Nick as “a bad Ricky Ricardo impression.”) He’s gotten so accustomed to the creative freedom he has on the show that, according to his Wikipedia page, it’s hurt him in other ways: Creative differences during a session to record the voice of the “Jell-O Man” for a commercial resulted in him leaving and pledging “to never record for an advertisement again.” That’s some serious gold-medal clout. Azaria voices the characters of Moe the Bartender, Apu the Kwik-E-Mart owner, and Chief Wiggum - in addition to some 20 other characters. Since his minor role in Now and Then, Azaria has worked hard for the money as Agador Spartacus in The Birdcage, turned in the funniest performance in Along Came Polly as scu-BA! instructor Claude - “’appy as a ’ippo!” - and had other minor roles in films like Grosse Pointe Blank and Shattered Glass.īut what catapults him to gold-medal status is his legendary, longtime, Emmy-winning voice work on The Simpsons.
“Bu d,” he replies, emphasizing the D like he’s the WASP-y mom overpronouncing “Bundt” in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or one of the actors in that annoying “Frog Protection” commercial. (Hoffmann tells him he has food in his teeth, causing him to spill on himself later, her little sister, played by a tiny Rumer Willis, compliments him on his “pretty scarf.”) Hoffmann pretends to mishear his name: “Bug?” she asks.
In Now and Then, he plays poor Bud Kent, a cheesy man in a leisure suit who comes to dinner with Gaby Hoffmann’s separated mother only to be tormented by the sullen teen. Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, and Demi Moore Who Has the Bragging Rights?Īzaria is a performer who melts so entirely into his roles that it’s often only afterward that I even realize it was him.
(Sorry, Melanie Griffith!) In short: If the cast were to reunite the way the characters do in the movie, who would have the best answer for “So, whatcha been up to?” The Cast
#NOW AND THEN MOVIE#
Note that this isn’t an overall lifetime achievement award the clock starts when the movie ends. Here, we seek to determine which of the people involved in Now and Then have had the best Nows since Then. But in the real world, the film was mostly a snapshot of 1995: A good number of the actors and actresses in Now and Then were at or near their career peaks when it was made. The movie, most of which is set in the summer of 1970, includes all the usual pre-teenage high jinks, from swimming-hole skinny-dipping to graveyard exploring to bumming cigs off a Vietnam vet turned hippie played by Brendan Fraser. (The New York Times declared this premise “strained and contrived.”) Birch becomes Melanie Griffith, Ricci turns into Rosie O’Donnell, Hoffmann blossoms into Demi Moore, and Aston Moore sprouts into a very pregnant Rita Wilson, whose any-day-now delivery provides the excuse for getting the band back together. These personalities endure even when the characters, in a fun bit of casting, grow up. Each girl fit some niche archetype: the chubby, sheltered naïf with an overbearing mom the brooding, sci-fi-loving child of pending divorce the blonde drama queen with vanilla-pudding-filled balloons tucked into her bra the motherless, sarcastic tomboy who got to smooch Devon Sawa. What I would have given to star in Monkey Trouble!īirch, Ricci, and Hoffmann, along with the late Ashleigh Aston Moore, all joined forces in the 1995 film Now and Then, which was advertised as a girlier version of Stand by Me. It was never meant to be, but that didn’t stop me from being both jealous of and mildly obsessed with my generational cohort of young actresses, the Thora Birches, Christina Riccis, and Gaby Hoffmanns of the world. Any day now, I thought, I’ll be discovered - whisked from my stage in front of the bathroom mirror to the set of a feature film, my name in the credits with an “and introducing …” in front. Like so many suburban tween girls, I harbored unfortunate delusions of grandeur. In the fifth installment, Katie Baker looks at the past and present of a 20-year-old celebration of girl power, séances, and stuffing your bra: Now and Then. Our writers will take turns giving their takes on who has the bragging rights from the posse of their choosing.
#NOW AND THEN SERIES#
Bragging Rights is a series with a single goal: to determine which member of a cast, a team, a band, or a presidential cabinet is killing it the most, years later.
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