Why you should never ever ever be a celebrity (PHOTO THREAD)

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Oh, sure, you could get famous for something and have people take lots of photos of you like this:

http://www.metal-sludge.com/Jani1990.jpg

But then time happens, fame fails, things go on, and while for most people the onset of age means inevitable adjustments and all, for the non-celebrity you can rest assured that people won't be thinking of your former airbrushed self when they see you as you are now:

http://www.metal-sludge.com/JaniDrunk.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Mind you, sometimes the change is subtler, as Sebastian Bach still painfully illustrates:

http://www.rockstar.it/img/sebastian_bach.jpg

http://www.metal-sludge.com/BachJesusChrist.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the meanest thing Ned has ever done

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's so hard trying to find a picture of a fat Corey Haim. I take it that posting current pictures of Corey Haim on fansites is like telling kids that there is no santa.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Do kids actually care about Corey Haim?

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't think so but there seem to be fansites for him still on the internet. And not one of them has a current picture of fat Corey Haim.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, the cherry pie dude looks like what Eminem will look like in 10 years

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

A well-circulated rumour around Toronto last year claimed that Corey Haim applied for a retail gig at a local HMV store and handed the manager his dated packshot in lieu of a proper resume.

He did not get the job.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why you want to be a celebrity, according to marc a.

http://www.gej.net/images/kultura/almond_3.jpg

― Erik, Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Marc Almond, on the other hand, got lots of jobs.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, Eminem is just as dumb as Jani Lane. And he doesn't hit the gym at all. < /sarcasm>

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes change is good, as Tina Yothers will illustrate:

http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/y/tinayothers/photos/008.jpg

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/tyothers_et_020214_par-1.jpg http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/tyothers_et_020214_par-2.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Corey Haim, from hunky to junkie:

http://www.nationwide.net/~kentb/chaim-3.jpg
http://www.x-entertainment.com/archive/quickies/17/tooth1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(bottom pic: selling his hair and rotten teeth on eBay)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

sebastian doesnt look that bad plus remember thats his press photo for Jesus Christ Superstar. even though Sebastian is a dickface i bet he'd play a great Jesus. Actually i was thinking of my dream JCSS cast and here it is for your pleasure:

Jesus: Andrew WK
Judas: Angelo Moore
Mary: Dolly Parton
Simon: Cory Feldman
Peter: Beck
Pontious Pilate: Crispen Glover
Pharasies:
Raekwon, Ghostface, Deck, Ugod

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

notice Sebastian still poses the same way. poser.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

young and beautiful:

http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/gnr/axl.jpg

not so young, not so beautiful:

http://www.zweb-network.com/brainfart/images/axl2.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

He looks like RDJ!

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

so that's what he's been up to for the last decade

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ever try listening to Appetite For Destruction and disc 2 of SAWII AT THE SAME TIME?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What about UYI II?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

While not quite what you're asking for:

Tom Morello as we all know him:
http://www.knightbilham.com/morello.jpg

vs.

Tom Morello's short-lived college theatre career:
http://www.metal-sludge.com/ExposedRATM2.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke-wise......

From this...
http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/jaz/jaz83moody.JPG

...to this....

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/yotd2.jpg

or this...

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/00076395.jpg

And from this....

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/geordie/geordie26.JPG

to....alas....this...
http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/geordie/geordie37.JPG

...the signature blonde quiff but a misty, water-colored memory.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What's up with the Don Imus look?

― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing Joke-wise......

Alex in NYC in C.C. Baxter shockah

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What's up with the Don Imus look?

for real!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Axl doesn't look bad at all in that second photo! He looks like Norman Blake from TFC a lil'..

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Axl doesn't look bad at all in that second photo!

Well, he looks like a regular schmo. But in the first pic he looks radiant.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, radiant from the marks left from my theoretical fist.

I've always hated hated hated Axl Rose with a passion. Since his big Syd Barrett style isolation, I've become less bitter about him, and even more tolerant after reading over the few White Trash Wins Lotto comics I have.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa, hold on, I know Andy Prieboy was planning the White Trash Wins Lotto musical, but there are COMICS? And you haven't shared? BAD DB! NO DONUT!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

*goes back to find one of the comics*

Crap! Looks like I could only find #2... :( Maybe I stupidly sold back the other ones. But anyway, White Trash Wins Lotto was originally a comic series by Gordon Rennie & Martin Emond, and Prieboy just adapted it in a musical format. I could be wrong. BARRUS TO THREAD!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 7 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Jody on the Axl pic, btw.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Trucker hat rockers Black Oak Arkansas then

http://www.blackoakarkansas.bigstep.com/Images/BOA14DPnetmod.JPG

and now

http://www.blackoakarkansas.bigstep.com/Images/jim_tp_jammin.JPG

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 7 November 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The long, dark journey of Edgar Winter:

1969-

http://www.mindspring.com/~scottedgell/edgrwin/images/entrance.gif

2002-

http://www.thanksforthemusic.com/events/2002grammypics/2002grammy16.jpg

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 7 November 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

These are painful revivals but there are much truths within.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Then
http://www.videomusica.it/fnts/videomusica/immagini/278x182/costello01.jpg

Now
http://www.takegreatpictures.com/content/images/tip1_1598.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why we're all laughing, really.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, some people are dorian graying it:

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Othermedia/Pictures/1973/ziggysings.jpg

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Othermedia/Pictures/1999/hourspromo01.jpg

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 7 November 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie looked like a teenager at his concert on Monday nite. Not fair selecting a pic when he was dressed up like Linda McCartney!

And the second Axel R. pic looks like it was painted by Holbein. Weird. Or Breughel?

― Skottie, Friday, 7 November 2003 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how Corey Haim is telling kids not to bag up their armpit hair.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur Lee then:
http://www.indie44.com/love/love.jpg

Now:
http://home1.inet.tele.dk/tks/love/grafik/Edinburgh2002/Dscf0051_3.jpg

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

actually he doesn't look too bad for someone that did some time.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur Lee is and always was HOTTT.

Also, David Bowie doesn't look at all bad right now, even though his newest stuff is not the greatest. I just pretend he's still playing Moonage Daydream all the time.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Edgar Winter looks a bit like Malkmus in that "before" photo... not enough similarity here for a Cover Connection, but dig it:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e488/e48895avrkp.jpg http://www.mindspring.com/~scottedgell/edgrwin/images/entrance.gif

― Annouschka (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Also, David Bowie doesn't look at all bad right now"

Yeah, Sarah, He's a counter-example: why you should become a celebrity.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait a minute...

http://www.zweb-network.com/brainfart/images/axl2.jpg http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/mlb/2000/0625/photo/a_mcgwire.jpg

Right, right. I should've probably saved this for another thread.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

LOL on the Elvis C.. Alternatively:

then
http://www.videomusica.it/fnts/videomusica/immagini/278x182/costello01.jpg

now
http://otoro.com/images/eric.jpg

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Harrison Ford then:

http://film.onet.pl/_i/news/duze/h/harrison_ford_1.jpg

and now after boozing it up three hours straight in Baja:

http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004011273,00.jpg
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2004011275,00.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That last pic reminds me of Ray Walston

http://www.fasttimesatridgemonthigh.org/pic/pic_cc_7.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

And I can't believe that I just now noticed:

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/00076395.jpg http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/jimnabors/songs_of_inspiration.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

And for the dorian gray file:

http://www.johnfogerty.com/photos/img/7.jpg
http://www.johnfogerty.com/photos/img/3.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Harrison.

That first Elvis Costello 'comparison' is classic. And that first Axel pic is indeed hot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

GAH. Those Harrison Ford photos, GAH.

I am VERY glad this thread was revived, thank you Elvis -- I was thinking about it the other day but I couldn't remember what I had called it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

haha we couldn't either! i told him to search on "edgar winter."

― america's first municipal lunatic asylum (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. Jani Lane was going to be my fallback! That or just maniacally crunch through the Celebrity subcategory.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

since we're doing "separated at birth" here too:

http://www.johnfogerty.com/photos/img/3.jpg http://www.cosmik.com/aa-april00/pics/qm6.jpg

― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 January 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Corey Haim in 2004 (that's him on the left, next to Corey Feldman):

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/comic_con/comic_con_2004_photos/_group_photos/corey_feldman5.jpg

― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I need people to take more pictures of me now, while I'm still pretty.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

who'da thought that time would have been kinder to corey feldman?

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

JESUS CHRIST ON A CRUTCH Haim looks awful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The fact that he's managed to look WORSE than when he was selling bags of his own hair on Ebay...

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like a Ham.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Corey Feldman looks great! Tanned and rested.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Gotta be some new examples by now.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 May 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

those weird french dudes...

― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Sunday, 23 May 2010 17:04 (fifteen years ago)

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