What Really Happened to Demi Moore's Career?

Once upon a time, Demi Moore sat at the top of the A-list. She was one of the biggest box office stars ever. Not just female. Ever. What happened? I mean she didn't even disfigure her face. She got a little to skinny, but a few donuts could fix that, and she does deserve to lose a nipple for what she did to The Scarlet Letter. Other than that...

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by Anonymousreply 149September 29, 2019 1:56 PM

Demi got married had three kids in a row and let her then-husband Bruce Willis make the money as an movie action star. I think Demi stayed away from the movies too long. I have always liked her and wish she would come back to the movies in a nice grown-up drama.

by Anonymousreply 1July 6, 2015 2:26 AM

I like her too, but heard she's a moron.

by Anonymousreply 2July 6, 2015 2:26 AM

she was the female Tom Cruise. Unlike Tom though, Demi didn't have enough big hits to sustain a career (Tom working with Spielberg, etc). She's also a terrible actress.

by Anonymousreply 5July 6, 2015 3:15 AM

I wonder what Jules Van Patten is up to these days. "St. Elmo's Fire" needs a where are they now.

by Anonymousreply 6July 6, 2015 3:26 AM

I knew the writing was on the wall when a Brit comedian on a red carpet asked her: "If it were tasteful and integral to the script, would you consider keeping your clothes on in a movie?"

She seemed unaware that mystique is an important feature in a movie star, particularly a female movie star.

by Anonymousreply 7July 6, 2015 3:38 AM

She got upstaged by a younger, fresher star.

by Anonymousreply 8July 6, 2015 3:43 AM

She had limited range and took roles for the highest paycheck - which is eventually going to back fire in some really shitty films.

Half of her fame was being the other half of Bruce Willis, who was riding high in the late 80s/early 90s. They were a powerful couple.

Let me ask - what role would she be good in? She's 50 acting like she's 30.

by Anonymousreply 9July 6, 2015 3:45 AM

She doesn't seem all that unhappy to me. Sure, she's had a lot of cosmetic surgery, but those who can afford it, have it. I don't really see her penchant for young men as being any more of a negative than we old guys chasing young boys and little girls. Our entire system, not just the show business part, is screwed up. Reporter will take whatever position they feel will rattle the mentally limited.

by Anonymousreply 10July 6, 2015 3:53 AM

Maybe she went crazy, but it was kept out of the media?

She had a massive breakdown a few years ago after Ashton left her, but afaik that kind of crazy doesn't just come out of nowhere. So maybe she's been insane for years, but it was successfully covered up until she came back in the Charlie's Angels movie?

by Anonymousreply 11July 6, 2015 3:57 AM

She chose bad projects. There didn't seem to be any target audience for her choices. She wasn't appealing to fraus and homely women like Meg, Julia and Sandra. Instead she got naked for a big paycheck in that Showgirls 2 trash show she put out, posed naked while pregnant and talked about herself with more self affirmation than Jada Pinckett Smith. None of that is Frau friendly.

by Anonymousreply 12July 6, 2015 4:02 AM

Gotta admit she came a long way from the trailer park. Girl was raking in some big dollars.

by Anonymousreply 13July 6, 2015 4:03 AM

I remember she kept claiming those tits were real and they just got "better" with each pregnancy lol...then she was offered big bucks to take it off in some movie where she plays a stripper, those tits were so fake and ugly....

I enjoyed her in Indecent proposal.

by Anonymousreply 15July 6, 2015 4:24 AM

R7 makes a good point. I think the leaked pics probably cost Jennifer Lawrence about 10 million should her career ever start to falter. Some pervy producer woulda paid top dollar to show the world those titties. Now everyone's seen them for free.

by Anonymousreply 16July 6, 2015 4:45 AM

She lost a hip. How can anyone work without a hip?

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by Anonymousreply 17July 6, 2015 4:50 AM

She became the highest paid actress in Hollywood for striptease. I remember there was tons of criticism about the irony of earning so much to play a stripper. She got 12.5 million (18.6 in today's dollars). The movie flopped critically and commercially.

For reference, around the same time Julia got 10.5 million (about 16 today)for Mary Reilly, Jodie got 9 million (almost 14 today)for Contact and Sandra got 10 million for Speed 2.

by Anonymousreply 18July 6, 2015 4:51 AM

Julia also got 12 for My Best Friend's Wedding. Then left Demi in the dust from there on.

by Anonymousreply 20July 6, 2015 4:54 AM

She looks great but apparently the break-up with Ashton Kutcher devastated her and she's been a mess since.

by Anonymousreply 21July 6, 2015 4:54 AM

I Liked her until she was grinding in Lenny Kravitz face at some party,and he was completely disinterested. It reeked of desperation,a la Madge.

by Anonymousreply 22July 6, 2015 4:55 AM

She moved to Crazy Town when she discovered young cock eventually wants younger, tighter pussy.

by Anonymousreply 23July 6, 2015 4:56 AM

i may be in the minority, but I think that Demi is a better than average actor within her niche. She is quite capable of injecting pathos and vulnerability into a role and that juxtaposed with her sultry smokey voice can be very attractive. I don't remember ever laughing at her dialog in any of her films(I did not see Striptease) which is more than I can say for Julia. In my opinion she was a far better actor than Sandra Bullock. I have yet to see SB project sensuality or chemistry with a costar in any of her films. Even in some of her lesser work, such as Mortal Thoughts or The Butcher's Wife, she is undeniably sensual and appealing without seeming to try to be.

by Anonymousreply 24July 6, 2015 5:00 AM

She turned off her frau audience when she got implants and did the stripper movie.

by Anonymousreply 26July 6, 2015 5:13 AM

I neither like nor dislike her but what I've heard is that she had major drug issues, was actually sucking on cans of whipped cream to get high. It got bad enough that those Adorable girls of hers left home.

Funny story I remember from years ago was after Demi had Scout she was being interviewed and the interviewer inquired about her new baby, asked what name they'd given it.

"Scout...........," said Demi with great pride.

"Oh," countered the interviewer,"like in To Kill A Mockingbird."

"You've heard of it ?, " asked Demi.

"Well, it's a very famous book & movie."

(Not to be outdone) "Not a lot of people know that it was a book."

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by Anonymousreply 27July 6, 2015 5:23 AM

Oh my that picture 27. That there is a girl that had not learned to use her goods yet. Explains the urge to be hot even at granny age

by Anonymousreply 28July 6, 2015 5:26 AM

[quote] It got bad enough that those Adorable girls of hers left home.

Which ones?

by Anonymousreply 29July 6, 2015 5:26 AM

Omg at her teeth in R27's pic! I wonder how old she was there?

by Anonymousreply 30July 6, 2015 5:33 AM

Can't imagine that she was ever a frau favorite. Aside from Ghost, what other fray-bait movies has she done?

by Anonymousreply 31July 6, 2015 5:54 AM

Her personality was never in line with fraus. She was too overly confident and sexual. Fraus turned to the sweeter fare.

by Anonymousreply 33July 6, 2015 5:59 AM

Indecent Proposal was a huge hit for her.

by Anonymousreply 34July 6, 2015 6:03 AM

She had a big, monstrous beaver.

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by Anonymousreply 35July 6, 2015 6:09 AM

r35 That can't be real!!?? Is it?

I like Demi. I think she is a capable actress. She was excellent in About Last Night and Mortal Thoughts. The negative press over Striptease and too many flops did her in. But I think she was worthy of a comeback but I think that time has expired.

by Anonymousreply 36July 6, 2015 6:16 AM

Demi in 1984. Don't try to tell me she didn't know very early on "how to use the goods". Not even to mention the Oui magazine layout of a couple years earlier.

Thirty years is a long time for an adult woman. Especially with the drug and mental/emotional issues added on.

And I'm in the camp who think she was a better actress then most credit her for. "A Few Good Men" shows what she could do when the role wasn't just a means to show her naked.

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by Anonymousreply 37July 6, 2015 6:28 AM

R33 is right, and on the other end of the spectrum more acclaimed filmmakers didn't want to cast her because she wasn't taken seriously (like other huge 90s stars like Meg Ryan, Whoopi G, Sharon Stone)... perhaps they were right not to, as well, but it meant a lot more bombs and crappy no-name-directed films on her resume. That, coupled with the craziness, recreational drugs, tabloid fodder, and big studio flops, not to mention a new wave of more audience (frau?)-friendly starlets (Roberts, Bullock, Kidman, etc.) and her days were always numbered

She had the occasional good performance back then, but talent-wise she's truly kind of blossomed in recent years. Absolutely wonderful and surprisingly moving as the teenage-acting forty something babysitter on Will & Grace ("...Everybody outgrows me"), terrific as Parker Posey's embittered, long suffering sister in Happy Tears, and really quite hysterical as an unstable and insecure 2nd wife at passive-aggressive war with Ellen Barkin in Sundance film Another Happy Day. She even held her own opposite the big cast of Margin Call. Still, it's a little late for her to make anything of her new found skill and versatility.

by Anonymousreply 38July 6, 2015 11:38 AM

R7, izzat the same humoorbaby who asked Hugh Grant to comment on the observation that when Grant enters a scene it's as if a chair has been thrown into the room.

Grant: "Fuck you!!"

by Anonymousreply 39July 6, 2015 12:37 PM

I was getting a massage in Mexico a couple years ago. During it, he talked about meeting DM. She invited him to her hotel room and as he went down on her, she halted it just before she came. I think this sums up her career.

by Anonymousreply 40July 6, 2015 12:56 PM

She made that Flawless movie with Michael Caine about stealing diamonds, and it was shocking how much she had aged.

I think it was supposed to transition her into more age appropriate roles, but it didn't work.

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by Anonymousreply 41July 6, 2015 1:35 PM

In the E! True Hollywood story about Demi, I recall seeing a clip of an old 80s interview where she said something like “I don’t belong in any ‘Brat Pack’!”. I would love to find this (apparently it was re-aired in January because of all the publicity surrounding Demi’s hospitalization, but I didn’t catch it then).

Demi certainly was not flattered by the Brat Pack label, and rightfully so. She was so above the rest of those mediocre, unappealing actors in the group. Her career would have gone down the tubes if she stayed with Estevez (Why she ever agreed to do a piece of crap like “Wisdom” after the excellent “About Last Night” is baffling. Maybe she did it as a favor to him?).

I’ve been reading a lot about Demi lately and found an interview where she (sort of) explained why she left Hollywood. She felt she did a good job in G.I. Jane, but it was in the midst of the Striptease backlash and the critics wouldn’t let her win. She lost her drive after being torn apart like that. It’s on record that she turned down a lot of movie offers during her semi-retirement.

If you look at the box office numbers for her last 2 big-budget movies, they both actually did GOOD for movies toplined by females. Striptease made $113 million and G.I. Jane made $98 million. I mean Nicole Kidman’s vehicles made way less than that, yet she kept getting praise even with flop after flop. But she’s someone with a good reputation. Demi, not so much. She collected a lot of enemies with her diva-like behavior (like demanding 2 planes for her and her entourage) and made some really stupid career choices (like changing the ending of The Scarlet Letter and figuring that no one noticed. I guess since Demi was a high school dropout.

by Anonymousreply 42July 6, 2015 1:40 PM

Humorless? As in takes herself too seriously. Sandra Bullock, for one, is more like a kid sister with whom you can kid around on and off the set. Demi is intense and less self-confident.

by Anonymousreply 43July 6, 2015 2:15 PM

She married Ashton Kuchar that's what happened.

by Anonymousreply 44July 6, 2015 2:25 PM

Back to back flops in Striptease and GI Jane did her in. What was odd was that she seemed really poised for a comeback in 2003 with all the publicity from Charlie's Angels 2 and the Ashton relationship, yet she didn't capitalize on it at all.

by Anonymousreply 45July 6, 2015 2:43 PM

Terrible actress but quite lovely when young. Unstable excessive demanding diva with asshole husband and not as smart as Cameron Diaz in her prime, if you catch my drift. Tacky person trying to be Audrey Hepburn in middle age. Whats to like.

by Anonymousreply 46July 6, 2015 3:24 PM

It was a terrible career decision to move to Idaho and raise kids.

by Anonymousreply 47July 6, 2015 3:58 PM

[quote] It was a terrible career decision to move to Idaho and raise kids.

Again her mom was sick and slowly dying.

She put career on hold and moved to Idaho to take care of her.

At the very least her kids grew up in a non-hollywood environment and turned out pretty well.

by Anonymousreply 48July 6, 2015 4:06 PM

She just isn't a great actress. Her youth made her popular. But then she posed nude pregnant and that weirded people out about her and then she hooked up with a way too young guy, weirding people out further. A lot of people thing old ladies having sex with young guys is somewhat pedo. It's not normal behavior. And she was married to Bruce Willis and then moved in with Ashton soon after, making people think she was possibly cheating with the youngster. So it's all a combination of seedy lifestyle combined with terrible movies and acting that did her in.

by Anonymousreply 49July 6, 2015 4:13 PM

[quote]At the very least her kids grew up in a non-hollywood environment and turned out pretty well.

Are you kidding? Her kids are all vapid famewhores with no talent. They're also uneducated and appear to have no desire to work for a living and never will. Demi and Bruce will be shelling out tons of $$$ for the rest of their lives to support those three.

by Anonymousreply 50July 6, 2015 4:23 PM

I don't think Demi Moore put her career on hold to move to Idaho and take care of her dying mother. Her mother lived in Farmington, New Mexico, and that's where she died in 1998. Moore and her mother had a brief reconciliation before her mother's death and they were together when she died. I do not criticize Moore for being estranged from her alcoholic addict mother, who was such a handful she burned down a historic Victorian home in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

It seems more likely Moore and Willis decided to move their family to a small town in Idaho so their kids could be raised away from Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 51July 6, 2015 4:26 PM

[quote]i may be in the minority, but I think that Demi is a better than average actor within her niche. Have you seen her in "Half Light"?

by Anonymousreply 52July 6, 2015 4:27 PM

Let me( R52) try that again:

[quote]i may be in the minority, but I think that Demi is a better than average actor within her niche.

Have you seen her in "Half Light"?

by Anonymousreply 53July 6, 2015 4:31 PM

That part of Idaho is beautiful but isn't mainly a white supremacist compound? I remember blind items about a racist actor who was bankrolling racist groups and I just assumed it was Bruce's bald and smirking ass.

by Anonymousreply 54July 6, 2015 4:35 PM

A friend was born and raised in Idaho and got out as soon as he was old enough to leave. It is the home of many radical survivalist groups, although it is some of the most gorgeous country I've ever spent time in. I was an avid backpacker and hiked much of Northern Idaho. The Snake River Valley is especially beautiful.

I hadn't read about an actor bankrolling racist groups but it wouldn't surprise me to find out Bruce Willis was doing that. I've never had a good feeling about him. When he and his family were living in Idaho, he created the community as he wanted it to be. If he decided he was missing something in the town, he went out and built it to suit himself. I'm not quite sure how that jibes with removing your children from Hollywood so they're not exposed to negative influences there.

by Anonymousreply 55July 6, 2015 4:55 PM

I think a big part of her problem is that there aren't a lot of roles for women her age. There are more roles for men than women. Actors often get paired with much younger actresses on screen.

For older actresses to work they have to be very popular, very good, and or very good at Hollywood politics. Demi took a break and left Hollywood at the height of her fame, that cost her in terms popularity. She wasn't able to schmooz from Idaho, so that cost her in terms of connections. Her movies weren't well reviewed and she made her body and workouts the focus of her career with Striptease and GI Jane, so she isn't considered very good.

by Anonymousreply 56July 6, 2015 6:32 PM

I'm willing to cut her a bit of slack, mainly because I hate Assface Kuntcher with the heat of 1000 fires. He really fucked her over, and very publicly. I hope he and his talentless milk-cow are very happy together, at least until the inevitable divorce.

by Anonymousreply 57July 6, 2015 6:40 PM

i always liked her. and she's quite good in the right part (mortal thoughts is a great movie, IMHO)

by Anonymousreply 58July 6, 2015 6:52 PM

R9 has it exactly right .....no need to repeat it. Took the biggest paychecks available rather than looking for better projects. And tried to cash in on her celebrity (nude on Vanity Fair, etc) rather than talent.

by Anonymousreply 59July 6, 2015 6:54 PM

The Demi bush pic that was posted earlier from Oui Magazine was altered by them to hide the details of her vagina. Outakes from the same photo shoot appeared in a foreign edition of Penthouse, and while her vag was still very hairy, you could see labia somewhat in them. She has claimed to have been both 16 or 17 in these photos, but she definitely is at least 17 because she is wearing her wedding ring and she married Freddy Moore in February 1980 at age 17. So if she was underage, it wasn't by much.

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by Anonymousreply 61July 6, 2015 8:26 PM

As we've been discussing in the Meg Ryan thread, if you trade on your looks and cuteness as a career choice, then you're pretty much screwed when you get older especially once you go the plastic surgery route. But if you couple that with some bad publicity, then you're really screwed. If you lose people's general good will toward you (like Meg after her affair with Russel Crowe and like Demi after her flops), then you don't even get to be a second or third choice when studios are casting their movies. Look how lucky Sandra was to have been a second or third choice for that football movie, the proposal and gravity. Speaking of which, Sandra has been hitting the botox pretty hard lately but most media haven't gotten to the point of dissing her like they do Nicole.

by Anonymousreply 62July 6, 2015 8:26 PM

You know, she had her moment, and she's still famous. She was pretty, and she was lucky. She has little talent, and as others have pointed out, she's crazy and has substance abuse issues, like her mom.

by Anonymousreply 63July 6, 2015 8:27 PM

[quote]seems more likely Moore and Willis decided to move their family to a small town in Idaho so their kids could be raised away from Hollywood.

Ironic, since Hollywood now can't rid itself of those three.

by Anonymousreply 64July 6, 2015 8:28 PM

Maybe they did Hollywood a huge favor, R64.

by Anonymousreply 65July 6, 2015 8:40 PM

They lived in the southern half of Idaho, in Hailey near Sun Valley. The militias and racists are in the northern part of the state. I never heard anything bad about the family when they lived there. Bruce opened a really popular bar.

by Anonymousreply 66July 6, 2015 8:52 PM

At least she had a career before she went crazy.

by Anonymousreply 67July 6, 2015 8:53 PM

She did a few good films and was good in them. No, she's not the best actress, but neither is she a Heather Graham who gives line readings like she doesn't understand what she's saying.

by Anonymousreply 68July 6, 2015 9:28 PM

These things happened:

Whippets

Anorexia

Mother was a truck stop hooker, maybe Demi was too

Kabbalah

She is one of the world's leading specialist doll collectors and built an entire house for them when married to Bruce

She made trashy, stupid movies that dated very quickly

Selfies of herself in a bikini in the bathroom in her 50's

In short, she comes over as a dumb, mentally unstable, very needy mess. Pretty, though.

by Anonymousreply 69July 6, 2015 10:32 PM

Add 'We're No Angels' to that list ^

by Anonymousreply 70July 6, 2015 10:39 PM

She was an expert at publicity but not at acting.

by Anonymousreply 71July 6, 2015 10:41 PM

No doubt she's likely had substance abuse problems; she grew up in a trailer park raised by a drug addicted abusive mother. Very few would come out of that situation without some kind of mental disorder. She got lucky and had some major success in Hollywood and I think did her best to try to give her kids a good upbringing and be a decent mom. I can't fault her for choosing to make her family her priority over her career (even if only for a time), especially when successful women in the 1990s were expected to justify their success by basically sacrificing everything for their careers.

by Anonymousreply 72July 6, 2015 10:44 PM

I think foisting her ugly talentless kids on America hasn't helped.

by Anonymousreply 73July 6, 2015 10:47 PM

Someone posted a bizarre video of her during her GH days where she makes out with some little kid.

by Anonymousreply 74July 6, 2015 10:51 PM

Add me to the list of posters who think she's actually a good actress. She owned About Last Night..., was the best thing about St. Elmo's Fire, broke your heart in Ghost, was appropriately sleazy in Disclosure and showed brute strength in GI Jane. She was also very good in Indecent Proposal and A Few Good Men. She definitely came across as self-involved in interviews, but I think age has mellowed her.

by Anonymousreply 75July 6, 2015 10:53 PM

She was very much of the moment and riding high when Ghost was released. Her character in the film had huge appeal to women in both how she looked and what she represented. She truly was at her most beautiful in that film.

Compare the essence of what she represented then to what followed. Actors do get associated with roles in peoples heads. And things naturally peak and decline across lifetimes.

Id like to see her peak again ( as Jessica Lange has ) but im not sure there is enough depth there to motivate it.

by Anonymousreply 76July 6, 2015 11:54 PM

R57, Ashton may or may not be an asshole but none of us know how messed up Demi was during their years together. Apparently, her kids stood by him during the publicity fallout and distanced themselves from her for a while. It's also possible that the reason they moved to Idaho had more to do with Demi's emotional state than with wanting to raise their kids outside Hollywood. You can hide a lot away from the spotlight.

by Anonymousreply 77July 7, 2015 12:24 AM

Anyone remember her as Jack's babysitter on Will & Grace? Yikes. And, DM teaching Barbara Walters how to dance like she did in Striptease? And, Babs trying to do her moves. Both were freakin' cringeworthy.

by Anonymousreply 78July 7, 2015 12:53 AM

[quote] Anyone remember her as Jack's babysitter on Will & Grace?

Yes, R78. R38 does.

by Anonymousreply 79July 7, 2015 12:58 AM

That racist actor could not have been Bruce, who had been linked to the late R&B singer Vesta Williams and had some rather hot love scenes with Halle Barry in "Perfect Strangers". Bruce was said to be involved in some racial incidents in his home town of Penns Grove, NJ, but I think he has mellowed some.

by Anonymousreply 80July 7, 2015 1:15 AM

She was never well liked.

by Anonymousreply 81July 7, 2015 1:19 AM

I would love for Demi to write a tell all book. Starting from her trash beginnings. Completely honest and forthcoming. It would probably make a great read. I girl without any training going from a doublewide to the San Remo on Central Park.

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by Anonymousreply 82July 7, 2015 2:04 AM

Yes r82, and the title should be, "Fucking Lucky."

by Anonymousreply 83July 7, 2015 2:59 AM

I think what made her special when she was young are things that don't set her apart as an older woman. Here is a description of one of her big breaks:

[quote]Demi Moore, St Elmo’s Fire, 1984. “Everyone wanted that role,” recalled director Joel Schumacher. His office was opposite John Hughes’ where Demi got tired of waiting for him., “I happened to see her running down the hallway. I told my assistant: "Run after her and find out who she was" - ‘Demi Moore and she was on General Hospital.’ So I called her agent and she came in and did a reading. There was no one like Demi Moore at that age in the world. In the movie“she gets to be sexy, seductive, hilariously funny and dramatic. She becomes a coke head and she tries to kill herself by freezing to death by opening the windows in her apartment. She had to go through 35 different things in the movie. At that age? Pretty fucking amazing, right? There was no one like her.” Hughes and Schumacher were rather like Lucas and Spielberg in the 70s, dipping into the same talent pool.

by Anonymousreply 84July 7, 2015 4:37 AM

Both Schumacher and Demi Moore were coke heads themselves during the making of St. Elmo's Fire. Schumacher probably still is if he remembers her that way. No actress of her stature has been awarded as many Razzie Awards and won as little acclaim in their career as Moore. She is dumb and without talent as one of her latter day costars was not afraid to say.

by Anonymousreply 85July 7, 2015 4:51 AM

R54

Is it racist of you to assume that the actor in the blind item was white ?

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by Anonymousreply 86July 7, 2015 5:16 AM

Demi Moore was and is a media concoction. She and Bruce are both rather stupid, uneducated individuals who paid their managers and PR people a fortune to make them seem intelligent and profound. That she had any luck at all was mostly due to timing and luck. She is humorless and lacks any empathy, which is why she seems incapable of registering human emotion as she ages. Because she can afford the best plastic surgery in the world, she still looks good but because she is ancient, in Hollywood years, there is no role that she is suitable for. Please don't feel sorry for her. She is as shrewish and hard-hearted as they come.

by Anonymousreply 87July 7, 2015 7:09 PM

Why do her kids not go away? That godawful Rumer, for example -- why wouldn't you choose another profession, rather than be compared with your beautiful mother? Or why wouldn't you simply enjoy your money and stay out of the limelight?

by Anonymousreply 88July 7, 2015 7:25 PM

You called, R88? Or was it someone on the Plastic Surgery thread?

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by Anonymousreply 89July 7, 2015 7:31 PM

I remember going to Demi's office in Santa Monica.

It was enormous and littered with porcelain baby dolls. There was even a huge antique baby carriage in the middle of the room.

It all seemed very immature and self-indulgent for a business office.

by Anonymousreply 90July 7, 2015 7:43 PM

She not real talented, she's not very smart, and she probably has had significant substance abuse issues if what has been in the press is half true. Actually, it's pretty amazing that she has done as well as she has. She ranges from just about as bad as it gets in films to ok- and for a while she was box office. Seems to me she has been awfully lucky.

by Anonymousreply 91July 7, 2015 7:47 PM

Charlie, were your ears burning?

by Anonymousreply 92July 7, 2015 7:53 PM

Does anyone on here think that Demi Moore will go into another self imposed retirement from the business?

by Anonymousreply 93July 7, 2015 10:40 PM

Sidebar.

Rumer Willis is not untalented. She was great on dancing with the stars, whether you care or not, and she is quite a good singer. Many less talented demi-celebs have had a run in Chicago or Cabaret on Broadway. I hope she gets more opportunities.

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by Anonymousreply 95July 8, 2015 1:18 AM

I remember she wore same weird fake sandals to an award show one year. Anyone else remember why she did that?

http://www.look.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/node-gallery-display/gallery/10564/15.jpg

by Anonymousreply 96July 8, 2015 1:20 AM

R96 : Link didn't work, go here: http://i.imgur.com/ZAkUqFB.jpg

by Anonymousreply 97July 8, 2015 1:22 AM

Demi sings better than her ugly daughter.

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by Anonymousreply 98July 8, 2015 1:23 AM

r5 good comparison. After GI Jane, bish pulled a sinead o connor of the movie industry.

by Anonymousreply 99July 8, 2015 1:43 AM

HAHAHA, I forgot all about this late 80s thot.

by Anonymousreply 100July 8, 2015 1:47 AM

Someone actually took a long, hard look at her acting talent. She hasn't worked since.

by Anonymousreply 101July 8, 2015 1:52 AM

R84 Sounds like Demi won the role by fucking him the best. I think she slept her way into projects and that no longer works.

by Anonymousreply 102July 8, 2015 2:14 AM

How would that work in the real world, R102 (not the one inside your head)? Does he fuck everyone who wants the job and then he gives it to whomever fucks him the best?

by Anonymousreply 103July 8, 2015 2:19 AM

Now kids, Schumacher is openly gay. Not rumored to be. Only a coked up gay man could be so effusive regarding the talents of Demi Moore. Straight directors and producers might have fucked her, but would never claim she was a talented actress. She was BOX office.

by Anonymousreply 104July 8, 2015 2:25 AM

Unless your name is Meryl, everyone has to fuck their way into projects. It is known.

by Anonymousreply 105July 8, 2015 2:30 AM

No one wants to fuck Meryl, so she's always been exempt from that.

by Anonymousreply 106July 8, 2015 2:31 AM

Ashton/Demi breeding would have produced more attractive offspring.

by Anonymousreply 107July 8, 2015 2:50 AM

did she have any eggs left when she married him?

by Anonymousreply 108July 8, 2015 2:51 AM

Demi gives trailer trash a bad name !

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by Anonymousreply 109July 8, 2015 2:53 AM

You bitches are just jealous because I still look fabulous.

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by Anonymousreply 111July 8, 2015 4:11 AM

I like Demi, always have. I wish she would make a comeback in good movie or a TV show like Jessica Lange, Glenn Close, Katy Sagal or any number of actresses have in Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, name another one of those types of show. I would just like to see her acting again. Demi doesn't have to be Jessica Lange, but couldn't she just be another Sarah Paulsen in some limited, popular TV series?

And I didn't watch Dancing With The Stars until near the very end. I really don't know Rumer Willis from a hole in the wall, but she was fabulous. She deserved to win and seems quite appealing, humble, talented and likable. Here's wishing her good things to come.

by Anonymousreply 113July 8, 2015 6:46 AM

'Sidebar.'

Yes, we don't do that here, R95. Just make your point.

by Anonymousreply 114July 8, 2015 8:17 AM

R96 and R97 need to acquaint themselves with the HELP section, because they don't know how to post URLs correctly.

I do wish obvious newcomers to DL would at least TRY and use the proper formatting.

by Anonymousreply 115July 8, 2015 8:20 AM

She's really dug herself into a hole with all that plastic surgery. Yes, it has been very successful; she does look at least 15 years younger than her age. But if a role calls for a 35 year old, they will get a real 35 year old. Same with Jane Fonda who is intensely annoying with her determined pathetic efforts to be someone not herself. All these two are is advertising for the skill of their plastic surgeons.

by Anonymousreply 116July 8, 2015 8:34 AM

I don't even understand what R96 is trying to say. "Same" fake sandals? Same as who? And do you really think that some bejeweled gold sandals are going to be REAL emeralds and gold?

by Anonymousreply 117July 8, 2015 8:43 AM

[quote]'Sidebar.' Yes, we don't do that here, r 95, Just make your point.

r114

Lady dude, are you drunk? Who the fuck are you to tell me how to introduce my post? Imma gone do whatever I want. You would be surprised the way things are different now just because I say so.

by Anonymousreply 118July 8, 2015 9:23 AM

Didnt she go to rehab a few years ago after reacting badly to whip its, and her daughters were so embarrassed they disowned her for awhile?

by Anonymousreply 119July 8, 2015 10:29 AM

R118 = clearly insane. And barely literate.

by Anonymousreply 120July 8, 2015 11:46 AM

Yes, R119.

As you obviously know to be true, given the level of detail you provide in your faux question.

by Anonymousreply 121July 8, 2015 11:47 AM

How well did "About Last Night..." do in the box office in 1986?

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by Anonymousreply 122July 8, 2015 12:15 PM

R120 = Fag. Crazy Fag. Controlling FAG. Bitchy fag. White FAG. Friend of Demi = OLD WHITE FAG.

by Anonymousreply 123July 8, 2015 12:21 PM

FF for you, R123 toots, because I sense you are using 'FAG' as an insult on this GAY board.

by Anonymousreply 124July 8, 2015 12:26 PM

No one could figure out how to pronounce her name:

deh-ME

or DEM-me

by Anonymousreply 125July 8, 2015 4:20 PM

r125, so they just started calling her Gimme More.

by Anonymousreply 126July 8, 2015 5:30 PM

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by Anonymousreply 127July 8, 2015 7:10 PM

Thanks for posting that r127. Bruce Willis seems like a colossal asswipe. He is actually living in my town now, but luckily the other neighbors are way richer and more famous than he ever will be so no one is going to tolerate that kind of attitude.

by Anonymousreply 128July 8, 2015 7:34 PM

I saw Rumer talking about how when she was young,all people said about her was how ugly she was considering her mother was so beautiful (hate Demi all you want,but even I wanted to fuck her in "Ghost"!) . I felt just awful for her,I can only imagine as a teen how painful that would be to hear over and over. Since then I don't make those type of comments about her,and Ive really grown to like her. Shes a great dancer,and she seems genuinely nice. Give her a chance,she might outshine BOTH her parents (wich wouldn't be hard as they both are untalented).

by Anonymousreply 129July 8, 2015 7:42 PM

Can she dance with a bag over her head?

by Anonymousreply 130July 8, 2015 10:32 PM

How do you manage to do it, R130?

by Anonymousreply 131July 8, 2015 10:37 PM

R129 I feel sorry for Rumer too for the reasons you describe, but I cannot understand why with all the resources her parents have and the reality that shes been born into the public eye, the issue hasn't been dealt with.

She isnt ugly, she has a jawline thats out of proportion to the rest of her face. This issue is commonly dealt with during feminisation surgery as part of a sex change. Why not just get it fixed?

by Anonymousreply 132July 8, 2015 10:58 PM

Rumer was good in "The House Bunny",

I have nothing against her. But both of her parents are horrible, IMO.

by Anonymousreply 133July 8, 2015 11:31 PM

Her jaw looks smaller than it did, to me. I'm pretty sure she's had work done to it. Rumer is attractive and seems to have a good personality. She must be tough to endure being compared to her mother and being called ugly, yet keep a positive attitude.

by Anonymousreply 134July 8, 2015 11:39 PM

Rumer was so cute in that Stripper movier that Demi did, looked just like her. Rumor really lost her looks though. Demi's career went on the skids because her marriage to Bruce went south. It was Willis who made her #1.

by Anonymousreply 135July 8, 2015 11:44 PM

Are the other two uglies trying for a career in the public eye?

by Anonymousreply 136July 8, 2015 11:49 PM

R117 --- The sandals didn't have a bottom to them, meaning she was barefoot. I don't remember why she did that, but I remember seeing her interviewed and telling some weird story about it. Anyone else remember that?

by Anonymousreply 137July 8, 2015 11:59 PM

Didn't Demi do a photo shoot with her mom when she lay dying of cancer in the late nineties? I was trying to locate the pics in Google but no luck. I remember how tasteless I thought it was at the time...

by Anonymousreply 138July 9, 2015 12:16 AM

Okay, I get it now, R137. Was it for that "Day Without Shoes" charity, maybe? She just tweeted a barefoot pic of herself a couple weeks ago for that.

by Anonymousreply 139July 9, 2015 10:15 AM

R139 I know what you're referring to, but this was something else - this was from the early 90s. I think it was at an award show. Here's what I'm talking about:

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by Anonymousreply 140July 9, 2015 11:48 PM

R128

Bruce Willis is a big bag of bullshit and produces ugly children.

by Anonymousreply 141July 10, 2015 12:02 AM

I hear that Demi likes to give back which is why she's a silent partner in W.T.E. Trailer Park in Clearwater.

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by Anonymousreply 142July 10, 2015 12:06 AM

She likes to give and give and give.

by Anonymousreply 143July 10, 2015 12:08 AM

Why do some dataloungers think this is still 1985. Who really expects celebs who had hit movies or hit songs in the 1980's to still be hot hit machines 30 years later. Its just ridiculous. Time marches on. Demi Moore, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Meg Ryan and any number of 1980's hit makers had great careers. They were on top for a couple of decades (much longer than most). Who in their right mind expects them to still be on top 30 years later. Do we really need to keep what happened or is it obvious that this is not the 1980's or the 1990's.

Having said that Demi looks sensational.

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by Anonymousreply 144July 10, 2015 12:32 AM

Did Demi know Bruce was playing stink finger with Aaron Carter?

by Anonymousreply 145July 10, 2015 1:01 AM

Bruce's cock was visible in an underwater scene of some movie, can't remember which, but it was thick and straight with a nice big end. Shame its attached to such an arrogant man.

by Anonymousreply 146July 11, 2015 7:42 PM

Meg, Julia and Sandra made movies for fraus. Demi did not. That simple. She never had a target demo.

by Anonymousreply 148July 13, 2015 2:56 AM

I remember hearing stories about DiCaprio going to her house for "piano lessons" in the late 90s.

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