If you grew up watching Pauly Shore on MTV and in films like Son in Law and Encino Man, this is pretty interesting. And a little bit depressing.
https://youtu.be/zLUDWooPUJM
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/10/blind-item-5-himmmm.html
When the escort's favorite customer – a studio exec - found out? He was livid. He ordered a total blackballing of _________ from the business, even calling in threats to Katzenberg at Disney to get ________ shafted. Sent several guys to visit _______'s family and force them to make it right or they would. Serious guys who could do damage. Heidi and her backers were not so professional. With the escort's other favorite actor client supporting them, Heidi's backers went and snatched _____ that night. They beat him to a pulp and did very nasty things to him, took photos, video, and black-bagged him. The next morning he woke up hoisted on the D of the Hollywood sign. How he got down nobody knows.share
Within days _____ went on vacation and didn't set foot back in town for months. _______ and his family paid a handsome fee to the young escort. Even put her in a new comedy parody film with big comedy stars. Legend had it that _______ was one of the tipsters to lead to the raid on Heidi Fleiss. Luckily the escort was out of the Madame's business after this event. She recovered fully, and even took her hospital stay as a chance to get new breasts since they were repairing her face anyway. She left the full-time escort life shortly after, and her studio executive clients helped get her work in legit films. Her other best client, the actor, also helped her. He eventually married her and got free threesomes with the escort and _______________ (former A list mostly television actress who seems to frequently get arrested for drugs and other DUI type things) as a bonus.
Interesting story, but it has the ring of fiction. Especially the part about getting hung from the Hollywood sign.
shareAJ Benza also discusses (although he doesn't out and out say who he's referring to) Pauly Shore allegedly getting blackballed for beating up Denise Richards:
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/fame-is-a-bitch/pedophilia-part-4-a-listers-escorts-and-actors/
I'm not saying it is a true story, but it said he was hoisted up on top of the D in the Hollywood sign. As in, lifted to the top and left there. Not hung.
shareEven without the Denise Richards angle, I don't think that Pauly Shore would've been able to maintain a successful career. He fell into the same category as say, Andrew Dice Clay or Tom Green, in that his schtick was very limited, annoyed a lot of people, and left little room to grow.
shareYep. He had no versatility. Played the same annoying character.
shareYou're probably right.
And fuck Tom Green! Couldn't stand that dude! Freddy Got Fingered is easily one of the worst films ever made. How that shit ever got greenlit is a mystery to me.
The problems with Tom Green and why he couldn't sustain his own popularity were:
A) He was a niche comedian who was badly overexposed, especially when he aligned himself with Drew Barrymore.
B) His schtick was very one-dimensional. He couldn't really do street pranks once he started becoming too recognizable, which goes back to the first point. Also it seemed like all that Tom Green was good for as a comedian was screaming and offering abrasiveness, gallows humor, and randomness-for-randomness-sake. It seemed like he was incapable or too stubborn and rigid to make his act be more "palatable" to a wider, more mainstream audience.
C) Unlike say, Andy Kaufman, whom he has often been compared to, Tom Green really wasn't that talented to begin with. Andy Kaufman had the ability to confuse people into asking themselves if what he was doing was genuine or it was meant to be an elaborate act. I read a comment YouTube that said that Kaufman was great a playing an idiot savant or earnest fool. Green's entire skill set meanwhile, just relied on pure shock value and doing the “unexpected” on camera. You can't really do that in a scripted scenario like movies with trained, professional actors when compared to average, real life people.
Pauly Shore has been pretty much washed up since the late 90's. After Encino man in 92 he had 4 more flicks up until 96 when he made Bio Dome, which was one of the worst movies ever made. He was a one trick pony who just played a goofy stoner who says "Buddy" all the time. I do think he's not a bad stand up comedian though
shareI liked Son in Law. Couldn't give two shits about any of his other movies.
shareI loved Encino Man!
shareI have wondered if any of Mitzi Shore's enemies kept Pauly's career from bigger. I read the book 'I'm Dying Up Here" which was later the basis for the Showtime series. The book detailed quite a bit of Mitzi's battles with comedians who wanted to get paid and she had rivalries with other club owners. There was one comedian interviewed for the book who said Mitzi was one of the most manipulative people she had ever encountered. After reading that book I wondered if some of Mitzi's enemies fucked with Pauly's career, but who knows.share
by Anonymous reply 251 February 9, 2022 3:49 PM