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Before They Were Stars: John Hawkes in “Future-Kill”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdGGFykxOs One godawful film that I had almost successfully repressed from my memory was a 1985 low-budget sci-fi/horror flick called Future-Kill, which is best known for reuniting Marilyn Burns and Edwin Neal, stars of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However, … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Amanda Seyfried on “All My Children”
Well, I’ve spent the last two days showcasing celebrities who got started by appearing on the soap opera, All My Children. What’s one more? Here’s a teenage Amanda Seyfriend, who played a recurring role on All My Children before breaking … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars (2-for-1 Special): Josh Duhamel and Elizabeth Banks on “All My Children”
Yesterday, I found some unexpected footage of an early performance by Wesley Snipes on All My Children, a role so obscure that it isn’t even listed on his IMDb page. Now here’s a clip of Elizabeth Banks playing a waitress … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Wesley Snipes on “All My Children”
I’ve done a lot of “Before They Were Stars” features on famous actors who got their start on soap operas. I honestly never expected Wesley Snipes to be one of them. But here’s the 22-year old actor playing a jealous … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: The Gingerbread Man (1998)
The late Robert Altman was a director who liked to make movies which had a naturalistic, rather than cinematic, feel. In other words, Altman wanted his audience to feel they were witnessing real-life events rather than simply watching a movie, … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Don Cheadle on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFwJpb5RR6I Two weeks ago, I posted a clip of Hank Azaria’s early role on an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and he plugged it on his Twitter! Since posting “Before They Were Stars” clips from The Fresh Prince … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in “Monster Island”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaK_jsGvz6Y Mary Elizabeth Winstead has appeared in enough horror films to be a bit of a modern scream queen, but her first brush with the genre was a 2004 made-for-MTV movie called Monster Island, which was intended as a campy … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Sharon Stone as Twins on “Magnum P.I.”
In 1984, a young Sharon Stone guest starred on a two-part episode of Magnum P.I. as a pair of twin sisters, one good and one evil. As you can see, this was done with the sophisticated special effects technology of … Continue reading
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Last Link of the Day: Robin Points Out Plot Holes at Cracked.com
Today marks the publication of my seventh feature-length article at Cracked.com and this time, I had the privilege of doing a sequel to one of their most popular articles: “7 Movie Plot Holes You Didn’t Notice Due to Editing (Pt. … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Kenny Rogers in a Psychedelic Rock Band
If you’ve seen The Big Lebowski (and if you haven’t, what the hell are you even doing at this website?!), you’ll remember the iconic dream sequence where The Dude finds himself in a surrealist porn flick called Gutterballs. It’s all … Continue reading
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