Looking Back
HOT GALLERY: 10 Stars Who Fell Victim to the Oscar Curse
Winning an Oscar is the dream of almost every actor, actress, and precious stage dog—we love you, Uggie!—this side of Hollywood and Vine. What aspiring thespian hasn’t clutched a hairbrush while standing in the mirror, tearfully thanking her agent, parents, and Pilates instructor who knew the name of that discreet plastic surgeon? But what they don’t tell you when you step off the bus from Iowa—because that still happens, right?—is that winning an Academy Award can also be a curse. Or you just have a really bad knack for picking scripts. (We’ll go with cursed.) By Katherine Butler
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Mel Gibson—Today
Mel, Mel, Mel—where do we start? While Gibson turned in some solid post-Braveheart performances in Ransom, The Patriot, What Women Want, and We Were Soldiers, it was his epic 2010 personal meltdown that put the “heck” in “what the heck was he thinking?” Racist, sexist, anti-Semitic—Gibson seemed determined to hit every offensive stereotype in the Hollywood playboy when he threatened ex-girlfriend and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva, as well as the Malibu police. He reappeared in 2011’s Jodie Foster-helmed flick The Beaver as a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And, not surprisingly, shined in the role.
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