Martin Hewitt - My Career Went Straight Down The Shitter After "Endless Love"

That was his first professional job, and afterwards no one would hire him for anything. His career went straight down the shitter.

He now runs a Home Inspection Business.

So what happened?

He was better than Brooke Shields, actually, and got decent enough reviews. I imagine he walked away from it all.

Strange because he said his goal was to do theater, yet after Endless Love he seemed to pound the pavement trying to break into films, when she should have just concentrated on theater.

Maybe Franco Zeffirelli molested him.

Weird. I just watched this for the first time today. He was incredibly sexy in it and I can't get over the fact that Brooke was only 15 at the time. This would never fly today where you have a 22 year sharing passionate lovemaking scenes (surely they used a body double for her?) with a young teen. Yikes! Brooke was stunning though and they had great chemistry together.

R6 Unfortunately, that wouldn't have ended his career. It probably would have extended it. If anything, Hewitt probably said no and THAT'S what ended his career.

OP - Why did Amy Madigan's career go straight down the shitter?

R10 because Ed Harris paid the bills, so there was no need for her to push her career that hard

r11 How Amy managed to ensnare studly Ed I will never comprehend

R11, she overlooks his interludes with hung black men, apparently. Or so says the vintage gossip.

[quote]R7 I can't get over the fact that Brooke was only 15... This would never fly today where you have a 22 year sharing passionate lovemaking scenes (surely they used a body double for her?) with a young teen.

Yes, Shields has a body double for both this and THE BLUE LAGOON. Hewitt had to wear a special “cock sock” when he faced Shields naked, too. Mama Shields insisted. (Maybe it was drunko Teri Shields who molested him, and that’s what turned him off acting?)

BREAKING NEWS: I had no idea he was on THE LOVE BOAT!

He was also in the timeless masterpiece Two Moon Junction, with Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, and Kristy McNichol. They don't make 'em like that anymore!

TRIVIA: Michelle Phillips made daughter Chynna turn that one down, deeming it “soft core porn.”

If we are discussing Endless Love we have to at least mention how Tom Cruise appears in it and seems like such a baby gay.

I don’t even want to imagine his audition.

[italic]Musical Interlude

whose? Martin's or Tom's r18?

Seems like one of those instances where the song was much more popular than the movie. It was played constantly that summer/fall, almost like "My Heart Will Go On" was later.

gee that song really works. Best Song ever from a rotten movie. I got a chills listening to r19.

Comes out on Bluray in August with a new interview with Mr Hewitt

Diana and Lionel could sing at live too. Back when singers didn't need autotune.

R18 Didn't Kristy show her tits in that one?

Brooke Shields--most beautiful teenager ever?

Tom C.'s 41 seconds. Notice the body worship and butt presentation.

Hewitt was not a very good actor. Compare his performance with James Spader's and it's easy to see why Spader had a good career and he didn't.

[quote]R26 Brooke Shields--most beautiful teenager ever?

Yes

but oddly she only became a semi-attractive adult (at least by movie star standards)

ENDLESS LOVE kind of killed her career for a while. She was the star, and it wasn’t a hit like THE BLUE LAGOON was.

It showed that people weren’t going to flock to see her in just anything.

Poor dear.

I thought it was just great when it came out. I've never gone back to see it again though. Zeffirelli held open calls in a few cities and I remember going and dropping off a picture, but nobody ever called, lol.

From Wikipedia:

While enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, CA and working as bartender and valet car park/parking lot attendant, Hewitt saw an ad for an open call for a film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and beat out 5,000 actors, including Tom Cruise and Timothy Hutton and r32.

[quote]she overlooks his interludes with hung black men, apparently.

Whoa, really?

Tom Cruise was kind of dorky in this. I can see why he didn't get the lead. Martin was the right choice.

Two Moon Junction, R15, Dear Gawd, pure x-rated filth...and I loved every goddamned minute of it.

R24, Diana And Lionel sound soooo good in that Oscar clip. Thanks.

R22, Endless Love (the song) was released on August 1, 1981. The many, many babies who were undoubtedly conceived to this song are turning 37 this year.

Time flies ...

He is partly right that his career 'went down the shitter' because of Endless Love but the fact that he was a terrible actor also has something to do with it I'm afraid.

Brooke Shields was very beautiful in this movie. Her mother was no dummy.

Brooke has always been and remains stunning. Martin who?

That song doth provide me with CHILLS.

The infamous Richard Tyson erection from Two Moon Junction.

Endless Love was an infuriating movie. His character was a piece of shit. What makes it worse is apparently in the book Brooke's character ends up with a woman. And the remake was boring (didn't help that Pettyfer is an asshole).

R27 Tom had not yet learned how to take a dick at this point.

I remember buying a dvd of Two Moon Junction and the lady who sold it to me said it would make me want to move to the South lol

Reminds me of The Man in the Moon, with the then-cute Jason London as the doomed sex object.

The Man in the Moon was a good movie.

[Quote] The Man in the Moon was a good movie.

Back when Reese made movies that weren't boring romcoms.

Would have been better if there had been some nude wrestling with Jason and twin bro Jeremy.

I have never seen this movie; is it streaming anywhere? From what I remember not only did the movie bomb but it also became one of those films that receives huge amounts of scorn. Was it really that bad? Why would it provoke such animosity? There were certainly other movies then and since that were much worse.

I went to see Endless Love just to see Hewitt's ass. After the scene, I went home.

His career didn’t go down the shitter AFTER Endless Love. That movie WAS the shitter

I think we need a thread on the classic TWO MOON JUNCTION.

R45 Endless Love was an infuriating movie. His character was a piece of shit. What makes it worse is apparently in the book Brooke's character ends up with a woman.

The novel is great, kind of lyrical and lost and savage at the same time. I can’t explain what makes Scott Spencer such a good writer - he just uses language well. Part of the reason the movie’s crappy is that the first person narration is taken away, and that’s the best part.

[quote]Why, then, if we never quite believe in David's obsession, does most of this book compel? Because of Spencer's moment-by-moment perception, detail, and comic/dramatic scene-making. Because of the gorgeously stark prose... But, above all, because whether David's particular excessive fixation convinces on a literal level, his story works absolutely as a massive metaphor for whatever endless loves, hates, or fears the reader brings to the book: "If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits..." With all its flaws, excesses, and perversities--a daring, original, and important work. (KIRKUS REVIEW, 1979)

R45 Endless Love was an infuriating movie. His character was a piece of shit. What makes it worse is apparently in the book Brooke's character ends up with a woman.

The novel is great, kind of lyrical and lost and savage at the same time. I can’t explain what makes Scott Spencer such a good writer - he just uses language well. Part of the reason the movie’s crappy is that the first person narration is taken away, and that’s the best part.

[quote]Why, then, if we never quite believe in David's obsession, does most of this book compel? Because of Spencer's moment-by-moment perception, detail, and comic/dramatic scene-making. Because of the gorgeously stark prose... But, above all, because whether David's particular excessive fixation convinces on a literal level, his story works absolutely as a massive metaphor for whatever endless loves, hates, or fears the reader brings to the book: "If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits..." With all its flaws, excesses, and perversities--a daring, original, and important work. (KIRKUS REVIEW, 1979)

Oh, dear!

And I didn’t even use the quote function right : (

I agree that the novel is great.

R21, I remember my babysitter said “that song is haunting me” and so I thought the song itself was haunted somehow. Kids are dumb.

[quote] Endless Love is one of those books which, strung out over the space of more than ten years, tells its whole story by telling very little in enormous detail. The effortless narrative technique is masterful, and the prose itself has a sharpness and richness that seem capable of describing almost anything. The scenes of sex, for instance, the immense epic scenes of sex, are absolutely breathtaking, but never gratuitous; they are central to the story Spencer is telling, perhaps the most central thing.

[quote]There is an immense sadness to this book ... It is the sadness that the past inevitably has, that these things happened and those did not, a life was given to this and not to that, a happiness that seemed available was not achieved. It is a sadness that the reality of our lives always has, but to find it expressed with such clarity and poignance in a work of art is rare.

(THE SUN)

Martin's character should have traveled to the Blue Lagoon island and had endless toe-curling sex with Christopher Atkins' character. Sorry, Brooke, no more twink dick for you.

[quote] I think we need a thread on the classic TWO MOON JUNCTION.

Link below

R24 That song still brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it. Lionel Richie and Diana Ross sing it so beautifully and with such emotion. It's a song that's so pure and earnest. It's a classic.

R27 Tom was a pudgy little thing as a teen, wasn't he? Still kinda cute, though. I wonder if Zeffirelli blew him.

Tom Cruise is a little teen musclegod in that clip at r7 (that ass!), but his voice is terrible and his line readings are even worse.

[quote]R52 I have never seen this movie; is it streaming anywhere?

Sadly, this may be a more enjoyable option:

R67 Not to mention eager to get onto his back. Perhaps someone had already popped his cherry at that point.

R52 yes it’s on amazon prime

Martin was convincing in the sex scene and gave good orgasm face. I really believed he dumped a warm load of semen into Miss Shield’s hotbox.

Conversely, Franco Zeffirelli had to twist the virginally wooden Brooke Shields’ big toe to get some kind of expression on her face in that scene.

[quote]The Man in the Moon was a good movie.

The Man in the Moon is a lady.

OP, I have now blocked you, as I block each OP of threads with "in the shitter" in the headline.

R75 there is more than one poster who posts the "shitter" headline.

Endless Love is coming to Blu-ray later this summer so we can all enjoy Martin's ass in hi-def glory.

Wasn't there gossip that the only reason Tom Cruise got that small role in Endless Love was because he put out for Zeffirelli?

Tom Crusie was so horsey-looking back in the early '80s in this film and Taps. He obviously got some early work done.

His nose is different in this film than subsequent ones.

Hey! This thread is about me!!!

The scene with the mother watching them have sex is so odd. (sort of like Brooke's mother was doing in real life.)

Uh, except they weren't having sex in real life.

[quote]R82 The scene with the mother watching them have sex is so odd.

Yes- this is more jarring to modern audiences. With the book, you don't actually SEE that play out, so you reason, "Well, the mom's a bohemian writer, so ... okay, I guess." But modern viewers are like, "What the HELL??"

This is kind of interesting. The interviewer is TERRIBLE, but you get to see the obscure Hewitt talking as himself rather than as a character.

He does shush Brooke before they start, and she gives him a bit of a glare. Then when the first question goes to her, he sighs deeply. But he mellows out. Maybe he was just kidding.

He was so hot. Hard to believe he's in his 60s now. Where does the time go?

Martin has a model face, not an actor face. As an 'actor' he had two expressions: 1) sad/serious/angry and 2) toothy smile.

There's no doubt Zefferelli hit that.

[quote]What makes it worse is apparently in the book Brooke's character ends up with a woman.

Only for a while, she was LUGging.

Susan! No one at Jade's college likes her. But she gets ditched when David reappears.

At the end of the book, Jade has married a Frenchman.

I can totally see why they cast Martin. He's so handsome and sexy. Brooke is beautiful. I'm sure they thought they had it in the bag.

My favourite line about Endless Love was Bette Midler introducing Best Song at the Oscars in '82.

"Endless Love... from the ENDLESS MOVIE Endless Love."

Apparently Atkins got in Brooke's pants, despite the armed guards and barbed wire. Of course, it's also rumored that Atkins got the role by putting out for the gay director.

R92 i thought Brooke lost her virginity to Dean Cain??

Scroll down for his old man pic.

There were two old men pics in that link but don’t think either one is him.

Here he is. Not sure what year this is from.

Wait—why does Tom Cruise talk like Leo Gorcey in R27?

[quote] Scroll down for his old man pic.

Neither of those people is Martin Hewitt. The 2nd photo is Lenny Von Dohlen.

[quote]r90 My favourite line about Endless Love was Bette Midler introducing Best Song at the Oscars in '82: [italic]"Endless Love... from the ENDLESS MOVIE Endless Love."[/italic]

r27 damn, Tom was such a hottie. He deserved to be a leading man because he's got that interesting face that just makes me swoon. HIs compact body is just perfect. I know he's crazy, but man is he physically my type. Was one of the hottest men in Hollywood.

[quote]The 2nd photo is Lenny Von Dohlen.

Wow, Lenny Von Dohlen, another guy I assumed was going to be a huge star....and then he didn't. He was gorgeous and a very good actor. What happened?

R100 Nothing wrong with Tom that abundant thick cock couldn't have fixed, back in the day. His school buddies should have gangbanged him in All the Right Moves.

[quote]Wow, Lenny Von Dohlen, another guy I assumed was going to be a huge star

Really? There was something so fragile and frantic about him that he seemed always to be one step away from a nervous breakdown. Very memorable face, especially the eyes.

I never thought Lenny would be a huge star but he's a good actor. I thought he would get better parts although he has worked steadily.

Interesting interview with Shirley Knight, who played Brooke's mon in the film, especially the anecdote about how Martin was cast.

Interview is at the end.

My Love, There's Only You In My Life

Didn't the mother divorce the dad because after she saw the Brooke and Martin characters having sex she realized her marriage was lacking passion? It's been years since I read the book.

That may have been part of it, but the breakup was also instigated by their house burning down, and the family having to reformulate. The couple just couldn't keep it going, and rebuild how they'd functioned on a day to day basis. They'd been kind of coasting along it their nest and then it literally blew up.

I should read the book again. It's good.

Martin Hewitt talking about Endless Love for the Blu-Ray.

Still looks good. He has such beautiful eyes.

He was also in "Killer Party," a fantastic cheesy '80s slasher movie. I watched it the other night, and he sure was gorgeous in it.

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