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K-Pax had potential but ended up falling into a trap that makes me sooooo mad. It's right up there with the daddy-boss-baddie dodge.
It's the tired everyone who has ever been abused as a child grows up to either be cracked or a serial killer trap. We have to excuse/understand their behavior because...well...you know.
It's simplistic, insulting and just plain bad storytelling.
PS: Thanks to the Stompie who staunched my bleeding bold yesterday.
Stompies rule.
Your fanwank still holds water. There would have been no fuel pump for a 1985 Delorean available in 1955, though one imagines someone might have been able to make one up a little easier in a place where cars at least exist.
Yeah, but...
(we interrupt this post to say Yes. We know it was forever ago. We can't help it, the dude just won't. Let. Things. Go.)
...the initial problem wasn't the fuel pump, it was the fuel line (which had an arrow pierce it) and the subsequent leaking away of all the fuel.
They didn't blow the fuel pump until they idiotically tried to get the engine to run on moonshine. Before that they had line to scavenge and fuel to syphon. All that would change would be the addition of a P.S. to the note they left on the Delorean in the mine. "P.S. fucked the fuel line, get one of those and fill 'er up with premium, por favor."
Also the Anthony Michael Hall lesson.
Michael Savage should be so lucky. AMH is better looking now than he was then, and he's paying his rent.
I think that my definition of child star who successfully transitioned would be a significant number of roles both before age 15 and after age 25. So, in my mind, it's still really too soon to tell for a lot of people.
Has someone mentioned Wil Wheaton? He transitioned into something that isn't really an adult star, but is possibly better respected.
There's Christian Bale, to keep it topical.
I think he's been mentioned.
How old was Michael J. Fox when he was on that sitcom whose title I cannot remember?
Family Ties, and it started when he was 21.
How much do I love my library? Free DVD borrowing. You get them for 2 days, and can only renew them once. However, you can't put a reserve on movies, so you have a guaranteed renewal for 2 more days.
Ha! I can get them for 7 days, with up to two renewals. The downside is that they don't seem to have anything later than 1964, for some reason. I haven't looked THAT hard, tho. Oh, yeah, and a $1/day late fee, but no more than a total of $4.
Lurker-in-this-thread peeking in...
I think Michael J. Fox was on Canadian TV as a kid, or at least as a teenager, though.