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Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned

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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Fred Pete - Jul 14, 2004 7:33:56 am PDT #580 of 10001

Ann, that's a ferret.

Probably hopelessly late, but it took a while to put this together:

Born in 1962 (i.e., same year as me), with substantial IMDB credits both before and after 1982 (i.e., the 20YO mark):

Jennifer Jason Leigh (probably pushing it -- though she appears to have worked fairly steadily since 1978, 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High was probably the role that made her a star)
Adam Baldwin (second lead in 1980's My Bodyguard
Tom Cruise (2 movies in 1981, including a 5th listed credit)
Kristy MacNichol
Wendy Jo Sperber
Melissa Sue Anderson
Jodie Foster

Of names I recognized....

§ ita § - Jul 14, 2004 7:34:16 am PDT #581 of 10001

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

My guess is that girls are forced ripe -- so Leonardo was looking boyish at an age where the chicks were what women in their 40s are supposed to look like.

If Hillary Duff looks like that for the rest of her career, she's golden. She's gone through all the changes she's allowed to.

Eerily Frankie Muniz doesn't look like he's going to change either. But it might be nice if he does.

Gandalfe - Jul 14, 2004 7:34:57 am PDT #582 of 10001

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

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

If you think you can outrhyme me, yeah boy I bet
Cause I ain't met a motherfucker who can do that yet
Trendsetter I'm better my rhymes are good
I got a gourmet plate that says I wish you would

Fred Pete - Jul 14, 2004 7:36:34 am PDT #583 of 10001

Ann, that's a ferret.

And after seeing the xposts --

OK, I'll withdraw everyone except MacNichol and Foster. And maybe Sperber, who isn't as big a name.

Steph L. - Jul 14, 2004 7:46:44 am PDT #584 of 10001

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Because no one but me cares when Frankie Muniz turns legal.

::cough::

Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2004 7:47:21 am PDT #585 of 10001

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

In a somewhat related note, Wil Wheaton's book is now available.

Consuela - Jul 14, 2004 7:47:29 am PDT #586 of 10001

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Damn, someone beat me to Dean Stockwell.

Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2004 7:59:07 am PDT #587 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Has anyone mentioned Roddy McDowell yet?

Lyra Jane - Jul 14, 2004 8:08:27 am PDT #588 of 10001

Up with the sun

I wouldn't call Patty Duke a star anymore, but she did work steadily for 40 years or so.

And I think Elijah Wood has beaten the Frodo trap by working a lot since, in reasonably artsy stuff.

It's more impressive to me when someone remains famous after being a child star than when they start acting at 15/16 and keep going (e.g., John Cusack, Claire Danes). Plenty of people start (non-showbiz) careers in their late teens, after all...

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 14, 2004 8:20:09 am PDT #589 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Jason Bateman is doing fairly well now, and has worked more or less steadily since Silver Spoons.

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