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Before They Were Stars: Jerry Springer Sings Awful Country Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64b6NZDK3Ec I have no idea where this is form, but here’s a clip of a pre-Jerry Springer Show Jerry Springer making a horrible attempt at singing country music on public access television. I’m guessing this is from the 1980s when … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Morgan Freeman on “The Twilight Zone”
Yesterday, I posted a “Robin’s Underrated Gems” column on the 1987 thriller, Street Smart, where Morgan Freeman delivered what turned out to be his breakthrough performance as an evil pimp, garnering him his first Academy Award nomination and propelling him … Continue reading
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Robin’s Underrated Gems: Street Smart (1987)
It’s always fun to study the filmography of an iconic actor and discover that the role which originally put them on the map is a complete 180 from the roles they normally play. Case in point: in the long and … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Lea Thompson in a Murder Mystery Game
Here’s a very unique project which happens to be the first acting job on Lea Thompson’s filmography. MysteryDisc: Murder, Anyone? was an interactive murder mystery game released in 1982 on a new format called laserdisc and was pretty ahead of … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Oprah Winfrey in a Promo for “Dialing for Dollars”
A popular staple of local television from the 1950s until the 80s was Dialing for Dollars. The format of involved a host drawing up a random’s person phone number and calling them at home live on the air. If the … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Stephen Amell in “Degrassi: The Next Generation”
Even though he’s the star of Arrow, I honestly had no idea who Stephen Amell was until a few weeks ago when he got himself involved with World Wrestling Entertainment and actually competed in a tag team match last night … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: The Undertaker Teams with The Midget Warrior
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=non9XCM2Y30 Tonight, The Undertaker will facing Brock Lesnar in the main event of the annual World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view, Summerslam. Yes, in spite of recently turning 50 years old, Undertaker is still active and is only a few months away … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Jason Alexander in a Pabst Blue Ribbon Commercial
Here’s a young, not-bald Jason Alexander in a 1983 commercial for Pabst Blue Ribbon. And since, I can never hear the words “Pabst Blue Ribbon” without visualizing Dennis Hopper, here is a special bonus clip from Blue Velvet.
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Before They Were Stars: 14-Year Old Rufus Wainwright Sings in “Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller”
Well, we can thank Gill’s feelings of nostalgia for uncovering this one. He recently revisited a childhood favourite of his called Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, a 1988 Canadian family film about a boy discovering a magical postage stamp which … Continue reading
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Before They Weer stars: James McAvoy in “An Angel Passes By”
An Angel Passes By is a 1997 short film about a recently widowed man who takes his two children on vacation to Scotland and winds up running afoul of an unknown 18-year old James McAvoy, who plays the role of … Continue reading
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