He’s lost all of that weight recently and he looks thirty years older than his age (Throat cancer. Don’t smoke, kids)
I wasn’t exactly a kid when she appeared, more like mid-to-late teens, but- what happened to Alanis Morissette? She was the biggest star in the world of music once. She played God in a Kevin Smith movie. And then, poof!
Her career took a bad hit after she did Lake Placid. Good roles suddenly became scarce so she dropped out of the movie world after getting married and having kids.
Did you see the episode of ***CSI ***where some douchebag claims to be a movie star and Grissom just shakes his head?
*"Cary Grant was a movie star. Clark Gable was a movie star. **Gary Cooper was a movie star. You’re no movie star."
It was a real Lloyd Bentson/Dan Quayle moment! 
*To the best of my recollection.
He actually fell onto the face of the earth.
Because of the movie or because of some other reason? I thought that was a great movie!
As a preteen I remember shows on evening TV that were just huge: Captain & Tennille, The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie’s Angels (I had a crush on Kate Jackson), The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Donny & Marie, Mission Impossible. Yea, a lot of them were stupid shows. But they’re burned in my memory for some reason.
And then I recall some hugely popular band and musicians you don’t hear about anymore: Bay City Rollers, Bee Gees, Abba, The Carpenters.
And I remember Evel Knievel-mania.
This reminds me of a judge who had been assigned to a prominent case. A newspaper article described him as looking like a cross between William Holden and Robert Mitchum (look them up on IMDB if you need to). When he arrived at his office the next day, everyone who worked for him wanted to know one thing - who are William Holden and Robert Mitchum?
Abba? Momma Mia! spent over a decade on Broadway, longer in London, countless touring shows and a movie. Hardly out of sight in the 21st century.
Every straight male in the Free World had a crush on Kate Jackson! :o
Just out of curiosity, around what year was this? William Holden was the star of Network (1976; sadly, he died just a few years later when he fell and hit his head while drinking), and Bob Mitchum was in The Winds of War miniseries in the early '80s.
Come to think of it, Ali McGraw and Jan-Michael Vincent were in WoW too. When was the last time anyone heard of them? 
Saw this on ESPN the other night!
I didn’t mean to imply that the movies those guys starred in rivaled the quality of the books that those other guys wrote. I meant to say that those guys are among the top 20th century movie stars, and those other guys are among the top 20th century novelists.
Christine Keeler (of the “Profumo Affair”)
Christine Jorgensen, who was the first widely-known trans. Died in 1989.
In general weekday kids television programing…Romper room, Bozo, The new zoo revue, but most specifically the Good Captain Kangaroo, his trusty side kick Mr Green Jeans, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Mr Moose and the ever pesky Mr. Bunny Rabbit.
Kids these days have no idea what they are missing.
Yeah, this. And Saturday morning cartoons. Although PBS Kids has lots of good shows. But it’s just one channel.
Tracy Ullman
Ally Sheedy
Pia Zadora
She’s back with a new show.
Tracy Ullman Returns to HBO
I was surprised to learn that Ullman is only 56 years old.
Morgan Fairchild. In the 1980s, she was considered the prototype of the glamorous, unattainable woman, although her acting skills were never that impressive.
She hasn’t “completely disappeared”—she’s still working, but I had to scroll pretty far down in her IMDB credits list before I saw anything vaguely recognizable. One of her recent films is Wiener Dog Internationals (which is, of course, the sequel to Wiener Dog Nationals).
Ally Sheedy was in a Grissom episode of CSI.
Pia Zadora was in Naked Gun 3.
I still have the pics from when she posed for Playboy. **Hubba-hubba! ** :o