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Before They Were Stars: Vin Diesel as an Extra in “Awakenings”

Posted on June 17, 2016 by robin

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj3zwg_vin-diesel-dans-le-film-l-eveil-awakenings_shortfilms You might remember the 1990 Academy Award-nominated drama, Awakenings, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. If you watch the film, be sure you don’t blink during this particular scene or you’ll miss an aspiring young actor named Vin … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Jake “The Snake” Roberts is Decked by Muhammad Ali

Posted on June 15, 2016 by robin

I recently watched the documentary, The Resurrection of Jake the Snake, on Netflix, which chronicles former World Wrestling Federation superstar Jake “The Snake” Roberts and his attempts to conquer his drug and alcohol addictions. If you’re familiar with Jake the … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: 15-Year Old Chris Evans in “Biodiversity: Wild About Life!”

Posted on June 14, 2016 by robin

This got featured on the front page of the IMDb yesterday, so there’s no way I wasn’t going to post it. The very first credit on Chris Evans’ filmography is Biodiversity: Wild About Life!, an educational video about the environment … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Danny Trejo in a Sega CD Game

Posted on June 13, 2016 by robin

If you grew up in the early 1990s, remember how mind-blowing it was when video games started first featuring live-action cutscenes featuring real actors? Well, behold all these cutscenes in their original pixelated glory from a 1993 Sega CD game called … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars (2-for-1 Special): John & Joan Cusack in “Sixteen Candles”

Posted on June 12, 2016 by robin

In this week’s Shouts From the Back Row podcast, we talked about siblings in the entertainment industry, which included one of cinema’s most successful brother-sister acting duos, John & Joan Cusack. Looking back, I’d completely forgotten that before they made … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Daisy Ridley Sings “Moon River”

Posted on June 10, 2016 by robin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhHeW4Cl9pk Whenever someone hits it big, it’s almost inevitable that footage of performances they were involved in before they were famous will turn up on the Internet. Here’s some handheld footage from around 2010 or so of Daisy Ridley singing … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Lizzy Caplan in a Jason Mraz Music Video

Posted on June 9, 2016 by robin

In this 2004 music video for Jason Mraz’s “You and I Both”, a single from his debut album, he plays a guy who develops an infatuation with a female teller at his bank. In an amusing series of events, Mraz … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Dean Ambrose Gets Sawed in the Forehead in CZW

Posted on June 8, 2016 by robin

Dean Ambrose is currently one of the top superstars in World Wrestling Entertainment and is no doubt grateful for the opportunity to make good money while not having to take a Sawzall to the forehead. While competing under the name … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars: Sylvester Stallone in “Farewell, My Lovely”

Posted on June 7, 2016 by robin

Here’s a complete random coincidence: during the 1970s, two of the biggest action stars ever had small bit parts playing thugs in completely separate film noir thrillers about the iconic detective character, Philip Marlowe. In 1973, a young bodybuilder named … Continue reading →

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Before They Were Stars (2-for-1 Special): Matthew McConaughey and Adrien Brody in “Angels in the Outfield”

Posted on June 6, 2016 by robin

You might remember the 1994 Disney baseball movie, Angels in the Outfield, starring the likes of Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd and Tony Danza, but looking back on it now, it’s also got an awful lot of future star power. Of … Continue reading →

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