From: Gawker
Reading about the comeback struggle of American Beauty weirdo Wes
Bentley yesterday got us thinking about other youngish,
once-promising stars who made a big initial splash and then mostly
disappeared. Let's give some career advice to Bentley and four
others.
Wes Bentley Bentley came roaring onto the scene as the skull-capped
suitor to Kevin Spacey's daughter in American Beauty, Sam Mendes'
1998 popcorn take on suburban ennui. He had a piercing gaze and a
wolfish brow and, sure yeah, he could act pretty well. Big leading
man roles in duds like the thriller Soul Survivors and the nearly
unwatchable epic The Four Feathers (alongside other up-and-comers
Kate Hudson and Heath Ledger) follow...
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