Isn’t that Steve Guttenberg in that Phone commercial? The one with the kid and the lemonade stand?
Huh?
You mean the Dick Van Dyke who did Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and a bunch of other movies WHILE doing a string of TV series?
Hell, anyone in Hollywood would kill to have that career.
didn’t stop Mike Rowe. of course he is one out of many.
You said:
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Twickster is a moderator. She was making the joke that she thought you were going to say becoming a moderator is one of the signs that your career moment has passed.
Funny thing is, before even clicking the link, and with only Jadelin’s post to go on, I knew Skald The Rhymer had started that thread.
:smack:never mind. Still early.
The guy pretty much had nuthin’ after Grease. Then came *Pulp Fiction *and he was back, baby.
This is called “Maclain Stephenson Syndrome”.
Nitpick: It’s “McLean Stevenson.”
Jaime Pressly is who I was going to mention. Your career has stalled when the two most famous recent pictures of you are your mugshot for DUI and urinating on the sidewalk. She spent years getting to her big break, took it and brilliantly ran with it, and then threw it all away.
There’s also Magnum P.I. star Tom Selleck, who was offered the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but had to pass it up because the producers of Magnum wouldn’t give him time off. Magnum then starred in High Road to China, which although it brought in $28 million, was regarded by most as a “Raiders” nockoff. He did star in a few successful movies, such as Mr. Baseball and Three Men and a Baby, but his movie career wasn’t nearly as successful as Harrison Ford’s. Selleck is still thought of as a “TV actor” and remains popular on TV, including the current series Blue Bloods on CBS.
Ironically, the shooting of the “Magnum” pilot was delayed for over six months by a writer’s strike, so it turned out Selleck could have taken the Indy role in “Raiders,” had he the option to do so.
Except that McLean Stevenson didn’t leave “MASH” to do movies but to star in his own self-titled series which quickly flopped (and turned out to be the first in a succession of failed TV shows).
Remember “Condo”? Neither do I.
Hello, Larry
(Goodbye acting career)
Actually, when he was cast as Bond, Remington Steele had been canceled. But the show producers had an option for another season, so started it back up again to cash in on Brosnan being Bond. Then the shooting dates conflicted so he had to drop being 007.
You end up in a SyFy channel movie.
I thought that was reserved for 80s pop princesses.
Bill Shatner has reinvented himself into the best Bill Shatner impersonator in the business today. It is very difficult to mock a man who is clearly having a grand time parodying his earlier work and public image.
Nah. Poor Lou Diamond Phillips. And, wait! Was that Jason Alexander?