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.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
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Aims - Jul 14, 2004 7:03:29 am PDT #547 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ 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.
sumi - Jul 14, 2004 7:06:19 am PDT #551 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Does John Cusack count? Or was he too old when he began acting professionally?
Jesse - Jul 14, 2004 7:08:50 am PDT #552 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
John Cusak in Sixteen Candles (right?) is the littlest thing ever.
Jess M. - Jul 14, 2004 7:10:07 am PDT #553 of 10001
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
John (and Joan) definitely count, I'd say.
Aims - Jul 14, 2004 7:10:29 am PDT #554 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
John Cusak in The Journey of Natty Gann is way cuter, IMHO.
sumi - Jul 14, 2004 7:10:33 am PDT #555 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Okay.
And Patty Duke -- if we didn't mention her before.
How about Hallie Mills?
Jessica - Jul 14, 2004 7:12:00 am PDT #556 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
He may wind up so over-identified with Frodo that he has a very hard time getting work for a while
According to IMDB, he's already done 5 films since RotK. (Including Eternal Sunshine.) So even if he's not getting mobbed to play leading man roles, he's not doing too badly.