the ones hollywood swollowed up....

[Kuato]

we all know.. that hollywood has a nasty way of destroying the souls of some of the best /funniest people........

lets make the list kids...

who has the show biz grinder turned out for shame?

rules are they have to have once been 'good'

i've got one that i can't even look at anymore....
Robert Deniro...
come on... analize THAT?

[Ellen M.]

Okay, well off the top of my head, here are some "Legends Gone Bad"...

Judy Garland
Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando
Charlton Heston
Lana Turner
Steve McQueen
Jack Nicholson

There are just SO many...

[Pete Vonder Haar]

I think K's theme was actors who used to be good/funny and have been in the machinery of Hollywood so long that they no longer have it...whatever "it" was.

Example:

Steve Martin
Al Pacino
Nicolas Cage
Robin Williams

And so on.

Pete

[Ellen M.]

Oh yes, how stupid of me!
Well, then let's add Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer, Goldie Hawn, and the entire cast of "Cheers" & "Friends" to your list.

By the way, it's "swallow", not "swollow"

:p

[Eric Campos]

JOHN LANDIS

[Kuato]

hey this thread wasnt about spelling damnit! its about all these assholes in hollywood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bad : al pacino , george lucas, eddie murphey, mike myers ( who might be the king of blasphemous appearences)
good still.... even though they are in bad movies... : chistopher walken,
gary oldman, crispin glover, bill murray....



and whoopie was never good...
step on the bus kid ;)

[Bob Westal]

Dennis Miller (well, his recent turn to the far-right and my own lefty politics may be coloring this one...but I don't think so!)

Rob Schneider

Robin Williams (still a good actor, though)

Jay Leno

I think that comedians are particularly vulnerable, because they're such insecure beasts, having to live from laugh to laugh....

[Kuato]

i agree -

will this happen to will farrell too with "elf "
has he fallen down the hill too??

[Brad Slager]

And I was going to say Dennis Miller, although it may be his own fault. This guy has to be among the best wits we have right now and he can't even land himself in a comedy. "Bordello of Blood"? To quote the man himself, "C'-mowan"

As for Val Kilmer--When was he good again?

[Kuato]

- val kilmer?... i'm not so sure that guy was ever on top of things....


"CHA- CHING!" - dennis miller

- jack has always been good...


we should exspand this list to directors...
- i know we all can think of some who have fallen off the horse

[the Dia]

we should exspand this list to directors...

Great Idea :

Tobe Hooper (arghhh, wheres the energy?)
John Carpenter (shoot him to mars)
Roland Emmerich (he really was good while over here in germany:))
Sam Raimi (he lost his style in the megabuck buisiness :( )
John Woo (maybe just the censorship)

What do we learn just from this few names - NEVER go mainstrem, never loose your edge. :(

[whatismoving]

Don't forget about Keanu Reeves! He used to be so good back in...wait, what was that movie called? Um... Back in...

...wait, it'll come to me...

...

[the Dia]

Keanu Reeves! He used to be so good back in...wait, what was that movie called? Um... Back in...

I got it - it was "The Gift" where he played this asshole redneck guy. It was directed by Raimi who was also good then.

Uhhh wait that wasn´t so long ago - sh*t.

Probably they made the movie in the eighties and hold it back until the audience was ready. ;)

[uglylilpup]

Oh come on, Robin Williams was never actually good, he was just more coked up.

John Carpenter is definitely at the top of this list.
Coppola as well.

[El Duderino Diablo]

George Romero, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Brian DiPalma, Coppola, Clint Eastwood, off the top of my head.

In defense of Robin Williams I was watching an old episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets entitled Bop Gun and he was pretty damned good as a grieving husband. Very good, in fact.