| My favorite headline 20 years ago in The New York Post was “The Tragic Jinx of 'Hart to Hart.'"
That came after famed and beloved actor William Holden, the lover of Stefanie Powers, died. A little earlier, Natalie Wood, wife of Robert Wagner, met her watery fate. I’m not sure but I bet it was Vinnie Musetto, the great bard of Post headline writing, who came up with that.
So now, I give you in tribute: “The Tragic Jinx of 'Dawson’s Creek.'” Heath Ledger, former fiancé of Michelle Williams, is dead. At the same time, Katie Holmes has been swallowed up into Tom Cruise’s bizarre world of Scientology and control. Her promising movie career is almost over. The one movie she made in two years, "Mad Money," is a bust.
And to think: Katie nearly co-starred with Ledger in "The Dark Knight." But the conventional wisdom is that Cruise nixed that plan, sending Katie into acting oblivion. Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose brother Jake co-starred with Heath in "Brokeback Mountain," took her place.
That leaves, of course, the two male leads from "Dawson’s Creek." James Van Der Beek, from his credits, looks like he’s headed into TV oblivion. Joshua Jackson hasn’t shown all his cards, and it’s still within the realm of possibility that he’ll make a go of his career on a bigger scale. If they don’t make it, "The Tragic Jinx of 'Dawson’s Creek'" will be all the more relevant |
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