Four For Friday - Two Years Of Hell
It is Friday. The last Friday in July and less than a month before school starts in many places. Enjoy those last 30 days kids. I will be here all weekend with some blind reveals from the archives and from more recent times too. If you don't have anything to do this weekend, why not spend a minute or two all comfortable on your sofa while we pound back Bloody Mary's and wish that everyday was a weekend. Then we can drag ourselves back to work on Monday promising ourselves we won't ever drink again. By Tuesday we waver. You can follow me on Twitter. I am @entylawyer
This actor was approaching A list when he was younger. That was when he got the role of a lifetime on a television show. Then he dropped to B despite a truly great film performance that everyone loves. Loves. He stayed busy even without fame and was pumping out movies as fast as he could make them. Every genre, but not many successful ones. It didn't matter. he was working. From the time he hit his first set when he was in his teens he was drinking. That turned to drugs and back to drinking. That turned to rehab and then rehab again. As he drank and grew older, he also became a real pain to work with and directors and producers wanted less and less to do with him. When he came on the set with a knife once and then later with a gun while high on meth, he was shown the door. Literally. Rock bottom. He said he literally slept in a gutter that night because he kept drinking and kept using and when h fell down off a curb, the gutter was on a slant and he did not have enough muscle coordination to beat the slant and was on the ground all night. He woke up and went to rehab the next day. Had a slip and then went again. After that second chance he has kept on the straight and narrow. He has been clean. From the day he got out of rehab that second time he has been calling producers and directors and writers. He just wanted a chance to act again and to show everyone he could do it. He says he never missed a day of calling for almost two years. He kept going to lunch with people to show them he was clean. He made sure people saw him clean. Now, almost two years later he landed a great film role and a small part on a very popular television show. Hopefully he can keep it together.
Elijah wood
ReplyDeleteI was thinking further back to Nick Nolte.....
ReplyDeleteElijah Wood has been on a TV show for a couple of years now.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess Lukas Haas
I'm thinking either Keifer or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
ReplyDeleteWhoever it is, I am rooting for you!
ReplyDeletebut if he smoked weed then he's a waste of life?
DeleteYes, but he stopped and is now able to enjoy his life. Thats the point.
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ReplyDeleteWhen does school start back up in Canada?
ReplyDeleteWhoever this is, I hope they stay clean.
ReplyDeleteHow about Jonathan Jackson - he did movies, then went to play Lucky on General Hospital. He hasn't been anywhere in awhile, and now he's on Nashville.
ReplyDeleteCorey Feldman?
ReplyDelete@kloie
ReplyDeleteJonathan worked steadily band at that time (still does) and is an extremely religious family man. I know some people put on images, but I sincerely doubt it with him.
*with his band
ReplyDeleteHaley Joel Osment
ReplyDeleteNick Nolte Rich Man Poor Man 48 Hours.
ReplyDeleteBalthazar Getty
ReplyDeleteOne of the Culkins
Wes Bentley?
ReplyDeleteWes Bently has never been on a TV show
ReplyDeleteStarted in a TV show
ReplyDeleteRole in a movie that everyone loves
tons of bomb movies
now a small part of popular tv show and a great film role?
Who fits? I'm thinking someone in a show like HIMYM or another hit comedy. ??
..Is Michael J Fox filming anything?
ReplyDeleteedward furlong?
ReplyDeleteRobin Williams?
ReplyDelete@Pip - after Labor Day.
ReplyDeleteMovie role that everyone loves: Macaulay Culkin Home Alone or Henry Thomas ET.
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ReplyDeleteI think Michael J Fox does have some type of show coming out this fall.
It couldn't be Kiefer either. After 8 seasons of 24 they gave him another show on Fox. It was canceled because of ratings but now they are doing more 24. He also did a web TV series. He has consistently worked on TV for the last decade or so. Also done the occasional movie and tree attack in his off time.
Matt Dillon?
ReplyDeleteTom Cruise
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking older, like Jackie Earl Haley from Bad News Bears...although the timeline doesnt really work for him, he's been on a comeback for a few years now.
ReplyDeleteAlso thinking Patrick Fugit from Almost Famous.
ReplyDeleteHow about Martin Lawrence?
ReplyDeleteSean Patrick Flannery. First role-star of Young Indiana Jones. Role everyone loves- Powder. Lots of projects but nothing huge. Now on Dexter.
ReplyDeleteThis is not SPF.
DeleteJonathan Taylor Thomas? I've never read about him and drugs but he has a gap of work that ends in 2013...?
ReplyDeleteAnthony Michael Hall just finished a movie with Channing Tatum, Steve Carrell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller. And he's on a show called "Awkward". IDK if that's a "hit".
ReplyDeleteHe's had a few career gaps, and I think admitted he's a drinker/been to rehab?
Meh, it's a guess.
Google is my friend..."Awkward" is on Mtv, and it IS 'popular'!!!
ReplyDeleteAMH, betches--Final answer!
I dunno. It says a great film performance, which to me says one, and AMH had a bunch of hits in the 80s. I don't have a better guess, though.
ReplyDeleteBacon: I don't think everyone gets the MJF joke. I like the guess about the guy from Powder.
ReplyDeleteTom Sizemore?
ReplyDeleteYo, Molly, I'm fudging which role Enty thinks we all love. I have heard some who don't even like "Weird Science"!! GASP!
ReplyDeleteI'm screwing around really. The answers are all over, nobody fits, having fun w/ it. Dig up those older stars, I say!
I'm liking Sean Patrick Flannery, he totally used to do it for me. Powder was a great movie, who knew a guy in white powdery makeup with no hair would look so sexy?
ReplyDeleteI won't make a guess, but I will say I hope he can keep it together and keep his life straight. It took my own son four or five attempts, but he finally got off more than one serious addiction.
ReplyDeleteJared Leto doesn't seem to have done much in the way of acting between 2009 and this year, but I got the impression it was because he was busy touring with his band. On second thought it looks like he was out of his teens by the time he started on tv, so it's probably not him.
ReplyDeleteThe "role of a lifetime" has to be on TV. I got nothing.
ReplyDeleteHey FSP are you SPF?
ReplyDeleteWish we had SOME kind of time frame. 70s? 80s? Newer still?
ReplyDeleteI feel like the answer to this one is on the tip of my tongue.
Tom Berenger just popped up on the show Major Crimes, haven't seem him in ages.
ReplyDeleteHmmm Interestkng guess. Please elaborate. Role Everyone loves? Major league?
DeleteSean Patrick Flanery has worked a lot over the years -- sometimes in horrible projects (Mongolian Death Worm!!!) but working steadily nonetheless. Also, he owns/runs/teaches at Hollywood Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Very into health. I don't think he fits.
ReplyDeleteI'm really liking the Haley Joel Osment guess, though. I wrecked a car in an OUI and I never saw him in anything again. Is he working currently?
HA! Correction: HE wrecked a car in a DUI. Must proofread!
ReplyDeleteI'd say Cory haim if he now had tragically lost his chance at a comeback
ReplyDeleteIf it *were* SPF, I'd say the role everyone loves would be Connor MacManus in Boondock Saints.
ReplyDelete@discoflux, Boondocks is such a cult classic, but critics hated it and it made no money at first. But I see what you are saying. Powder, though, was such a big deal when it came out.
ReplyDeleteI do think SPF really fits the clues, but I think he started acting after his teens (even though he was playing such a young character on Indiana Jones). So we probably haven't guessed the right actor yet. I don't like to think this is anyone because meth addiction is awful and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, but best of luck in continued sobriety to whomever it is.
Anthony Edwards??
ReplyDeleteAlthough he's like the main character in the new show. And is the voice of a plane in the move "Planes". He hadn't been in anything since 2010.
ER was a beloved show.
it does kinda fit Anthony c hall.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Rhys Myeres. Valentine in Mortal Instuments this fall and Dracula in the new show NBC drama also coming this fall!!
ReplyDeleteWhat? Everyone doesn't love Weird Science? Say it ain't so!
ReplyDeleteAnthony Michael Hall, totally fits.
This is NOT C. Thomas Howell but don't you just love him? Works steadily, not into the fame game.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Mark Hamill. He's made too much poop for the hero of Star Wars.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I remember seeing him was on General Hospital. A long, long time ago.
C Thomas Howell was the most awesome villain on Criminal Minds.
ReplyDeleteAnthony M. Hall's best role was Farmer Ted. I love that damn show.
Loved seeing C Thomas Howell back !!!!
ReplyDeleteChristian Slater for the win?
ReplyDeleteAMH was on Saturday Night Live during the 1986-86 season. That could be a roll of a lifetime for a young actor.
ReplyDeleteSPF was gorgeous...watched the Boondocks sequel and holy hell! WTF has he gone and done to his face? He looks unrecognisable now :( Bad surgery?
ReplyDeleteMost of these guesses are people who are way too young to have the career that is as described. If Robin Williams has a big film role he would fit. He had a hit TV show, "Mork and Mindy". He had several memorable movie roles, such as in Good Will Hunting. He has a drug problem, and he has a small role in a TV show this fall.
ReplyDeleterennie la doge: In a galaxy far, far away?
ReplyDeleteI want to say Jared Leto, with MSCL being the TV show, and Requiem for a Dream being the role (it says eveyrone loves his performance, not the movie itself.) He just finished a movie with Matthew McConaghey and Jennifer Garner, and maybe the TV casting hasn't been announced yet. I know he has his band, but before this, hasn't filmed anything in years....
ReplyDeleteLukas Haas has appeared in over 50 films.
ReplyDeleteHe plays the lead role in Jane Clark's movie 'Meth Head': "An innocent night of partying leads Kyle, played by Lukas Haas, into a downward spiral that costs him everything - partner, job, home, family. ... Life or Meth".
In 2012, it was announced that he will be a regular cast member on the television series Touch.
Jan-Michael Vincent. I know. Probably not, but I've always wanted to guess him for something.
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