Today's Blind Items- He Kept Her Prisoner
I love this actor. Well, I love his work. No one actually loves him as a person, except for himself. He loves himself. He thinks the whole world should bow down to him because he loves himself that much. He thinks he is the biggest star in the world and believes that he is the best actor in the world when he is actually lucky to find work. The guy turned down a $10M paycheck for a sequel because he thought he was too good for it. What did he do instead? Nothing because no one wants to work with him. He has been in some of the most iconic movies of all-time. Yes, iconic. Some of them were small parts, but he has been in them. He has been the lead in a few of them too. It was not that long ago that his actress girlfriend finally managed to free herself from him. It was not that she broke free, but rather he thought he could do better and forced the actress to leave after damaging her for almost a decade. They were not married but they might as well have been. When she went into the relationship she was about A list. A certain genre for sure, but she could get leads in others besides the genre. He was close to A+ list when they started dating. Immediately he controlled her and told her what she could do and what she couldn't. She saw her career nose dive because she could never work in something bigger than what he was working in and his career started to go down so he pushed her down even faster and further. Forget going out. She was in the house or with him. No exceptions. She went from a vibrant sexy woman to a shell who was scared of her own shadow. To see her now and starting to live again is amazing. She will never be the same after a decade of verbal abuse and threats and just making her feel like she was worthless. He would do it in private and in public. In public he would do it with that quirky little smile and make it seem like she was an idiot or a klutz and then really take it out on her at home. She was terrified of him and terrified of leaving and he had her convinced that she was ugly and that is why she was not getting parts. The thing is when he broke up with her because he liked some 18 year old she begged to stay and begged to be with him. That is how much he brainwashed her.
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I know this isn't Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes but the shoe could certainly fit so maybe something similar?
Johnny Depp?
my 1st thought was Al Pacino but Beverly left awhile ago..i'll keep reading the BI( lol )
That's exactly what I thought! Travolta's married and it's more than a decade...
& Jack Nicholson...the public abuse?
So many jerks but none fit (I'm looking at you, Josh Brolin).
Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant?
Billy crudup \ Mary Louise Parker
Young girl was Claire Danes
John cusak and neve campbell
Jim Carrey
Crudup certainly was a POS.
Harrison Ford first came to mind what with iconic movies and small roles in iconic movies (American Graffiti), but nothing else fits.
Johnny Depp/Vanessa Paradis almost fits, but not quite.
Matt LeBlanc and his longterm girlfriend recently broke up. He would have been A+ (Friends) when they started dating. But I don't see the iconic movie roles part fitting.
Oh man, I am stumped!
Don't know about the Billy Crudup/MLP thing - they broke up 12 years ago, and the timelines don't quite work.
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas
how's he A+ though -not from "Almost Famous"
but they're still close
John Cusack could work
hahaha @Brin!
they were married
The John Cusack guess is pretty good @snookiemonster. I can see him turning down Hot Tub Time Machine 2, but he was only with Neve five years. But Enty never is great on getting details correct.
Thinking big name, big ego...hmm..Nicholson and pachino..but not sure of the actress, unless this goes back in time. Beatty went thru a lot of actresses..wm hurt was .known as an abusive guy...
Just coming here to say Jim Carrey. @backagain beat me to it! He turned down Mask 2 which offered $10M.
Joe Pesci and Angie Everheart. The sequal her turned down---Home Alone.
Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern & Angelina Jolie---( i know,i know-i gotta reread the Blind,I'm just thinking of creeps to women like Russell Crow)
Russell C. doesn't deserve me correcting my spelling of his last name
John Cusack and Neve Campbell totally fit this. They fit the ratings back then, her genre being teen horror, he fits the rating now of a former A/A+ lister who does not find real work by comparison. He has been in iconic movies, both bit and lead parts, and he is known as a douche.
@BA I read it as A+ when they got together. MLP/Crudup got together around 1996 and he was coming off woody Allen's "everyone says I love You/ Sleepers(which was a big movie) / inventing the Abbots(lead).
If Ryan Reynolds is current A+ now here!!I can grasp Crudup being so late 90s/ 2000. He is a massive talent. And yes, an absolute p- ---:(
I think Derek Harvey may have gotten it!! Pesci has been in loads of iconic movies - some as the headliner, some as as supporting actor. He was with Angie Everhart for 8 years.
This sounds like the winner!
Pesci sounds like it..however can he think so much of himself? Just waiting for central casting to say 'we need some gangster types'..
They only stay together 7 years together
Angie and Joe were together 1 year(2007-2008) per wiki. My maths sucks- but that doesn't sound like almost a decade.
*math
timing's waaay off on cusack/campbell
Plus, he's gay and has been with the same man for more than a decade.
I think Cusack/Campbell fits best.
Yea,i was thinking same thing Tricia & in what genre was Angie ever 'A' even IN ENTY's world. hahaha
they were together for almost 8 yrs before getting engaged and then quickly breaking up
horror and action movies.
I don't know about Pesci behind closed doors but he doesn't have a rep as a douche or as someone people don't want to work with in general.
Is Ed Norton possible? He fits the douche no one wants to work with and the big/small/some iconic roles thing. I don't know if he's a prick with women and I have no idea if he has a long-term girlfriend he abused before he got married. I don't think he's been married that long.
*had
i thought so too but Neve was married twice before & when she was w/john some of her most popular movies came out-Wild Things just came out/54/Three to Tango/Scream 3/drowning mona/ & more... timing's off
Cusack and Neve only dated 4 years
he was with Selma Hayek for awhile but didnt want to marry her
** that's Salma's lil' sister... derp
Oh, and while I'm tossing Norton into the fray - I love the Cusack guess. He's totally a douche to work with and a prick with women. Uber-douche Jeremy Piven used to be his wingman.
Norton fits in terms of his - control issues , but he never turned down a huge sequel to my knowledge, and nobody put baby Selma in a corner.I saw them in action- no way no how.
William Hurt/Marlee Matlin
they were together only 4-5 yrs.
Enty's revealed something almost identical to this before as John Cusack / Neve Campbell:
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2013/12/blind-items-revealed-1203.html
I thought about him---she was obviously 'A' for her genre & he Does have an ego but were they together that long & vibrant sexy woman yeah during "Children Of A Lesser God" to shadow???
Thanks @Dave S.
And with "Hot Tub Movie 2" all over the tv on ads every hour
A lot of pricks to choose from...Damn! Some damn good sleuthing Dave S.Sounds he got what he deserved in The Grifters though I don't think this movie fits the timeframe.
No,I know it isn't them- just saying she was the farthest thing from a wallflower I'd ever seen in his presence lol
& Cusack's a douche but enty's clues are way off this time then re: Neve C.
Just a guess:!Harrison Ford/Calista Flockhart
i know @tricia I wasn't refuting, I was just adding to your comment : )
yea, @ettacettera threw Hurt's name in there above cuz he was such an abuser
except they're married
John Cusack / Neve Campbell or Nicholson/Boyle
Not Ed Norton. married 2012 to Canadian producer (now 40 yrs old) and has a child with her. Who is dating 18 yr old at the moment?
Enty didn't say foreign born either.
This is who I was thinking of as well: Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.
I always got the impression TC bigged Katie up and made her think she's way more talented and a bigger star than she actually is
I saw that on wiki too - I did a little digging and found out they were together for a looong time. Then they were engaged for a year and before splitting.
I thought Jeff Goldblum for this but timelines and the sequel turn down really don't add up.
Norton, turned down Hulk?
I thought I saw Nic Cage and Patricia Arquette as guesses before, but I don't see them now?
Exactly, plus Tom produces his own stuff. He always has work and top of the line work at that.
That was from a different blind today. The one about the actress with the husband who called her superhero names and liked her to be tied up so he could rescue her.
But he did Home Alone 2.
I dunno, Psycho, some of it fits for Ford. It could be the years he was with Julia Ormond (and married to Melissa Matheson) but wouldn't it have mentioned that she was his mistress rather than a regular girlfriend?
cusack and neve campbell
what about sean penn and robin wright?
But not the third
Admittedly, I've only read it one time, but my first though was Mickey Rourke and Carre Otis. The ratings for her may not fit, but I remember her being a very big thing back in the day.
Diane lane and brolin
orlando bloom and Kate bosworth
Melanie and Antonio?
Jack Nicholson and Angelica Huston
and Neve Campbell was A in horror, and worked in other films. Cusack turned down Hot Tub Time Machine 2. I think we have a winner
they were together 5 years and no one evahh considered her a great actress
and she never had a genre
Tom Cruised
Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson? Enty's hinted there was abuse in the relationship, and he's been in lots of films.
Yes to this guess, and I also feel like I've read this very blind here before.
also this one: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2012/07/blind-items-revealed-2312.html
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Tim Burton
Together for a decade but not married. That eliminates Antonio and Melanie and Mickey and Carrie. Didn't Jack and Anjelica end it ages ago?
Burton and Helena weren't married but he's not an actor. Depp and Vanessa but does she act? I'd think his new marriage would be mentioned as well.
This is so specific it should be easy but I can't think of anyone.
Cusack and Jodi Lyn Okeefe
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