‘I lost everything overnight’: 17 acting careers ruined by a single role
Most movie stars can survive a flop or two. But then there are roles that completely upend an actor’s career, leaving them out of work or forever changed in the eye of the public.It’s not really possible to talk about Faye Dunaway’s career without mentioning her notorious performance in Mommie Dearest, for instance. Or to google Brandon Routh in any other context than “what happened to Superman Returns star Brandon Routh?” Often this is unfair – women historically tend to bear the brunt of career-shaking backlash, and there are typically many different reasons why movie stardom hits a wall....
The Enigma of Faye Dunaway Is Still Intact Even After A Revealing New Documentary
As a young cinephile in the late ’60s and early ‘70s I was always a little frightened by Faye Dunaway. I was too young to have caught Bonnie and Clyde during its 1967 theatrical run (there’s being precocious, and then there’s being eight), but the adults in my world described it the movie as an experience both seductive and traumatic, with Dunaway providing a great deal of the former quality. Once I was able to see the film years later, I got it: Dunaway, while always ravishingly beautiful in her film presentation, also had a raw hotness as criminal Bonnie...
Lisa Marie Presley’s ‘From Here to the Great Unknown’: 10 Revelations From Her Memoir
Nearly two years after her death, Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, hits bookshelves. Here are its biggest bombshells!. While growing up at the family’s famed Memphis mansion, Graceland, Lisa Marie saw the effects of her father’s prescription drug abuse long before his 1977 death at the age of 42 from a heart attack. “I wrote a poem with the line, ‘I hope my daddy doesn’t die,’” she writes, recalling how she once found him face down on the floor of his bathroom. “I knew that something tragic was coming.”