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Robin’s Underrated Gems: The Sugarland Express (1974)
Last weekend, as I made the very inaccurate prediction that Steven Spielberg was going to take home another “Best Director” Oscar for Lincoln, I suddenly started thinking about his extensive body of work and asked myself an interesting question: has … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Keanu Reeves’ First Interview on CBC
From the CBC archives, here’s an interview with a young Keanu Reeves in 1986 where he talks about his first starring role in a Canadian-shot movie called Young Again. The storyline involves a 40-year old man wishing he could be … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Susan Sarandon in a Yardley Perfume Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ofu5OKF7cQ Here’s a young Susan Sarandon appearing in a commercial for Yardley Perfume sometime in the early seventies. I haven’t been able to get an official confirmation, but I think that might be her then-husband, Princess Bride star Chris Sarandon, … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Ben Affleck in “Daddy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ewvg9JPZeE Ben Affleck may be a very respected director of Academy Award-winning films now, but that doesn’t mean I still can’t mock some of the cheesy acting jobs from early in his career, such as his stalker-ish role in an … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Jack Nicholson on “The Andy Griffith Show”
Call this one a “Six Degrees of Roger Corman” clip. It’s well-documented that Jack Nicholson got his start appearing in a ton of low-budget Roger Corman films before he found stardom. And one of the many filmmakers that Roger Corman … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 8-Year Old Kristen Stewart as an Extra in “The Thirteenth Year”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXktKviuOGU After numerous nominations, justice finally prevailed when Kristen Stewart picked up her first career Razzie award yesterday for her performance in Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. Anyway, here’s a clip of her first film role and what may … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Russell Brand Hosts “Dancefloor Chart”
In 2000, an unknown Russell Brand got a gig for MTV Europe hosting their show, Dancefloor Chart. One year later, Brand would be fired from this gig for showing up to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden the day after … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 11-Year Old Jackie Earle Haley on “The Partridge Family”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frvWvgXK3vw Jackie Earle Haley is one of those rare stars who worked constantly as a successful child actor, stopped acting for over a decade, and then suddenly came back to became a big star again. Haley’s breakthrough role was as … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: The Americanization of Emily (1964)
In the past, I ve done “Robin’s Underrated Gems” columns on the works of legendary screenwriter/playwright Paddy Chayefsky, including The Hospital, his dark satire about the inner workings of the medical industry, and Altered States, his pseudo-scientific LSD trip disguised … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Jack Black in a Deleted Scene in “True Romance”
I think we can all agree that the Tony Scott/Quentin Tarantino collaboration, True Romance, has one of the greatest movie casts of all time and it says a lot when even the deleted scenes feature a future A-list star. In … Continue reading
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