Boooo!
Are you asserting that their joint effort was not Oscar worthy? It’s one of my all time favorites.
Joints are what the guy who greenlighted that movie must have been smoking.
Wasn’t there a story about Shelley Winters being asked to audition for a movie and showing up at the audition, sitting down, and then taking out first one Oscar and then the second one and placing them on the table?
Heh.
Hey, don’t mess with Airwolf.
Thanks for clarifying. My intention with that comment (the exclusion) was to keep us focused on the actors, like you said. Yes, Stallone wrote Rocky. And I figured that someone would mention his going from winning an Oscar for Best Movie to being in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! Or Rhinestone. Or Spy Kids 3.
I could go on. But you made my point for me.
Hmph. Next you’re gonna tell me that flannel shirts and hiking boots are no longer the height of fashion. 
(And thanks, Superdude, for defending my femininity.)
Back to the subject at hand…I don’t think Gwyneth Paltrow has really “fallen.” She’s done some lightweight movies, but they’ve been “Gwyneth Paltrow” movies. She’s still a big star. And while her post-Oscar movies may not be deep, the ones that I’ve seen have at least been good movies.
Did you even read the IMDB page you linked to?
It’s “Do you believe in life after love” and the outfit you’re talking about was from the video for “If I Could Turn Back Time” from over a decade earlier.
And it’s spelled “yodeling.”
Might want to try to be a bit more accurate if you insist on slagging people…
Hey, it’s what I do.
And I feel compelled to. After all, you once defended me after the NYC Dopefest a few years ago. I don’t remember from what you defended me, but I’m returning the favor.
RIchard Dreyfuss. William Hurt. Robin Williams (except I just saw One Hour Photo and it was pretty good).
I don’t know if that is a true story or not, but that scenario is exactly what was described in the opening scene of the film “Swimming With Sharks.”
Well, this is moving away from actors and actresses but I think this person deserves special mention - Michael Cimino.
Since winning his Oscar for “The Deer Hunter” (1978) he has gone on to direct only six films, one of which was the infamous “Heaven’s Gate”.
Halle Berry, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and some of the others on this list have slipped in quality, but they still get $10 million paydays for big budget vehicles (that happen to suck). To me, slipping is when you go to much lower budgets, undemanding roles and no big whoop as far as hype (i.e. Estelle Parsons’ episodic TV appearances).
Sally Field does TV but at least she still has great roles (i.e. Abby’s bipolar mother on ER). However, Joel Grey playing a fey houseboy in Further Tales of the City or Ghost of Christmas Past in the 8,439,612th remake of A Christmas Carol can’t pay that much and isn’t a high prestige project. Going back a ways, Kim Hunter traded “STEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAA!” for increasingly low budget appearances as Dr. ZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! in The Planet of the Apes series (her final appearance, Escape From the Planet of the Apes [set in a slightly altered 1970s USA] being, imho [many disagree] one of the worst movies ever made).
Oscar Winners I think will probably follow Joel Grey include:
Adrian Brody- he won the Oscar while pretty obscure (which never helps a career as much as you’d think), he has a certain charisma but he’s not attractive enough or supertalented enough to really have staying power, and I can totally see him starring in the short lived sit-com “OH, THAT ADRIAN!” in a couple of years. Mary Steenburgen (who is a shrew, by the way) has already had several flopped TV vehicles, the last couple as a supporting character.
Ben Kingsley stars as Fagin in Roman Polansky’s soon to be released Oliver Twist. That’s a rather odd vehicle for both Oscar winners. It’s a good story and all, but a bit too deus ex machina for modern tastes, plus the story and the role have been done a thousand times [by Oscar Winners Alec Guinness, George C. Scott, and Richard Dreyfuss no less, as well as Burt Reynolds in an animated/dog version and Ron Moody [the best of the lot, imo] in the musical version. Why another?
Considering the fact that out of 24 projects she’s worked in the last decade, fully 1/3 also involved her much-bigger-star husband, Ted Danson. I wonder how many of those she only got because he demanded either casting control or demanded her specifically as a costar?
She may be a shrew, but she was good in “Joan of Arcadia.” I don’t think I’d call two seasons a flop, though definitions may vary.
That may be where I heard it.
<nitpick> Having seen this recently (on the big screen, no less), I need to observe that the movie is nowhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest. Indeed, it has quite a bit to recommend it, once you realize what Cimino is trying to do with it. The lambasting he took in the press was largely industry punishment for his egocentric inability to work within the system, which no one denies he deserved. It’s just that the movie he made is actually pretty good. </nitpick>
Ernest Borgnine is a Great Character Actor who was in some of the great action/western movies.Ok,ok…Mchale’s Navy was stinko,but they did make a worse remake.Look at Joe Pesci who was a good character actor who tried to be a leading man