People who believed their own hype and failed miserably:

Terrance Trent D'arby?

At first I believed my own hype, quite my hugely successful show and failed miserably.

Then I discovered sunglass acting and found work.

Eva Longoria

Kisses to OP! Every time I look into an online magazine I have to witness the latest abominable costume of this misfortuned music has-been. Her face, her dwarfism, those buck teeth and her awful lyrics make me want to push her into a bus.

Paris Hilton

Both of OP's mentioned people seem fine to me, but I don't follow pop culture

I'd like to have half the money Seth McFarlane made by "fail(ing) miserably."

Right, right. I'm successful at everything

Edward Lampert

Richard Grieco

for R8:

Bill Maher

Dane Cook (a lot of success thanks to MySpace but flamed and burned out quickly)

Alex Pettyfer (moderate success but has never ignited)

Maher has become insufferable. I really hope he just keels over.

Blame it on the rain... on the rain... on the rain.

Mr. T. He really couldn't do anything but show-up.

Are we only talking about people who failed miserably quickly, or are we including people who lasted awhile but them believing their own hype ended up destroying their careers?

If we can include the latter: Prince, Diana Ross, Madonna, and Mariah Carey are good examples. Yes, they had long careers, but ultimately them believing their own hype and thinking they could just put out shit with no effort and thinking people would still care is ultimately what destroyed their careers.

The black guy in "Miami Vice"

Can we include the ones who merely ended up sorely disappointed? Like the orange pub end guy from CSI Miami?

Shelley Long?

Oh yeah.... Philip Michael Thomas.

Guy was so in love with himself. Idiot felt the need to father 13 children.

Jackass puts Adrian Peterson to shame.

Shelley Long.

David Caruso.

Willard Mitt Romney owns this thread.

lil wayne

Donna Mills.

Whitney Cummings

"Philip Michael Thomas"

He did invent the term "EGOT".

Pamela Sue Martin

Joyce DeWitt

Roger Howarth

Now you've done it R29.

He had some rabid fans, but I always found him to be so unattractive.

Back in the day, I posted on Media Domain/OLTL that I've seen better looking guys at the Waffle House.

Farrah Fawcett.

I wouldn't put Gaga in that category. She's dealing with a serious health issue, and is newly sober.

Lupus is no fucking joke. She backed off saying she actually had it (only had 'indicators') because of her career, but I think she does and it's curtailed her creativity.

Dane Cook is another one I wouldn't write off. He's apparently been doing theatre, and he's supposedly very good. A few collegues have mentioned seeing him and being impressed.

No one in the industry will touch him, though, because he's perceived to be a has-been. He needs someone like Quentin to take a chance on him. He should've had the Bradley Cooper role in Silver Linings Playbook.

Many of those rabid fans are still out, R30. Some of them still think it's 1993. They're insufferable. There was a time that I thought he had charisma (if not classic good looks). But he huffed and puffed that away years ago. Now he mostly looks bored. He went on a health kick a few years back and looked good for about five minutes. Now his body is as flabby as his acting.

David Caruso is like a damn roach. Every time I think he's sunk his career he bounces back. I was surprised they didn't have Horatio Cane take over CSI Original Recipe after Laurence Fishburne left. Ted Danson is on about five minutes each episode, and therefore, doesn't leave much of an impression.

David Caruso left a hit series and tail between his legs, returned after his screen "debut"

Alec Baldwin, with his threat to leave the country if a Republican was elected (Bush).

Suzanne Sommers, belived all the hype about how sexy she was..buckteeth and all..ended up with thigh master, Las Vegas revue, and now more infomercials..greedy for more money.

George W. Bush

Suzanne "I Got The Cancer" Sommers.

[quote]I wouldn't put Gaga in that category. She's dealing with a serious health issue, and is newly sober.

hahahahahaha

[all posts by childish idiot removed]

Anything to back that up, r37 or are you just being a contrary dick?

Not a fangurl r38, and definitely not a frau.

I don't really like her, but I don't think she's done.

Lennie Kravitz

Melissa Etheridge

Sean Young

Anne Heche

Lupus my ass R32. If you believe that, then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Her "health issues" are from all the drugs and booze she did.

I can't believe anyone has respect for her, especially having some wannabe artist vomit on her onstage. THAT is considered art?

Sarah Palin

Michelle Bachmann

Herman Cain

Rick Perry

Tina Brown

Alicia Keys

Barack Obama

Sarah Ruhl

Rob Marshall

The creators of LOST

The Strokes (good band - not the Second Coming though)

The Monty Python troll

Katherine Heigl

Scott Baio

Mel Gibson

[quote]The creators of LOST

This one for the win.

That's possible, r41.

It's also possible she was on a drug(s) that induced the lupus. There are a couple of them (anti-biotics, I believe) that can cause it.

I'm not invested in it either way.

Justin Bieber should be finished with his "career" any day now.

Oliver North

Pete Doherty?

The Coreys

Shia Labeouf

Megan Fox

Ronan Farrow

Luke Russert

I'm getting similar vibes from Lupita, but now that she has the Star Wars role she'll at the very least have Sci-fi convention appearances for life if this acting thing doesn't work out for her.

He's a dick, yes, and his recent movie bombed, but I really don't see how Seth McFarlane is a failure. Or, are you just referencing the movie?

Rachel Maddow.... slip sliding in the ratings.

Shannen Doherty

Faye Dunaway

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Each is talented, IMO, but Hollywood only overlooks difficult divas when they're young and bankable. Gellar might have one last hit left in her if she could only learn to pick better projects. I watched Ringer and that thing with Robin Williams. Both shows were embarrassing (though Ringer was addicting in its badness).

The last I saw Shannen was on some infomercial about online colleges. Oh, girl.

Faye Dunaway should embrace Mommie Dearest and sign up for those Hollywood autograph shows. She would make a killing. Her ego probably won't let her.

Lupus. Or as is more commonly known as:

"Shit, my concert sales suck AGAIN and there's no way I can fake another hip surgery..."

Gagme will never be a failure as long as she gets to climb on Taylor Kinney, dammit.

Adam Lambert. LOL!

I like Seth MacFarlane, and he's hardly failed miserably.

He actually wields a lot more power than a lot of people realize.

M.Night Shyamalan

Pilar Ortega

Queen has a song with ga ga in the lyrics. Is that wear Lady Ga Ga got her name?

R41, Her "health problems" are complications from her acting as Perez Hilton's surrogate. Not drugs. Not Lupus.

r66, is that common knowledge? I don't really follow her.

Not saying you're lying, but I find it hard to believe she'd do that with her surgery, blood count, etc. not to mention the drugs.

R67, the "surgery" was a lie. She had to go on bed rest due to complications. The drug abuse and fallout with Perez followed not long after delivering the demon spawn.

these folks all seem to be doing alright

I'd like to add Solange Knowels to the list.

It can never be stated enough: Mitt Douchebag Romney.

No, R65, Lady Gaga is a character in Emile Zola's novel [italic]Nana.[/italic] She's the older woman who used to be a courtesan like the younger Nana is; she's sort of a cautionary tale, as it were.

I can see McFarlane being considered a failure in that he never achieved everything he thought he was owed. He's not the entertainment superpersonality he thinks he is. When he does get lucky, like get a movie deal or the Oscar hosting gig, he schmutzes it up. The guy is rich and has had some successes, but still, he's got has-been written all over him.

A large majority of investment and trading gurus.

Pope Benedict.

Hitler

Rocky the Musical

Can't touch this!

Adolf Hitler

Jesus

Ryan Murphy

Sid Vicious. He thought he was the epitome of punk, but he was just a pitiful loser.

Not James Cameron.....yet

If the frigid response to his documentary is a harbinger of things to come, shit could really hit the fan if Avatar bombs.

R82: [italic]Dances With Smurfahontas and Broomsticks[/italic]...oops, I mean [italic]Avatar[/italic], is the highest-grossing film ever. Do you mean the sequels?

R83, yes, Avatar 2, 3, and 4. But I bet it'll repeat itself again. Cameron goes long and over budget. Hollywood prays he'll fail this time and the press reports a possible misfire and production horror stories like for all his other megafilms. Then, they come out and he'll have the top five grossing films of all time and be king of the world again. I wonder if people will ever be over him and his ego...or, as Arnold says, James Cameron is always right.

Check out the Philip Michael Thomas bio on IMDB. It's brilliant!

Selected excerpts:

Considered by long-time friends and family members alike to be one of the most compassionate, spiritual, and generous men they've ever known...

Despite world-wide stardom as an actor of both stage and screen, it is music that is PMT's biggest passion.

One long-time friend recently referred to the musical side of PMT as "an undiscovered diamond."

During the stratospheric years of Miami Vice (1984-1989), PMT released two highly regarded albums: Livin' the BOOK of My Life (1985) and Somebody (1988), both on his own Starship Records label, with distribution by industry giant Atlantic Records.

PMT loves Florida and has chosen to make his home there instead of L.A. or New York as do most of his colleagues. Naturally, this keeps him out of the limelight, but it's a mistake to assume that just because his name isn't regularly splashed across the tabloids that he's not keeping himself busy. In fact, he is working (2007) on his autobiography, his official web site, reading scripts, performing, writing music, and helping young performers reach the heights he has reached - and doing it all with characteristic charm, grace, vitality...and with his trademark banner, "Treasure beyond measure!" flying proudly overhead.

Tom Hooper. Les Miz. Enough said. Can't believe he charmed his way to Best Director, and stupid Hollywood people ate that up.

Sean Young

Lindsay Lohan, still drunk, high and deluded.

Just found more PMT gold on IMDB.

Personal quotes:

I'm like Gandhi in a sense. I don't mind walking with the people. I will take off my suits and ties and get down there and work.

There are only a few who will be the Fords, the Edisons, the Carnegies, and I think I'm in that number.

James Franco. He's a total joke now.

Philip Michael Thomas did coin the term "EGOT," which he expected to have accomplished at some point in his career.

R21,

Cheers was a shell of itself without Long, who went on to star in Night Shift, The Brady Bunch Movie, and has had a fine career. She had played the same character for five years and was amazing.

Eddie Murphy.

He went from Funniest Man in America to.... not funny and very smug.

Vanilla Ice

Mischa Barton. In fact she still believes it. Just recently she gave an interview saying she regretted accepting The O.C. Deluded much?

Jennifer Lawrence.

Nuff said.

Harry Styles

Megh@n M@rkle

"Megh@n M@rkle

—The BRF"

And yet she stole the most charismatic family member (low bar it can be argued) away from you.

You guys should have been nicer to Diana.

Let's hope Boy George becomes the next fabulous queen of England.

Eva Mendes. She was supposed to be the second coming off Jennifer Lopez. One is more than enough!

But she got Ryan Gosling's sperm and made two daughters. So good for her.

But was he really charismatic, R99?

Methinks not.

‘Tis amazing what good PR can accomplish these days. (Have you seen Haz of late??)

Seth MacFarlane is very down to earth. Very smart and disarming. You would love him. Anyone saying different hasn’t collaborated with Seth. A true genius.

R43 I thought Katherine Heigl was just a nasty cunt.

R102, can we please keep the Seth MacFarlane drama in its current location and off of six year old threads?

Glenn Close and her Oscar bid for The Wife owns this thread. The gold dress at the Oscar ceremony proves it.

Who bumped this stupid thread.