Caffeinated Clint
Is this the comeback he’s been waiting for?
Its funny, my wife was just saying how Eric Roberts seems to be in every darn music video at the moment – he’s currently appearing on a music video channel near you on the clip for Akon’s “‘Smack That”’ – and we wondered whether clip gigs actually do anything for your movie/TV career (maybe a question that Courteney Cox can answer?).
Seems so.
According to TV Guide, Julia Roberts’ B-movie starring brother has snagged a role on TV hit “Heroes”.
Eric is a great actor. He is – check out some of the stuff he did in the 80s – like “The Pope of Greenwich Village”, “Runaway Train” and “”. OK, so he’s done some really rotten stuff in the past decade or so – straight to video shite like “Raptor” and “The Alternate” – but he seems to be on some sort of mini comeback. He recently had a role in the movie “D.O.A Dead or Alive” – his first theatrical release (only it wasn’t released at cinemas in America) in quite some time – and appeared in the acclaimed “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints”.
In many ways, Roberts has had a career similar to Adrian Pasdar’s. Both were huge stars of the 80s – Pasdar was in such classics as “Top Gun” and “Near Dark” – and then quickly disappeared into dudville. Kinda ironic that they’ll both be sharing the screen in “Heroes”. But as I said, Roberts is a good actor, and so is Pasdar, so something must be changing in Hollywood – suddenly ‘talented’ actors, not necessarily ultra-famous ones, are getting work again. I guess people had to get tired of the Duff’s and Knoxville’s eventually, hey? All we need now is for Tom Selleck, Christopher Lloyd and Don Johnson to make their triumphant return to the TV tube.
50-year-old Roberts’ last regular TV gig was in the sitcom “Less than Perfect” from 2002 – 2005, and before that, the entertaining but short-lived “Falcone” (2000), which was a spin-off of the film “Donnie Brasco”.
