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Post by Mulder and Scully on Dec 30, 2022 21:33:05 GMT
Guttenberg was everywhere in the 80s. He waa the star of a hit franchise Police Academy and starred in one of the biggest hits of 80s Three Men and a Baby. Then there were other hit films like Short Circuit, Diner and Cocoon.
For some reason he took a 5 yr break from films after 1990 and by the time he came back, his star had faded.
I've always been a fan of his.
These days he's been reduced to doing Cameo shit. Probably one of the most pathetic things out there. I can't believe some people pay for Cameo.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 1, 2023 5:42:39 GMT
I was surprised to see Guttenberg as a regular during the second season of “Veronica Mars” (2005-6, but which I didn’t see for another 14 years). I hadn’t seen nor thought of him for decades, always considering him something of a lightweight. But he was quite good as the slippery and shady mayor of the fictional southern California city of Neptune. I thought back to one scene in the tepid 1987 thriller “The Bedroom Window” where Guttenberg is exposed and embarrassed on the witness stand. He really nailed it, indicating that he had the potential for roles with more dramatic heft…but he never got them. A wasted talent? Who knows? Maybe he had the career he wanted. Not everybody wants to be on the A List (just 95+ percent).
If you look at the film directors he worked with early on, they were genre specialists to my mind. But for a kid who started out in film with Laurence Olivier, he often branched out in theatre.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 1, 2023 5:46:47 GMT
Guttenberg was everywhere in the 80s. He waa the star of a hit franchise Police Academy and starred in one of the biggest hits of 80s Three Men and a Baby. Then there were other hit films like Short Circuit, Diner and Cocoon. For some reason he took a 5 yr break from films after 1990 and by the time he came back, his star had faded. I've always been a fan of his. These days he's been reduced to doing Cameo shit. Probably one of the most pathetic things out there. I can't believe some people pay for Cameo.
I've always been a fan of his. Directors like Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Paul Mazursky and Carl Reiner recognised his talent to a man. I heard Amy Heckerling's a fan too.
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