Forgot about those two. For some reason I just recalled “Body of Evidence” and “Who’s that Girl” which were both bombs.
Also Desperately Seeking Susan is also rated pretty nicely by the critics.
I suspect Madonna left acting to avoid her ex.
I believe Sting’s attempt at Dowland lute songs did rather well commercially, but I find it painful to listen to. Just bland dreck.
Likewise, opera singers attempting Broadway songs rarely produce beautiful music. Jose Carreras’ rendition of “Memory” from Cats is just dire.
I saw it, and everything about him screamed “I don’t want to be here”.
The thing about his Doritos ad getting cancelled was funny though.
Weirdly, Wahlburgers seems to be doing okay. I’ve not tried it as their London branch didn’t survive the COVID lockdown less than a year after opening.
Brian Bosworth ex-NFL who tried to be an action star and didn’t do well. Though was he worse than Howie Long?
shudders
Abysmal? Come on, how bad could it have been?
Ooof.
Well, maybe he failed charts-wise, but definitely not artistically (and I think his ambition for overcoming his teen idol status was rather artistic than financial). He made some great records in the late 60s/early 70s and was a pioneer of country rock (check out his live album “In Concert At The Troubadour” from 1969, it’s wonderful). And this was his problem, the problem of many country rockers: rocking too hard for the country market, and too country for the rock crowd.
Artist Yoko Ono has made repeated attempts to produce “music”
Literature Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan’s only novel “Tarantula” is a rambling mess. I’m probably the biggest Dylan fan at this board, but I gave up on “Tarantula” after 10 pages or so, it’s unreadable. It was published (I think in 1968) after having been announced (and written) years before and was already dated when it came out (it’s written in the beat poetry hipster style Dylan cultivated around 1964-66). We all knew that he can write songs, but thirty years later, he proved that he can also write books when publishing his autobiographical “Chronicles Vol. 1”, which is fascinating and generally highly regarded.
To be fair, she’s an avant-garde conceptual artist; making “performance art” music, that’s decidedly not pop music, is “in her lane,” IMO.
Don’t know if this falls too far outside your definition of “got out of their lane”, but Ed Wynn – The Perfect Fool. on radio, the voice of The Mad Hatter in the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins and the Toymaker in Babes in Toyland. He also definitely got 'out of his lane" with heavy dramatic parts in The Diary of Anne Frank and Requiem for a Heavyweight, among many others.
But he got too far out when he decided to start up his own radio broadcasting network - the Amalgamated Broadcasting System – in 1933. He was taking on the other big players, like CBS and NBC It’s like imagining Jake Gyllenhall trying to start his own TV network today.
It lasted only a month. Wynn was trying to juggle being a radio and movie star with being chief executive of a major broadcasting company. It lost money spectacularly, and Wynn felt personally responsible for paying all debts. It cost him his fortune, his shows, his marriage, and he had a breakdown. It took years for him and his career to recover.
Gambling problems?
The things you miss by not falling sports. I mean, I’ll recognize the big names, but I don’t watch.
I’d not heard the rumor that @Asuka mentions, and I was living here in the Chicago area during the '90s, when Jordan and the Bulls were huge. But, it was pretty well-known, even back then, that Jordan was, indeed, a big-time gambler. I recall stories, from back then, that when Jordan golfed with other people, he very much wanted to place wagers on the matches, and on each hole.
FWIW, Jordan’s Wikipedia article has an entire section on his gambling, including these two passages:
Are you saying we shouldn’t go looking for a heartbeat?
Yes, indeed, I am. 
Ms. Spears says she’s pregnant.
I posted it here instead of starting a new thread, because I suspect most Dopers aren’t interested in this story any more than I am.
Considering she already has two kids I wouldn’t say this is Britney “getting out of her lane.”
Grace Kelly.
Too soon?
Was this supposed to be posted in a different thread?