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▲[[File:whoopi_starbreaker2_7946.jpg|link=Whoopi Goldberg|right|The rise, the derail, the fall.]]
The latest blockbuster which an A-List star has starred in has just hit the theaters nationwide. They've done the usual talk show circuit hyping the film. The studio's marketing department spared no expense advertising it. Then the numbers come in...
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[[Box Office Bomb|...and the film has completely and totally bombed.]]
As it turns out, the studio [[Not Screened for Critics|didn't allow advance screening of the film for critics]], and for good reason. Very few of them are giving the movie a positive review. Word of mouth is even less favorable. And as they say in Hollywood, you're only as good as your last role. Perhaps the role wasn't the right fit, or maybe the person's lack of actual acting skill has finally caught up to them. Regardless, the star's time on the A-List (or possibly even the B-List) has very much come to an end. If they're lucky, they [[Career Resurrection|may find another]] [[Star
Compare with [[Creator Killer]] for those behind the camera. Can sometimes coincide with [[Franchise Killer]] or even [[Genre Killer]] in the most extreme circumstances. Contrast with [[Star
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Aya Hirano]]'s career took a hit with the failure of ''[[Dragonaut:
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* [[Halle Berry]] both subverted this trope and later played it straight. Her role in ''[[Catwoman (
▲* [[Aya Hirano]]'s career took a hit with the failure of ''[[Dragonaut the Resonance]]'' and her own growing reputation as a "diva", forcing her managers to try to reel her in and limit her to supporting roles to save face. Hirano ultimately "left" the agency when she was caught in a scandal.
** Of course those paying attention might have seen the second fall coming... her "humble" acceptance of her Razzie also involved her waving around her Oscar and blaming everyone but herself for both the movie's suckage and her being in it.
* Elizabeth Berkley in ''[[Showgirls]]''. The film pretty much [[Creator Killer|derailed the career]] of director Paul Verhoeven, as well, though he would later recover somewhat with ''[[Starship Troopers (
* [[Thora Birch]] in ''[[Dungeons
* [[Matthew Broderick]] in the live action adaptation of ''[[Inspector Gadget (
▲* [[Halle Berry]] both subverted this trope and later played it straight. Her role in ''[[Catwoman (Film)|Catwoman]]'' killed interest in the possible ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]'' spinoff featuring her character, Jinx, and was a factor in [[Genre Killer|killing the budding sub-genre]] of female-fronted superhero films. At the same time, ''Catwoman'' [[Break the Haughty|humbled her enough]] to graciously accept the [[Golden Raspberry Award|Razzie award]] [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|for Worst Actress]] [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|in person]], saving her career from a complete meltdown; she almost wasn't in ''[[X Men the Last Stand (Film)|X Men the Last Stand]]'' movie because she was demanding a higher salary and a bigger part. However, ''Perfect Stranger'' was the death knell for Halle as a leading lady, and her subsequent filmography has been a very small series of low-profile character dramas while lending her face to a glut of cosmetics endorsements.
▲* Elizabeth Berkley in ''[[Showgirls]]''. The film pretty much [[Creator Killer|derailed the career]] of director Paul Verhoeven, as well, though he would later recover somewhat with ''[[Starship Troopers (Film)|Starship Troopers]]''.
▲* [[Thora Birch]] in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Film)|Dungeons and Dragons]]''. On top of this, [[Stage Mom|her father]] also contributed to her career's decline as he has cost her roles, and yet she refuses to dismiss him.
▲* [[Matthew Broderick]] in the live action adaptation of ''[[Inspector Gadget (Film)|Inspector Gadget]]''. This movie, in addition to the American version of ''[[Godzilla (Film)|Godzilla]]'', killed his career as a leading man in major motion pictures. He found more success in theater, most notably the stage version of ''[[The Producers]]''.
* [[Dana Carvey]] in ''[[The Master of Disguise]]'', which was actually a botched [[Career Resurrection|comeback attempt]].
* Phoebe Cates in ''[[Drop Dead Fred]]''. Before, ''[[Fast Times
* Geena Davis in ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'' and ''[[Cutthroat Island]]''. The latter also sank [[Creator Killer|the studio, director Renny Harlin's career]], her marriage (she was married to Harlin at that time), and [[Genre Killer|the entire swashbuckling adventure genre]]. (Even now, the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' films are the only such movies being produced.)
* Cuba Gooding, Jr. in ''Boat Trip''... and ''Snow Dogs''... and ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''... Really, a lot of Cuba's post-''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' output has been like this. [[Never My Fault|He attributes this to the fact that the good roles stopped coming for him once Will Smith became Hollywood's new favorite black actor.]]
** Cuba's films were the most-rented from Blockbuster at one time, till the film ''Radio'', in which he played [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]. You could say that ''Radio'' [[
* [[Lindsay Lohan]] in ''[[I Know Who Killed Me]]''. Though her out-of-control personal life was largely responsible for the downfall of her career, this film bombed at the box-office and was ruthlessly savaged by critics and audiences alike, so it's a pretty safe bet to say that even if Lindsay's life hadn't gotten so out-of-control, it's still not too likely that her career and "it girl" status would've fared much better after the critical and box-office flop of this film.
* [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Ben Affleck]] in ''[[Gigli]]''. Eventually, their careers would recover (though their relationship didn't survive, even if they gave it another chance almost a couple of decades later), but director Martin Brest wasn't as lucky (he later retired from filmmaking due to this film constantly suffering from [[Executive Meddling]]).
* [[Madonna]] has had a couple of these throughout her acting career, at least one per decade. "Shanghai Surprise" killed her '80s film career, then "Body of Evidence" killed her film career in the '90s, and finally the 2002 remake of ''Swept Away'' (directed by then-husband [[Guy Ritchie]]) killed it for good. (Going ''behind'' the camera with ''W.E.'' didn't help her much either.)
* [[Demi Moore]] in ''Striptease'' and ''[[
* Mike Myers in the [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[The Cat in
* Leelee Sobieski's first lead acting role, ''[[The Glass House]]'', was a critical and commercial flop that also had the misfortune of opening the weekend after 9/11, a time when people really didn't feel like going to the movies, less so to a weak thriller involving children in danger. Once the next "[[Hollywood Hype Machine|It Girl]]", she has been reduced to working rubbish like ''[[
* Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone in ''[[Batman and Robin (
** A slight subversion with O'Donnell in that he said he had steady work offers, including work on major TV series, since ''Batman & Robin'', but took some time off around the early aughts to raise his children. He also had the lead role in 2000's ''Vertical Limit'', which, despite being ravaged by critics, recouped its budget and pulled in a respectable $69 million domestically in what was otherwise a terrible year for Columbia Pictures.
** ''Excess Baggage'', which came out the same year as ''Batman & Robin'' and was part of a major production deal that Silverstone had with Columbia, also didn't help her career.
** It wasn't just O'Donnell and Silverstone who were hurt by this film. [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s drawing power went steadily downhill afterwards, and [[Uma Thurman]]'s star fell for years until [[Quentin Tarantino]] pulled one of his trademark [[Career Resurrection|career resurrections]] with the ''[[
* ''Staying Alive'' brought down [[John Travolta]]'s career for quite a while before he got cast in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' (his only successful roles around that time were on the ''[[Look
** A twofer: ''Staying Alive'' and ''Rocky IV'' killed [[Sylvester Stallone]]'s career as a director for twenty years.
* Tom Green starred in, wrote and directed ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'', and hasn't been seen much in theaters since.
* Pretty much ''everyone'' involved in the ''[[Sgt.
* ''Heartbeeps'' derailed [[Andy Kaufman]]'s potential film career.
* [[Peter Sellers]] in ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]''; he was actually fired midway through the shoot when he proved too unreliable and uncooperative, and while the film was finished without him it was extremely messy. This left a black mark on his reputation (particularly with American studios), and most of his subsequent films through 1974 would turn out to be flops if they even made it to theaters. He experienced a [[Career Resurrection]] after that.
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* ''Fair Game'' brought William Baldwin's career to a screeching halt and pretty much killed the film career of Cindy Crawford before it could even get started.
** Cindy has made the odd film since then, like ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186549/combined The Simian Line]'' and the Italian comedy ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269009/combined Bodyguards - Guardie del corpo]'' (where she played [[As Himself|herself]]).
* The winner ([[
* [[Whoopi Goldberg]]'s career as an A-list star faded into [[Hollywood Squares|center square]] and moderator on ''[[The View]]'' gradually, but it can be argued that the catalyst was ''[[Theodore Rex]]''. Before that, she starred in ''[[The Color Purple]]'', ''[[Ghost (
** Whoopi only completed the movie because New Line Cinema threatened to sue her if she walked off the
* [[Eddie Murphy]] has quite the reputation for being a good actor who should ''really'' fire his agent. Originally a massive comedy star in the '80s (thanks, in no small part, to being a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' cast member and barely saving the show from disaster during [[Dork Age|its 1980-1981 season]]), Murphy's initial decline began with the 1989 vanity project [[Harlem Nights]], after which the quality of his films took a nosedive. [[Roger Ebert]], in his review of ''Harlem Nights'', made an excellent point (which was, essentially, career advice) about not taking your fans for granted.
** The remake of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'' became a [[Career Resurrection]] for him in the late '90s, with many critics noting that the Buddy Love character was a giant [[Take That]] against what Murphy had been reduced to in the public eye (obnoxious and self-absorbed). Unfortunately, he quickly fell on the same track he was on before with another string of flops, the most notorious being ''[[The Adventures of Pluto Nash]]''. His voice acting in the ''[[Shrek]]'' films kept him on the B-list, and his supporting role in ''[[Dreamgirls]]'' looked to be another [[Career Resurrection]] (with many going as far to peg him as the front runner for an Academy Award), but then he backflopped with ''[[Norbit]]'' (despite being a box office success, it was savaged by critics) and the two family films ''Meet Dave'' and ''Imagine That''. Following the critical ravaging of those films, he has since declared his intention to go back to making mature comedies, starting with the [[Brett Ratner]] film ''[[Tower Heist]]''. But even this may not save him, as his first (released) film after ''[[Tower Heist]]'' was the critically mauled bomb ''A Thousand Words'', which despite having been on the shelf for four years previously was actually accompanied by a reasonably strong advertising campaign.
* [[Warren Beatty]], still riding high off of ''[[Bulworth]]'', starred in the massively colossal flop ''Town and Country'' (total budget: $90 million; total worldwide gross: just over $10 million). To date, it's his last acting role of any kind.
* [[Rachael Leigh Cook]] in ''[[Josie and
* [[Sofia Coppola]] isn't an actress by trade to begin with, and was a last minute replacement for ''[[The Godfather
* Roberto Benigni followed his Oscar-winning film ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' with a live-action version of ''[[Pinocchio]]'' with himself playing the title character (keep in mind that Benigni was in his ''fifties'' at the time), which earned a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] rating of '''0%'''. He has barely worked in film since then.
* [[Steven Seagal]] in ''[[Half Past Dead]]''. His career was already floundering after starring in a string of busts, but this is the film that dealt a huge blow to his career. Since then, he has starred in a series of low-budget [[Direct
* Mena Suvari in the 2008 ''[[Day of the Dead]]'' reboot. Prior to this, Suvari was an indie queen who made a name for herself by starring in a string of popular and well-regarded teen films (including ''[[American Pie]]'' and ''Sugar and Spice'') and the critically-acclaimed ''[[American Beauty]]''. She followed this up with several more teen films (including the 2001 flop ''The Musketeer''), culminating in the aforementioned ''Day of the Dead'', which went straight to DVD and flopped domestically. Aside from her work in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series as Aerith (which she last performed in 2007), she's only appeared on bit parts in TV shows and DTV trash.
** In the same vein, the supposed "''[[American Pie]]'' curse" caused several of the film's lead and supporting actors to suffer from derailed careers as a result of box-office flops during the early '00s. Jason Biggs rode a wave of critical acclaim for his performance as teen nerd
** The ''Pie'' curse extends to directors as well. Outside of the Weitz brothers, every director of the series has seen negative effects to their career. The second film's director didn't direct another film for eight years (which still hasn't received a release), the third film's director made one more film before disappearing, and the straight-to-DVD installments had directors with already dead careers. The directors of ''American Reunion'' should watch their asses.
* Vince Vaughn in ''[[The Dilemma]]''. In the early-mid '00s, he was one of Hollywood's top comedy actors thanks to films like ''Old School'', ''[[
* Nearly everybody involved with ''[[Torque]]'' saw their careers destroyed, the only exceptions being [[Ice Cube]] (who did ''[[Are We There Yet?]]'' and [[Rated "G" for Gangsta|became a popular family actor]]) and arguably Jamie Pressly (who had a major role on ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''). Martin Henderson, the then-up-and-coming actor who played the lead role, saw his career reduced to bit parts, [[Direct to Video|straight-to-video]] films, and a TV show that only lasted one season.
* [[Jack Black]] and [[Michael Cera]] in ''[[Year One]]''. Before this, Black was a top comedy actor and Cera was an up-and-comer with a few hits (''[[Juno]]'', ''[[Nick and
* ''[[Grease 2]]'' derailed the then-promising career of Maxwell Caulfield, who is on record as saying that it took him ten years to recover when no one would hire him after the movie. Michelle Pfeiffer's career wasn't so damaged, but it did take a beating ([[Brian De Palma]] initially refused to consider her for ''[[Scarface]]'' because of it).
* [[Amber Tamblyn]] in ''[[The Grudge]] 2'', which also [[Creator Killer|derailed the career]] of director Takashi Shimizu.
* Stephen Baldwin was an up-and-coming actor with roles in films such as ''[[Last Exit To Brooklyn]]'', ''[[Threesome]]'', ''[[Eight Seconds|8 Seconds]]'' and ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' who was looking to become a successful sibling act to his brother Alec. Then he starred in ''Bio-Dome'', which irreparably destroyed his career and possibly his sanity (seeing his later work and behavior).
** His ''Bio-Dome'' co-star, Pauly Shore, didn't fare much better. This film's critical thrashing, along with the premature cancellation of his self-titled FOX sitcom ''Pauly'', turned Shore into a running joke for most of the late '90s.
* Linda Fiorentino in ''[[Dogma]]''... or rather, in [[
* Between them, ''[[
* To quote Michael Beck: "''[[The Warriors (
* [[Megan Fox]] became the latest in a long line of "it girl" [[Ms. Fanservice|sex symbols]] due to her role in the ''[[Transformers (
** The failure of ''Jennifer's Body'' also badly damaged the Hollywood career of its writer, [[Diablo Cody]]. See [[Creator Killer]] for more.
*** Cody tried to bounce back with her screenplay for ''[[Young Adult (
** Fox's co-star [[Amanda Seyfried]] emerged from the film largely unscathed, despite having played the [[Billing Displacement|protagonist]], but she seems to be doing her absolute best to derail her own career at the moment, most notably with ''Gone'', which was slaughtered by critics, lost nearly half of its $22 million budget and generated questions about her own ability to headline movies.
* ''[[The Prodigal]]'' was intended to solidify Edmund Purdom's stature as a Hollywood leading man. Instead, it tanked at the box office, and Purdom spent the rest of his career in Europe.
* The much-maligned performance of Denise Richards in the [[James Bond]] film ''[[
** Her role in ''[[Starship Troopers (
* Dan Fogler, a Broadway award-winner who was tapped by Hollywood executives to headline several major comedy films, including ''School For Scoundrels'' and ''[[Balls of Fury]]''. The final straw, however, came with ''[[Good Luck Chuck]]'', which bombed and mostly killed his film career before he could go anywhere with it. The only films he appeared in after this were the financially-unsuccessful ''[[
* [[Mary
** However, their merchandising empire was still strong despite their failure on the big screen... until ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' debuted a couple of years after that film and ransacked their tween fanbase.
* [[Michael Chiklis]] starred as [[John Belushi]] in the 1989 biopic ''Wired'', which was universally panned by critics and bombed at the box office. He didn't work again for almost two years, and his career didn't fully recover until he landed the role of Vic Mackey in ''[[The Shield]]'', 13 years later. And he only got that role thanks to a complete image overhaul, courtesy of his wife.
* Nick Swardson's career as a leading man began and ended with the disastrous ''Bucky Larson: Born To Be Star''.
* Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci's careers were damaged with the high-budgeted flop ''[[Speed Racer (
** What's truly unfortunate is that neither of them were particularly ''bad'', nor was ''Speed Racer''
* Jon Heder's star rose with ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'' and fell not long after with ''[[School For Scoundrels]]'' (which also brought down co-stars Billy Bob Thornton and Jacinda Barrett and nearly killed director Todd Phillips' career). Most of his later projects have been barely released (''[[Mamas Boy]]'', ''Moving McAllister'') or bypassed theatres (''Woke Up Dead'').
* Christopher Reeve in ''[[Switching Channels]]''. In his autobiography, ''Still Me'', Reeve claims that this film's failure, along with ''[[Superman IV]]'', ''[[The Aviator]]'', and ''[[Street Smart]]'' (which he in part agreed to do ''Superman IV'' under the condition that he was allowed to star in this long time "pet project" of his), knocked him off the A-list in Hollywood and he would have to audition for major roles for the rest of his career. Reeve also expressed regret in making ''Switching Channels'' (Reeve took on the role because he felt that making a comedy would be a good distraction from the depression steaming from his split with his long time girlfriend, Gae Exton), believing that he had "made a fool of himself" (Reeve played decidedly against type as Kathleen Turner's hapless fiancé) and had to act as a referee for constantly feuding costars Turner and Burt Reynolds. Reeve during his career, also turned down the lead roles in ''[[American Gigolo]]'', ''The World According to Garp'', ''[[Splash]]'', ''[[Fatal Attraction]]'', ''[[Pretty Woman]]'', ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'', ''[[
* [[Meg Ryan]] had a brief moment where her career was derailed after making ''[[Against the Ropes]]'' in 2004, having not appeared in a theatrically released film until 2007's ''In the Land of Women''.
* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (
* [[
* Although not a box office failure, there's an apocryphal account [https://web.archive.org/web/20140429065501/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/4170549/Star-Wars-Anakin-Skywalker-star-Jake-Lloyd-I-will-never-act-again.html here] that the mockery [[Jake Lloyd]] received for his performance as the young Anakin Skywalker in ''[[
* Broadway actress (and Tony award nominee) Alyson Reed was set to become a major Hollywood star with the release of the film adaptation of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' in 1985, in which she played the lead woman Cassie. When the movie tanked with only lukewarm critical reception, she found herself abruptly ''un''booked for talk shows and ignored by studios and casting directors.
* ''[[The Exorcist]]'' is proof that a movie doesn’t have to be bad to fit this Trope, as it certainly was to [[Linda Blair]]. While that role got Blair a nomination for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes (winning one of the latter), the well-known horror film made her a victim of typecasting, and she found it hard to find serious work as an actress afterwards, staring in a lot of B-movies and horror parodies since then, most of them pretty bad; she was nominated for Worst Actress by the Golden Raspberry Awards for three of them. Worse, she has, to this day, gotten a lot of hate mail from fans [[Fan Dumb|who actually think she ''is'' some demon who has possessed an innocent girl]]. Despite this, Blair has ''never'' had any regrets.
* Another example of a great movie that killed the star's career was the 1931 ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]'' film. While [[Bela Lugosi]] became famous for the iconic role, he was also sadly typecast and became unable to find work playing any other role. He spent the rest of his career staring in B-movies, and worse, was often paired with [[Boris Karloff]], always getting second billing. After portraying Dracula for the final time in ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'', the rest of his career was spent making low-budget trash like ''[[Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla]]''. Whether he ever regretted doing ''Dracula'' is hard to say; while he was eventually buried wearing one of the "Dracula" cape costumes, it was not by his own request, contrary to popular belief, but rather that of his wife and son.
* The 1997 adaptation of ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' was this for [[Marlon Brando]], and it was mostly his fault. Despite acclaim for classics like ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', and ''[[The Godfather]]'', Brando was notorious for being ''horrible'' to work with on a project, and this film was him at his worst. His bad attitude and endless complaining made the film a colossal mess and a flop, leading to director/writer Richard Stanley being fired by the studio and absolutely ''nobody'' wanting to work with Brando again. The few starring roles he had after that until his death were obscure next to his previous ones.
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* [[Emeril Lagasse]] in ''[[Emeril]]''. After this sitcom tanked, he went from being one of the hottest chefs in the country to being just another face in the TV chef crowd. (It also has the misfortune of being [[Robert Urich]]'s last series.)
* [[Bette Midler]] in ''Bette'', the spectacular failure of which effectively ended her acting career. She now usually gets work performing her hits on various shows.
* [[Michael Richards]] in ''The Michael Richards Show'', the first post-''[[Seinfeld]]'' project that established the "''Seinfeld'' curse". Since it flopped in 2000, he's only done voice-over work (including in his old co-star's ''[[Bee Movie]]'') and played himself in ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''. Then his career got buried in 2006 when he decided to deal with a heckler at one of his stand-up comedy shows by [[N-Word Privileges|using the n-word]].
* Although Geena Davis was still stinging from her film disasters above, her ''[[The Geena Davis Show]]'' didn't help matters. One telling clue: usually when a show is named after its star, [[The Danza|they keep that name in the show]] (Emeril played "Emeril" in ''Emeril'' and Bette played "Bette" in ''[[Bette]],'' for example.) Despite being ''The
* ''[[The Paul Reiser Show]]'' promptly bombed as soon as it aired, and NBC cancelled it after two episodes. Considering he has done nothing noteworthy since ''[[Mad About You]]'' came to an end over a decade ago, this likely signals the end of Paul Reiser's on-screen career.▼
▲* Although Geena Davis was still stinging from her film disasters above, her ''The Geena Davis Show'' didn't help matters. One telling clue: usually when a show is named after its star, [[The Danza|they keep that name in the show]] (Emeril played "Emeril" in ''Emeril'' and Bette played "Bette" in ''Bette,'' for example.) Despite being ''The GEENA DAVIS Show,'' Geena Davis's character was named "Teddie".
* [[Lucille Ball]], the star of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', conceived of the idea for, produced and acted in another primetime comedy series, ''Life With Lucy'' (no relation to Ball's [[Star
▲* ''The Paul Reiser Show'' promptly bombed as soon as it aired, and NBC cancelled it after two episodes. Considering he has done nothing noteworthy since ''[[Mad About You]]'' came to an end over a decade ago, this likely signals the end of Paul Reiser's on-screen career.
* Dan Fogler's attempt to jump into TV after his film career died was the maligned [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] "men in trouble" "comedy" ''[[Man Up!]]'' It lasted for eight episodes, and there was no word of Fogler landing on a new pilot in the subsequent development season.▼
▲* [[Lucille Ball]], the star of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', conceived of the idea for, produced and acted in another primetime comedy series, ''Life With Lucy'' (no relation to Ball's [[Star Making Role]]) on [[ABC]] in the 80's. Ball was given complete creative control over the series - which meant that she tried to replicate ''[[I Love Lucy]]'''s success in the 50's for an 80's crowd. Suffice to say, the attempt didn't work, and the resulting series (about a widow who goes to work at a hardware store) was painfully unfunny and cringe-inducing to watch (at least partially because Lucy was trying to duplicate her famous slapstick comedy, which didn't work nearly as well for her as it did when she was younger). The show flopped on arrival, and its failure made Ball stop working on any more projects.
* [[Wanda Sykes]]'s once-strong career as a comedienne and actress fell apart after the failure of her talk show ''[[The Wanda Sykes Show]]''. It was said that her openness about her lesbianism and her inability to appeal to Middle America blackballed her from ever heading a major production again. Her post-cancellation work has been mostly in smaller theatrical projects in recent years.▼
▲* Dan Fogler's attempt to jump into TV after his film career died was the maligned [[ABC]] "men in trouble" "comedy" ''Man Up!'' It lasted for eight episodes, and there was no word of Fogler landing on a new pilot in the subsequent development season.
▲* Wanda Sykes's once-strong career as a comedienne and actress fell apart after the failure of her talk show ''The Wanda Sykes Show''. It was said that her openness about her lesbianism and her inability to appeal to Middle America blackballed her from ever heading a major production again. Her post-cancellation work has been mostly in smaller theatrical projects in recent years.
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