[DogByte6RER]

I still remember when after this Ellen Degenerate episode aired, VP Al Gore trumpeted in the media how the show "forced" Americans to deal with homosexuality. Sorry Al Gore, it shouldn't be up to you or anybody else to "force" America to deal with any kind of weird and bizarre sexual behavior.

[MeanWestTexan]

Never heard of her.

[DManA]

Didn’t seem to hurt Degenerate. Coming out seems to have made her career

[spikeytx86]

Funny Laura, It didn’t seem to hurt Ellen.

[NinoFan]

Her career was never that great to begin with. She did look cute in Jurassic Park though, LOL.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, this is a strong reminder that actions have consequences. My sympathy for Ms. Dern is negligable.

[Larry Lucido]

If they were hot, there would have been no backlash.

[Disturbin]

Has she done anything since Blue Velvet?

[greyfoxx39]

Laura Dern has been in some real stinkers, and doesn’t have a lot going for her in personality or looks...poor think, lost Billy Bob Thornton to Angeline Jolie and hasn’t been the same since.

[Oberon]

Now that’s a...[ahem]...a Dern shame.

[EyeGuy]

You mean her fellow enlightened, inclusive LIBERALS won’t hire her after a lesbian scene?

McCarthyism mythology redux.

[beeber]

Bruce Dern:

"Jack Nicholson stole my career!"

[FormerLib]

I hate to break this to you Laura, but you were never that good of an actress. When your looks started to go, there just wasn’t anything there to hold people’s interest.

[happygrl]

Probably because she spent the last ten years bouncing from man to man in a series of highly publicized relationships, then settling on Ben Harper (already married) and stealing him from his wife.

My guess is that she is not aging well.

[USMCWife6869]

Wasn’t she another one of Angelina Jolie’s “victims”. Was she the one Jolie got Billy Bob from?

[Mr. Blonde]

Meanwhile, Heath Ledger gets cast as the Joker in The Dark Knight. Maybe the thinking on gays on film has changed or maybe he is just a better actor. I’m willing to go with the latter since Brokeback is now an interchangeable adjective with gay.

[BallyBill]

I've flipped through the channels and stopped to watch Jurassic Park just to see her in them blue jeans.

What really hurt her is that her dad shot John Wayne in the back in "The Cowboys".

[CholeraJoe]

Laura’s had just about as much work in the last 10 years as Anne Heche has. A public kiss with another woman didn’t hurt Brittney Spears career did it? Umm, scratch that last part.

[RepoGirl]

I'm not so sure it wat the kiss that slowed her career down. Jurassic Park is one of my all-time guilty pleasure movies EXCEPT for Ms. Dern. She's a shrill annoyance in the film, with all of the acting ability of a rubber band (one of those tiny ones, not the big wide ones that REALLY hurt if you flick someone with them) being stretched too thin.

By the time she hit her 30s, there was a new crop of eye-candy babes to take her place and I'm sure the calls slowed down.

[weegee]

This is a “look at me” “victim” “bigotry” PR piece.

She still gets work. She just starred in another David Lynch movie (her third leading role for him). His films aren’t widely seen.

She was in some kind of abortion comdey film that purported to make fun of “both sides”.

I don’t think that she was ever looking for the same roles Jennifer Aniston was seeking.

[Tallguy]

Well I guess she has to have an acceptable explanation as to why she can’t find work — one that won’t offend the libs running the movie business. (Blame it on that Conservative behind the tree.)

Of course, a simpler explanation is that, at 49, she’s in that career notch where there just isn’t much work for an actress. When she’s 59 things may change.