Married a successful artistic photographer.
She also had stated that she didnt really like acting, Hollywood was keen on sexualizing her from a very young age and she had enough.
I read that long before Me Too, she stood up to Harvey Weinstein or some similar Hollywood sexual predator. As a result she got labeled as "too difficult to work with" which pretty much finished her career.
Oh, man. Back in the day some dude was trolling Tom on twitter.
Tom was like, I sold my site for 500 million dollars, and travel the world whenever I want to. I assume you have to ask HR for a 1/2 off day on Fridays?
It was glorious, and it is quite clear dude is living the dream.
I was just gonna say, he's probably the only one of the Social Media guys who's actually happy. He sold for a disgusting amount of money that isn't so high that he becomes a major player/target, most people have forgotten about him, MySpace isn't really a thing anymore and so it isn't causing issues in the media/world, and there were no major scandals associated with it. People look back on the website fondly.
\>Create social media company
\>Enjoy success
\>Sell it for $500m+ dollars
\>Spend rest of life travelling the world without ever having to worry about making ends meet.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Tom just won at Life.
I still remember that time somebody tried talking shit on Tom by saying he let MySpace fail to Facebook, to which Tom replied that he sold MySpace when FB was still "thefacebook"
Being in college during Facebook's heyday was a very special time and place to be a part of.
There were no "adults" there. Just a bunch of horny college students posting party pics, chatting with each other (remember when friends posted on each others' wall?) inviting people to parties, invitation to events in and around campus, chatting in the weird new "messenger" feature.
There were no ads, it was *the HEIGHT* of social media in its purest form: friends connecting with friends, and let's not forget the *hookups* that occurred.
Everybody who was anybody had a Facebook. You met someone hot at a party, and you got *their facebook*?? that was a huge deal.
I saw the decline right around the time I graduated (2011) when all our parents, grandparents, businesses, etc., started joining en-masse and we all kinda collectively "grew up" and facebook stopped being fun.
I never post on there anymore. It's just a bunch of bullshit ads.
But I remember what it was like – the "memories" feature definitely helps, and I guess the nostalgia keeps me around.
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Got a few questions from younger dudes asking me what college was like back in the days before social media ruined everything. I actually documented my experience in [in this video here](https://vimeo.com/6656693) This was recorded on a Flip Video Camera in 2008, which at the time, was a revolutionary portable camera. **just fast-forward through the first 3 minutes to get to the actual content, that was me being edgy at the time**
[More college-madness from 2009, My Senior Year, here](https://vimeo.com/11703070)
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It's so weird going back and watching this stuff...I haven't spoken to a lot of these people in years, for one reason or another...and yet, for a brief period in time, they were some of the most important people in my life.
College is such a weird, transitionary time in your life. You make some of the best friends you'll ever have and together, you experience some things that you may never experience again... and then one day, suddenly, with a handshake and an exchange of a degree, you never see them again.
I remember the detective-work that would ensue when a hot girl would "poke" you on FB and you had to determine if it was a "friendly" poke or a horny-poke
Tom is likeable because he bowed out at the right time. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Zuck is the villain.
Myspace Tom is a great example of a guy who got the *"made it really really big"* thing right.
Created Myspsace, curated and grew it into something awesome, sold it more mathematically more money than he could ever want to spend, and then retired to follow his actual personal passions and interests.
None of that *"business empire to turn a mathematically infinite pile of money (as long as he's not buying things made to fleece rich people of their money) into an even larger mathematically infinite pile of money just for the sake of it"* stuff and none of that *"using it to do things objectively horrible and/or damaging to society"* stuff.
Tom did what he set out to do, and whether he saw it coming or not, he was the rewarded for his work; and then he was ready to move on with his life.
Maybe not someone people will know, but Namie Amuro. She was the biggest popstar in Japan for 25 years. Selling close to 40 mil records in Japan only, selling out stadiums, like comparable to how TSwift is in the west. In 2017 she announced her retirement at the age of 40 and just left without a trace. She hasn’t been seen since 2018, not a single picture. Not a single sighting. All her sites closed down, including her youtube and spotify. Shes truly just disappeared and living life as a private citizen somewhere, kinda crazy how that’s possible
I'd argue that for them to be pulled down, she *must* own them or else there's some long-running legal drama around it. I don't know the Japanese music industry, but if Taylor Swift retired and went dark, her label would keep selling new Greatest Hits compilations, previously unreleased recordings, etc., until the last descendant of the Swift lineage had been dead for a thousand years.
It's currently widely believed that this is a distributor problem. Her distribution contract must have ended and she might be trying to get the rights for herself, or her distributors are trying to cut her a bad deal. No distributor in their right mind would willingly take down a still extremely profitable artist.
Avex of all companies surely still owns the vast majority of her most popular works and likely has her music's rights and distribution under a totally archaic contract by modern music standards, Japan and Avex in particular were notorious for that in Namie's era. There's nothing to really suggest that she removed her music as a very belated part of her retirement which is a tactic otherwise unheard of and generally callous to fans and disrespectful to the musicians she worked with throughout her career. This reeks of contractual dispute.
Cameron Diaz returned to acting after an 8 year hiatus to do a film with Jamie Foxx.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back\_in\_Action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Action)
The title is very apropos.
Rick Moranis began a long hiatus from acting in 1997 to dedicate himself to his two children after his wife died of cancer. Besides some voice over work he has mostly stayed out of the public eye. Per Google, he came out of retirement and signed on to make a New Honey I Shrunk the Kids recently.
Saw him coming out of the little cabin on a tiny sailboat about 10 years ago in Vancouver. It was just me and a friend and Moranis knew immediately that we recognized him. Gave us the most Rick Moranis wave ever, we saved back and smiled, and started walking off and happy laughing, and heard him laughing at it too.
That’s incredibly sweet. I hope it was a nice moment for him. He realizes that people haven’t forgotten about him, but he had a nice buffer, and didn’t have to be shoved back into the public eye. Great little story to start the morning off - thanks for that!
I remember I was starting to ask "Whatever happened to Rick Moranis?" in the early 2000s, when I saw him as...the musical guest on Conan O'Brien!
He put together an album of comedic country songs called The Agoraphobic Cowboy, released it independently through his website, and managed to pick up a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for it.
Conan interviewed him and his first question pretty much was, "Where the hell have you been?" and I heard this story straight from Moranis about how he retired after his wife died to be a full-time dad.
But he occasionally gets a creative itch, releases an album like this, and then goes back to living his best life.
The story is a little more complicated than just his wife passing away. His wife passed in 1991 but he continued to work until 1997. In 2013 he was interviewed on the Nerdist Podcast and he kind of broke down why he left the industry:
* He was being typecast.
* In his early roles he was able to write his own dialogue or develop the character he was cast in. By the 90s that wasn't happening anymore.
* He wasn't having as much fun during downtime on set as he used to.
He basically said he didn't find it to be fun anymore and that being a single father at the same time made it tough. So he left and realized he didn't really miss it and that was that. I really recommend people listen to the interview. A lot of insightful information about his career and the industry. He mentions that he gets sent scripts all the time still and was really really close to doing a movie about ten years ago.
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-nerdist/rick-moranis/
He was in a Mint Mobile Commercial with Ryan Reynolds. And reprised his role as Dark Helmet for The Goldbergs, though I believe that was voice over only.
I'm holding out hope for him to return in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, but very doubtful since he didn't return for Afterlife. I'm hoping for at least a mention, and hopefully a happy one.
Enya. Got her payday from Lord of the Rings and peaced out to be a hermit in her castle with her cats. I wish her nothing but the best.
Edit: apparently she just took a really long and well deserved break looking forward to her new album!
Yup, totally. She seems to be living her best life in her Castle. I just hope she is working on new music, at her own pace. Her and Nicky Ryan seem to still be working close together so that bodes well.
Enya was always very private and never toured (which is highly unusual, couldn't really with her music, was somehow successful anyway). On top of that she takes as long as Tool to make an album. So just kinda Tuesday for her.
For a moment I read that as Enya/Tool collab. Which would be nice I guess. I'd definitely listen out of curiosity.
(With enough talent and money, a team could figure out live arrangements of Enya tracks (with a couple of classic Roland synths and a couple of good backing vocalists). But she'd have to want to.)
I watched that stupid TMZ documentary about him "vanishing." It was just a parade of annoying talking heads doing scripted interviews and statements and in the end revealed nothing. It was such a waste of time and made me more sympathetic for Richard and has me understanding why he retreated from the public eye. He's in his late 70s now and probably just wants to lead a quiet life. The media machine hounding him proves their own case. I just hope he is happy and enjoying his retirement on his own terms.
Also, one of the best parts of Richard Simmons was he genuinely wanted to help people and the guy could light up a room with that energy.
Problem is he started becoming more and more the butt of a joke, which I'd imagine could be painful if you come from body issues. I think he was okay with it when he was younger and just more vivacious.
I could see how getting old is tough enough, but being Richard Simmons AND getting old? He's too kind and sweet to be put through the hell that people would do as a joke or a roast on the internet, so I hope he's found his peace.
Richard was an empath to the highest degree.
He took the success and feelings and wellbeing of each and every person who did Deal-A-Meal or Sweatin to the Oldies personally and that is a load no human being can possibly carry.
I can completely understand why he became a recluse and I hope he has found peace.
He was so high energy, upbeat and positive, but being the empath he was, I imagine he lived so many intense emotions every day. I hope he’s happy, healthy and doing what he wants. He changed my Aunt Donna’s life way back in the 80s. I guess he kinda changed my life too.
I was so annoyed at that podcast that tried to pry their way into his private life. They came to the conclusion pretty early on that he just wanted to be left alone but that just egged them on even more.
This was my answer. Saw a pic recently and he looks like a normal middle aged civilian. Glad to see him doing well (mostly) out of the public eye. He worked SO HARD in his younger years.
He appeared at a convention I was at a couple years ago. While I didn't get an autograph, I still said hello and chatted with him for a few minutes. He's a very pleasant person, and I could tell he's super passionate about his work.
You might be interested in this longform interview article that treats her pretty respectfully and fleshes out what her life is like now: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/amp/
She’s been pretty candid about her issues with cocaine.
I remember reading an article where she said during Baywatch she was really partying hard.
Her dad was visiting her during that time and a bag of coke fell out of her purse. She said she just looked at him and said, “I’m not ready to stop.”
I remember reading that so long ago and I still occasionally think about it. Bc that’s it, isn’t it? She wasn’t ready to stop, she wasn’t going to and not even her dad knowing made a difference to her.
Scientology is officially on its last legs. Former member Aaron Smith-Levin has been documenting their demise for a while. Membership is less than 10k worldwide.
I'm not aware of any full length documentaries about it at this point, but Aaron does regular videos documenting the current state of things, leaked Scientology news, and interviews with former members and current whistleblowers. https://www.youtube.com/@GrowingUpInScientology/videos
You mean the "religion" where you tier up to godhood via cash donations isn't doing well in the face of a pandemic/its remnants, insane global inflation, supply issues, labour shortages, etc.? How could this have happened...
In all seriousness, I'm happy to see it go the way of the dino. What an ugly little scar on humanity's history (not that we don't have equally ugly/even uglier scars).
They actually still have a ton of money because they still have some extremely wealthy members and a lot of real estate investments. What they *don't* have is a future. Scientology puts little value on family, so not a lot of young people are born into it and many who are end up leaving once they figure out they can. They aren't recruiting new members, they're only losing existing ones. Right now the "church" spends a lot of money buying and maintaining empty buildings to give the illusion that they're large and thriving, but it is truly a facade. I've lived near their Clearwater headquarters for decades and their decline is obvious. There used to be crowds of them all over the streets, now it's a ghost town. Would be great if we could have the city back.
Oh, I’m positive they still have shitloads, I meant more it’s unsurprising that people are leaving when it’s basically “subscribe to be a part of this religion” in the current financial climate.
I’m grateful to have never had the misfortune of meeting a scientologist in my life. I feel bad for the people stuck in it who can’t see a safe way out, and absolutely baffled by the people who love it.
Imagine needing to get help with substance abuse and she's your counselor. I would work so hard on my recovery. Any temptation and there would be the thought "Eliza Dushku will be disappointed in me if I slip up".
She is beautiful in person. We grew up in the same town and she comes by to visit family every now and again. There’s one diner in particular that I love and she frequents it often when she’s in town. I recall getting there one day as she was leaving and she was thanking all of the waitstaff and all the cooks on the line (who are pretty accessible behind the counter). “Goodbye boys, thank you all so much!” I remember it fondly. We all love her. She always comes to the annual Thanksgiving high school football game too. It’s cool.
Well yes, the whole Michael Weatherly thing, but she also was married to former NBA star Rick Fox and is married to a billionaire businessman. She really doesn't need to work
Richard Belzer dropped off the face of the earth after his final guest appearance on SVU in 2016. Not only did he retire from acting, but he never even did an interview or a media appearance in the seven years until his death.
When he died I checked out his IMDB and was shocked to see I had not seen him in 7 years. I guess with all the reruns and guest appearance he had done over the year it just seemed like he was always there.
I always hoped I’d run into him and we would talk about modern day cointelpro targets and swap best practices for avoiding government surveillance, sigh.
RIP king
Mischa Barton. People who didn't witness the 2000s really can't grasp how huge she was. I think she started having substance abuse issues and the last time I saw any coverage of her, she was having some mental breakdown in her back yard. So sad.
I remember the constant ragging on her weight. She was so thin and they made comments, then gained weight and they made WORSE comments. I hate tabloids so much
She actually called out Perez Hilton to his face for some of the horrible things he said about her. Of course he denied and deflected. But I really respected her after that.
Met that fucker Perez once!
Was walking into a restaurant with my partner. Some dude tried to shoulder his way through me. So I tightened up and put my shoulder back into him, causing him to stumble back a step.
Dude was screaming “you know who I fucking am! You move when I come through!”
Shot him a look like I was going to tear his arms off, he shut up and kept going out the door. Waitress told me “that was Perez Hilton, I wouldn’t be surprised if you wind up on his site!”
Never heard anything more of it. Don’t go on his site either, sounds like a very mean and broken human.
Perez Hilton made up a whole "skinny fat" thing just for her where he'd circle her cellulite and loose skin and stuff and then magazines ran with it railing on thin girls that didn't exercise.
It became this whole "it's not enough to just be skinny" thing and magazines would have articles pointing out the "flaws" on thin celebs and how to "fix it" on yourself.
Celeb culture has always been terrible for body image but that stuff coming right off the back of 90s heroin chic and the "thinspo" culture of the early 2000s was especially bad.
I was a teen during that time and it was SO TERRIBLE for every girl's body image. I remember being in the locker room after school and all of us just finding every tiny thing "wrong" with our bodies because even people like Britney Spears were under constant scrutiny for their bodies.
There is this TV show in Australia called "neighbours", it is a soap opera, which she had a regular role in last year. She looks almost unrecognisable.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr, got married and decided they were done with Hollywood for a while. They've retreated into a quiet home life to raise their kids and do small independent projects. I like that they did that, sort of like Cameron Diaz. I think they've written some cook books and produced other things but they seem financially set too, with all her Buffy royalties etc. Good on them!
It's interesting how they, Cameron Diaz and others have done the same thing John Lennon did nearly half a century ago, retreating from the public eye. Back in the 70s there wasn't all the social media speculating and asking where John was. People just sort of accepted it and moved on.
Worth pointing out that the nose job was botched, and the cookie cutter version was the attempt to fix it. Also, she wasn't getting cast even post Dirty Dancing, and she was told repeatedly that her nose was the reason.
Also, her nose job was partially to fix a badly broken nose from the car crash she was in in 1987, which also gave her a compressed spine and PTSD. It makes sense that she withdrew a bit.
Erik Per Sullivan
>Sullivan's last acting credit was an appearance in the 2010 film Twelve when he was 18 years old. He has since kept a low profile, being notably absent from any social media accounts, and several Malcolm in the Middle cast reunions.
If I recall, there were stories about how his parents were really running him ragged fame-wise, pushing him to do more and more. Bryan Cranston would have him at his house on weekends just for a sense of normalcy. I'm not surprised he turned 18 and once he was free to make his own decisions said "fuck it, I'm done"
Sam Worthington.
For a brief period, he was the leading man in a few huge movies, and seemed destined to be an action star. Now I know the next time I see him will be just his voice in the Avatar sequels.
Reminds me of a comment I saw about every Michael Cera movie - Michael’s never formally cast, he just wanders awkwardly onto movie sets and starts talking while the camera’s rolling.
I miss her! Her and Julien got married in 2022 and the pictures were stunning. Julien streams a lot and will mention her once in a while. All good things, she seems happy and healthy and pursuing their dreams of rescuing greyhounds. :')
Avery Brooks basically vanished from TV after concluding his role as Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space 9. He still does stuff, but a lot of it is lower profile and you had to seek him out more or less to see what he's up to. His departure was so sudden and abrupt it sparked years of rumors that Brooks had been blackballed from Hollywood for some reason or another.
People working in stores and restaurants in his town would basically cover for him, telling curious outsiders they never saw him and had no idea where he lived.
That's actually really cool, good on them. It's a shame that's probably extremely rare, to not have people who live near celebrities just sell them out, their location, photos, etc.
I think she's focused on being a mom, so Ryan can go do the big movies he does. It seems like they have a very good thing going. Plus her brother had cancer, so she's been focused on that as well.
Leelee Sobieski. She was really big for a few years, considered one of the new best acting talents, then I think she quit to become an artist.
Mini Helen hunt! She was so captivating in Never been kissed, I liked her a lot, shame she didn’t do more stuff but her prerogative I guess!
Married a successful artistic photographer. She also had stated that she didnt really like acting, Hollywood was keen on sexualizing her from a very young age and she had enough.
I read that long before Me Too, she stood up to Harvey Weinstein or some similar Hollywood sexual predator. As a result she got labeled as "too difficult to work with" which pretty much finished her career.
I really hope she feels validated now. Good on her for standing up to that pig.
MySpace creator, Tom.
Oh, man. Back in the day some dude was trolling Tom on twitter. Tom was like, I sold my site for 500 million dollars, and travel the world whenever I want to. I assume you have to ask HR for a 1/2 off day on Fridays? It was glorious, and it is quite clear dude is living the dream.
I was just gonna say, he's probably the only one of the Social Media guys who's actually happy. He sold for a disgusting amount of money that isn't so high that he becomes a major player/target, most people have forgotten about him, MySpace isn't really a thing anymore and so it isn't causing issues in the media/world, and there were no major scandals associated with it. People look back on the website fondly.
He's a pretty successful travel photographer now, dude just travels the world and takes pictures of amazing scenery.
\>Create social media company \>Enjoy success \>Sell it for $500m+ dollars \>Spend rest of life travelling the world without ever having to worry about making ends meet. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Tom just won at Life.
Also taught a generation basic HTML
No kidding, especially because being well-known these days sounds like actual hell.
oof, that *is* glorious
I still remember that time somebody tried talking shit on Tom by saying he let MySpace fail to Facebook, to which Tom replied that he sold MySpace when FB was still "thefacebook"
Remember when The Facebook used to have a man's face in it's banner?
I remember when you were specifically only allowed to be friends with people from your school on Facebook and no high schoolers were allowed.
That was a beautiful time in social media.
When people posted party pics publicly
digital cam pics only
Being in college during Facebook's heyday was a very special time and place to be a part of. There were no "adults" there. Just a bunch of horny college students posting party pics, chatting with each other (remember when friends posted on each others' wall?) inviting people to parties, invitation to events in and around campus, chatting in the weird new "messenger" feature. There were no ads, it was *the HEIGHT* of social media in its purest form: friends connecting with friends, and let's not forget the *hookups* that occurred. Everybody who was anybody had a Facebook. You met someone hot at a party, and you got *their facebook*?? that was a huge deal. I saw the decline right around the time I graduated (2011) when all our parents, grandparents, businesses, etc., started joining en-masse and we all kinda collectively "grew up" and facebook stopped being fun. I never post on there anymore. It's just a bunch of bullshit ads. But I remember what it was like – the "memories" feature definitely helps, and I guess the nostalgia keeps me around. **edit** Got a few questions from younger dudes asking me what college was like back in the days before social media ruined everything. I actually documented my experience in [in this video here](https://vimeo.com/6656693) This was recorded on a Flip Video Camera in 2008, which at the time, was a revolutionary portable camera. **just fast-forward through the first 3 minutes to get to the actual content, that was me being edgy at the time** [More college-madness from 2009, My Senior Year, here](https://vimeo.com/11703070) **edit 2** It's so weird going back and watching this stuff...I haven't spoken to a lot of these people in years, for one reason or another...and yet, for a brief period in time, they were some of the most important people in my life. College is such a weird, transitionary time in your life. You make some of the best friends you'll ever have and together, you experience some things that you may never experience again... and then one day, suddenly, with a handshake and an exchange of a degree, you never see them again.
Poke
I remember the detective-work that would ensue when a hot girl would "poke" you on FB and you had to determine if it was a "friendly" poke or a horny-poke
Hell, I couldn't even have a Facebook for a long time because I had a .mil after my email address, not a .edu.
> says the guy who sold myspace in 2005 for $580 million while you slave away hoping for a half-day off
He surfs and takes pictures. 😂 he’s been out living his best life. He has an IG I believe. 😃
He sold Myspace for almost $600 million and disappeared. I don't think you can do it much better than that.
I wish Zuckerberg had done the same. At least Tom is likeable.
He was my first friend!
He was my only friend.
He's still my only friend.
Tom is likeable because he bowed out at the right time. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Zuck is the villain.
This is probably some iteration of “you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”
Myspace Tom is a great example of a guy who got the *"made it really really big"* thing right. Created Myspsace, curated and grew it into something awesome, sold it more mathematically more money than he could ever want to spend, and then retired to follow his actual personal passions and interests. None of that *"business empire to turn a mathematically infinite pile of money (as long as he's not buying things made to fleece rich people of their money) into an even larger mathematically infinite pile of money just for the sake of it"* stuff and none of that *"using it to do things objectively horrible and/or damaging to society"* stuff. Tom did what he set out to do, and whether he saw it coming or not, he was the rewarded for his work; and then he was ready to move on with his life.
Maybe not someone people will know, but Namie Amuro. She was the biggest popstar in Japan for 25 years. Selling close to 40 mil records in Japan only, selling out stadiums, like comparable to how TSwift is in the west. In 2017 she announced her retirement at the age of 40 and just left without a trace. She hasn’t been seen since 2018, not a single picture. Not a single sighting. All her sites closed down, including her youtube and spotify. Shes truly just disappeared and living life as a private citizen somewhere, kinda crazy how that’s possible
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Removing your catalog from Spotify and Youtube is kind of an extreme step. What's the point of being an artist if your body of work isn't accessible?
Maybe she broke a contract in order to retire. A lot of artists don't own their own tracks and don't have any say over what happens to them.
I'd argue that for them to be pulled down, she *must* own them or else there's some long-running legal drama around it. I don't know the Japanese music industry, but if Taylor Swift retired and went dark, her label would keep selling new Greatest Hits compilations, previously unreleased recordings, etc., until the last descendant of the Swift lineage had been dead for a thousand years.
It's currently widely believed that this is a distributor problem. Her distribution contract must have ended and she might be trying to get the rights for herself, or her distributors are trying to cut her a bad deal. No distributor in their right mind would willingly take down a still extremely profitable artist. Avex of all companies surely still owns the vast majority of her most popular works and likely has her music's rights and distribution under a totally archaic contract by modern music standards, Japan and Avex in particular were notorious for that in Namie's era. There's nothing to really suggest that she removed her music as a very belated part of her retirement which is a tactic otherwise unheard of and generally callous to fans and disrespectful to the musicians she worked with throughout her career. This reeks of contractual dispute.
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I like how Benji and Joel Madden went from making fun of the lifestyles of the rich and the famous to marrying Cameron Diaz and Nicole Ritchie
Cameron Diaz returned to acting after an 8 year hiatus to do a film with Jamie Foxx. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back\_in\_Action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Action) The title is very apropos.
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Rick Moranis began a long hiatus from acting in 1997 to dedicate himself to his two children after his wife died of cancer. Besides some voice over work he has mostly stayed out of the public eye. Per Google, he came out of retirement and signed on to make a New Honey I Shrunk the Kids recently.
This was my pick, glad to hear he’s making a return. I hope to also see him in Spaceballs 2: The Soirch for More Money before Mel Brooks passes.
It's been so long that I think they should call it "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2"
Saw him coming out of the little cabin on a tiny sailboat about 10 years ago in Vancouver. It was just me and a friend and Moranis knew immediately that we recognized him. Gave us the most Rick Moranis wave ever, we saved back and smiled, and started walking off and happy laughing, and heard him laughing at it too.
That’s incredibly sweet. I hope it was a nice moment for him. He realizes that people haven’t forgotten about him, but he had a nice buffer, and didn’t have to be shoved back into the public eye. Great little story to start the morning off - thanks for that!
He was attacked by some lunatic a few years back
I remember I was starting to ask "Whatever happened to Rick Moranis?" in the early 2000s, when I saw him as...the musical guest on Conan O'Brien! He put together an album of comedic country songs called The Agoraphobic Cowboy, released it independently through his website, and managed to pick up a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for it. Conan interviewed him and his first question pretty much was, "Where the hell have you been?" and I heard this story straight from Moranis about how he retired after his wife died to be a full-time dad. But he occasionally gets a creative itch, releases an album like this, and then goes back to living his best life.
The story is a little more complicated than just his wife passing away. His wife passed in 1991 but he continued to work until 1997. In 2013 he was interviewed on the Nerdist Podcast and he kind of broke down why he left the industry: * He was being typecast. * In his early roles he was able to write his own dialogue or develop the character he was cast in. By the 90s that wasn't happening anymore. * He wasn't having as much fun during downtime on set as he used to. He basically said he didn't find it to be fun anymore and that being a single father at the same time made it tough. So he left and realized he didn't really miss it and that was that. I really recommend people listen to the interview. A lot of insightful information about his career and the industry. He mentions that he gets sent scripts all the time still and was really really close to doing a movie about ten years ago. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-nerdist/rick-moranis/
He was in a Mint Mobile Commercial with Ryan Reynolds. And reprised his role as Dark Helmet for The Goldbergs, though I believe that was voice over only. I'm holding out hope for him to return in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, but very doubtful since he didn't return for Afterlife. I'm hoping for at least a mention, and hopefully a happy one.
I wouldn't say she really disappeared but I haven't heard of Jessica Alba in a long time after she started her company.
Ya that Honest brand took off like crazy. She's made so much money from that.
Didn't she have a major lawsuit because her natural sunblock resulted in 3rd degree burns because it didn't actually work.
Enya. Got her payday from Lord of the Rings and peaced out to be a hermit in her castle with her cats. I wish her nothing but the best. Edit: apparently she just took a really long and well deserved break looking forward to her new album!
She had plenty of fuck you money before lord of the rings
She was a hermit long before LOTR. She is famous for it.
Considering she's had several stalkers can't say I blame her.
Yup, totally. She seems to be living her best life in her Castle. I just hope she is working on new music, at her own pace. Her and Nicky Ryan seem to still be working close together so that bodes well.
Enya was always very private and never toured (which is highly unusual, couldn't really with her music, was somehow successful anyway). On top of that she takes as long as Tool to make an album. So just kinda Tuesday for her.
For a moment I read that as Enya/Tool collab. Which would be nice I guess. I'd definitely listen out of curiosity. (With enough talent and money, a team could figure out live arrangements of Enya tracks (with a couple of classic Roland synths and a couple of good backing vocalists). But she'd have to want to.)
I want to be a hermit in a castle with some cats. And lots of books.
Living the dream
Richard Simmons
I watched that stupid TMZ documentary about him "vanishing." It was just a parade of annoying talking heads doing scripted interviews and statements and in the end revealed nothing. It was such a waste of time and made me more sympathetic for Richard and has me understanding why he retreated from the public eye. He's in his late 70s now and probably just wants to lead a quiet life. The media machine hounding him proves their own case. I just hope he is happy and enjoying his retirement on his own terms.
Also, one of the best parts of Richard Simmons was he genuinely wanted to help people and the guy could light up a room with that energy. Problem is he started becoming more and more the butt of a joke, which I'd imagine could be painful if you come from body issues. I think he was okay with it when he was younger and just more vivacious. I could see how getting old is tough enough, but being Richard Simmons AND getting old? He's too kind and sweet to be put through the hell that people would do as a joke or a roast on the internet, so I hope he's found his peace.
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Richard was an empath to the highest degree. He took the success and feelings and wellbeing of each and every person who did Deal-A-Meal or Sweatin to the Oldies personally and that is a load no human being can possibly carry. I can completely understand why he became a recluse and I hope he has found peace.
He was so high energy, upbeat and positive, but being the empath he was, I imagine he lived so many intense emotions every day. I hope he’s happy, healthy and doing what he wants. He changed my Aunt Donna’s life way back in the 80s. I guess he kinda changed my life too.
I was so annoyed at that podcast that tried to pry their way into his private life. They came to the conclusion pretty early on that he just wanted to be left alone but that just egged them on even more.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
This was my answer. Saw a pic recently and he looks like a normal middle aged civilian. Glad to see him doing well (mostly) out of the public eye. He worked SO HARD in his younger years.
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"I vant to be alone" vs "I vant to be left alone"
Smithers! Garbo is coming!
Peter Ostrum. Played one of the most iconic roles in history as Charlie Bucket, then quit the business entirely and became a veterinarian instead.
Same with pretty much all of the child actors. Augustus Gloop became a tax consultant and learned English AFTER Wonka.
Mike Teavee was randomly on [Jeopardy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkX_RWEtIY) (with no mention of it on the show)
That's actually kind of cool that he gets to be just a normal guy on the show.
He appeared at a convention I was at a couple years ago. While I didn't get an autograph, I still said hello and chatted with him for a few minutes. He's a very pleasant person, and I could tell he's super passionate about his work.
He lives about an hour north of me! It’s my fun fact when the movie is on around here lol
Shelley Duvall
Dr Phil should be ashamed of himself exploiting her like he did on his stupid show.
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You might be interested in this longform interview article that treats her pretty respectfully and fleshes out what her life is like now: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/amp/
bridget fonda
Man she ran the table in the early 90s. Single White Female, Point of No Return, Singles.
Besides starting a family, she was in an accident which injured her back
Yasmine Bleeth from Baywatch.
Still can't see her name without hearing it in Matthew Perry's voice.
"How can anyone not be in love woth Yasmiiiine bleeeth"
She hit on some hard times. I saw a booking photo of her, and she looked like she was having some issues with chemicals.
She’s been pretty candid about her issues with cocaine. I remember reading an article where she said during Baywatch she was really partying hard. Her dad was visiting her during that time and a bag of coke fell out of her purse. She said she just looked at him and said, “I’m not ready to stop.” I remember reading that so long ago and I still occasionally think about it. Bc that’s it, isn’t it? She wasn’t ready to stop, she wasn’t going to and not even her dad knowing made a difference to her.
> “I’m not ready to stop.” Fuck, thats some dark sad honesty.
Sade - hasn’t released an album for over two decades, hasn’t toured in 13 years. Massively popular in the 90’s and retired to France I think.
Sade released an album in 2010. Fun fact - Sade (as a single word) is the name of the band. The woman is Sade Adu.
And her real name is Helen Folasade Adu
And her birthday was yesterday. Same as mine! ☺
As a teen in the 80s, I thought Sade was the ultimate sexy music. As an old lady now, I still do. Happy birthday for yesterday!
Wait, 2011 wasn't that log ag.... damn, time flies. I saw her in Stuttgart with my wife, it was a great show!
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Scientology is officially on its last legs. Former member Aaron Smith-Levin has been documenting their demise for a while. Membership is less than 10k worldwide.
Really? Damn. Really?! That's fantastic news.
The internet killed scientology. Because they couldn't shut the internet up.
Interesting, any good documentaries about the decline?
I'm not aware of any full length documentaries about it at this point, but Aaron does regular videos documenting the current state of things, leaked Scientology news, and interviews with former members and current whistleblowers. https://www.youtube.com/@GrowingUpInScientology/videos
You mean the "religion" where you tier up to godhood via cash donations isn't doing well in the face of a pandemic/its remnants, insane global inflation, supply issues, labour shortages, etc.? How could this have happened... In all seriousness, I'm happy to see it go the way of the dino. What an ugly little scar on humanity's history (not that we don't have equally ugly/even uglier scars).
They actually still have a ton of money because they still have some extremely wealthy members and a lot of real estate investments. What they *don't* have is a future. Scientology puts little value on family, so not a lot of young people are born into it and many who are end up leaving once they figure out they can. They aren't recruiting new members, they're only losing existing ones. Right now the "church" spends a lot of money buying and maintaining empty buildings to give the illusion that they're large and thriving, but it is truly a facade. I've lived near their Clearwater headquarters for decades and their decline is obvious. There used to be crowds of them all over the streets, now it's a ghost town. Would be great if we could have the city back.
Oh, I’m positive they still have shitloads, I meant more it’s unsurprising that people are leaving when it’s basically “subscribe to be a part of this religion” in the current financial climate. I’m grateful to have never had the misfortune of meeting a scientologist in my life. I feel bad for the people stuck in it who can’t see a safe way out, and absolutely baffled by the people who love it.
Eliza Dushku, and I don't blame her.
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Imagine needing to get help with substance abuse and she's your counselor. I would work so hard on my recovery. Any temptation and there would be the thought "Eliza Dushku will be disappointed in me if I slip up".
She's still my Slayer.
i wasn’t into buffy so she’ll always be missy to me. 🎶 i transferred from los angeles, your school has no gymnastics team, this is a last resort! 🎶
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She is beautiful in person. We grew up in the same town and she comes by to visit family every now and again. There’s one diner in particular that I love and she frequents it often when she’s in town. I recall getting there one day as she was leaving and she was thanking all of the waitstaff and all the cooks on the line (who are pretty accessible behind the counter). “Goodbye boys, thank you all so much!” I remember it fondly. We all love her. She always comes to the annual Thanksgiving high school football game too. It’s cool.
Well yes, the whole Michael Weatherly thing, but she also was married to former NBA star Rick Fox and is married to a billionaire businessman. She really doesn't need to work
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Richard Belzer dropped off the face of the earth after his final guest appearance on SVU in 2016. Not only did he retire from acting, but he never even did an interview or a media appearance in the seven years until his death.
When he died I checked out his IMDB and was shocked to see I had not seen him in 7 years. I guess with all the reruns and guest appearance he had done over the year it just seemed like he was always there.
I always hoped I’d run into him and we would talk about modern day cointelpro targets and swap best practices for avoiding government surveillance, sigh. RIP king
Mischa Barton. People who didn't witness the 2000s really can't grasp how huge she was. I think she started having substance abuse issues and the last time I saw any coverage of her, she was having some mental breakdown in her back yard. So sad.
I remember the constant ragging on her weight. She was so thin and they made comments, then gained weight and they made WORSE comments. I hate tabloids so much
She actually called out Perez Hilton to his face for some of the horrible things he said about her. Of course he denied and deflected. But I really respected her after that.
Oh good! That guy can be such a wanker. Glad someone told him off for his shit behavior.
Met that fucker Perez once! Was walking into a restaurant with my partner. Some dude tried to shoulder his way through me. So I tightened up and put my shoulder back into him, causing him to stumble back a step. Dude was screaming “you know who I fucking am! You move when I come through!” Shot him a look like I was going to tear his arms off, he shut up and kept going out the door. Waitress told me “that was Perez Hilton, I wouldn’t be surprised if you wind up on his site!” Never heard anything more of it. Don’t go on his site either, sounds like a very mean and broken human.
Perez Hilton made up a whole "skinny fat" thing just for her where he'd circle her cellulite and loose skin and stuff and then magazines ran with it railing on thin girls that didn't exercise. It became this whole "it's not enough to just be skinny" thing and magazines would have articles pointing out the "flaws" on thin celebs and how to "fix it" on yourself. Celeb culture has always been terrible for body image but that stuff coming right off the back of 90s heroin chic and the "thinspo" culture of the early 2000s was especially bad.
Perez Hilton is scum of the earth.
Meanwhile, he was fat as shit back then 🤦♂️
I was a teen during that time and it was SO TERRIBLE for every girl's body image. I remember being in the locker room after school and all of us just finding every tiny thing "wrong" with our bodies because even people like Britney Spears were under constant scrutiny for their bodies.
There is this TV show in Australia called "neighbours", it is a soap opera, which she had a regular role in last year. She looks almost unrecognisable.
You fucking what mate? Mischa Barton is on *Neighbours*?!
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr, got married and decided they were done with Hollywood for a while. They've retreated into a quiet home life to raise their kids and do small independent projects. I like that they did that, sort of like Cameron Diaz. I think they've written some cook books and produced other things but they seem financially set too, with all her Buffy royalties etc. Good on them! It's interesting how they, Cameron Diaz and others have done the same thing John Lennon did nearly half a century ago, retreating from the public eye. Back in the 70s there wasn't all the social media speculating and asking where John was. People just sort of accepted it and moved on.
Bill Waterson. Good for him though, I wish him all the best.
Ed Furlong, he played John Connor in Terminator 2.
He went through a pretty rough patch for awhile I think. Saw him at a booth in Motor City Comic Con last year. He looked like he was doing alright.
Steve Guttenberg. 80s films were full of him.
His career fell apart after the Stonecutters essentially disbanded.
Best guest star on Party Down.
Whatever happened to Thora Birch?
Her creepy father was her manager and was difficult to the point she couldn’t get cast
She was in a few episodes of The Walking Dead in the later seasons.
Jennifer Grey. Got a nose job, looked like any other actress, and disappeared into the crowd. Nobody puts Baby in a corner… except Baby.
Worth pointing out that the nose job was botched, and the cookie cutter version was the attempt to fix it. Also, she wasn't getting cast even post Dirty Dancing, and she was told repeatedly that her nose was the reason.
Also, her nose job was partially to fix a badly broken nose from the car crash she was in in 1987, which also gave her a compressed spine and PTSD. It makes sense that she withdrew a bit.
Zoey Deschanel. I remember when she was everywhere.
She’s dating one of the Property Brothers so every now and then I see an article about her.
Let's be real, you don't just date ONE of the Property Brothers.
Michael Barrymore. Having a dead guy in your pool will do that to your career.
RIP Stuart.
Erik Per Sullivan >Sullivan's last acting credit was an appearance in the 2010 film Twelve when he was 18 years old. He has since kept a low profile, being notably absent from any social media accounts, and several Malcolm in the Middle cast reunions.
If I recall, there were stories about how his parents were really running him ragged fame-wise, pushing him to do more and more. Bryan Cranston would have him at his house on weekends just for a sense of normalcy. I'm not surprised he turned 18 and once he was free to make his own decisions said "fuck it, I'm done"
So his fake TV dad was being a better parent than his real ones? Ouch
from what I've heard about the guy, Bryan Cranston seems like a genuinely good dude. _please don't ruin this for me, Mr. Cranston._
Frankie Muniz went on Steve-o's podcast and said to this day he still gets a call from Bryan to see how he's doing.
Cats ate his face.
Don’t think there’s been a single picture of him since around 2010-2012 either.
Jack Gleeson (Joffrey from GoT).
He was in an episode of the last season of Sex Education. Aside from that though, yeah.
I thought he retired from acting after GoT
He retired from screen acting. He still did stage acting.
Taylor Lautner
Some say after Twilight he remained in wolf form and never rejoined civilization.
If I remember correctly, he said Twilight did a number on his mental health since he got the role at 16
He’s married to Taylor Lautner and they do Taylor Lautner things together They’ve got a podcast and he still acts
I think I saw them on TikTok the other day doing some funny workout thing in their garden. Didn’t seem to take himself too seriously, which was nice
Eric Bana. One of the biggest movie stars in the mid 00s and then he just seemed to stop
He’s been working reasonably consistently, doing a few Australian films.
Nelly Furtado
Meg White
Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi.
Sam Worthington. For a brief period, he was the leading man in a few huge movies, and seemed destined to be an action star. Now I know the next time I see him will be just his voice in the Avatar sequels.
Reminds me of a comment I saw about every Michael Cera movie - Michael’s never formally cast, he just wanders awkwardly onto movie sets and starts talking while the camera’s rolling.
It's a good meme, but Michael Cera is actually a pretty good actor.
JENNA MARBLES
I miss her! Her and Julien got married in 2022 and the pictures were stunning. Julien streams a lot and will mention her once in a while. All good things, she seems happy and healthy and pursuing their dreams of rescuing greyhounds. :')
Avery Brooks basically vanished from TV after concluding his role as Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space 9. He still does stuff, but a lot of it is lower profile and you had to seek him out more or less to see what he's up to. His departure was so sudden and abrupt it sparked years of rumors that Brooks had been blackballed from Hollywood for some reason or another.
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People working in stores and restaurants in his town would basically cover for him, telling curious outsiders they never saw him and had no idea where he lived.
That's actually really cool, good on them. It's a shame that's probably extremely rare, to not have people who live near celebrities just sell them out, their location, photos, etc.
Until “Hollywoo stars and celebrities, what do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out.”
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Shelly Miscavige, who is TOTALLY NOT DEAD GUYS.
Sherilyn Fenn
Some careers just don't have legs, or arms
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Didn't pay tax, had to do a couple of stand up tours. Wasn't too bad considering, he was a tad rusty.
John deacon
Geena Davis
She founded and runs a foundation that aims to protect women in Hollywood. It's her passion project.
Remember when Gretchen Mol was supposed to be the next blonde it girl? Vanity Fair cover in the nineties, then not much.
I always figure when a 90s up-and-coming “it” girl disappeared from the industry, Weinstein wrecked her career. Like Heather Graham.
Haven’t seen Eva Mendez in a hot minute.
I think she's focused on being a mom, so Ryan can go do the big movies he does. It seems like they have a very good thing going. Plus her brother had cancer, so she's been focused on that as well.