Maybe Route 1 should direct the next "Twilight" sequel?
"Walk the Line" star Joaquin Phoenix has grown a busy beard and announced he will forsake movies for music. Hmm... It might work, but if it doesn't, his decision could provide an answer to this week's FRIDAY QUESTION from ROUTE 1:
"What was the worst career choice in movies or music?"
BEKAH P. -- Britney Spears decision to get into music/movies. I mean, come on! When did talent become optional?
MARY N.P. -- OK I've got two (similar at that): Leonard Nimoy singing (anything), but especially, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," and William Shatner singing (anything) but especially "It was a very good year." They shoulda just let us remember them from Star Trek with a smile...
STEVE M. -- Can I use Michael Jordan switching to baseball? But it does not satisfy your stringent requirements - hhmmmmmm... Maybe the Beatles forcing themselves to record the "Get Back" sessions in cold Twickenham studios after the tense sessions of the "White Album" a few months before. It was the major catalyst of the breakup after John Lennon's new-found world view he found with Yoko Ono.
LAURA C. -- David Caruso walking away form "NYPD Blue" for a career on the Big Screen.
KERI M. -- I think Britney leaving K fed. For some odd reason I think he really loved her. I have a migraine and so that is as far into music as I can think right now.
SASKIA M. -- I love Captain Kirk/William Shatner, but... the interpretation of the Beatles' track "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on his "spoken word" album "The Transformed Man" is just WRONG on so many levels.
STACEY B. -- It was such an incredibly bad career choice for singer Mariah Carey to actually star in the movie flop "Glitter." I've seen a lot of bad movies, but that movie has got to be the worst one hands down.
ERIK H. -- Can you call it a "bad career move" when the act subsequently tops the charts and sells loads more records than before? I think you can, if the move toward commercialization robs the act of the creativity and uniqueness that won you over when you first heard them. After developing their own, quirky version of European dance during the band's first five years, the members of Simple Minds decided to channel their "inner U2" with the albums "Once Upon A Time" and "Street Fighting Years." The albums sold by the boatload and garnered critical praise from the music press, but hardcore fans of the band sensed a sell-out and began to seek more alternative fare. By 1991's "Real Life," even some of the fans of the newly commercial Simple Minds began to fade away.
"What was the worst career choice in movies or music?"
BEKAH P. -- Britney Spears decision to get into music/movies. I mean, come on! When did talent become optional?
MARY N.P. -- OK I've got two (similar at that): Leonard Nimoy singing (anything), but especially, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," and William Shatner singing (anything) but especially "It was a very good year." They shoulda just let us remember them from Star Trek with a smile...
STEVE M. -- Can I use Michael Jordan switching to baseball? But it does not satisfy your stringent requirements - hhmmmmmm... Maybe the Beatles forcing themselves to record the "Get Back" sessions in cold Twickenham studios after the tense sessions of the "White Album" a few months before. It was the major catalyst of the breakup after John Lennon's new-found world view he found with Yoko Ono.
LAURA C. -- David Caruso walking away form "NYPD Blue" for a career on the Big Screen.
KERI M. -- I think Britney leaving K fed. For some odd reason I think he really loved her. I have a migraine and so that is as far into music as I can think right now.
SASKIA M. -- I love Captain Kirk/William Shatner, but... the interpretation of the Beatles' track "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on his "spoken word" album "The Transformed Man" is just WRONG on so many levels.
STACEY B. -- It was such an incredibly bad career choice for singer Mariah Carey to actually star in the movie flop "Glitter." I've seen a lot of bad movies, but that movie has got to be the worst one hands down.
ERIK H. -- Can you call it a "bad career move" when the act subsequently tops the charts and sells loads more records than before? I think you can, if the move toward commercialization robs the act of the creativity and uniqueness that won you over when you first heard them. After developing their own, quirky version of European dance during the band's first five years, the members of Simple Minds decided to channel their "inner U2" with the albums "Once Upon A Time" and "Street Fighting Years." The albums sold by the boatload and garnered critical praise from the music press, but hardcore fans of the band sensed a sell-out and began to seek more alternative fare. By 1991's "Real Life," even some of the fans of the newly commercial Simple Minds began to fade away.
posted by erik hogstrom at 5:48 AM
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Suzanne Somers never shoulda left Three's Company, ya'll!
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