FAILED ACTORS ???


What is this? more than 3/4s of the cast are failed actors who only get cameo, guest star and tv movie roles now days?

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i wouldnt call them failed actors, since you have heard of them and i doubt failed actors would get anykind of cameos. most of them are past their prime though. read the post about how john candy is in it. it turns out that it took a very long time for the movie to finish.

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well see, u might call them failed actors if they were to voice the tv movie maybe now, or in the past 2 or 3 years, but actually they voiced them back in the early 90's so they weren't as big as some of them like kevin bacon is now...

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Given the fame that the majority of these actors have attained, I would hardly call them "failed". Sure, they may not have been at the top of their game, but that would be like calling Liz Taylor a failed actress because, other than interviews and parts in documentaries/biographies, she hasn't done anything since 2001. Failed? No, not by a long shot.

"All true knowledge has a price." -Isawa Tadaka

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hey evanescense_2005 - I'm sorry, I hardly EVER feel the need to respond to a post - especially just to argue AGAINST a post. You say 3/4 of the cast are has-beens. I went and looked at the history for each and every one of cast. Here is what I found. A total of 17 names. Each name is 5.88%
1. Jason Baca is a Model/ Writer - very few acting gigs = 5.88%
2. Actors that are STILL huge, each and every single one - Kevin Bacon, Ted Danson, Michael J Fox, Jennifer Love hewitt, Ice-T, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Demi Moore, Meryl Streep, Dee Wallace Stone = 58.8%
3. Judy Collins, Bette Midler, Olivia Newton John are all primarily singers, songwriters, musicians. = 17.64%
4. Madeline Kahn and John candy were both still huge until they passed away = 11.76%
5. One guy - Cory Danziger - looks like he could qualify for your "Failed Actors" list although I don't know anything about him. = 5.88%
So to summarize:
Successful, Successful/Deceased, Primarily Successful Musically = 15 people = 88.23%
Unsuccessful actors/ Models/ Writers = 2 people = 11.76%

I just had to mention this because you seemed SO wrong. Sorry.

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Cory danziger was a child actor but became an advertising executive. He owns "original leftys" the anti-war clothing company. I think the voice-over would just be a past-time for him.

Not all actors are failures, some just choose to do something else when they get older.

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Michael J. Fox is NOT a failed actor. He is an inspiration, to many on dealing with a difficult disease. Read his book.

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All right, cookookymon, we're going to look at your post and try and guess what grade you're in. Would that work better for you? Talk about unintelligent posts...do you have any idea what sentences are, or why people capitalize words? Normally I wouldn't even care, but if you're going to call someone stupid, you could at least pretend not to be, at least for a little while.

We all fall down...

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Well I would just think if you were going to make fun of someone else's post for being "disjointed" and "fluff", you'd not want to look like a fool. I guess I was wrong. Some people (and I know that most of them are older than you, but listen anyhow) don't like to look like idiots in any public or private forum. I mean, you did take the time to learn to read and write, why look like an idiot on purpose? Formal letter-writing...what an ignorant excuse.

Your assumptions that I'm asian and that asians wear rectangular glasses and have pigtails? Both wrong, but somehow fitting of your post. Your mom must be proud.

We all fall down...
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Jennifer love hewitt failed dearly.. Micheal j. Fox did great with tv (not so big in movies anymore) up until his ailment.. The rest are somewhat descent. I don't see demi anymore but i don't think its becaus she failed. She is still quite huge.. Kevin Becon chooses indie and small budget (yet good) films now..

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I think you need a life. Someone expresses their opinion, and you attack them? That's really mature.

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Opinions are Like *** holes, everyone has one

“Do not fear death... only the unlived life.” - Natalie Babbitt

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and appearently you are one.

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Now, Now Princess, name calling, That's really mature

LOL

“Do not fear death... only the unlived life.” - Natalie Babbitt

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LOL, photoseller, glad to see I am not the only one who uses that line "opinions are like a$$h0les" ( I usually add "and everyone's got one", but I digress) and princess steph 7 ..buttercup, you are right, it was the original poster's opinion, but it was a absolutely asinine one at that, and as such is/was one that deserved to be ripped apart. 1) who the hell was he to judge, what were his successes and what were his failures? if he wants to call someone else failed then he should be held up to the same light should he not?, oh sure, maybe he did not want to be famous or in the spotlight, but then he should have kept his opinion to himself, because I am sure beyond a doubt that he has never and will never be nowhere near the same level of success as most of the "Failed" actors he feels he has the right to slam. and 2) Princess you dumb bunny, wtf do you think everyone else was doing when they replied to his opinion? hmmmm? It was but to give their own opinion of his. So what then? why is it that solipsistic tool's like you and *beep* 2005 should be able to be spouting your toxic BS w/o anyone "attacking them". Is it b/c you know that your opinion's are garbage, or is it just that your the sort of bullies who wants to criticize others w/o any sort of backlash or critique of your own failed lives. I realize that you princess steph 7 may just have been trying to "motherhen" the inbred evanescence. So kudos to you for that, but these boards are for just this, someone giving a opinion, then everyone else either just ignores them, reads then ignores them, or reads and agrees or disagrees and then posts their opinion...or like me gets back from the bar at 4 in the morning tanked and attempts to sound not too entirely retarded, but just enough that it stays interesting. So hey, yea, it was his opinion, but it sucked, was retarded and inaccurate, I mean even Jennifer Love Hewitt's got a pretty good gig going and as such seems kinda far from failing, but really, you go and slam MICHEAL J FOX??????? then you are less then the s#it on the bottom of my shoe and anyone who stands with you deserves to go down with you, shifty coward-like goofs. The only, ONLY reason why he has not been doing that much is due to him having GD PARKINSON'S!! so that makes him failed you miserable f&%ks? he still does work, he still does more for this world then most people who have no debilitating diseases, People like you make me sick, and this may seem harsh, and this is only my opinion.. but people like you do not have the right to make any sort of judgment and as such are not worthy of having an opinion or voicing one.

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The sad thing is that when this was being made origionally these actors were still popular... John Candy is on this. It is 10+ years old.

Just think how actors now will be in 10+ years?

Tome Cruise was still cool and not wierd when this was being made.

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Maybe some, but Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep have definitely not failed. I think they're two of the best actors in Hollywood.

"Hill House, not sane, stood by itself for eighty years and might stand for eighty more."

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failed actors flip burgers

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Miss Midler failed??? I don't think so!! She carried the crown for hardest working person in showbiz for years!! This woman still makes albums, which do great according to the billdoard charts. She is still making movies, and when she isn't doing that, she's on tour!! Her tours are sensational, and gross very high nearly always being in the top five!!

You cannot assume just because you see a few names that haven't been heard of for a while, that they are hasbines!! The may still actually working their butts off!!

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I don't know how you get failed actors such as Michael J. Fox.

Michael J. Fox:
Highlights:
Family Ties 1982-1989
Back to the Future trilogy
Spin City: 1996-2001

Many other movies in between. My personal favorite is The Frighteners.

Plus he is an inspiration to people with deseases and shown that he lived through it and all that stuff.


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Lived through it?

He lives "with" it, Parkinson's isn't the flu Champ

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