Tammy Grimes has had a long, respectable career as a stage actress, which is nothing to sneeze at.
I don’t remember her ever being pushed as The Next Big Star. Not in the USA, at least.
Oh, going way back to the Seventies, I remember ABC TV trying VERY hard to turn Ann Jillian into the Next Big Sex Symbol.
She’d had some success as a child actress, was nice looking, and had some genuine talent as a comedienne… but she never came close to living up to the hype.
I recall Piper Perabo being hyped as the next big star, but I think she disappeared from the mainstream as well.
Holy crap, this music is hilarious. If I ever want to spend the day listening to stuff that sounds exactly like Spinal Tap’s “Flower People”, now I know who to look up.
Or… maybe the public thought that one Michael Jackson and Prince was quite enough (or more than enough) already. 
The double mastectomy right when her career was starting to get some legs probably had something to do with it.
FWIW, Tammy Grimes was a big Broadway star, winning a couple of Tonys. There was no particular reason to believe he couldn’t have been a bigger Hollywood or TV star, but she was given a terrible vehicle in her sitcom and just couldn’t make the transition (and probably didn’t want to).
She currently stars in the TV series Covert Affairs. I’ve liked her ever since Coyote Ugly.
She’s best known for being a breast cancer survivor. She had a baby a few years later, and pretty much disappeared from the scene after that.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik was a band that intentionally tried to ride a wave of marketing and hype to fame. They released an intentionally repetitive, low-quality (but fun in a weird novelty-ish way) record, marketed it aggressively, and tried to become famous as an anti-corporate commentary about hype and marketing becoming more important than talent or art.
It didn’t work. I still can’t decide whether that means they won or lost.
I had considered mentioning them too. TYVM!
When I actually heard them at long last, I knew they would flop miserably.
She also had a nice part in the sf thriller Looper a few years ago.
The Knack was supposed to be the second coming of the Beatles. Still waiting.
Anyone remember the KISS solo albums? This was supposed to launch all their solo careers.
Didn’t quite work that way.
I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about that. In fact, it would be a good trivia question to name the Oscar-winning songs that did contain the movie’s title.
And it sure didn’t help To Sir, With Love, which in a travesty of a mockery of a sham, wasn’t even nominated.
What? No mention of Girls, and the Lena Dunham publicity machine?
I remember a massive publicity push before that show ever aired. Seemed like Salon and Slate had daily articles about Dunham and the show. It was really obnoxious the way they were pushing it. Connections? Nepotism? Paid publicity? Who knows? But the hype was (and remains, to a lesser degree) overwhelming and off-putting.
Nor, from that same year, wasIn the Heat of the NIght even though the film it was from won Best Picture.
Anyway, I know I’m getting way off-topic but the Academy in 1967 also didn’t nominate “Mrs. Robinson” or anything else from **The Graduate **soundtrack. Just for comparison, here’s what was nominated:
“Talk to the Animals” from Doctor Dolittle — Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics) (Winner)
“The Bare Necessities” from **The Jungle Book **— Terry Gilkyson (music and lyrics)
“The Eyes of Love” from Banning — Quincy Jones (music) and Bob Russell (lyrics)
“The Look of Love” from Casino Royale — Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics)
“Thoroughly Modern Millie” from **Thoroughly Modern Millie **— Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
I was trying to discuss this with my teenage son - I likened targets of hype to a soccer offense: wave after wave of attempt, with some embarrassing fails, a few near-misses and the occasional goal. But you can watch “the machine” go into motion and throw attempt after attempt at the “goal”…
I don’t know…like her or hate her, I think she already has happened…
She was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe. I remember being a little confused about why she was getting so much attention. This was the first time I became aware of celebrity hype.
Julian Lennon just never seemed to clear the trees at the end of the runway.
The 2001 winners of Popstars US, Eden’s Crush, were all the rage until the end of the season, and after all the fans bought the CD and realized it only had the one good song on it, they just fell apart.