Fizz

To be a Fizz means that one really had a chance to become a star and didn’t.

This is to be differentiated from those who never got the big break and spent their lives as ‘character’ actors, extras, co co co stars, and no one knows their name.

To be Fizz means that at some point in their lives they were the centre of gravity.  Their face was on covers, there were articles and interviews, and for that moment, everyone expected that they’d make it.
And they didn’t.

To be a Fizz requires really bad timing.

Lori Martin was considered the ‘next’ Elizabeth Taylor. 

All eyes were on her, and after National Velvet, a T.V. serial loosely based on Elizabeth Taylor’s first staring role, and the crucial role in Cape Fear, all possibilities were on the table.

It was at this point, Lori Martin decided to take two years off.  That was the end of her career. Had she not had such bad timing, she might be a Grand Dame today.

Harry Hamlin starred on the popular L.A. Law.

Voted the ’sexiest man alive’ in 1987, it obviously went to his head. He decided to leave the show, after all Hollywood was waiting…or so he thought.  Leaving that show, when he did ended his career.

Keith Hamilton Cobb left All My Children, a soap where he was the cynosure for two ‘Indie’ movies no one saw.  He lost his Fizzhood when he was cast in Andromeda,               a Gene Roddenberry serial.  His fame as Tyr Anasazi had the blogosphere in a turmoil.

Creating his own site, he occasionally linked with his fans and one thought he had it all together. Googling him in 2004 one got over 1M hits a similar number for real stars. Then his Fizzhood manifested; he cut his hair, he left Andromeda, made a few really bad career moves and fizzled.