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We've all heard of one-hit wonders, promising new musicians who shone brightly for a few

months, producing a hit so infectious that nothing they released afterward came close

to recapturing that magic.

Well, actors can be one-hit wonders too.

They struggle for years to find their breakout role, and garner fame, fortune, and affection

among the movie-going masses.

But after that one iconic part, they don't get much of a chance to replicate their success.

Here are just a few actors that Hollywood dumped after one hit role.

Jonathan Bennett

Mean Girls had the potential to turn Jonathan Bennett into a bona fide star, as the hugely

popular 2004 teen movie did for much of its female cast, including Lindsay Lohan, Rachel

McAdams and Amanda Seyfried.

Bennet, who plays Lindsay Lohan's high school crush, had the potential to be an epic Hollywood

crush.

Why he didn't remains one of Hollywood's weirdest mysteries.

In the decade and change since Mean Girls hit theaters, Bennett has starred in about

20 forgettable projects, including Van Wilder: Freshman Year, a direct-to-video Van Wilder

prequel in which he takes over for Ryan Reynolds.

His most notable appearance probably came from Dancing with the Stars.

But hey, at least he's landed that fun and steady job hosting Cake Wars on Food Network.

Alicia Silverstone

Fresh from star-making turns in the Aerosmith videos "Cryin'" and "Crazy," Alicia Silverstone

landed a starring role in 1995's Clueless, launching her to "Hollywood's Next 'It' Girl"

status.

Twenty years later, we're still wondering what went wrong.

Maybe she did permanent damage to her career with her next big movie, playing Batgirl in

1997's Batman & Robin, a flick so poorly-received that star George Clooney apologized for it.

"But didn't you apologize to the crowd at comic-con for Batman and Robin?"

"I always apologize for Batman and Robin"

Maybe movie viewers only wanted to see Silverstone play a rebellious music video teen, or a sweet,

ditzy, and spoiled teen, because her next movies bombed, including Blast from the Past

with fellow forgotten icon Brendan Fraser and Excess Baggage with Benicio Del Toro.

Either way, it's been a real bummer to see her quickly go from MTV Movie Award-winning

actress to playing the mom in the fourth Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie.

Does she mind?

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, she made her feelings clear, saying,

"I had no interest in being famous or maintaining any kind of fame."

Patrick Fugit

Jerry Maguire writer and director Cameron Crowe took the old dictum to "write what you

know" to heart in 2000 when he made Almost Famous, a film based on his own experiences

as a teenage rock journalist traveling with bands on tour.

The actor Crowe picked to play William Miller, the fictionalized version of his younger self,

was Patrick Fugit, who had just a few TV credits to his name at the time.

Still, Fugit ably anchored the movie and played the part beautifully.

Yet for some reason, Fugit struggled to find work after the film, appearing mostly in interesting

but low-profile movies like the meth comedy Spun, and the religious satire Saved!

He more recently popped up in David Fincher's Gone Girl and starred in the supernatural

television show Outcast, so there's always a chance he might return to the spotlight.

Nia Vardalos

In 1997, Nia Vardalos performed her one-woman show My Big Fat Greek Wedding at the tiny

Hudson Backstage Theatre in Hollywood.

The play was a loose adaptation of the story of how she met and married actor Ian Gomez

and how he somehow fit into her zany Greek-Canadian family.

The project attracted a lot of Hollywood hot shots.

Among them, actress and producer Rita Wilson, who loved it, and managed to convince her

husband, Tom Hanks, to see it too.

Vardalos worked with Hanks' production company on a movie version, which quietly hit theaters

in 2002.

The sweet and gentle romantic comedy, starring the little-known Vardalos, became a massive

cultural hit, earned $241 million at the box office, and became the top-grossing romcom

to date.

That success likely overshadowed Vardalos' future work.

A CBS sitcom version of the movie was canceled after seven episodes, and her follow-up films

Connie and Carla, in which she stars as a woman pretending to be a drag performer, and

My Life in Ruins, where she plays a bumbling tour guide, both flopped.

By 2016, she went back to where it all started and created a sequel, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

2, which only earned a quarter of what the original did at the box office.

Paul Hogan

Before playing the proudly Australian manly man Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan was a huge

star Down Under, starring on the long-running sketch comedy series The Paul Hogan Show from

1973 to 1984.

His 1986 fish-out-of-water comedy, Crocodile Dundee, became a massive international hit,

becoming the second-highest-grossing film in the United States that year.

A hit sequel followed in 1988, and Hollywood clearly wanted to be in the Paul Hogan business,

but Hogan, who was also a writer and director, wanted more control over his projects.

He turned down the starring role in Ghost, a massive hit and best picture nominee, to

write and star in the flop Almost an Angel.

Still adamant about doing things his way, he established a publicly-traded trust to

finance his 1994 cowboy comedy Lightning Jack.

That movie bombed, too.

By 2001, Hogan was back to playing Mick Dundee again in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles,

which earned a Razzie Award nomination for "worst sequel."

Crikey.

Shannon Elizabeth

After the release of American Pie in 1999, Shannon Elizabeth became an overnight sensation.

She plays Nadia, an attractive foreign exchange student who becomes the object of Jason Biggs'

teenage desires, and certainly those of a few audience members, too.

But America moved on from the Texas-born actress almost as quickly as it had embraced her.

Elizabeth would return to the role of Nadia in American Pie 2 in 2001, and American Reunion

in 2012, but she never quite got to capitalize on her star-making performance.

Her most notable duds include the romantic 2011 comedy A Novel Romance, opposite fellow

victim of the Hollywood machine Steve Guttenberg; the 2012 puppy Christmas movie Golden Winter,

opposite Haylie Duff; and 2015's Marshall's Miracle, another dog movie.

Woof.

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Give 5 Kilos With Yogurt Diet - Duration: 2:23.

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Alibaba's Hema grocery stores are changing retail | CNBC Reports - Duration: 4:41.

I'm in Shanghai visiting Alibaba's new retail concept store. The name? Hema.

Not only is the tech titan expanding into offline retail,

but this location is the first with its own robot restaurant too.

Robots are actually delivering, pretty much, all the food.

That's where I'll end up at after the shopping experience.

The Hema store is growing rapidly in China, opening 65 locations in one year.

There's three pillars to its strategy: serving as a place to shop in person,

a distribution center for online orders and the restaurant.

It's hoping to define what the future of retail will look like.

While I'm checking this out, I might as well grab a basket.

Let's see what interests me.

The first thing I notice is the pricing system. Every price tag has a barcode, in which you can use the Hema app

to scan the barcode and see the price of the item online. You can also see reviews of that product.

What's also fascinating is that even though these price tags look like they were printouts,

it's a special technology that can change the price in real-time.

And that's not all.

It even tells you when it was delivered to the store and where it came from.

You can even see a scan of a government certificate proving, for instance, if it was organic.

It also shows delivery options if you decide not to buy it in store.

I just saw a lady who works for the store and she was fulfilling an online order.

So using her scanner, she had a bag, she would pick the products.

And then what was really crazy, is instead of walking across the store to get it where it needs to go,

she put it on a conveyer belt, which then took it to the ceiling, to the back area, where it will go out for delivery.

So essentially now you're talking about not only a retail store, but also a distribution center.

And if you live within three kilometers of a Hema store,

you can have delivery of your groceries within 30 minutes.

You see a lot of employees walking around the store, fulfilling orders.

I understand how it can maximize efficiency of sourcing,

but it creates a somewhat chaotic experience too, when you have a lot of people running around.

A lot of sample stations throughout the store.

It's like a Costco. Sample stations everywhere.

At one point you ask yourself, why even come to the store then?

If everything is online and it's such an easy experience to just order from an app.

Well one reason Chinese consumers prefer to come in store is for seafood.

It's very important for the Chinese consumer to see firsthand their seafood, to make sure it's fresh.

Alright, so I picked two items that I'm going to check out with.

One of them is bananas, and the other one is these Lays potato chips, Italian red meat flavor.

Why not try something new?

There's literally no traditional cashier at this grocery store.

It's not like you have an option between a cashier and self-checkout.

So if you're looking for that human interaction, go somewhere else.

Using the Hema app, which is connected to Alipay,

consumers swipe their phone in front of this scanner, and that's pretty much it.

There's also the option to pay using your face, too.

And now, let me try those chips.

It's actually a very subtle taste. It's not too strong, surprisingly.

Now, it's time to try the robot restaurant.

To get a table here, you can check-in at a kiosk, you guessed it, using the app.

It's connected to your identity, your name, everything you've bought in the past, and of course, your wallet.

From there, you get assigned a table. Once you're assigned a table, you scan the barcode at the table.

And then from there, you can just start placing your order on the Hema app.

So you're not waiting for anyone to come take your order. There's no pen or paper, any of that.

In fact, you really have no interaction with a staff member.

And then from there, the robots deliver your food.

And you've already paid, all within the same app.

Alibaba leveraged its existing technology from the e-commerce automated warehouses

to power these new robot restaurants.

It's really an entire ecosystem of robots that are working together pretty well. I have yet to see a collision.

Even the tablet at the table, in a way, is obsolete.

The only thing the tablet can really do is entertain you. There's games, which your phone probably has.

You can call for a server if you need, you can use the tablet for that.

And then there's also a demo of how the robots work as well.

The robots can't handle everything though.

For complicated dishes, like soups, that'll require a human server.

For more infomation >> Alibaba's Hema grocery stores are changing retail | CNBC Reports - Duration: 4:41.

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Putin's Address to Russian Citizens - Duration: 29:40.

Citizens of Russia, friends,

On June 16, 2018, the Government submitted to the State Duma a draft law on reforming the pension system, and on June 19, the draft passed its first reading in Parliament.

The law's main purpose is to ensure that the pension system remains sustainable and financially sound for years to come.

This means not only maintaining incomes and pensions at the same level, but also increasing them for current and future retirees.

It is for achieving these goals that the draft law envisages a gradual increase in the retirement age, along with a number of other measures.

I do understand how important and serious these matters are for millions of people, for every person.

For this reason, I decided to speak to you directly, in order to explain every aspect of the changes the Government is proposing.

I will also share my perspective and proposals that I believe to be essential.

First of all, let me remind you that the debate on the need to increase the retirement age has not come out of nowhere or all of a sudden, and did not start today.

This issue was discussed back in the Soviet times, as well as in the 1990s.

However, the decisions were not taken, but were delayed for various reasons.

In the early 2000s, Government members, as well as many experts insisted that the pension system needed to be reformed and the retirement age raised.

These changes had objective grounds.

It was obvious that by about 2020 we would inevitably face serious demographic challenges.

What caused them?

Every 25 to 27 years, a significantly lower number of people in Russia enter adulthood, when they can start families and raise children, than there could and should be.

This is due to the grave demographic loss of the Great Patriotic War, which includes not only direct losses but also millions of people who were never born during the war.

The mid-1990s were a period when another small generation entered adulthood.

It was at that time that the country also faced the harshest economic and social crisis and its catastrophic consequences.

This led to another powerful demographic collapse.

Even fewer children were born than we expected.

The demographic pit of the late 1990s was comparable to 1943 and 1944.

Now, that low-numbered generation born in the 1990s is entering the active working age.

This is putting even more pressure on the pension system, which is primarily based on the pay-as-you-go principle.

That is, the pension contributions of the people who work are used for payments to the current pensioners, the generation of our parents.

Our parents, when they worked, contributed to the pensions of our grandparents.

The conclusion is clear.

The active working age population is decreasing, along with our capability to pay and adjust pensions for inflation.

Therefore, changes are necessary.

I opposed them in the 2000s. I spoke about this both in private meetings and in public.

For example, during a Direct Line broadcast in 2005 I openly said that no such changes would happen until the end of my presidential term.

In 2008, when I left the presidential post, the basic provisions of the pension system were fully preserved.

Now I believe that at the time my view was economically feasible and socially fair and justified.

I am certain that raising the retirement age in the early and mid-2000s would have been absolutely wrong.

Let me also remind you how the country lived at the time.

Its economy had yet to gain a stable footing with modest GDP figures and extremely low salaries.

The unemployment rate was high, and so was the inflation rate.

Almost 25 percent of the country's population lived below the poverty line.

Life expectancy was just slightly above 65 years.

What would have happened, if in that socioeconomic environment we started raising the retirement age in order to increase pensions, as we now intend to do?

Many families, especially in smaller towns and rural areas, would have lost their main and sometimes only income.

Considering the high unemployment rate, neither working nor retiring would have been an option, while any gains in pensions would have been eaten up by high inflation, producing even more poverty than before.

We had to start by overcoming the consequences of the 1990s, generating economic growth and resolving the most urgent social problems.

So what has changed over the past years?

We did not waist our time.

When I say we, I mean that all of us, citizens, the authorities and the country, were hard at work.

As soon as we were able to accumulate the required financial resources, we channelled them into social development for the benefit of our people.

We launched long-term initiatives to improve demographics, including the maternity capital subsidy.

They yielded positive results, partially offsetting the demographic setbacks of the preceding decades.

We also had to overcome major economic challenges, and succeeded in reviving stable economic growth starting in 2016.

The unemployment rate in Russia is currently at its lowest since 1991.

Of course, there are a lot of things that have yet to be undertaken, including in healthcare and in other areas that are essential in terms of the quality of life and life expectancy.

That said, there is no question that due to government initiatives, alongside the fact that people started paying more attention to their health, which is also very important, Russia is now one of the leading nations in terms of life expectancy growth rates.

Over the past 15 years, life expectancy increased by 8 years (7.8 years).

I am aware that we all tend to take statistics with a pinch of salt, preferring to draw conclusions from our surroundings and what we can see ourselves.

Some people live long lives, while some of our family members and friends unfortunately leave this world very early.

I am referring to an impartial assessment of life expectancy growth in Russia, as confirmed by United Nations experts.

We have set ourselves the goal of reaching a life expectancy of more than 80 years by the end of the next decade.

And we will make every effort to ensure that people in our country live longer and remain in good health.

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