The Rocker

The Rocker

If you loved 'The Office' - and we imagine that covers most of the people reading this - you may have followed the careers of many of the central cast as they've attempted to translate their sitcom fame into a movie career. A number of them have been successful, but there are some notable exceptions. We don't know what persuaded Rainn Wilson to accept the lead role in 2008's 'The Rocker,' but we're certain it can't have been the script.

Making a musical is always a risky business - especially when it's not a musical in the 'Mamma Mia' or 'Chicago' sense of the world. 'School of Rock' managed to make it work for rock and roll music, but 'The Rocker' didn't. Ticking every 'rock stars behave badly' cliché ever written during its torturous 102-minute running time, it made back half of its $15m budget. Fox Atomic, which was only created to make 'cult' movies, was shut down for failing at its task.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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