He’s done well as an action hero and he’s done good as a comedic parody of a Californian surfer dude.
So, just to be technically accurate, he has two lanes. In recent times, he’s chosen to focus on the former but he does have at least one other option than “sullen action hero”.
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Fil-Wings of Pegasus analyzes Steve Martin.
Speaking of athletes, former NFL and MLB player Deion Sanders released a rap song called "Must Be the Money,’ and Shaquille O’Neal has released 4 albums and appeared in a few movies, none of which were critical darlings.
I listened to the behind-the-scenes podcast for the recent documentary The Last Dance, and the filmmaker seemed pretty certain that Jordan’s retirement was precisely what it appeared to be, with all the rumors (gambling, also uglier ones involving his father’s death) totally nonsense.
Also, I think people give Jordan too hard a time about trying to play baseball:
(a) he was in the 99.999% percentile of humans when it comes to baseball, just not the 99.99999% percentile that you need to be a successful major-leaguer
(b) and after giving it a good shot, he realized he wasn’t going to make it, and stopped.
What’s there to mock?
John Wilkes Booth.
Hey, he took his shot …
Too soon.
Lincoln died, right?
Sounds like a success to me.
Yeah, but how were the reviews?
According to many of the SDMB’s Jeopardy! fans, he was one of the best guest hosts. Really.
Where was the post on David Caruso? Successful in TV but never translated to “MOVIE STAR”.
I saw Jordan more that a dozen times for the minor league Birmingham Barons. Could not hit a curveball. Other teams would throw a fastball to him if the game was out of reach; then he could make contact. He was great for league attendance and paid out of his pocket to upgrade the team’s transportation a number of times. Not a successful player, but better than just a sideshow.
Yeah, I’ve been a Jeopardy fan since Art Fleming, and a snob when it comes to hosting it. And I thought Aaron was one of the best of the “Speed Dating Tryout Job Interview Hey No Pressure” phase.
But that’s because no one did it one tenth as well as Trebek… people I had high hopes for (like LeVar Burton) were so nervous or awkward or…
…out of their lane.
This reminds me of a line from a short-lived Norm Macdonald sit-com, in which he played a guy who used to play in the NHL, but was cut from his team. The running joke is everyone commenting on how bad at hockey he was.
“I was only a bad hockey player in comparison to other, professional, hockey players!”
No. That album was AWSOME!!!
I was at a Cramps show in LA and they played half the album over the sound system while we waited for the Cramps. The crowd ate it up.
I only watched the one and a half episodes I watched because his character had a dachshund called Wiener Dog.
His problem on season 2 of True Detective was that he was trying waaayy too hard to be Mr. Serious, and didn’t really have the acting chops to pull off whatever it was he was trying to do. The show actually would have benefited from him doing his usual fast talking, smart alecky schtick. If nothing else, that would have provided a bit of much-needed levity to the otherwise dark proceedings.
In 1948, Groucho Marx co-wrote and starred in the Broadway play Time for Elizabeth. It closed after eight performances.
Since co-writer Norman Krasna has a long history of writing successful plays and movies, the failure would seem to be entirely on Groucho’s shoulders.
Bill Cosby trying to write original movies.
Granted, someone else came up with the screenplay but the idea behind it was all his.
Hasn’t Magical Mystery Tour been rehabilitated in the eyes of the public since 1967?
The Beatles had been riding so high for so long, and crested with Sgt. Pepper, that critics wanted to smack them down over a less-than-perfect project.
(I’ve always sorta enjoyed it)