Heather Locklear at 50: 80 TV Icon's Career Bad B movie: The queen of television 80 years is now the big 5-0. The California girl is as fair as ever, recently announced that is dedicated to her "Melrose Place" costar Jack Wagner, and always kept busy with made-for-TV. But perhaps the star of the TV-a list that have stayed with the small screen: Her film roles have been an uneasy mix of bad decisions. Here, we look back at the cringe-inducing parts in Locklear's campy career. Creature Featur, Even with parts in the hit shows "Dynasty" and "T.J. Hooker," in 1989 Locklear landed her first awful movie role in "The Return of the Swamp Thing." The part: Locklear plays the love interest of this slimy monster think "Godzilla" in the Everglades. The star even extolled the virtues of her character to People magazine this way: "Since my character owns a plant shop, it's only natural she should enjoy making love to a plant." Obviously, actors in the TV world these days can be choosier. Olivia Wilde moved from the TV drama "House" to blockbusters like "Tron: Legacy" and "Cowboys and Aliens” and seems to be well on the way to a major Hollywood career. But movie roles for TV actors in the '80s, not so much, Burning up Locklear probably hoped to set the screen on fire with the 1984 movie "Firestarter.
" Locklear plays a woman who participated in a medical experiment gone bad that gives her psychic abilities and causes her daughter to set fire to stuff with her mind. The sci-fi flick did launch Drew Barrymore's career the young star played the creepy kid. We're thinking the movie burned Locklear in more ways than one. Melrose Redux In "Uptown Girls", Amanda Locklear channels Witchy "Melrose Place", this time with a career-oriented mother of a young Dakota Fanning. His character taking late Brittany Murphy is at the mercy of his son. This chick is a harmless but forgettable films followed in 2005 was "The Perfect Man" with Amanda, UM, Locklear to play her daughter only to Hilary Duff. I do not remember? None, Heather Locklear at 50: 80 TV Icon's Career Bad B movie
" Locklear plays a woman who participated in a medical experiment gone bad that gives her psychic abilities and causes her daughter to set fire to stuff with her mind. The sci-fi flick did launch Drew Barrymore's career the young star played the creepy kid. We're thinking the movie burned Locklear in more ways than one. Melrose Redux In "Uptown Girls", Amanda Locklear channels Witchy "Melrose Place", this time with a career-oriented mother of a young Dakota Fanning. His character taking late Brittany Murphy is at the mercy of his son. This chick is a harmless but forgettable films followed in 2005 was "The Perfect Man" with Amanda, UM, Locklear to play her daughter only to Hilary Duff. I do not remember? None, Heather Locklear at 50: 80 TV Icon's Career Bad B movie
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