For about a decade, Steve Guttenberg ruled the box office – if not critically, then commercially, his films made profit time and again. However, in the last decade or two, Guttenberg’s name has become a mild punchline to Hollywood’s ability to make “anybody” a success. Whether you believe he’s a talented actor or not, Guttenberg’s career careened off the high-profile rails sometime in the late 80’s, and hasn’t returned.
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If there was an actress that epitomized the mid-90’s, it was possibly Mira Sorvino. Famously snagging an Oscar for her work in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, and following that up with a boy’s-own action thriller alongside Chinese import Chow yun Fat, in Antoine Fuqua’s The Replacement Killers, the proverbial world was Sorvino’s oyster as everyone geared up for Y2K. Yet, following Killers, Mira’s career virtually dried up overnight, and looking down her filmography in the years since, she’s done loads of work on the screen, although not much of it…
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Welcome to the first of what I hope will become an ongoing series, Where Are They Now?, in which we take a quick peek at the current life of former Hollywood stars. Sometimes, fame and stardom comes easy, and for many it’s the sole reason they get into show-business in the first place. For others, the lure of the bright lights and sycophantic entourage wane almost as soon as it begins: Tami Stronach, the young girl who starred alongside Barrett Oliver and Noah Hathaway in The NeverEnding story, disappeared from…
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