What the Hell Happened to Steve Guttenberg & Shelley Long?
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Guttenberg entered the 90’s with a mullet in the romantic comedy, Don’t Tell Her It’s Me opposite Shelley Long and Jami Gertz. I am going to let the picture speak for itself on this one.
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The following year, Long returned to the big screen for the romantic comedy, Don’t Tell Her It’s Me. Steve Guttenberg starred as a formerly over-weight cartoonist who has recently recovered from cancer. Long played his sister who helps set him up with an attractive reporter played by Jami Gertz. In order to help him get the girl, Long gives Guttenberg a new identity as a leather-clad, mulleted biker named Lobo Marunga.
The movie was based on Sarah Bird’s novel, The Boyfriend School. Bird adapted her own book for the big screen, but she wasn’t impressed with her screenplay or the movie. Years later, she confessed “My exceedingly mediocre screenplay was made into an exceedingly mediocre movie.”
Don’t Tell Her It’s Me received a limited release in theaters topping out at 177 screens. It grossed just over a million dollars. For all intents and purposes, this was the final nail in the coffin of Long’s movie career with one notable exception. Meanwhile, Cheers was still on the air and going strong.