NAMES IN THE NEWS : Hanging In Paid Off, Gere Says
What a difference a year makes, says actor Richard Gere.
“Last year at this time, I looked around and asked, ‘Why aren’t I being offered certain movies?’ And the hard answer was, ‘You’re not box office, pal,’ ” Gere said in May’s Vanity Fair.
The actor says his appeal had dropped so severely after movie bombs such as “King David” and “Power” that he considered saying sayonara to the big screen.
“There was a point where I thought the courageous choice would be to get out of the business. But then I thought, ‘No, the courageous thing is to stay in it,”’ Gere recalled.
His choice paid off, with “Internal Affairs” and the current “Pretty Woman” reviving the career of the one-time “American Gigolo.”
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