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Sometimes, the TV character that you remember long after the show went off the air was not the one originally intended to be the star. Here are the ten greatest rises from TV sidekickdom to stardom- characters who were originally intended as side characters (sometimes even as one-episode guest stars) gradually outshining the star of [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Friday, January 13, 2012 at 12:01 am
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If you’re anything like us me, your first, greatest concern when you wake up every afternoon is “will something very unpleasant happen to my genitals?” Then we move on to career, finances, family, meaning of life and all that. We like to think celebrities are often the same way. If there’s anything that unites the [...]
Posted by Dustin Koski on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Considering the scandal, tragedy, and failure that typically plague child stars after their careers end, you’d think any parent would keep their child as far away from a Hollywood studio as humanly possible. Yet, despite the numbers of child actors who end up as drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, or worst of all- reality show participants, [...]
Posted by Geoff Shakespeare on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged Academy Award, Acting, Actor, ambassador and diplomat, Badass, Big Trouble in Little China, Brad Pitt, buffy the vampire slayer, But Shirley Temple, Casper, Casper Ltd, child actor, child model and actress, Christian Bale, christina ricci, Cinema of the United States, Dakota Fanning, Dana Plato, Danica McKellar, director, Disney contract player, Emmy, Empire of the Sun, Entertainment_Culture, escape, Escape From New York, Family, Family Guy, father manager, Fred Savage, gary coleman, Ghana, Goldie Hawn, government official, great actor, great actress, Harrison Ford, I Am Sam, John Carpenter, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, kid actor, King, Kirsten Dunst, Kurt Russell, Lindsey Lohan, Mary Jane, Mass media, Mermaids, named child actor, respected actor, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Actors Guild Award, semi-pro baseball player, Seth Green, Shirley Temple, spiderman, Steven Spielberg, Television in the United States, The Addams Family, The computer wore tennis shoes, The Thing, The Wonder Years, Tom Cruise, transition form child actor, UCLA, young actress
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has honored and recognized outstanding cinema achievements since 1929, but believe it or not, some of Hollywood’s greatest stars have never won the big award. Who would have thought that legendary Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich never won an Oscar? And the list continues with Irene Dunne, [...]
Posted by Timeea on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Once upon a time, just about every man in the world felt it was his sworn and solemn duty to grow a mustache. Boys would long for the day when the space above their lips sprouted the thick, beautiful hairs that would tell the world they were men. Mustaches may have fallen out of fashion [...]
Posted by Geoff Shakespeare on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Humor, People · Tagged adolf hitler, Albert Einstein, Aldo Raine, American Mustache Institute, artist, black grease paint, Bowser’s Castle, Burt Reynolds, charlie chaplin, che guevara, Christian, Cinema of the United States, crumb-catcher, Dali, Entertainment, Facial hair, famed Nazi hunter, famous mustache guys without their mustaches, Groucho Marx, guys without their mustaches, Harpo, Magnum, Magnum P.I, Martio, moustache, mustaches, Ned Flanders, P.I., Princess, Salvador Dali, Silent, stereotypical absent-minded professor, Super Mario Brothers, Television in the United States, The Simpsons, Tom Selleck, unpopular high school guidance counsellor
