What about Zach Braff, from Scrubs? (Loved the entire cast from that show & from Malcolm in the Middle, by the way. Isn’t Malcolm racing cars or playing music now instead of acting? Wonder about the brothers)
Just saw her in Carlito’s Way within the past week or so! She’s very hot and very good. Yeah, what happened?
Sometime after 24 came out the first time, Keifer Southerland was interviewed, and said something about how people were calling it his big comeback, to which he responded, “I didn’t realize I was gone.” He had gone off and done theater, and been working steadily and enjoying his work. But because he wasn’t headlining Hollywood movies, he had disappeared as far as the world was concerned.
Sometimes these actors are just making different choices. They decide they don’t want to be an A-list movie star. They’d rather do this interesting thing over here.
Geena Davis may have gotten a push from the lackluster result of Cutthroat Island, and she went off and had children.
When I saw her at Dragon*Con some years ago, she looked half dead. I think she’s anorexic. Not in the “10 lbs underweight” kind of way that’s expected of Hollywood starlets, in the “looks like a skeleton in skin” kind of way.
Jasmine Guy was never a great actress. She stretched and did remarkably well in* A Different* World given that she had to rescue the show when Lisa Bonet left, but she wasn’t a major talent.
X-Men 3 was before she was in Juno, not after.
I don’t think the role was hers to turn down anyway. If she had read for it, it just would have been Lynch turning her down in favor of Laura Dern and her pure blonde innocence. MR gliding out of the darkness and asking “You the guy that found the ear?” would have had a completely different effect, and it would have been wrong.
If that really went down the way MR says it did, it’s inaccurate and harsh to say she “blew off” the meeting. (Also unethical and lousy. :p) According to her, it went like this. First, she got her hand caught in a door at her apartment: sounds funny, but not if it happened to you and your hand is swollen and bleeding. Then she tried to get to the interview from the emergency room, not from the apartment building, and that was a clusterfrak.
It’s the kind of thing you usually hear about happening in reverse, with a New Yorker going to L.A. and being stranded because they can’t drive. In this case, it was an L.A. native, used to driving herself everywhere, and now being at the mercy of a no-speak-English NYC cabbie. He just couldn’t find the address. And there were no cell phones in those days. And Gish didn’t have unlimited amounts of time to wait. So there was nothing MR could do except send flowers and a well-meant apology. It had nothing to do with whether or not she cared about Gish and early-era actors.
Of course, that would never happen with Cyrus/Lovato/Gomez et al, but that’s because other things have changed since 1987. All those starlets have crews, which include assistants (to prevent the injury), drivers (to get them to the interview), and publicists (to make sure the apology is louder than the error). Plus, they have obligations eight days out of seven, so even if there is a misstep like that, it’ll be forgotten by the end of the month. It was unfortunate for MR, but I hardly think she was filing her nails and saying “The hell with that old bag” while Gish waited across town blinking back tears.
And yet American Idol or Dancing with the Stars seems to be on every night of the week… 
I’m sure you’re right, taking into consideration all the cable channels which contribute programming.
Thanks for the corrected version. I read the story a long time ago and so I probably forgot some of the details.
Rachael Leigh Cook was a favorite of mine from the early 2000s, but after She’s All That and Josie and the Pussycats she didn’t seem to do much. Or maybe I’m just getting too old for this shit.
She’s in a bunch of small independent films.
I always think of her as the “This is your brain on drugs!” girl.
Braff has written a play (“All New People”) and is currently starring in it in London’s West End along with Eve Myles (her off Torchwood). Reviews have not been kind, however…
McCarthy is now a well-known — indeed, an award-winning — travel writer.
Which is pretty funny, considering that in St. Elmo’s Fire, his dream was to make it as a writer.
Recently saw him on Royal Pains where he played a drunk who travelled a lot.
Alicia Silverstone had a huge hit with “Clueless”, but I can’t remember anything she did after that. She was young when she made that movie, so it wasn’t even that she got “too old” for Hollywood. Anyone know what happened there?
I think she was in a series of flops – Babysitter, Batman and Robin, Miss Match – I think even one or two commercial failures can seriously hamper an acting career.
The dissolution of the Stonecutters probably had something to do with the decline of Guttenberg’s career.
Hmmm. I wonder if any Hollywood stars have disappeared because the allure of gaming got them? I’m thinking roleplaying games would be particularly hard for them to resist. Felicia Day famously turned her addiction to online gaming into “The Guild,” probably the best-known Web series out there. I wonder if some actor or actress may have disappeared from the scene just because they couldn’t be bothered to stop raiding?
Huh. I figured she just bowed out for a time to rescue homeless cats or something but Wiki says she spent a few years voicing a kid’s cartoon (“Braceface”) and a bunch of direct-to-video and made-for-tv movies. I guess the Hollywood bottom fell out there – not to assume she’s not perfectly happy doing what she does.