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Robin’s Third Article at Cracked.com
I’m pleased to announce that my third article has been officially published at Cracked.com and it’s about a subject which is near and dear to my heart: stupid movie villains. Check out “5 Villains Who Went Out of Their Way … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Anna Faris in an MSN 2.0 CD-ROM Demo
This one’s going to be quite a trip down nostalgia lane for computer geeks. In 1996, Microsoft released their MSN 2.0 service and if you subscribed to it, they would send you a demo CD-ROM called “MSN Preview” which provided … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 10-Year Old Mark Paul Gosselaar in a Donkey Kong Cereal Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtrI4JQ6aQ Mark Paul Gosselaar has done a swell job at successfully continuing his career and shedding his Zack Morris image after Saved by the Bell went off the air, so much so that his recent marriage managed to make headline … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Tony Sirico in a Dunkin’ Donuts Commercial
It’s Tony Sirico’s 70th birthday today and during the last several years, you’ve probably seen him appear in a lot of commercials where he has lampooned his role as mobster Paulie Walnuts on The Sopranos. Well, here’s a Dunkin’ Donuts … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 11-Year Old Joseph Gordon-Levitt at a “Dark Shadows” Convention
With Joseph Gordon-Levitt currently occupying movie screens in The Dark Knight Rises, here’s some ultra-obscure homemade footage of him when he was only 11 years old. One of his earliest roles came when he was cast in a 1991 re-imagining … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: Eating Raoul (1982)
I could make a list a mile long of all the notable directors who got their first big break in the moviebusiness courtesy of B-movie icon Roger Corman, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante and James … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Gary Dourdan in “Weekend at Bernie’s II”
Gill selected the infamous Weekend at Bernie’s II as his vacation movie of the day and wouldn’t you know it, the film actually has a “Before They Were Stars” moment. At the 1:44 mark of this clip, look for future … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Renee Zellweger as an Extra in “Dazed and Confused”
It goes without saying that Dazed and Confused deserves its own “Before They Were Stars” spotlight since it jump-started the careers of so many famous actors, including Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich and Parker Posey. However, you could watch … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Bryan Cranston as a Bisexual Husband on “Crisis Counselor”
The clip of Aaron Paul’s “Before They Were Stars” appearance as a contestant on The Price is Right went viral last week, and now the same thing is bound to happen to his Breaking Bad co-star Bryan Cranston. Footage has … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Liev Schreiber in a Student Short Film
I really have no idea what the hell this footage is supposed to be, except that it features a young Liev Schreiber when he was about 19 or 20 and attending Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachussets. Apparently, the guy with … Continue reading
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