In a somewhat related note, Wil Wheaton's book is now available.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Tom Scola - Jul 14, 2004 7:47:21 am PDT #585 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
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.
Megan E. - Jul 14, 2004 8:27:58 am PDT #590 of 10001
has anyone mentioned Drew Barrymore?
JZ - Jul 14, 2004 8:36:14 am PDT #591 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
t MSCL anal-retentivist
Claire Danes was only 13 in the pilot episode.
t /MSCL anal-retentivist
Aimée, yup on that Aviator preview -- not necessarily on the yum of Leo, but a sort of tentative general yum on the whole project.
Also, it was practically the only bearable preview shown that day. Saturday matinee of Spider-Man 2, theater packed with kids 10 and under, and the previews were wall-to-wall stuff like Seed of Chucky and Anacondas and various action-y things with stuff blowing up and people getting the holy fuck shot out of them. By the time the Aviator preview came on, all the kids were cringing, a little girl behind us had crawled into her father's lap and buried her face in his jacket, and Emmett was poking Hec and whispering anxiously, "That movie's rated R, right? You're not going to make me see this, right? I won't have to watch that one either, will I?"
Aims - Jul 14, 2004 8:38:19 am PDT #592 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimée, yup on that Aviator preview -- not necessarily on the yum of Leo, but a sort of tentative general yum on the whole project.
Totally.
Although, I am a little reserved on Cate Blanchett as Kate Hepburn, but then, I would be reserved on Kate Hepburn playing Kate Hepburn.
Consuela - Jul 14, 2004 8:38:20 am PDT #593 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vonnie, damn her eyes, has tracked down a link claiming that Brad Pitt is being considered for the role of Emilio Sandoz in an adaptation of The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell.
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
On edit: Consider that the homoeroticism in Troy was removed in order to assuage the star's concerns about his image (or so I hear). What would that mean for the plot in The Sparrow? The mind reels.
Nutty - Jul 14, 2004 8:50:01 am PDT #594 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Roddy McDowell
That was his name! (I called him Dr. Zaius because I am a dummy.)
I think ita is right that the hard-transition time for males is earlier than for females -- nobody has a problem with speculating about (or the very idea of) a 17 year old girl having breast implants, but when she's 29 she may have trouble finding work. Whereas 17 year old boys, it is all about suddenly realizing he will never be taller than he is now (although, e.g., DiCaprio stopped looking like a baby, suddenly, when he was like 25).