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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:38 AM
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Movies that killed careers
You know the movies. Perhaps the actor/actress was on the way out already, but this movie was just the nail in the coffin. After this movie, he or she never made another good movie.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:39 AM
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1. I think To Wong Foo killed Patrick Swayze's career
and he may have been on the way out..but he was just TOO good in that role
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:51 AM
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10. Did Patrick Swayze ever HAVE a career?
Just askin'....
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:45 PM
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51. Roadhouse, anyone??? Why has no one corrected him?
The #1 movie of Kung Fu trucker rednecks, everywhere. It TELLS their side of the story!
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:41 AM
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2. Rita Moreno-West Side Story
Made and killed her career. It was the 'Supporting Actress Oscar (TM)' jinx.
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:50 AM
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9. Jerry McGuire killed Cuba Gooding Jrs career off for a while
after he won that Oscar you barely saw him or if you did it was second rate films or direct to video. Though he does seem to be slowly coming back.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:18 PM
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33. I think poor Cuba will never come back
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:04 PM
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72. Pearl Harbor? Men of Honor? Radio?
Long live Cuba!
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:21 PM
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36. What? You didn't like Snowdogs? n/t
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:28 PM
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40. Well, it was OKAY, but nowhere near as good as
The wonderfully homophobic, badly acted Boat Trip. Now, THAT was a good movie!
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:44 AM
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3. "Battlefield Earth"- Travolta hasn't been the same since.
He's pretty resilient, though, given his past downfalls & comebacks.
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:46 AM
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6. That put a massive dent in his being the comeback kid.
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:45 AM
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4. There also supposed to be the Jesus curse
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 11:45 AM by lenidog
anyone who used to play Jesus in a movie killed off their career. Though recently with actors like Willem Defoe (sp?) the curse seems to be broken.
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MemphisTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:45 AM
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5. Showgirls - Elizableth Berkeley
Not that she was huge before, but that's all you think about now when you see her not Saved by the Bell
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:47 AM
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7. She was an up and coming actress and that more or less killed her
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 11:48 AM by lenidog
career. The only thing I ever saw her in since was a small role in the "First Wives Club."
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ALago1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:53 PM
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61. She was also in "Curse of the Jade Scorpion" as well.
A Woody Allen movie that was average at best.
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:49 AM
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8. "From Justin To Kelly"
Stick with singing!
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MemphisTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:54 AM
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12. Bye, bye Justin
Isn't he working at walmart now?
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:46 PM
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52. Not only that, he is a greeter
they didn't think he had the ability to manage any other jobs
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:53 AM
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11. Zanadu
Members of ELO have blamed that movie for ending their careers.

I don't think it did Olivia Newton John a lot of good either. :-)
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 11:55 AM
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13. Same applies to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Both Frampton & the Beee Gees point to that disaster as the start of the backlash against them.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:59 PM
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66. with good reason
that film was literally bad enough to kill :grr:
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:12 PM
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31. Ummm...that's "Xanadu" LOL
And yes, it pretty much killed ONJ's movie career...then she made "Two Of a Kind" with John Travolta and that *really* killed it.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:03 PM
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14. Vic Morrow - Twilight Zone the Movie
Literally.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:09 PM
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21. groan
true
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:09 PM
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29. BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:03 PM
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15. Faye Dunaway - "Mommie Dearest"
Can't believe no one mentioned that one yet. Painfully obvious - Hollywood saw this as a betrayal of one of their own. She didn't get cherry roles for YEARS after that piece of classic camp.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:05 PM
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17. Oh she was SUCH a joke! She's still such a fruit loop on that reality
show.

Hollywood didn't give a shit about Joan Crawford. It only care about money.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:04 PM
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16. Waterworld - Kevin Costner
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:05 PM
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18. The Crow
Brandon Lee.

TlalocW
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:21 PM
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25. I don't think the OP meant LITERALLY killed.
BTW, did they ever figure out how the real bullet got into that gun? I remember everyone screaming that it was an accident, but I never bought that. The story vanished from the press right after the funeral and I never heard the final conclusion.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:07 PM
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19. Leonard Part 6 killed any attempt at a movie career that Cosby hoped for
and Heavens Gate was the kiss of directoral death for Michael Cimino.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:08 PM
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20. Tank Girl...killed that one girls career. See I already forgot her name.
oops!
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:11 PM
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22. Lori Petty
Try not to forget it again
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:14 PM
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24. I love her. Never saw Tank Girl but she was good in Point Break
(the best part of the film, IMO) and very good in A League Of Their Own. In fact, along w/ Rosie O'Donnell, it seemed Petty was the only one who could actually play baseball.
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:25 PM
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26. Oddly though it didn't kill Naomi Watts's career
I guess because she was a no-name at the time it came out/was made.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:35 PM
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44. Naomi Watts is hot -- I forgot she was in that
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:18 PM
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74. She certainly is
That was back around her Children of the Corn IV days, methinks...
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:12 PM
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23. The Star Wars movies...
Killed the careers of Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher. Did they do anything significant afterwards?
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:07 PM
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28. Mark Hamill
Is quite the cartoon voice actor now. He's been the Joker in the Batman the Animated Series and its sequels (Batman: Gotham Knights and Justice League), and until recently he was the voice of Solomon Grundy in Justice League as well.

TlalocW
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:20 PM
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34. Carrie Fisher is a bazillionaire script doctor and writer
I do not feel sorry for her. She makes mucho money and is well respected.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:41 PM
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48. uh, she's crazy as a loon and has been known to lose other people's
children in various asian nations.

That's not to say that the fellow that died at her house of an oxycontin overdose had anything to do with her friendship with Courtney Love.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:45 PM
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50. She's still really successful in Hollywood
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:55 PM
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63. really? I want to hear more!!
:popcorn:
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:06 PM
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73. That doesn't disqualify people from Hollywood success
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:03 PM
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70. I thought drugs killed Carrie Fisher's career? nt
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 12:37 PM
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27. Terminator 3
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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69. Well, he did become Govenor of California
despite the obvious flaws in the film....:banghead:
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:12 PM
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30. "Heaven's Gate"
Not only did it torpedo Michael Cimino's directing career, it made westerns box-office poison for years after its release, and effectively kiboshed directors' control of final cuts vis a vis the studios.

It sucked that badly.
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Emops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:16 PM
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32. Leni Riefenstahl
She was quite a famous actress before "Triumph of the Will."
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:21 PM
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35. Gigli.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:27 PM
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38. Deleted.
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 03:29 PM by Writer
Accidental copy. I suppose I hate her that much.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:28 PM
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39. I wish that killed the talentless J. e L l o Butt
May her shameless career evaporate like sewer water.

Sincerely,

Writer.
President, the "I Hate Jennifer Lopez Club"
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:29 PM
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41. The only thing good she EVER did was "Selena," well, and
Ben Affleck

gigglegigglegiggle
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:31 PM
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43. May Ben be emancipated
He knows not what he did.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:35 PM
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46. he is now engaged to the prettier, non-skanky Jennifer -- Garner!
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:37 PM
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47. Yyyyes! Viva Ben!
Garner is more attractive, I do agree with you. And she actually has a career that isn't built solely around a good make-up job. ;)
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:42 PM
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49. And she actually seems relatively nice
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:48 PM
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54. or a fabulous posterior
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:51 PM
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58. Her posterior is all girth, no mirth to me.
It's just an ass - a large, flabby ass stuffed into tight jeans. British scientists use it for their geoglobal calculations, for Pete's sake!

And I think it has its own atmosphere.

Writer.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:54 PM
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62. Check out Vida Guerra
she is an FHM covergirl, and she puts J. Lo to shame.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:47 PM
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53. That movie destroyed more than careers
I have actually seen it, in its full horror, and I have still not recovered! :scared:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:49 PM
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55. My BIL made me watch it to see if it was as bad as he thought
It was.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:52 PM
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59. I didn't think it would be
but the lines "it made my pee-pee sneeze" and "it's turkey time, gobble gobble" combined with J. Lo's interminable monologue about the benefits of having a vagina put it up there in a class of horrors that few films ever reach.
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:24 PM
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37. Short Circuit-Ally Sheedy
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:31 PM
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42. No! High Society was good! I think eating disorders ruined
her career. That Maid movie was pretty bad, though... I mean MICHAEL ONTKEAN???
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:35 PM
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45. Manos: The Hands of Fate
Some of the actors commited suicide after the film was made.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:50 PM
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56. Torvo's career as a movie villian never took off, actually *sigh*
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:56 PM
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64. Nobody's gay for Torgo...
Just had to say it.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:50 PM
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57. Plan 9 From Outer Space---Bela Lugosi
Didn't he die in the middle of filming it?

He was already a washed up actor, but this movie was a pathetic whimper of an end for him.

Martin Landeau may have redeemed him a bit in "Ed Wood," though.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:53 PM
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60. He died before it was ever made
Ed Wood's chiropracter played Lugosi, kiind of, in the movie by always keeping his face covered. Lugosi's sole role was in the short film in the beginning
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 03:57 PM
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65. Spiceworld
The Spice Girls movie, besides being a horror beyond horrors (yes, I have seen it), heralded the break up of this manufactured pop phenom
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:00 PM
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67. Need I remind anyone of Glitter and Mariah Carey's subsequent
breakdown of shame?
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:02 PM
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68. OMG! Worse than Gigli! I forgot about that one!
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 04:03 PM
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71. Yes. I have watched this one too
Edited on Tue Apr-26-05 04:04 PM by Zuni
I have sat through many a horrible film, but Glitter scared me more than "the Ring" and the "Exorcist" combined
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