Established movie stars that come back to Television
Burt Reynolds: From 70s / 80s sex symbol to Evening Shade
Michael J. Fox (see also: previous list): From Back to the Future and Teen Wolf to TV’s Spin City and The Michael J. Fox Show.
Charlie Sheen: from Platoon and Wall Street to TV’s Three and a Half Men and public meltdown.
Tony Curtis from Houdini, Operation Petticoat, and The Great Race to TV’s McCoy and Vega$.
Dick Van Dyke: from Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Diagnosis: Murder
Tom Selleck: from Three Men and a Baby and Mr. Baseball to Blue Bloods
Claire Danes: My So-Called Life should have been a bigger hit, but Danes work in it still attracted a lot of attention, and she went on to make feature films with Winona Ryder, Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Brolin & Meryl Streep, before returning to TV with better-than-average TV movies like a bio of Temple Grandin, and finally the series Homeland.
Holly Hunter: from Raising Arizona, Broadcast News and The Incredibles to Starfleet Academy
Robin Williams from Patch Adams and Mrs. Doubtfire to The Crazy Ones
Established movie stars that come back to Television
Burt Reynolds: From 70s / 80s sex symbol to Evening Shade
Michael J. Fox (see also: previous list): From Back to the Future and Teen Wolf to TV’s Spin City and The Michael J. Fox Show.
Charlie Sheen: from Platoon and Wall Street to TV’s Three and a Half Men and public meltdown.
Tony Curtis from Houdini, Operation Petticoat, and The Great Race to TV’s McCoy and Vega$.
Dick Van Dyke: from Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Diagnosis: Murder
Tom Selleck: from Three Men and a Baby and Mr. Baseball to Blue Bloods
Claire Danes: My So-Called Life should have been a bigger hit, but Danes work in it still attracted a lot of attention, and she went on to make feature films with Winona Ryder, Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Brolin & Meryl Streep, before returning to TV with better-than-average TV movies like a bio of Temple Grandin, and finally the series Homeland.
Holly Hunter: from Raising Arizona, Broadcast News and The Incredibles to Starfleet Academy
Robin Williams from Patch Adams and Mrs. Doubtfire to The Crazy Ones
John Clease From Monte Python and Faulty Towers, into Clockwise, A Fish Called Wanda, and Rat Race, then back to Hold the Sunset.
Movies set in the past that aren’t too concerned with Historical Authenticity.
So much so, that when the song was re-released in 1992 with the movie, it surpassed its original chart performance (#2 on the Billboard Hot 100, versus #9 in its original release), and re-introduced the song to a new generation.
Though the song was originally written and recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1984, it was John Cale’s 1991 cover version that brought it back into the public consciousness when it was used in the 2001 film/
“Singin’ in the Rain” was written by Arthur Freed in 1929 for a Broadway revue. It was popular with singers immediately, and incorporated into setlists everywhere; the 1952 Gene Kelly version ranks 3 on the AFI 100 songs list. As a footnote, in 2005, the Gene Kelly version was used in a Volkswagen commercial in the UK, and subsequently became a #1 hit.
Why not? It was apparently a well-known, popular song before the movie, and the movie made it even more popular, to the point where it’s now mostly associated with the movie.
“Dies Irae” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - X2: X-Men United
The song, with its bombastic Latin choruses, found new life in the scene in which Nightcrawler is bamfing through the White House, knocking down Secret Service agents, trying to get to the president.