By and large, the viewer consensus is Miranda Cosgrove cannot act very well. Yet in interviews, Schneider has been quote
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eternalreturn — 17 years ago(December 07, 2008 12:12 PM)
By and large, the viewer consensus is Miranda Cosgrove cannot act very well. Yet in interviews, Schneider has been quoted as saying he wants to write feature films for Cosgrove and also spends an inordinate amount of time texting her throughout the night.
Then there's this blind item, one of many in fact, about a nameless tween producer who likes to boink his stars:
"So it turns out that Jamie Lynn Spears wasn't the only person that our producer had a fling with. No,2000 it wasn't anyone on Jamie's show. But, it turns out he has made a habit of doing the same thing in the past to a number of different other tweeners. Not necessarily getting them pregnant, except for one very big exception. Most of the time our producer would just make advances on the lesser stars of the shows he worked on, but the one other time he got someone pregnant was someone who is a much bigger star than Jamie Lynn was or is. In that instance, the actress got an abortion and a healthy sum of money from the producer. Everything was hushed up because the show was making way too much money."
Does anyone know anything about this? I wish someone who's worked with Schneider would confirm or deny.
sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008 092603419.html
http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/talk/podcasts.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/22621568.html
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/01/todays-blind-items_03.html -
FirthAddict — 17 years ago(January 15, 2009 01:12 AM)
I'm almost positive that there's no relation between Dan and Miranda. I'm good friends with his two nephews from one of his older sisters and they kind of make it known that Dan is their uncle. They would definitely do the same if Miranda was their cousin. They've met a lot of the stars of his shows but never her and if they were cousins I'm definitely sure they would've met her before.
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Jeneral28 — 16 years ago(April 27, 2009 10:19 AM)
I certainly agree. He is biased and has overly promoted her whie sidelining the other actors like Jennette and Nathan. Cosgrove's voice is nothing special and yet her songs are on the Billbaord because of how he has promoted her.
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fugazi-grrl — 14 years ago(August 05, 2011 04:56 PM)
Actually, being on Billboard, and peaking at #96 (which Miranda has done) is not altogether a good thing. It is more of a death-knell to a musical career than never charting at all.
Case in point- the all-female 70s rock band,
Fanny
, had one low-peaking song in the early 70s. They produced 5 or 6 albums in the 70s. And today they have a reasonable fan-following. But the only way to actually buy, or listen to their music is a sloppily put together $300 CD set from Rhino Records, or scratched, warped, used LPs sold in moldy, water-damaged sleeves, for exorbitant fees on Amazon & eBay.
In direct contrast, the British 80s band,
Keats - a project of producer Alan Parsons and vocalist Colin Blunstone - never charted nor made any effort to get a single on Billboard. Their single album effort is still in print, on a major label available (on Amazon) for $8.
No collector's items, no struggle for their music to reach their fans, and a strong fanbase in both the UK, and Japan.
So, it looks like having no song on the chart did Keats a lot better than having a low-peaker did for Fanny.
So, maybe getting Miranda a song on Billboard should not, necessarily, be considered a favor.
- the all-female 70s rock band,
