Did anyone mentioned Emile Hirsch? (was it me?) I recall he did the Speed Racer and that Alaska film and was even on Oprah to promote it. He was in Oliver Stone’s savages in a small role vs. the two male leads.
The only quality Keanu has is a fucking marvelous agent. He is constantly being cast in movies that do well, no thanks to him.
Star Quality is the quality that makes you want to watch someone in a movie even if they are an awful actor/actress.
You mean, aside from King Kong and Predators?
I nominate Wesley Snipes. After a string of hits in the 90s his career seemed to hit the skids after Blade 2, when he got into tax trouble and would take any roll that gave him a paycheck. Since then he’s only been starring in unwatchable direct-to-video drek (and Blade 3 was such a turkey it may as well have been).
Men in Black was such a monster hit I thought Linda Fiorentino would go on to other starring roles, but apparently she’s got a reputation for being such an irascible bitch that most directors refuse to work with her. Her IMDB shows only one acting role in the last 10 years.
Wesley Snipes had a little IRS problem that I imagine hurt his career, or his image at least, a bit.
A lot of people in the entertainment industry have had tax problems. It’s pretty common and to some extent it’s structural (performers aren’t trained in accounting and they’re all pretty much self-employed, so there’s no employer to take care of withholding). There’s really no reason that running into tax trouble should sink a career based solely on the impact that such problems by themselves might tarnish someone’s personal reputation or image. The impact would have to be indirect, such as forcing an actor to appear in movies that don’t have good prospects or – if it’s that serious – the time away from work required to serve a sentence.
He is both extremely wealthy and extremely generous. And his career is hardly in decline. I saw him earlier this year on Broadway.
MARY AND MAX! Great movie. Good word.
Carry on.
She is also quite possibly the worst actress in the entire world. And I’m including Andie MacDowell here.
Yeah, the Dogma commentary goes into a lot of that. Apparently she just doesn’t take direction. At all. No matter how many takes one does and how one carefully explains what one wants. She just does the take how she wants until the director gets tired and moves on. She was great to audition and completely awful to work with.
Patrick Swayze - Dead
Heath Ledger - Dead, but he also starred in A Knight’s Tale BEFORE BBM and The Dark Knight.
I was watching Star Trek VI just today and wondered where he’d gone after that 
Wikipedia says he’s been doing TV and movies and voice-over work. Keeping busy.
Yes, Wesley Snipes is serving time for tax evasion.
Yeah, he just turned 50 in a Federal prison. Not getting many job offers lately.
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The one actor that really puzzles me is Christian Slater. He seems to have gone from big name to almost exclusively starring in direct-to-video western movies these days.
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Slater has starred in a number of TV series over the last few years but none of them seem to last long. I’m not sure if his latest one was renewed for another season.
Regarding Telperion’s post, Slater’s sudden drop from the A-list had a lot to do with substance abuse and problems with the law.
OK, I noticed that she was born in 1982, and the article was 2010, so she was 28 
What the fuck is her father doing backstage at a rehersal for a broadway play acting as if she were still a juvenile and he was protecting her from being sexually abused? :dubious:
Yes, he worked pretty regularly from 1997 until his death in 2008. Don’t forget The Patriot and Monster’s Ball.
Well, not outside the shower room anyway, heh.
Thank God. Her as a hooker? gag.
Amy Magidan comes to mind for me. Great in Field of Dreams and then disappeared. I would have thought she would have at least been around for awhile but disappeared.