I was thinking that Milla Jovovich, who seemed a "poor man's Brooke" in "Return to the Blue Lagoon" had a much more successful career than Brooke.
I was wondering why Brooke's career went so terribly downwards... she looked like the hottest new thing in the early 80's, and yet her career, at some point was like a total failure.
I wonder why?
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shareI was thinking that Milla Jovovich, who seemed a "poor man's Brooke" in "Return to the Blue Lagoon" had a much more successful career than Brooke.
I was wondering why Brooke's career went so terribly downwards... she looked like the hottest new thing in the early 80's, and yet her career, at some point was like a total failure.
I wonder why?
She had a successful television series, you are aware that over an actors lifetime they're paid residuals every time any project they're in airs on television. Movies don't air as often as reruns of television series, not to mention they also get residuals for appearing as a guest star on a television program when it repeats. I beleive she was also listed as a producer for her series.
Why do people like you insist on believing that unless an actor makes movies that they're not successful?
Tom Selleck made more money doing "Magnum PI" even though he had been offered but was unable to accept the role of Indiana Jones but over the long haul and run of that series he went from actor to producer, and he became very wealthy I seem to recall he bought his co-stars Ferraris.
When Jennifer Aniston was married to brad Pitt she was worth just as much money as he was if not more, she was getting a million dollars per episode in the final seasons of "Friends" and on top of that whatever they got from the syndication deals, overseas distribution and residuals for repeats. Yet her movie career never went where she wanted t to go.
As far as being successful, I would say she was successful when it comes to making money in Hollywood becuase many actors don't ever come close.
I like Ms. Jovovich but she's become known for the "Resident Evil" franchise I can't speak for anyone else but I stopped watching those after the third film. Kind of like the "Rocky" and Rambo" franchises.
I believe Ms. Shields also does stage work from time to time you will have to look up her projects on one of the Broadway and theater sites.
If you look at both actors credits Ms. Shields has actually done more in both film and television than Ms Jovovich. Ms. Shields is credited in 34 films and 34 television series.
Ms. Jovovich is credited in 33 films to date and 5 television series.
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I wasn't aware of her career ending so badly. With consistent, running roles in many TV series, and staring in at least 3 TV series (Suddenly Susan, Lipstick Jungle, and
Hanna Montana), I'd say she's had a full, and admirable career as an actress in TV; her career has hardly had a bad ending.
Perhaps you intended to say her career in films, ended badly, and there, I'd have to agree. Fortunately, Brooke found her niche in TV, and in comedy, where she has done very well.
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Hanna Montana?? (Slaps head and says, worthy of Homer Simpson..) Doh! Forgot! I remember Suddenly Susan and Lipstick Jungle! She also was in the famous 1993 true like stalking film (which got actual very important anti-stalking laws passed!) "I can make you love me" aka "Stalking Laura"(did the Motown people, seeing how the first title was similar to their 1969 Supremes/Temptations crossover, object to the similarity and thus the change in title?) I'd say where Brooke Shields wound up, on comedy TV as of the 1990s, worked out best.
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Ah, Brook is now 48, 49? She was a super model in her teens, starred in several successful TV Sitcoms, and countless C & D movies. She maybe a Princeton Graduate but she's far from a Shakespearean stage actress (although, she wasn't bad a Rizzo in "Grease") or dynamic Character actress, with a Yale Drama foundation. But I definitely wouldn't say her career ended up bad, by any means.
And ah you're attempt at being glib, is right on par with Homer Simpson; I'm certainly not laughing. But nice try.
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Re: Milla, "...and 5 television series."
You realize that one of those was as a French exchange student in MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, right? She was more attractive to all of Kelly's boyfriends, and stole them all, so Kelly "helped her study", and she was sent back for failing her classes. That was the 'only' time the Bundy's had food - they were paid to keep her... She was sooooo young, she was hardly recognizable.
BTW, one of Brooke's early comedy roles was in the just recently available on DVD now, is JUST YOU AND ME KID with George Burns, his friends, including Burle Ives. (Sept 2014, first release on any media, EVER!) Not good, but not bad either, but it seemed to be start of many collaborations with George Burns.
In the only very recently available DVD version of JUST YOU AND ME KID, (first time on ANY "home" media ever, (well except for a few 16mm film copies)), George Burns makes a comment about how people never remember the "magnificent ones".
The mediocre ones (comedians and magicians in his reference) got the vast majority of jobs... The magnificent ones only got the few really great jobs, and were forgotten, but the others were everywhere, so they were remembered.
I suspect that is not so entirely true though... For instance, can you name 20 movies that Sean Connery was in, from memory alone? That is only about half of his film credits BTW. Surprised?
(Yes, I confess. I bought that DVD and watched it about two weeks ago. There were a few pretty good pieces of wisdom in that movie... and a lot of really old jokes.)