Why Did Craig Bierko Fail So Miserably

Who? And hopefully he doesn't take the subway in NYC!

we never heard what really happened when he 'left' Broadway's Matilda so fast

Yeah, I never quite bought the injury story, R2. He's an odd duck, I used to watch his Twitter live streams and he's a little out there.

OP I don't know her!

His goofy last name.

I used to know someone with the last name Bjerkin. Small world!

I'd argue that he failed because he was the poorman's substitute for Brendan Fraser.

He looked so much like him that a casual observer wouldn't know the difference, so when Fraser's career stalled, his did also.

Similar to why Marilyn Monroe's death spelled career death for the likes of Jayne Mansfield.

R7 is the kind of person who always cites that mysterious "casual observer" that she's imagined to prove her argument.

Please.

Does Craig owe you money, OP?

Jayne Mansfield was well able to derail her own career, R7. And Brendan Fraser wasn't big enough to cause damage to another person's career like that.

It was the Porkpie hat.

[quote]Similar to why Marilyn Monroe's death spelled career death for the likes of Jayne Mansfield.

The era of the 1950s blonde bombshell was already coming to an end before both Marilyn died, as all eras do. Audrey Hepburn was a major star in the early 1960s and couldn't have been more different from Monroe, Mansfield and the rest.

I went to college with Craig. He was always a bit withdrawn

Audrey was a star from 1953 when she won her Oscar for "Roman Holiday". There was room for both she and Marilyn as box-office stars back throughout the 50s and into the 1960s. Marilyn was still employed on "Something's Got to Give" when she died, so work certainly hadn't dried up.

Marilyn was FIRED from Something's Got to Give a mere few months before she died.

Pussy.

What was this all about?

[quote]Marilyn was still employed on "Something's Got to Give" when she died, so work certainly hadn't dried up.

There was only one Marilyn. Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren and the rest of the copycats never got anywhere near her level of stardom.

[quote]Jayne Mansfield was well able to derail her own career, [R7].

[quote]The era of the 1950s blonde bombshell was already coming to an end before both Marilyn died, as all eras do.

Exactly my point. Monroe's death was the final death knell of the blonde bombshell era. After he death, they ran from that image to disassociate themselves since her death at the time was hardly glamorous.

As for Bierko and Fraser, the point is not that Fraser was so big (by the way, he was big at the time his career tanked), but that he was the most famous of that particular type.

[quote]I'd argue that he failed because he was the poorman's substitute for Brendan Fraser.

He was a poor man's Ben Affleck.

[quote]His goofy last name

Yeah, he needed to change that

Because after replies it’s already clear that people would rather talk about Marilyn Monroe and Brendan Fraser.

^after 20

Valerie Bertinelli messed up his career and Matthew Perry used his connection with Valerie to steal his part of Chandler from him.

I thought he turned down the role on Friends?

Bierko suffers from some significant mental illness.

Marilyn was FIRED from Something's Got to Give a mere few months before she died.

Yes, she was. But Dean Martin had costar approval and refused to accept anyone else. She was rehired in a new deal that included her starring in What a Way to Go and shooting was set to resume that fall.

I kind of wondered about that, R26. Sad. He seems like a good person with struggles.

I saw Bierko in Matilda and it was beyond painful. One of the worst replacement performances I’ve ever witnessed. Bertie was such a scream in the role and Bierko was completely at sea. I don’t think a single joke landed.

Does anyone else wonder if his Chandler would have ended up with Nancy McKeon's Monica?

He was excellent as Harold Hill in the first major Broadway revival of The Music Man in 2000.

I saw Bierko years ago on stage - I think it was in some completely underwhelming off-Broadway production.

IIRC it co-starred Molly Ringwald and Jason Biggs.

The play was a stinker, and Bierko was not good, to say the least.

In fact, he looked like he was bored and would rather have been anywhere else.

lost his boyish good looks too soon. Fraser too.

He was on David E. Kelley's Boston Legal, which quickly became a spaghetti thrown at the wall experiment with big name co-stars on limited contracts--Tom Selleck, Heather Locklear, Delta Burke, Katey Segal, Michael J. Fox.....

Anyway, he was a staff lawyer at the firm so he could have become a series regular. Instead, they wrote him off very abruptly. I think it was even before some of the storylines he was part of wrapped up.

Remind me ... who was his long term boyfriend?

Maybe he does have mental issues, R34.

He was on Sex and the City as Carrie's ADHD fuck buddy who gave her the best orgasm she ever had. I think they only went on 2 dates(?) the episode was ok but Carrie did her usual screeching and silly antics

Attorneys fees.

Bierko was with Frances Ruffelle, the original Eponine, for years.

Not sure what the issue is, but it wasn't Bierko's huge penis.

Are we to presume you've experienced that penis, R40?

He used to see a therapist in my Greenwich Village apartment building.

Was there only ever one episode of 'Bathing with Bierko'? The one where he interviews John Malkovich, and they're both in a bathtub?

What the hell was this show anyway!? I never actually saw an episode. . .

According to the LAST Bierko thread, the dude has truly STANK breath.

Didn’t he also date DL fave Janeane Garafolo?

He did indeed R46

Sour Grapes was supposed to make him a star. Even his co-star Stephen Weber ended up with a longer career.

[quote]What the hell was this show anyway!? I never actually saw an episode. . .

Few people did. "Sydney" ran for three months in the spring of 1990.

The large cock is but a rumor, but it checks out (Polish background).

My sincere advice to Craig is that he should only smile with his mouth closed.

He looks very similar to Hunter Biden.

Would the hotness and big D be worth the possible manic depressiveness and drama?

Yikes, looks a little frightening there, R51. Bierko seems like good person, if he does have mental health issues I hope he's getting the help he needs.

No, 52.

[quote]He was a poor man's Ben Affleck.

Which begs the question: Does a rich man even need a Ben Affleck?