# And the MacLean Stevenson award for career stupidity goes to... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426 "2002-10-01T17:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/61 "2002-10-04T18:40:32Z")
Susan Saint James co-starred with Jane Curtin in [Kate and Ally](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086742). You may also remember her from playing Rock Hudson’s wife on [McMillan and Wife](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0066685). ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/62 "2002-10-04T21:09:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*[http://epguides.com/ER\_1984/](http://epguides.com/ER_1984/) > [http://www.imdb.com/Details?0086704](http://www.imdb.com/Details?0086704) \*\* Oh yeah. I’d forgetten about THAT one… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/63 "2002-10-05T05:37:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\* > > 🙂 > > Anthony Edwards…Linda Fiorentino…and Wildest Bill star in… > > **Gotcha Ya!** 😃 \*\* BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You made my night. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/64 "2002-10-05T07:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enright3 \* > \*\* > I think it was Remington Steele that Pierce Brosnan was bound to by contract. His stint on Moonlighting was just a guest appearance as his Reminton Steele character. > > E3 \*\* That is correct. The Remington Steele series had been canceled, Brosnan was approached for Bond, then NBC decided to capitalize on that and forced Brosnan to do some Remington Steele TV movies. Which meant he wasn’t free to do Bond. But it was not Brosnan trying to jump from his series. It had already been canceled. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/65 "2002-10-05T14:26:25Z")
I remember seeing Pierce Brosnan on David Letterman many years ago and he said that he returned to the Remington Steele thing because the fans did a huge write-in campaign to have it brought back. Although he really wanted to do the James Bond thing, he felt obligated (my word, not his) to give the fans what they wanted. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/66 "2002-10-05T21:58:37Z")
From the description of the film Romano intends to make once he leaves the show, it sounds as if he’s leaving a hit television series just to jump the shark in film. What a totally lame-oid premise for a movie. That being said, it will probably be released at a time when absolutely no other funny or good movies are released, everyone will go to see it because it starts Ray Romano, and it will do eighty-squidillion dollars the first week. This is in an interesting discussion. Keep in mind that many people who worked in front of the camera on successful shows have dropped from sight because they’re working behind the cameras on successful shows/movies. Winkler, Howard, and Marshall all come to mind. Nothing new, Zeppo Marx became a very successful agent after leaving the act. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/67 "2002-10-06T01:48:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*Did Shelley Long do anything remotely successful after leaving _Cheers_? Not that I liked Diane Chambers much … \*\* She made some fairly successful movies after leaving **Cheers,** including **The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, Outrageous Fortune, The Money Pit, & Troop Beverly Hills**. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426/68 "2002-10-07T23:01:20Z")
Then there’s the ever popular Kathy Lee Gifford, who abandoned her nice little gig with Regis to go on to… be replaced by Kelly Ripa. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-maclean-stevenson-award-for-career-stupidity-goes-to/130426.md?page=3)