skooterblue2 wrote: » Eddie Lenihan..... we used to call him the "Yeti" He was a childrens stoy teller/poet licing in county clare and had all the stories about fairies
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Well, that solves that then... 'Cancel the research into global warming, folks! Everyone go home, it was fairies'
skooterblue2 wrote: » Yup, Trump, Brexit, snow at christmas, drought in the summer .... Its all them fairy folk I tell you
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » That's nearly 20 years ago, hardly recent-wasn't he going on about the Hill of Tara as well as the Fairys? (That was about ten years ago or so). When a helicopter door came off while a Fine Fail politician was in it, he blamed the fairies for that too.
foxy farmer wrote: » The Ennis bypass.https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fairy-bush-survives-the-motorway-planners-1.190053%3Fmode%3Damp&ved=2ahUKEwjxmvnf4ZncAhUPKVAKHd1SCc4QFjAfegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw0g3HuicW-yQt9hXnZZPbve&cf=1
Water John wrote: » Oh Eddie is still there. He was on warning about moving a fairy tree recently.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » All of those names were already established. I'm talking the newbie breakout role. Nowadays its seen as an oscar -for a long time, it was career killer.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Nowadays its seen as an oscar -for a long time, it was career killer.
El Tarangu wrote: » I'm not certain about that - Daniel Day Lewis, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhall, Aidan Gillen - playing gay characters didn't seem to hold their careers back at all.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » That's the one-and yeah. It's a sure and certain thing that your career will die or stall if you 'go gay' in one of your early roles. (Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine for one-movie bombed, his career stalled.) Exceptions to the rule include Chris Sarandon in Dog Day Afternoon, and Jude Law in Wilde-the latter two because they were involved in high profile relationships with Susan Sarandon, and Sadie Frost respectively (I think they were both married at the time, too). Other actors weren't so lucky-Dan Futterman, Daniel Letterle, Gale Harold, Kerr Smith, and Eric McCormack, to name a few.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » That's the one-and yeah. It's a sure and certain thing that your career will die or stall if you 'go gay' in one of your early roles. (Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine for one-movie bombed, his career stalled.)
the purple tin wrote: » On the subject of Fairly Sh*tty. Remember the actor who played Paddy from the early days. Paddy and Cha, is he still around?
The Crowman wrote: » I remember when they featured it on the Blizzard Of Odd, wasn't it about a Dublin guy in New York (played by Smallhorne) who has a girlfriend but starts hanging out in gay bars? One clip that I kind of wish I hadn't seen was an Eamon Dunphy lookalike taking it up the rear.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » There's some debate on this-depending who you ask. One story goes that he had the role, but Peter Jackson felt Aragorn required an older actor, so he chose to recast instead. (He did similar on The Lovely Bones where Mark Wahlberg replaced Ryan Gosling, as they felt the latter was too young to play a 'Dad'. Gosling wasn't given another role due to pretty much every role being cast. It was a mutual agreement-rather than an argument.). Then others say he was fired from the role-due to disagreements on how the role should be played. I imagine there is something in between regarding the 'truth'. Thor was a definite firing, however. Never heard of Ray Sharkey-but that's an interesting story-I more than likely saw him in Jake and the Fatman (Funny how that show never gets repeated on Sky-not compared to Murder she wrote or Diagnosis Murder). He sounds like a bit of a plonker, to say the least.Anyone remember Jimmy Smallhorne? (Actual name-you'd think his agent would have 'advised' him to change it for the stage). Was tipped for stardom, had written and directed his own movie, 2by4, and was set to be a major face of Irish film, interviewed on Pat Kenny...and then he disappeared. A solid 10 or more years later, his film was featured on the Blizzard of Odd. And the next thing you heard of him, he had a small part on Love/Hate. And a small part in Cardboard gangsters. Never really reached the 'stratosphere'.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Anyone remember Jimmy Smallhorne? (Actual name-you'd think his agent would have 'advised' him to change it for the stage). Was tipped for stardom, had written and directed his own movie, 2by4, and was set to be a major face of Irish film, interviewed on Pat Kenny...and then he disappeared. A solid 10 or more years later, his film was featured on the Blizzard of Odd. And the next thing you heard of him, he had a small part on Love/Hate. And a small part in Cardboard gangsters. Never really reached the 'stratosphere'.
odyssey06 wrote: » Pretty sure Stuart Townsend was fired rather than turned down when they decided to go with older actor for Aragorn. He was very annoyed as you can imagine.... didnt even get paid for his prep work, or offer of supporting role.
George White wrote: » There is also every so often, an actor like this - who is tipped for stardom, but is so volatile that he becomes toxic. Google "Ray Sharkey".
jaxxx wrote: » Also fancied using their testicles as stressballs.
RabbleRouser2k wrote: » Good? Naw, those movies are woeful-LoeG is an R rated comic made into a pg rated film-as well as American interference... And Queen of the Damned...yeesh, even Anne Rice tried to get her name taken off of that-it's hilarious, in a 'so-bad it's funny' way. He turned down LotR (Lord of the Rings) to do LoEG...yipes.
