The curious disappearance of Edward Norton

Once an A-list star, he now does a supporting role about once a year. I heard he came from money. Is he a trust fund brat?

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• I always heard he was very smart but extremely difficult to work with.

  anonymous

• I think that "Hulk" movie damaged his career. He was a massive pain in the ass drama queen on the set, and it didn't do well. I think that film damaged his career, he got all kinds of bad press at the time. He's working, but nobody seems to be offering him high-profile projects, he was even replaced as the Hulk in the "Avengers" movie. I wonder how much he cares, he does have "fuck you money" from his family.

• I heard he drowned in the sewer.

  Mrs. Manicotti

• He's the grandson of developer James Rouse who had an important role in enclosed shopping malls, strip malls, large-scale planned developments like Columbia MD (where Norton was raised) and, most famously, the "festival market place" brand of urban redevelopment mall, e.g.: Faneuil Hall in Boston, Baltimore Harborplace, South Street Seaport in NYC, etc.

• He should have won the Oscar for Primal Fear

• I'm sure his association with Courtney Love didn't help.

• I think he's one of the best actors of his generation. And he doesn't go around calling attention to -and making an ass- of himself. Even if he didn't come from money, he'd be rich enough for 10 people if he never worked another day in his life. Hulk damaged his career? How many million did he walk away with ? Money, good looks and brains. I'll take it

• [quote]And he doesn't go around calling attention to -and making an ass- of himself. Except when he's working, which is why he isn't working so much anymore.

  Tony%20Kaye

• [quote]And he doesn't go around calling attention to -and making an ass- of himself. Oh please. He's known for being a huge pain in the ass. He doesn't work much because he's burned too many bridges.

• Drugs.

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• paramount sued him over pulling out of a movie (how many big studios sue actors to such a degree)... he pissed off so many people, they went forward with the lawsuit happily he is probably one of the most difficult people to work with, which is why you don't see him in major pictures yes- he has a lot of family money, so he is just fine- but his ego is not and he would still love to be a star

• r7 = Ed's publicist

• Didn't he do brief full frontal in American History X? I think you can see his penis from a side view in a shower scene?

  Itsthere

• yes, he's being raped but his body is hot in that film.

• Heroin.

• He always seemed to prefer small films. I am sure he will continue doing non-studio films.

• An excellent actor and a very smart guy. But he's "difficult" and that doesn't help anybody's career. He's probably so well off than he never needs to work again if he doesn't want to. I went to see "Moonrise Kingdom" because he looked so hilarious in a scout uniform. He was totally wasted in that movie (ALL the actors were wasted in that movie), which turned out to be a piece of shit. His relationship with the very uneducated, very crazy Courtney Love was a mystery. Her mother said in her memoir that he "made a project out of her" and I guess that pretty well sums up that strange pairing. But you can't polish a turd, as the saying goes. I remember the New Yorker doing a very unflattering piece on Love and he responded with a very shrill letter lambasting all those who would speak ill of her. I don't think they have much to do with each other anymore, although Love still tries to make it seem like they still have a close attachment. She claimed that he is the love of her life, NOT Kurt Cobain. Last thing I remember her saying publicly about him was that he was engaged (his publicist denied it) and that she wondered "what kind of a ring he got her...he gave ME a ruby!" I'll bet he rues the day he got involved with the psycho hose-beast Courtney Love.

• I've met quite a few celebrities through my work as a photographer (not a paparazzo -- special event photographer), and Norton was one of a tiny group of people who were outright rude to me when I asked to take their pix. Mind you, I asked before I shot -- or, rather, before I didn't shoot, because he said no. And this was at a party for a theater company, not a situation where he was exiting a club drunk off his ass or anything like that. Made me sad, because I think he's a great actor.

• Well, if he's as big of an asshole as he's rumored to be, it's no wonder his career went down the drain. Being a jerk isn't a good way to keep a career going.

• He's an okay actor, but I never bought him as an A-List movie star, or romantic lead. He looks like he should be doing your taxes at H&R Block. He would get suddenly buff for a movie and then turn into a 98 lb weakling 2 days later. And he always did have that weak face, especially his chin.

• " Money, good looks and brains. I'll take it" Norton has a fanboy! Or a dedicated publicist. Anyway, while he may have money, he's got a face like a zombie weasel and is, by all accounts, totally unbearable. I also assume he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, because he couldn't be.

• Overrated, not sexy and comes across as smug

  anonymous

• He's lipless and a juicehead. He doesn't seem very intelligent either.

• He invested in commercial real estate early on in his career. He owns several apartment buildings in Burbank, as well a a block or two of commercial real estate, he also owns Chadaka Thai restaurant. He may have family money as well.

• I think he would have made a better Lincoln than Daniel Day Lewis.

• Absolute, unbelievable pain in the ass who feels he's a director, producer and writer on every movie he does. Because of that, he pissed off way more above the line people than he would have if he was just an egotistical asshole actor.

• Back when Norton was working more and doing interviews, he came across as a smug ass who was very pleased with himself.

• The title of the thread would make a good movie. If only they could get someone to play the titular character who isn't a massive fuck head.

• He's too smart for Hollywood (or at least he thinks he is) which prefers its employees to be more obedient and do what they are told without thinking or arguing too much.

• Please what is hose-beast r17

• He's too much of a diva and since he doesn't bring in the $, he's not worth working with.

• Does anyone remember that SOMEONE from DL about a decade ago met him and Ed Norton was talking to this poor (fan?) in a faux BLACKCENT? How embarrassing. For Edward. And disgusting. I totally believe it from Ed, he seems like he's that much of a prick.

• Yo is some fag dontcha??

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• Seriously funny gossip from R32. Was he in character for some role (that one where played drug dealer with Rosario Dawson as the girlfriend) Doesn't make it any better.

• Here's an old thread about him. R1's post is pretty amusing in a bad way.

  http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html%3Ft%3D9405118%23page:showThread%2C9405118

• rumoured womanbeater

• "Please what is hose-beast" Psycho hose beast definitions: "A person who is so needy they create a force akin to gravity, that pulls everyone's attention, energy, and cash into their gaping maw." "A possessive, obsessive and paranoid girlfriend or ex-girlfriend." "Ditsy bitch who doesn't give up, becomes addicted to, and possibly eventually kills the thing/person she's addicted to."

• What did Selma H. see in him? She certainly traded up snagging that billionaire???

  anon

• Married now apparently. And I was holding out that he was gay. Oh well. I know he isn't liked here except for his acting and most find him a fug, but I loved Ed back in his brief late 90s heyday. Up till Down in the Valley in fact. He is one of the quickest and worst cases of ageing I can think of. So you say he has no looks to lose, but it's sad someone with so much promise disappeared. He is too cunty and supercilious no doubt. So many reports and I've even seen it on video, him being foul to the paps, you can just tell he is an unpleasant person to be around. Too late for a Sean Penn-style renaissance for him I guess.

• He's from Columbia, MD, which is about 20 minutes from where I live. His grandfather developed it, so yeah, he's from money.

• I get him mixed up with Edward Burns.

• He was sort of preppy cute when he was young. He looks like a KMart cashier now. I heard of at least one shitty story involving Norton on American History X.

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• He did beautiful supple ass work in American History X.

• I saw him coming out of his trailer in NYC on the set of something called Birdman. He looked kinda hot. He was in flip flops and I'd lick them feets.