What child star hasn’t been in a movie in 13 years, but will be in two, count ’em, two Oscar contenders this season, with a pivital role in one of them?
I will offer only one hint (not a great one)… Summer 2005.
Update – The correct answer comes early in the comments… so I’m putting his current picture after the jump…
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” â some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it â I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury â he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” â and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging â I was with her at that moment â she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy namedâ” “Yeah, sure â you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that Iâm on the phone with you now, after all thatâs been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didnât seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereâs not a case of that. He wasnât using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had â if that were what the accusation involved â the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. Iâm not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, âYou know, itâs not this, itâs thatâ? Because â let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, thatâs what it lacked. Thatâs what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
What about Summer ’05?
Are you saying the last time we saw them in a movie was 1993?
Jackie Earle Haley.
And it’s going to be interesting to see how he’s changed in the interim.
ALL THE KING’S MEN and LITTLE CHILDREN are his two end-of-the-year films, for the record.
I just met one of his BAD NEWS BEARS co-stars recently, Chris Barnes, who played Tanner. One of the highlights of my recent time on movie sets, I must say.
Jackie Cooper.
Drew Barrymore.
Chris Barnes was on a movie set? Is he back in front of the camera, too? Tanner is one of the top 10 characters in movie history, for what it’s worth.
And I don’t get your “summer 2005” hint – because the “Bad News Bears” remake NEVER HAPPENED.
Corey Haim
Brokeback Mountain.
But then isn’t that the answer to EVERYTHING?
Kind of cheating when Moriarty just swoops in with the inside scoop like that.
Shirley Temple.
Mickey Rooney in the potential Oscar winner: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM.
Will be his most dazzling cinematic performance since…uhm…THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE…
Yes, Jackie Earle Haley, who was good in “Bad News Bears”, but was fantastic in “Breaking Away”. That was the last great film of the 70’s (in my opinion). And all you Brokeback fans, “Breaking Away” features a young Dennis Quaid in one of his best performances.
I haven’t seen the movie but I have seen Dennis Quaid’s shirtless picture there. Hmmm..me likey.
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Whatever happened to Charlie Korsmo? He was pretty good in Dick Tracy and What About Bob.
I have no idea who that is. I mean, I figure he’s from The Bad News Bears, but… yeah. đ
Charlie Korsmo had a supporting role in “Can’t Hardly Wait,” which is an unfairly overlooked teen comedy. I believe he was the nerd who ended up singing “Paradise City.”
Man, I shit you not….I was JUST wondering what ever happened to Haley. Glad to see he’s:
A) Still alive.
B) Getting some work!
I didn’t actually know the answer, the_keoki, until I did a little legwork and guessed.
And no, Chris Barnes wasn’t in front of a camera. He’s an assistant director now, and I met him on the set of UNACCOMPANIED MINORS. What’s crazy is that he’ll straight up deny being Tanner when you mention it to him, but there’s no mistaking it. He’s that Chris Barnes, and there’s still a hell of a lot of Tanner in him.
Eric: That was Korsmo, but man, “Can’t Hardly Wait” was EIGHT years ago!
Drew: Yeah, that sounds like the Barnes I’ve heard about. There were some “where are they now” articles done for the 25th and 30th anniversaries of “Bears,” and he always refused to take part.