are precisely the same age.
I have no idea why this tickles me so.
Nutty, I think that general impression will stick with many people, no matter when they're born, because the people your age kinda stick out. And it's harder to tell when the people 20 years older than you were child stars.
Well, it's my excuse, and I'm fond of it.
Sean K - Jul 14, 2004 6:59:53 am PDT #543 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Diane Lane
Star of the gloriusly silly "rock n' roll fantasy" Streets of Fire, with Willem Dafoe as the bad guy.
It's not her earliest role, but the one that sticks out the most for me.
I'd say Eliza is doing alright for herself, but....
Elijah Wood -- now there's a transition.
If we're going to be hesitant about calling successful adult careers, we might want to wait a bit on Elijah. He may wind up so over-identified with Frodo that he has a very hard time getting work for a while (see: Mark Hammil, the post Star Wars years....)
Does his brother Clint act in anything not directed by Ron?
Yes. Probably nothing you've ever heard of, but he does get small character bits from people other than his brother.
Holli - Jul 14, 2004 7:00:47 am PDT #544 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I have no idea why this tickles me so.
Because Garber is steely and imposing, and Estrada is cheesy and embarrassing?
Sean K - Jul 14, 2004 7:02:08 am PDT #545 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Serial:
Nutty, I think that general impression will stick with many people, no matter when they're born, because the people your age kinda stick out.
Plus, the ones that flame out into crack smoking and knocking over 7-11s tend to stick out in the brain more than the ones who just get work here and there.
Aims - Jul 14, 2004 7:02:41 am PDT #546 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
YAY! Jesse for coming through with Kurt Russell!
Kieran Culkin, too.
Aims - Jul 14, 2004 7:03:29 am PDT #547 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Plus, the ones that flame out into crack smoking and knocking over 7-11s tend to stick out in the brain more than the ones who just get work here and there.
Todd Bridges is a very nice man and is trying to restart his life! Leave him be.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 7:03:50 am PDT #548 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He may wind up so over-identified with Frodo that he has a very hard time getting work for a while (see: Mark Hammil, the post Star Wars years....)
True. But was Mark getting critical acclaim at the time? Elijah seems canny -- after starring in such huge films, he's already got more post-big-trilogy credits than Mark did in the same time span.
P.M. Marc - Jul 14, 2004 7:03:56 am PDT #549 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Christopher Walken was kind of a child actor... well, he was on a short-lived show when he was 10, at least.
Nutty - Jul 14, 2004 7:05:36 am PDT #550 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have just discovered that Victor Garber and Erik Estrada are precisely the same age.
I have no idea why this tickles me so.
Because they both had giant Afros in the 1970s? Because you are trying to imagine Ponch as Sydney Bristow's father?
I did not know that Valerie Bertinelli had been a child star. Huh. All I could think of were, like, oh everyone who was on Celebrity Boxing. The former Wednesday Addams. The Diff'rent Strokes kids.
Although you find out the funniest people fall into the Kurt Russell Club -- Dean Stockwell and Dr. Zaius (what WAS his name??) and like that.
You know, I am suddenly thinking, maybe the chief reason that former child actors can stay in the acting business is Lifetime Television. All of those family dramas, churned out ten a week -- work for everybody!! Certainly, they have kept Patty Duke in Lithium and Melissa Gilbert in [something] for years now.