Demi Moore got somewhere aroung $12.5M for Striptease

[Orrex]

And critics blasted her for selling out and ruining her career.

Be honest: would you "ruin your career" for $12.5 million?


Me, I'd burn my career to the ground and make a sprinkle in the ashes.

[flvegan]

1. I don't think she ruined her career. GI Jane was a great flick.

Plus she's got 2 or 3 movies in the works.

As for the question, for that kind of scratch I'd burn my career AND yours to the ground.

[bluedigger]

15. GI Jane came out in '97!

I loves me some Demi, but she hasn't done much lately. Took a lot of time off for the kids, too, apparently.

[flvegan]

16. Striptease came out before it.

According to IMDB, she's been busy enough (not that I've seen any of them).

[mikeargo]

2. And it still sucked

Carl Hiassen's book deserved better

[Orrex]

4. Haven't read the book, but...

I can't see how it could be worse than the film.

[Dr Morbius]

3. In the movie, "History of the World, Part I" Mel Brooks accurately shows the first critic.

I have little use for critics, myself, with the exception of Roger Ebert.

Who, in Chicago, is kind of a demigod.

[Swede]

5. Roger Ebert is a demigod everywhere.

And he ascends to godhood.

[Swede]

6. Plus they got her a set of primo jugs.

:shrug:

[Bucky]

18. actually, no.

She got her previously attractive figure grotesquely distorted. My first reaction to her "reveal" scene was and remains: breasts don't look like that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. They wouldn't pay me 12.5 million to take off my clothes!

But they might pay me that to put them back on...;)

[Robeson]

8. For 12.5 million, I'd suck the farts out of used car seats.

[leeroysphitz]

12. Here you go.

[Robeson]

13. Obviously, great minds think alike...

...;-)

[Redstone]

9. Paid for her horrible fake tits though, didn't it?

Redstone

[UTUSN]

10. so THAT's Anton(?)'s secret - whassisname, KRUTHCER?!1 n/t

[quakerboy]

11. Yup

Not just Yes but hell yep.

For that much, I would walk away from my "career". Seeing as I could then easily afford to do the same exact thing volunteer, and be that much more particular about who I do it for.

[cherish44]

14. I remember that whole thing...she said in order to make that $12.5 mil she had to "show her goodies"

and that paycheck made her the highest paid female actor ever at that time...while the highest paid men were making around $20 mil and did NOT have to show goodies. Really sort of pissed me off when she said that.

[Orrex]

17. And it's not as though she'd never shown her goodies before that

[WillyT]

19. They Had To Make Up For What They Did To Her Hair...

Kidding...

:evilgrin: