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Topically, Michael Jackson. Many people suspected his motives towards children, but doing the Martin Bashir interview (where he admitted sleeping in the same bed as underage male guests) had to be one of the most ill-judged career moves of modern times- I hear it may now even come into play in the investigation of this most recent compaint against him.

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Topically, Michael Jackson. Many people suspected his motives towards children, but doing the Martin Bashir interview (where he admitted sleeping in the same bed as underage male guests) had to be one of the most ill-judged career moves of modern times- I hear it may now even come into play in the investigation of this most recent compaint against him.
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I'm gonna say MJ too.  LOL, you can mention his name in any topic now. Hehehe.

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Established musicians who try to act.....
Neil Diamond, Phil Collins, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Diana Ross, Peter Frampton (practically KILLED his career after the Sgt. Pepper movie), The Bee Gees, Roger Daltry, KISS, Michael Jackson, Sheena Easton, Lance Bass, Britney Spears (er um shes not exactly a musician), Eminem (not a exactly a musician either)


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IMO the only people to have ever made a successful crossover are Cher, Vanessa Williams and maybe MeatLoaf
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Striesand has excelled in both fields and is also a writer/director.  

Oooh what about Russell Crowe !!  I saw him in concert 2 years ago and he can actually sing - and writes a good ballad too.


Bad career decisions - what about the crossover from acting/singing - to politics ?  Even worse - here we have footballers becoming TV hosts and politicians !!!!!

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Then there is Suzanne Summers, who left the #1 comedy on TV to star in "ThighMaster" comercials.  
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Suzzane Summers yeah that wasn't a good career move leaving "Three's Company" like she did but she did good on "Step By Step" in the early to mid 90's period.

David Caruso leaving NYPD Blue like he did was a mistake. He even admits it was a bad mistake. He got a second chance though with "CSI Miami" though. Many actors don't get a second chance like he did though.

I think Eriq Lasalle leaving ER was a mistake.  

Kim Delaney leaving "NYPD Blue" was a mistake. She came back though.

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Hi, I'm Terence Trent D'Arby.  You might remember me as the hottest new artist of 1987.  After my platinum debut, I decided to follow it up with records of dizzyingly disgusting pretensiousness and ego, much like Prince, except I didn't establish the fifteen years of good music first.
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He has a 31-song greatest hits album, did you know that?  How the heck did he come up with 31 freaking hits?  He was a one-hit wonder as far as I know, and even that song sucked.

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Hi.  You might remember that I changed my name to a symbol in 1993.  It probably wasn't a great career move, but at that point I had enough cash to buy Ferraris for every person in Minneapolis, so what did I care?
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Well,Prince your career is the same as Michael Jackson! >:(

Howard

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Established musicians who try to act.....
Neil Diamond, Phil Collins, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Diana Ross, Peter Frampton (practically KILLED his career after the Sgt. Pepper movie), The Bee Gees, Roger Daltry, KISS, Michael Jackson, Sheena Easton, Lance Bass, Britney Spears (er um shes not exactly a musician), Eminem (not a exactly a musician either)

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I'd agree with all of those except Bon Jovi. He's not the greatest actor, but the fact that he's actually made quite a few films now and the others have made hardly any would suggest that he's at least okay.

Bad career decisions: Michael Jordan giving up basketball to play baseball. Worst. Decision. Ever.

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I'd agree with all of those except Bon Jovi. He's not the greatest actor, but the fact that he's actually made quite a few films now and the others have made hardly any would suggest that he's at least okay.End Quote

true, but how many of his movies can most people name off the top of their head?  Me, none.

Quoting:Bad career decisions: Michael Jordan giving up basketball to play baseball. Worst. Decision. Ever.
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actually, I think Jordan lost a lot of respect when he retired to a huge ovation, then came back to a huge welcome, then retired again, then came back again, then retired again, and so on and so on... ::)

He is old and a former star (much like Michael Jackson), and he can't accept the fact he's not in the spotlight anymore.

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Cher
Wow, look at this Oscar.  This is fabulous.  And I'm back on the radio with "Turn Back Time."  My career hasn't been this high since the early 70's.  I guess it couldn't hurt to do a few INFOMERCIALS...

Robert Downey Jr.
In just a few short years, I've gone from peripheral Brat Pack member to a respected actor with an Oscar nomination for my portrayal of Charlie Chaplin!  I think I'm going to celebrate by doing my first line of COKE...

Vanilla Ice
Hmm, my debut is one of the best-selling rap records ever, but I'm getting blasted by the press for being a pop sell-out.  How can I win over the critics while keeping my teenage fanbase?  I know!  I'll wear dreads and re-style myself as a pot-smoking Cypress Hill-style gangsta rapper!
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I agree!  Hee Hee Heee Hee ;D

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But which cross-over are you talking about?

If you ask Meat Loaf (and yes, he spells it as 2 words) he says he is an actor that took up singing.  But because of his spotty on-screen acting career (he did a lot of small stage acting for many years - by his own choice) most people think of him as a singer.

He did a lot of on and off Broadway for many years (including of course "Rocky Horror", before he decided to try singing.  When he started, everybody laughed saying "You are an actor, not a singer".

Then years later when he tried to go back to acting full-time, he was told "What are you doing, you are a singer, not an actor".

Marvin Lee Aday (his real name) started in musicals, so him going to singing or acting is still a continuation of his career.  I think his stupidest moves though were turning down the lead in "Phantom Of The Opera" and turning down the lead singing position in Foreigner.

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Bad career decisions: Michael Jordan giving up basketball to play baseball. Worst. Decision. Ever.
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ummm...MJ didn't really have a choice.  It was either that or get in some deep trouble for gambling.  At least, that's what "sources" that shall remain nameless have said. ;)

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true, but how many of his movies can most people name off the top of their head?  Me, none.
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Maybe so, but I don't think it's been a necessarily bad career decision because even though he hasn't made anything particularly memorable, it hasn't actually effected his career as a musician either, so I stand by my original post that Bon Jovi's move into acting wasn't that bad a move. I also feel that, apart from Vampires: Los Muertos, he's picked the roles he has played rather well because they haven't required him to do much more than just stand around and look good. Now, if he'd given up music to become an actor full time, that may have been a different story. Jordan's decision on the other hand was simply bad.