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In Hollywood, when you’re first starting out, you’ll take pretty much any role that’s offered to you. Everybody wants to make their way to the big leagues, but not everybody can get there. In this feature, we’ll share ten of the entertainment industry’s biggest names who started out on some very odd TV shows. Most of them were quickly cancelled, but these stars bounced back. Here’s a quick and dirty rundown of 10 actors who got their start on obscure TV shows. Joel McHale – Almost Live! Is there anything Joel McHale can’t do? The dude is not only the capable host of ...
As we all grow older, we start to see changes in our appearance—a gray hair, a laugh line, a malfunctioning valve in our artificial kidney—that signal the inescapable truth that we are all slowly deteriorating into a crumbling pile of dusty bones and desiccated skin, doomed to spend the remainder of our lives farting in front of a television and awaiting the cold embrace of Death. Of course, there are always a few people who make this process all the more unpleasant by seeming to remain at a fixed age forever, and to add insult to injury many of these people are also massively successful and wealthy celebrities ...
Actors are committed to their craft. Many of them go to extremes to properly prepared for a role. Sometimes, they even put their health at risk with serious weight gain or loss. This is a list of actors who have taken that risk in order to accurately portray their character. Mila Kunis in “Blood Ties” (2013) Although she dropped down to 95 pounds of muscle in the five months leading up to shooting “Black Swan” (2010), she now appears to have gone the opposite route, gaining it all back and then some for her upcoming role opposite Clive Owen. ...
On any credible Venn diagram of high-school social groups, the circles labeled “jocks” and “theater geeks” overlap even less frequently than the ones tagged “girls” and “that creepy kid with the samurai sword.” But in Hollywood, professional athletes routinely cross over into the acting realm, and sometimes even dominate it, as anyone familiar with the ouevre of former Oakland Raiders linebacker Carl Weathers could tell you. Sadly, the door doesn’t usually swing both ways. As uplifting as it would be to watch Adam Sandler use a putter shaped like a hockey stick to ...