We have Mr-T doing commercials for fly-by-night fringe banking companies offering ‘Wisconsin Title Loans’. You have a car, they give you money. I can only imagine what happens if you miss a payment…
Also, take your pick of just about any of the long-distance/phone service commercials (10-10-220 in particular). Sad, pathetic, and the ultimate death-knell for any has-been to is-now…
…unless, of course, you’re Catherine Zeta Jones, who’s complete and utter lack of dignity seems to be more of a blessing than anything.
I remember being absolutely mortified when I saw my pre-teen crush Andy Gibb hosting Solid Gold. He’d been out of the spotlight for years and this was his comeback? Pitiful. The worst moment came when he sang Shadow Dancing 5 years after it had been a hit.
Pete Rose appeared at Wrestlemania 14 and 16 (1998 and 2000). At one of them he came out dressed as the San Diego Chicken, and at both of them he was given the “Tombstone Piledriver” by a wrestler known as “Kane.”
True, but I focused on Schwarzenegger–who’s talked about running for Governor of my fair state–because he’s arguably the biggest star selling the worst product–the Arinamin V drink (“It contains nicotine among other stimulants and gets that heart rate right up there”???).
He also comes off maniacally insane in the ads–which does make them fun to watch in a WTF sort of way.
Cris Judd - getting into J-Lo’s life as a dancer/choreagrapher, rebound romance (after Puff Daddy), banging - marrying and divorcing her, making about 10 million bucks in 9 months, not bad work, if you can get it.
I don’t know if money was involved, but perhaps the episode where Slash of Guns ‘n’ Roses appears on Trading Spaces. If I recall correctly, he was shown sewing a pillow.
Yep, saw one this morning, and I hear him doing Priceline radio ads quite often.
Alan Hale, Jr. (“Skipper” from Gilligan’s Island) as the sherriff in The Great Spider Invasion.
Burgess Meredith, Robert Walker Jr., and Godfrey Cambridge in Son Of The Blob.
Steven Bauer in a Spanish infomercial for psychic Walter Mercado. How he kept a straight face while on camera with this fraud, who looked like Ethel Merman in a Day-Glo house coat with a matching cape, I’ll never know.
Those Lynyrd Skynyrd “reunion” tours with progressively fewer members as they die off and the ones left hate and resent each other and Van Zant’s widow.
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*Originally posted by irkenDoom * Jaimee Foxworth, who played Judy (the youngest daughter who went upstairs and never returned) was in porn for a while.
I wonder if they ever worked the line “Did I do thaat?” into one of the films.
It might just be me, but I didn’t feel Booty Talk 20 had anywhere near the production values of Booty Talk 18 or the sublime Booty Talk 14, but then sequels are rarely as good.
He laughed all the way to the bank with this one. He was a major investor, sold his shares before the bottom dropped out. A friend used to work for Priceline, he told me that Shatner made TONS of bank from his relationship with them.
I don’t think the commercials were embarrassing for him or for Priceline, they were funny, campy and memorable.
Burt Ward is the king of personal appearances. Read his book, Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights. He probably earned more doing PAs than he would have if he’d continued acting.
