Oscar winners who went down the drain

[SkullNinja]

"and Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda. Wild Wild West, anyone?"


This one still puzzles me when folks call WWW a bad movie. Make we wonder if anybody ever saw the original television series. It was a campy, secret-agent western, which is exactly what the movie was.

[Kev]

Lee wrote:
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> Hilary Swank was already screwed! I mean really how many of
> her movies are watchable.
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Well, there's Boys Don't Cry, and..........that's it.

[yaddo42]

INSOMNIA is good but Swank's role could have been played by anyone, there's not much to her character in the flick.

Broderick Crawford, from winning for ALL THE KING'S MEN to LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY.

Tatum O'Neal, from PAPER MOON to crap like LITTLE DARLINGS to.................um.............well, there was that "Bambi" Bembenck TV movie and being John McEnroe's ex-wife.

But Cuba Gooding, Jr. ...what the hell is he thinking? People still like him, his name hasn't vanished from the entertainment news, he's not recovering from scandal. Does he need the money that bad? Can he not get better roles now? He'd do better doing a short guest run on a TV series like "ER", "Friends", or even "Will And Grace", where it's considered a big deal when a movie star turns up.

[Damien]

Jack Palance...wait, not a good example.

Well, Jack Palance and Clint Eastwood has shown that working in B movies first do pay off... (maybe some of these actors should learn from these guys)

[The Burgomaster]

Actually, Jack Palance was in some excellent "A" movies early in his career. Many people forget that he played the evil gunfighter in the classic SHANE.

And if you have never seen SHANE, I suggest you watch it. Many of Clint Eastwood's movies about a drifter riding into town, saving the innocent folks, and then riding out of town at the end were basically remakes of SHANE. Two obvious ones that come to mind are HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER and PALE RIDER. In fact, PALE RIDER copies a specific scene from SHANE:

In SHANE, there is a scene where Shane and the character played by Van Heflin work together to chop up a big tree stump in the middle of Van Heflin's property.

In PALE RIDER, there is a scene where Clint Eastwood helps a guy break a big boulder.

They are both "in your face" scenes that say, "if we work together, we can accomplish anything."

What the hell the last 4 paragraphs have to do with Jack Palance is beyond me . . .

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[JohnL]

>There was an actress who won best support for "Inherited the Wind" and her film
>work went down hill ever since. Her last know movie role was in a stupid Sci. Fi.
>picture called The Being which came out during the eighties. Could anybody
>look her up in the Oscar books and tell who it was.

That would be Dorothy Malone who won a supporting actress Oscar for WRITTEN on the Wind.

http://imdb.com/Name?Malone,%20Dorothy

Ok, since for some reason the URL isn't working, you'll just have to cut & paste.

[Evan3]

What the Hell did Jack Palance win for... Shane was a good movie though. And his acceptance speech was great (one armed push ups baby)

[Cullen]

... City Slickers, the Billy Crystal/Daniel Stern flick.

[Chadzilla]

Shane itself?  Or was he just nominated?  I seem to remember hearing a mention of that.

[Evan3]

Thanks Cullen, I didnt think City Slickers was that great though.... oh well.