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Cornwind Evil posted:A more serious example: hard to think of any better ones than Nicolae Ceaușescu's final speech. If you could consider 'being a brutal dictator' a career, it's hard to top your country literally doing its final rise up to capture, depose, and later execute you while you are giving a speech saying 'Things are now calm, go back to being brutally repressed'. This is pretty wild to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRWiz1PhKU&t=66s
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWJCfbMw0Yo I'm always baffled that there was apparently no way to signal to whoever does these things to simply stop the track and play the correct one, or any contingency plan for this kind of situation. Her career could've theoretically survived getting caught lipsynching just fine if she handled this professionally, even the Beatles lipsynched. It's how clueless she looked and then slinkered off stage leaving her band out to dry that really hurt her more than anything.
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The truly damaging thing Katherine Heigl did to her reputation was declining Emmy consideration for Grey's Anatomy and making it known in the press she did so to stick it to the writers/producers. "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention," she tells Gold Derby. "In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials." https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/6/katherine-heigl-grey-s-anatomy-didn-t-give-me-emmy-worthy-material
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YeahTubaMike posted:This is my first time hearing about it, and it seems oddly...anti-smug? I don't even know how to describe it. It's like, a move ostensibly meant to be humble that ended up coming back around to being smug. I'm as impressed as I am confused. Lol, I remember that confusion being everyone's immediate reaction when that story started making the rounds. There was like this collective "ohhhh" that this pretty much had to be a form of protest over how much she thought the show sucked (or her part at least) considering how you'd kind of have to go out of your way to do this, and that if you really thought your work wasn't worth a nom you'd think you'd simply trust the Emmys to see that for themselves and all.
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"It usually bends more..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7OgAdCObs&t=900s
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Extra Large Marge posted:Showgirls destroyed both Elizabeth Berkley and Joe Eszterhas' careers. It didn't destroy Kyle MacLachlan's though, as he is immune to such things. Oh I dunno, Elizabeth Berkley at least got to be "the girl from Saved by the Bell and Showgirls" and not just "the girl from Saved by the Bell" lol
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Zugzwang posted:The New York Times published a glowing article about him in July, lol This indeed sounds like a pretty good candidate for a career-wrecking moment for the New York Times.
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Kit Walker posted:How common is lip syncing these days anyway? I imagine it's one of those things that no one really talks about but a lot of performers do, but I have no idea. It would just be funny if it was quite widespread at the time and she was the only one unfortunate enough to really get noticed doing it It's less of a thing since the 80s but it's definitely still around. Like, if you see someone doing a big choreographed dance number while simultaneously belting out a tune, 97% of the time they're lipsynching - dancing and singing at the same time is an INSANELY hard thing to do. While nobody ever liked lipsynching, it didn't become a taboo until Milli Vanilli were exposed as frauds. Over time I think people have misremembered/misunderstood what happened there - it's not lipsynching itself that was the problem, it was that they used lipsynching to hide that they never sang "their" songs at all. Lipsynching was so prevalent before then that there are a lot of singers from the 60s and 70s it's actually tough to find many genuine live performances of. A lot of TV shows in particular back in the day didn't have the studio space or acoustics to accommodate live music performance (at least one whose sound quality wasn't crap).
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Beefed Owl posted:Love Guru pretty much spelled the end for Mike Myers. Apparently he was already on thin ice for Goldmember bombing and apparently being a tough person to work with. You're probably right except Austin Powers Goldmember was a huge smash.
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naem posted:I was trying to remember who Jessica Simpson was and got flooded with repressed memories of very low cut pants, very orange tans and pink lipstick/fake-blonde hair, spikey belt 2000’s era look for girls I feel like this is the ultimate distillation of "early 2000s" 
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