How Hollywood steals- Page 2

[SirNotAppearing]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 3:18pm

Well, it's not like they're fleeing to Hollywood after one breakout role...they've both paid their dues on Broadway in both supporting roles and leads for years. It's the natural progression, and anyway, it's just a pilot. Kristin left a little too quickly, I agree, but at the other end of the scale, Sutton Foster was getting pilot and movie offers galore after Millie and she turned them all down. So far, she's done four more shows.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 3:24pm

"Oh, and BTW, Kristin Chenowith and Nathan Lane ARE Broadway people. They aren't the types Hollywood readily casts."

No, skinny blondes and Phil Silvers knockoffs are not what anyone would ever want to see on tv. Ever.

And Angela Lansbury, you are dead to me. You've crossed the stage/screen line too many times dearie, and none of us appreciate it. I'm forcing my mother to throw out all of your exercise videos.

[KrissySim]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 3:59pm

I work in the film industry, too. I think that all stage actors should work on screen at some point in their careers and even work between the two media, going back and forth. You're a different person in your twenties than you are in your 30's, 40's, 50's etc.
As said elsewhere on this forum, screen work can leave a legacy.

Of course, good screen work is what I'm referring to. Bad screen work can leave one with the felling that they wish they hadn't bothered. A fat paycheck nice, but it's not everything.

[mc1227]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:00pm

Let the actors make their money in tv and film and be able to come back to the stage, which is a real actor's passion. The bills have to be paid, so before we knock an actor for "selling out", that awful movie or tv show they appear in will eventually go away and they will have enough money to come back to us.

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 5:50pm

Yay for Roger and Norbert!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 6:13pm

Who exactly was responsible for Bewitched and RV?
allofmylife, did the articles that had you "on the front page of Variety" have anything to do with those hits?

I am just amazed that anyone working in YOUR industry would hate to see talented people getting the chance to expand their careers and make a little money, too.

Perhaps YOU are the problem with Hollywood. So give Jessica Simpson and Julianne Hough a call and make some really good TV!

[tazber]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 6:18pm

This gets the award for the most absurd thread of the week.

just out of curiosity, did bway steal Denzel or Julia or Meryl or Megan or Diddy or Patrick or......

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 6:22pm

Taz, no, they are just slummin'.

[SirNotAppearing]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:49pm

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/05/28/broadways-roger-bart-lands-abc-legal-pilot/

[allofmylife]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:54pm

Dept. of Mis-intended consequences.

I open the trades and see that Roger Bart and Norbert Leo Butz have signed to do a pilot for a TV series. Loving Broadway and feeling guilty for being part of an industry that constantly raids Broadway and rarely if ever gives em back, I started this thread.

What I forgot to mention was the Hollywood velocitization effect, where the huge paydays compared to Broadway (and if I knew how to do the ^^%^&^*% italics) and the agents who do everything short of kidnapping their children in order to talk actors out of going back to Broadway (end ^$%$&^%&^$ italics) means many stars end up oput here for the best parts of their careers and Broadway, which basically "developed" the talent again gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Sorry if I wasn't clear on my intentions.