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Before They Were Stars: Mena Suvari on “Boy Meets World”
Here’s something unique: Mena Suvari’s first two major acting jobs came when she was cast as two different characters on two separate episodes of Boy Meets World one year apart. The funniest thing about comparing these two separate clips is … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Aaron Paul on “The Price is Right”
A special thanks to the producers of The Tonight Show for uncovering this footage. Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame was recently interviewed on the show and they featured an appearance he made as an overly excited contestant on The … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Tom Hardy Models on “The Big Breakfast”
To commemorate the much-anticipated opening of The Dark Knight Rises this weekend, I dug up some obscure footage of Bane himself, Tom Hardy. In 1998, Tom appeared on the British morning show, The Big Breakfast, as part of a modelling … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Fred Willard in “Teenage Mother”
As you may have heard, Fred Willard was recently arrested for a “lewd act” inside an adult movie theater, which automatically brought up comparisons with Pee-Wee Herman own infamous “lewd act”. Speaking of “lewd”, Willard made his film debut in … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: The Clip Show
As hard it as it may be to fathom, today represents the official two-year anniversary of The Back Row. Even harder for me to fathom is that during that time, I have written a whopping 132 editions of “Robin s … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Billy Crudup on a Student Soap Opera
During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Crudup was surprised to discover that some obscure old footage of him had been unearthed from his days at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When he was 18, … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Mike Myers in “John and Yoko: A Love Story”
A young, geeky-looking Mike Myers had one of his earliest roles with a brief uncredited bit part as a starstruck delivery boy in John and Yoko: A Love Story, a 1985 made-for-TV movie about the relationship between John Lennon and … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 14-Year Old Daniel Day-Lewis as an Extra in “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”
When he was only 14 years old, Daniel Day-Lewis made his acting debut with a brief uncredited role in the 1971 British film, Sunday Bloody Sunday, where he basically got paid two pounds to walk by a parked car and … Continue reading
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Robin’s Second Article at Cracked.com (with bonus deleted entry)
I’m pleased to report that my second article at Cracked.com, “6 Movies That Predicted Disasters With Eerie Accuracy”, has officially been published at their website. I’m very happy with how this one turned out, and I hope that the article … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Jean Reno in “The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HcSNdKvgo Just when I thought the bar for “Before They Were Stars” weirdness couldn’t be raised any higher, here’s a famous actor starting off his career as a tableau! The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is a bizarre 1979 experimental … Continue reading
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