- Scott Nemes, It’s Gary Shandling’s Show, TV, 1986-1990. While still headlining The Wonder Years, 1988-1993 (13 chapters also featured Nemes), Savage was seen for Grant Schumaker, son of some Shandling friends, in an earlier show about nothing. That is, nothing but sundering the fourth wall, as best suited Shandling’s very particular form of TV comedy. Almost on par with Tony Newley’s magical Strange World of Gurney Slade on 1960. (I said almost). Next came Garry as The Larry Sanders Show, then came Seinfeld… Game over.
- Macauley Culkin, Richie Rich, 1994. Warners dropped US TV’s top kid (The Wonder Years) for the movies’ top kid and the Home Alone star (or his career-ruining father) staggered the studio by taking the title too literally – asking for $4m plus 10% of the gross. Warners offered $1.5m. But “Big Mac” had got $5m for Home Alone II, 1992.
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 2