Thursday, June 28, 2012

Today's Blind Items - She Didn't Know

She came into the acting mainstream in her mid teens. 14 or 15 to be exact. Her first role made her a star. One of those plucked from nowhere kind of things and it was all just a blur. She is a solid B lister now who does movies and television and is always working. Back then though she was at the top. In her first role she was supposed to get kissed on the cheek by a character who played her dad. She got tongued by him. It was the first kiss she ever had and it was with an old man who stuck his tongue down her throat and said welcome to the business. He then grabbed her ass. This guy is also still in the business and a character actor who everyone would recognize but maybe not know his name. Her parents were around, but they were not usually on the set. They didn't know about the tonguing or the groping. They didn't know that the actress she was sharing a trailer with also did lines of coke in the morning to keep her awake. That actress is still working too and generally has to resort to getting naked to get cast. Our actress tried coke during that film. She tried it for the next film too. By her third she was strung out on coke and stopped on her own. By then she had also realized if she was going to keep doing this she was going to have to things her way. She refused to be in any more movies that wanted to show her naked. She has never got naked for a movie but plenty of producers have offered her lots of money. Once she got naked but the director cut it. She had to sleep with the director to get him to cut it though. The studio was ticked off. But, the director had final cut. Our actress also decided that she needed another career besides acting so started doing other things which would be there as a fallback. She actually is more known for something else other than acting.


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  1. I'm drawing a blank here, damnit, after awhile all these BI's begin to look alike lol

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  2. Natalie Portman. Jean Reno for the dad character?

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  3. Brooke started much younger.

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  4. Could the 2nd actress who does blow to start her day and gets naked a ton be Heather Graham?

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  6. Erina, that was my first thought, but I looooooooove Jean Reno!!

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  7. Natalie Portmans nude scene was cut in Closer. Director was Mike Nichols. But isn't she A list?

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  9. Juliet Lewis is now a singer. she became a star in cape fear as a teen right

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  10. Natalie was 12 going on 13 when she did the Professional if we are to take Enty's clue for gospel

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  11. The last line is a big hint. Any A list actress is probably not known for things other than acting.

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  12. Natalie Portman isn't known for anything other than acting.

    To me, this sounds like someone older and with a larger image from their first movie--like Molly Ringwald? Alicia Silverstone?

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  13. Ooooh Alicia Silverstone is a good one.

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  14. Jessica Alba came to mind immediately but all of the clues don't seem to fit. Alot of them do but not all.

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  15. A. Silverstone is a GREAT guess - her dad in The Crush is Kurtwood Smith who I ALWAYS recognize, and just now is the first time I've ever seen his name.

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  16. Alyssa Milano and Arnold S. for the dad kiss? Ew. She's done TV and Film and has a successful sports clothing line.

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  17. not Alyssa I think she got nude for 2 flicks the poison ivy and fear

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  18. Also, throwing Christina Applegate in there....

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  19. Lewis is a good guess, but she's been nude onscreen.

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  20. I like the juliette lewis guess.

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  21. LOL Applegate's first role is Jaws of Satan from 1981.

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  22. @ alabrava - you're scaring me .

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  23. Not all of the clues fit but Katherine Heigl popped into my head.

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  24. Juliette Lewis' first role is a tv movie called Home Fires, and I don't recognize any of the women as B list actresses (or at all really).

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  25. Winona big brown beaver Ryder

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    1. This. I just... you... Wow.

      Beautiful reference. Made me about piss myself laughing.

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  26. I really think the trick to this blind is the last line.

    Unfortunately, I dont see someone like Alicia Silverstone as famous for anything other than acting.

    I'm trying to think of other angles to make the last line fit.

    People like:
    Jennifer Garner (more famous for being Ben Affleck's husband)
    Katie Holmes (more famous for being Tom Cruise's robot)

    The ages don't work for them....but thats my thought process with this blind

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    1. Alicia Silverstone is more famous for spitting chewed food into her son's mouth than acting.

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  27. I want to guess Anne Hathaway, but she was topless in Brokeback Mountain. The dad could be Hector Elizondo. Heather Matarazzo for the trailer mate?

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    1. Based on nothing, i take great umbridge that u wld insult hectir that wat! He wld never do that!!

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  28. I want this to be one of the girls from 90210 just because I can see Shannen D rippin lines first thing in the morning

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  29. Anne Hathaway was topless for basically the whole movie - Love & Other Drugs. Can't be her.

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  30. Except that Hector Elizondo didn't play Anne's dad. He was her character's grandmother's bodyguard.

    I was thinking ScarJo. She's definitely famous for her *ahem* assets and the d-bags she dates. Don't think it works, though, as her first movie was "North" and her father in that movie was John Ritter. And I think that EVERYONE would know John's name.

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  31. Danica McKellar, Wonder Years, now genius
    Danielle Fishel, Boy Meets World, now student
    Mayim Bialik, Blossom & Beaches, now genius

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  32. I don't think the last line refers to marriage. They do something else, like singing, cooking, crafting, running some other kind of business.

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  33. @EDW none of those names is a solid B lister now.

    Maybe it's someone with a reality show or has a hosting job?

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  34. I think Mayim Bialik is a B lister because of her role on the Big Bang Theory.

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    1. No one is paying Blossom to get naked. No one.

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  35. @EDW I guess we just have to agree to disagree then :)

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  36. This sounds to me like Christina Applegate. I think certain things are thrown off to prevent people from guessing with these juicy BV's.

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  37. EDW, you beat me to it, but has Danica McK done films? Or... is the middle part of the blind referring to the actress with whom Teen Actress was sharing her trailer? (That might make her trailer-mate Olivia d'Abo (who played Kevin's sister), wouldn't it? And the character actor = Dan Lauria?)

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  38. I'm guessing Leelee Sobieski, known for "Madam Activities" on the side, Eyes Wide Shut for the movie she once got naked in, Stanley Kubrick director. Idk if the rest fits, plus it appears she's married since 2010.

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  39. Never mind, I missed the B-Lister thing. :-/

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  40. Alicia Silverstone is now primarily known for her veganism and her book The Kind Diet. A few things in the works, a little tv here and there in the past few years. Remember the stir she created with the photo of her feeding her baby with mouth-to-mouth pre-chewed food?

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  41. How about Valerie Bertinelli, now known for losing weight more than anything? Although I don't know of her doing any movies. She probably shared a trailer with Mackenzie Phillips...

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  42. Silverstone's Dad in The Crush, her first film.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001748/

    I'm with this guess.

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  43. I really thought it was Scarlett Johansson on the set of The Horse Whisperer.

    Kate Bosworth as the cokehead, maybe Sam Niell as the gropey character actor. Everyone knows his face from Jurassic Park, but the name could slip your mind easily.

    But what is she known for other than acting? Singing? Def not. She failed at that. I guess her modeling for L'Oreal and her numerous other ad campaigns?

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  44. If it is Alicia then who is the actress she shared a trailer with that did lines of coke? No one in The Crush or Clueless fits this.

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  45. Silverstone's co-star in The Crush, Amber Benson, still working, known for an indie movie/now tv series called Strictly Sexual.

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  46. I like the Alicia guess, but....this could be so many different actresses depending on the time line.

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  47. I like that Valerie B guess !!

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  48. If it is Natalie then the actor isn't Jean Reno. He didn't play her dad. Michael Badalucco played her dad. Haven't seen "The Professional" in a while but is there a scene where he kisses Natalie on the cheek? Also it says she shared a trailer with another actress on that set. I don't recall there being anyone else in "The Professional" that would have shared a trailer with Natalie other then Ellen Greene who played her Mom. I don't Ellen Greene needs to resort to the casting couch to get roles.

    My first thought was Katherine Heigl with Grrard Depardieu as the father and "My Father the Hero" as the movie.

    Came out in '94 and would have been shot about '93. Heigl was born in '78. so she would have been 15. Right age.

    She's come close to being nude and was in fact nude in "The Tempest" but you don't see anything. Could have been the movie she slept with the director to get the nudity removed.

    Also she's more famous for Tv, not film, and being a bit of a bitch.

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  49. jennifer Rubin may have shared a trailer with Silverstone.

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  50. So, breaking it down:

    B-list actress
    -started at 14/15
    -first (film) role made her a "star," "at the top"
    -movies/tv always working now
    -first role played someone's daughter
    -tried coke during this film (+2 more)
    -never got naked for a movie (or never got naked again? The poor grammar makes this confusing)
    -one naked scene was cut (after sleeping with director)
    -more famous for something else now

    Character actor
    -still works
    -would recognize but maybe not know his name

    Actress #2
    -lines of coke in the morning
    -still working
    -has to get naked to get cast

    Director
    -cut Actress #1's nude scene for her

    Yikes bikes.

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  51. Johansson was a child actor - in movies 4 years prior to Horse Whisperer. I know this because one of my kids was obsessed with the Home Alone movies.She was the grumpy big sis in Home Alone 3!

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  52. The first role that made her a star was a film, not a TV show.

    I was trying to make Diane Lane work, but she doesn't. I like the Alicia Silverstone guess, too, but she was 17 when her first movie came out. Several people fit most of the clues except the age part.

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  53. I was going to say Mila Kunis with Kurtwood Smith and the older sister character as the druggie.

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  54. I thought of Mary Stuart Masterson, because I saw elsewhere that today is her birthday, but none of it fits.

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  55. NONONONONONO

    NOT Red Forman or Hector Elizondo!!!

    please...

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  56. Brooke Sheilds was my first thought too, Vicki. I thought I was being all smart and obscure thinking of her....and I see your answer right at the top. ;) Anyway, she definitely is more famous for modeling. But she was only 12 when she did "Pretty Baby."

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  57. This is without a doubt Xtina Applegate. She's still a B list, always working, does TV and movies, started in the business at 15. First show a hit. Had a TV Dad who still works. Has never done nudity, but many men have always wished she would have.

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  58. If it's Christina Applegate, then Ed O'Neill groped her?

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  59. I like the Valerie bertinelli guess

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  60. I think it's someone whom most people won't know/remember as being an actress. So far, most everyone that has been mentioned are known as actresses.

    Yesterday, Enty posted a pic of Bethenny Frankel on her "Saved By the Bell" gig. I had no idea she did any acting.

    I don't think it's her, but someone like her in terms of fame history.

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  61. I've got nothing. Where's Space Cowboy? He's always good at guessing these.

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  62. Jessica Alba?
    I also like the Lisa Bonet guess.

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  63. I like Christina Applegate for this too, but what would she be more known for than acting? I know she did a stint on broadway and had breast cancer, but I still think "kelly bundy" or her new show when I think of her.

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  64. Dare to be different. Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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  65. Yes, we need space cowboy stat.

    Crila16, love the Applegate guess, but what is she known for besides acting?

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  66. I don't think it's Christina Applegate. She was on a bunch of TV shows as a young kid. Although if it is, maybe the show was "Heart of the City". The guy who played the father was Robert Desiderio (one of those "Oh, I know that guy!" actors.)

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  67. I do not want the pervy groper to be Kurtwood Smith!!! I love me some "foot in the ass" Red Foreman. Y'all guess someone else! Plus, I'm not sure that Alicia Silverstone fits this as well as other actresses who have perfumes and clothing lines and handbags, etc . . . How about Sarah Jessica Parker? I know she started young (does Broadway count? who played Daddy Warbucks to her Annie?) and is famous for being a fashionista and has a very successful line of fragrances and for being Matthew Broderick's wife (and he's famous for being her husband, too, it works both ways).

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  68. @frufra, Roxxx The "stat" is appropriate, I was with a patient. Applegate is a poor fit in my opinion. The blind says that she came into the mainstream around 14 or 15 and her first role made her a star. Her first role did not make her a star, and her break into the real mainstream with MWC came when she'd have been about 16. Her parents also have some Hollywood connection it seems, however loose and thus would eliminate her from "plucked at random." None of the other guesses do it for me either, Alicia Silverstone, Mayim Bialik, etc. Sure they're known for something other than acting; feeding your kid like a bird and having a PhD, but are they more known for that than acting? I'd say no. Plus Silverstone hasn't been B list for a while IMHO. All that said, I have no awesome guess right now.

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  69. Who is the Real Housewife that was in the Disney movie in the 1970's? Could be her...

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  70. Kim Richards, but she was 11 when Space Mountain came out, wrong age.

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  71. I'm thinking of who has a clothing line or furniture or possibly Home Goods. Doesn't Brooke Shields do furniture?

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  72. Natalie Portman has a vegan clothing line...

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  73. I am voting for A Silverstone, too. Just because she was 17 when the movie came out, she may have been 15 when it was filmed. It is rare for something like The Crush to be your first film role. She did those Aerosmith videos and was super popular, ie men would want to see her naked in a film. It would be a big deal. I just read the description of The Babysitter (never saw it) but based on the synopsis, I can see some nudity being part of the plan and subsequently cut/producers pissed.

    And she doesn't do anything high profile anymore. She is known for her vegan lifestyle and animal rights business.

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  74. The first role, the tongue, AND the cokehead co-star was on her first FILM. Not a TV show.

    Secondly this has to be an actress who now has some fallback career. A charity? Fine art? Cookbooks? Music? Reality TV?

    Example, not a guess---Eva Longoria is now trying to transition into political activism;we have to think of an actress like that--It's an actress who works, but is known or soon will be known for ANOTHER career, not acting.

    Oh, and filming at 14 or 15 would mean the first film was probably released when she was 15 or 16, if that helps too.

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  75. @spacecowboy - good to see you! Now, get to work on this BI and get your priorities in line, mister!

    P.S. - I'm still rooting for Silverstone.

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  76. Brooke Shields does a shit-ton of commercials, for Lay-Z-Boy, toothpaste, everything.

    I can't remember the details, but I think she was a Bernie Madoff victim, anyway---she got ponzi'ed out of her savings, like Bacon/Sedgwick did.

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  77. Alicia is also known for Aerosmith videos...

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  78. Brooke's first role in a TV movie was when she was 9. Her first film was Alice Sweet Alice when she was 11.

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  79. A Silverstone was 15 when she got The Crush and was emancipated to be able to work the hours needed. And she is very big on the no nudity clause. Sounds like her to me.

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  80. I'm confused by the headline...what didn't she know? I've had a few glasses of wine at lunch, so help me out! I don't get it.

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  81. Maybe she shared a trailer with Liv Tyler during one of those shoots? Sorry, not sure if this fits, I need to re-read the bli d. Just thinking out loud so to speak...

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  82. Kirsten Dunst. Interview with a vampire. Brad Pitt was her vampire father.

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  83. She was also just on Suburgatory

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  84. Natalie Portman is also known for being a Harvard grad...

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  85. Definitely not Applegate. She worked a while before getting Married With Children.

    As for Mayim Bialik, I love her on BBT but let's face it, who wants to see her naked?

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  86. How about Ellen Page?

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  87. No clue on this but I had to interject that Amber Benson is also known as Tara, Willow's girlfriend, on Buffy!

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  88. Darn...forgot christina is only known for acting.

    Juliette Lewis maybe. She's also known more for her music now. I don't know...these smutty ones are too difficult. No one ever figures them out.

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  89. Nathalie Portman is best known for acting, anything else is just others things most people do (i.e., got a degree, married, have kids, etc.).

    I don't think Kristen Dunst does anything other than act and date indie-musicians.

    Who else has another career? Could be singing, writing, fashion design?

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  90. There's no time period listed, other than they are all still alive. I think the best guess is to think of who was a huge star from their first MOVIE in their mid-teens, and who is also known for something other than the entertainment world like Tippy Hedron is known for her wildlife animal preserve, and Paul Newman is known for his children's camps.

    I think it's Alicia. There are just so few mid-teen girls who became a huge star from their first movie, and she seems to be the only one who has interests other than acting.

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  91. Alicia Silverstone... could have shared a trailer with Brittany Murphy

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  92. Phoebe Cates? Doesn't she have some fancy schmancy boutique in NYC?

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  93. @ Space Cowboy:
    You see this is exactly why we need you - you're like an encyclopaedia when it comes to celebrity knowledge. I thought I was good but I've got nothing on you. So, I second what Frufra said.

    @lisap515:
    Even after all this time, I still miss Buffy.....

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  94. Brittany Murphy is dead; the blind says the other actress is still getting naked to get parts. Alicia Silverstone does fit a lot of this, but I think calling her a current solid B lister is very generous. I'm in my mid 30's, so I know full well who she is, as she broke when I was a teen, but would your average college aged person today know who she is? If she's a B lister, they'd be able to know her by name. What is she more known for other than acting? Appearing in music videos is still acting, and I still think of her as an actress first, vs being a vegan, vegan author, spitter of food into her children's mouths, etc, but maybe I'm just behind the times.

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  95. I don't think it is Alicia Silverstone. She was 17 in The Crush - okay, maybe 15 when shooting began - but it doesn't fit with "She came into the acting mainstream in her mid teens. 14 or 15 to be exact. Her first role made her a star." because (my opinion) it was really Clueless that made her a mainstream star, and she was 20 in that movie.
    Also, enty posted a blind a while ago that (I interpreted) as Reese Witherspoon destroying Alicia's career but telling everyone she was on drugs and an alcoholic....

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  96. This made me think of Tony Danza and Ami Dolenz in "She's out of control" but no idea if the rest of the clues fit.

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  97. It made me think of Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years), who has since gone on to write those math books. She seems fairly level-headed, too.

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  98. Alicia Silverstone spits food into her kid's mouth??!!! Why? What's wrong with using cutlery?

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  99. Roxxx, pre-chewing food is an ancient method of feeding toddlers. You know, cultures that didn't/don't have Magic Bullets or cutlery. We all did it as cave-people, a few cultures in the world still do it (very isolated ones).
    It's not unsanitary, it's just grody because we're not used to it anymore.
    It's a bit of a trend with the back-to-nature, breastfeed til they're 5 crowd. I'm not a mother, so judgment from me. I just choose not to watch her do it.

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  100. *NO* judgment from me about mothering techniques. Typo. Sorry.

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  101. Shot in the dark, but what about Julia Styles in 10 Things I Hate About You?

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  102. The BI title "she didn't know" equates to clueless-ness but as other posters have pointed out none of the other info matches, as Brittany Murphy is dead. And although Stacy Dash has appeared nude on screen at least once, unless I've missed some things, it would be a stretch to say that she's gotten naked to get most of her roles. Who was the 4th member of their clique in that movie.

    Also, I can't recall seeing her in anything, on tv or in the movies, recently, so I don't think you could characterize her as "always working."

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  103. So far, these guesses don't fit. This one's hard.

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  104. J.Lo

    Movie : My little girl
    Actor:Goetz or J. E. Jones (Whoever played the father)

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  105. @Libby,

    Thanks for the explanation. Part of me just thinks - what's wrong with mashing up the kid's food and feeding it to them with a spoon? I understand that this method has also worked for a very long time. But then another part of me that is extremely lazy, kind of feels like I missed out as a kid by having to chew my own food.

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  106. NP, Roxxx, thanks. I saw a film about it in college, 15 years ago. It's a dying thing, as most cultures are more advanced these days.

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  107. I like the Phoebe Cates guess..But who was the dad in Fast Times? And it would not be Dan Lauria. I worked with him and he was very protective of young girls coming up in the business (taught an acting class) and adamant that girls did not need to utilize the casting couch.DEFINTELY not him. And that was just about around the time of Fast Times.

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  108. Can't be Phoebe Cates. This actress still works. Phoebe Cates has been retired for about 10 years.

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  109. Is there a way to make Winona Ryder fit? I'm not familiar with her first film Lucas but she would have been 15 filming it. She was 17 when Beetlejuice came down.

    B lister. More famous for shoplifting than her acting latley

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  110. Danica Miller from The Wonder Years was my initial thought.

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  111. Winona Ryder

    Beetlejuice (wasn’t first film, but her break out role)

    Father - Jeffrey Jones (arrested for child porn in 2002)

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  112. I'm guessing Katie Holmes.

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  113. Tom Cruise!

    Valerie B is a good guess, she was known as Eddie Van Halen's wife for decades and is back on TV. But, in her show - One Day at a Time - there was no Dad!

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  114. Anonymous2:56 PM

    i see nobody really has a clue including me! lol

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  115. Phoebe Cates did nudity. Not her

    Valerie Bertenelli is a horrible guess. She has always been best known as a television actress. Period. Being known as Eddie Van Halen's wife was secondary, as is being known for weight loss. And what has she ever been in that would require a nude scene to even be filmed?

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  116. Could it be Katie Holmes in Ice Storm? Christina Ricci costar? She is more well known for being married to,Tom and has no nudity clause.

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  117. Spitting food into your baby's mouth IS unsanitary. If you have a cold sore, guess what, now your baby has herpes. That just happened to a baby undergoing circumcision in an orthodox ceremony only that baby was unlucky enough to get it on his genitals and not his mouth. :(

    http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2012/06/07/11-NY-babies-got-herpes-via-circumcision/UPI-53281339123736/

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  118. I read this as Demise Richards

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  120. Katherine Heigl
    My Father the Hero
    Gerard Depardieu

    Known more for being b.tchy. Can you blame her?

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  121. It's Jessica Biel. More well known for shiteous bangs, and "banging" Justin Timberlake. She got naked in Powder Blue but has done hardly anything since.



    http://www.etsy.com/shop/PharohsFall

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  122. Kristy McNichol? I could see her and Tatum O'Neal doing some lines.

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  123. SueRH, if a parent has herpes 1 or 2 on their mouths, they can easily infect the child by just kissing them when they don't know they're active. No one is advocating people with cold sores giving children herpes and killing them. people should definitely be educated about what a cold sore means, who would disagree with that?

    And we all know that ONE story about the damned rabbi and the circumcision. I never see that link, except by people who spend their days ranting about Jews. Don't be one of those people.

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  124. Katie Holmes did nudity in The Gift did she not ?

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  125. Jessica Biel and Molly Ringwald are both interesting guesses. I was thinking about Molly, myself.

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  126. Hey wait....could this be Lilo?? Definitely known for something else other than acting.

    But wait, it says the actress cleaned up...*sound of record scratching

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  127. What about Hayden P in Remember the Titans. She was TV before that. Known coke head Kate Bosworth costarred and Will Patton her dad.

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  128. Scratch off that last guess she was too young.

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  129. I don't know who it is but Kim Richards was a star a really little girl playing Prudence on Nanny and the Professor

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  130. Mid-teen actresses who became movie stars from their first role:

    Molly Ringwald - Sixteen Candles
    Winona Ryder - Beetlejuice
    Alicia Silverstone - Clueless

    Maybe Molly Ringwald shared a dressing room with the blonde who played her sister in Sixteen Candles? God knows there was a lot of cocaine in the brat pack.

    Known for something else these days is the hard part.

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  131. @libby

    I don't think @SueHR intention was to rant about Jews?

    That info was all over the mainstream news, in medical and legal journals and talked about at synagogues.

    "Officials at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and a report published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said 10 of the 11 newborns were hospitalized and two died."

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  132. There was a dad for Valerie B. on One Day at a Time, but the parents were divorced so he was on very rarely.

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  133. Im surprised no one has mentioned the first person who came to my mind while reeading the blind. JENNIFER LOVE HEWWIT, she wrote a book and she's really known for being a clingy girlfriend nowdays. And, althought im not completely sure, i think i read somewhere that she actually filmed a nude scene in movie but it was cut. I can totally see people offering her roles with nudity in the 90s.

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  134. Phoebe Cates is Hollywood Royalty....not her.

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  135. Another comment about Silverstone. Her production company is called First Kiss Productions. Either Enty saying "her first kiss" is a clue, or it means it can't be her. Why would you name your production company first kiss if that's really what your first kiss was like?

    Her book was a best seller.

    I think she will always be B list because she was so, SO famous in the mid 90s.

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  136. I'm gonna guess Molly Ringwald. Her breakout (mainstream) movie was Sixteen Candles, which was filmed when she was fifteen and released the following year. There's a scene where her father, played by character actor Paul Dooley, kisses her goodnight. Dooley was a lot older than he looked.

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  137. I admit I didn't make it through all 147 comments, but my first thought was Diane Lane, although I don't know what she is better known for than acting. Married to Josh Brolin?

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  138. Movie - Human Nature

    Rhys Ifans - he has done a lot of character acting (voice overs)

    Hilary Duff - She was 14 when she filmed & has a popular fashion line.

    Patricia Arquette - Cokehead

    Just a guess- BUT - Rhys doesnt play her father in the movie.

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  139. I'm on board with Wynona Ryder guess.

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  140. I really think some of the guesses are just trying to shoehorn a given person into fitting "She is actually more known for something else other than acting." I think that it should be crystal clear what the person is most well-known for. Brooke Shields may not be the right answer, but i think it needs to be obvious like it is in her case.

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  141. Aside from the other 100 reasons it's not Natalie Portman, there is the fact that she did nudity in Hotel Chevalier the short before The Darjeeling Limited.

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  142. Having a hard time with this one. This is what is throwing me off "solid B lister now who does movies and television and is always working". Alicia Silverstone isn't always working.

    How about: Mandy Moore. Made "A Walk in the Clouds", when she was 16ish (not very first movie though). No nudity. Known for singing. Hasn't stopped working.

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  143. Gwyneth Paltrow is the only actress I can think of who is really known for something other than acting.

    I mean, I know she wasn't 14-15 for her first film (unless she filmed it earlier?) and as her first role was in a John Travolta film I imagine (I haven't seen it) that the father figure would be more likely to tounge kiss the boys... But Heather Graham was in it too, and she seems pretty naked pretty often...

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  144. Winona started young, is still a B list and is more famous for shoplifting than acting.

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  145. Winona started young, is still a B list and is more famous for shoplifting than acting.

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  146. Alicia Silverstone

    She didn't know (headline of this BI) = Clueless

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  147. Big bonus on the Heigl guess: she did nudity in an early film, and most of the scene was cut. It has recently been released on the net. Totally fits the 'nude but cut' scenario.

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  148. I'm guessing Hilary Duff on Lizzie McGuire... Lalaine who played her best friend was arrested for possession of meth in 2007. The actor who played the dad on the show was Robert Carradine.

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  149. Does Erika Christenson work? First role Leave it to Beaver with the dad being Christopher McDonald? I wouldn't say that it rocketed her to fame, but she's a solid B lister who's working steadily.

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  150. I'm not liking this blind at all. Among the reasons is the fact that it seems to be talking about two actresses? And a character actor? Or is it just one? Aargh. Next!

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  151. Finally I have one and can say FTW (but I'm late.....)

    The answer is Sarah Polley.
    She was "at the top" in the late 90s and is still a solid B lister who is always working. And she is now better known in her career as a screenwriter (Nonminated for Oscar in 2008 for Best Adapted Screenplay) and Directing/Filmmaking (Won NY, Chicago Film Critics Award for Best Filmmaker in 2006). She is essentially the only female whose career shot from nowhere to become a big name actress at 15 who is now better known for her other career.

    The question is, was the first role "Exotica" (filmed age 14), or is it her breakout role that exploder her on the scene "The Sweet Hereafter" (filmed age 16-17) (If you read the blind, Etsy seems to bounce around about the timing of the roles, and it is not clear)

    For Sweethereafter:
    1) Character actor everyone knows (played father, who kisses her in movie scene): Tom McCammus (played Mason Eckhart in Mutant X, plus 73 other roles)
    2) Actress still working who gets naked: Alberta Watson (Nikita)

    For Exotica:
    1) Character actor everyone knows (played uncle): Bruce Greenwood (played President in National Treasure 2, Christopher Pike in Star Trek)
    2) Actress still working who gets naked: Mia Kirshner (The L Word)

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  152. Not Sarah Polley. She had a very extensive acting career even before Exotica or Sweet Hereafter. She played Ramona in the shows and movies, as well as Emily of New Moon for a good number of years. At the time she probably was more well known in Canada, but kids everywhere watched Ramona and New Moon. She's been on the radar since she was about 5. Great actress and great writer and director.

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  153. yeah alicia silverstone but i thought she was 14 or 15 when she did the crush...well she is only 2 years older than me. so she was 18 when she did clueless, not 20...and shes more famous for chewing the food and feeding her young with it

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  154. @Basil. You are right. But when I re-read the blind I realized it it says "She came into the acting mainstream in her mid teens. 14 or 15 to be exact". It didn't say she started acting at age 15, just that she "came into the mainstream".

    Pretty well all of the stuff Sarah Polly did before was local Canadian productions --(being Canadian myself, I know them all, I just wasn't sure how well in the US mainstream she was known back then).

    Obviously, I'm just trying to retrofit her into the blind details, but it is mainly because she really seems like the only actress with that big an acting career at a young age, who now has a bigger career doing something else, while still while still being a solid B list actress (I think better than B list personally).

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  155. @G-money I wasn't trying to slate you or anything, I'm just not sure Polley fits this blind. Hearafter was a great movie but how many people actually saw it? More people probably saw Polley in Dawn of the Dead or Go. And I wish more people had seen her in Splice (great movie). But I just don't think she made a big enough mark in the US market to warrent a B. And I agree, she is pretty much A in my book.

    But whomever this actress is, according to the blind, it sounds like she almost got trapped in the typical actress crap they have to deal with in Hwood, and got out of it intact, which is to her credit. And if it is Sarah, that just makes me respect her more.

    BTW, I sort of met her when I worked at the Genie's years ago. She was there with her family because she was in Ramona. My co-worker said "Oh! You're Ramona!" and the wee girl just blushed and gave a tiny smile. No pretentions like some Hwood kids might have. So I have always been rooting for her since and am glad that she has made a solid career for herself without all the ego and bullshit that someone like Lohan has.

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  156. Alicia Silverstone has a line of makeup tools that you can buy at Ulta called ecotools (http://www.ecotools.com/shop-collection/ecotools). I saw it last year. The line launched in 2008. I believe she is also coming out with a line of makeup soon too. Google it.

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  157. Wow. I looked at the site again and I guess you can buy her products anywhere and everywhere except Fleetfarm and Home Depot.

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  158. Actress: Mandy Moore, known more for singing than acting
    Movie: A walk to remember
    character actor who played her dad: Peter Cyote
    coke-head co-star who has to get naked: Paz de la Huerta
    Director who she slept with: ????
    fallback career: she's doing more voice over work: Tangled, Tron Uprising

    her comments on nudity
    http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/05/24/mandy_moore_insists_on_no_nudity_for_now_1

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  159. What about Evan Rachel Wood? Breakout role in Thirteen.

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