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Amanda Bynes' Career: 1999 - 2010

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (45)

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Whew. Well, how about those Braves, y’all. First place in their division, two-and-a-half games ahead of the Mets. And what happened to the Phillies? They should’ve hung on to Cliff Lee. I’m telling you.

Anyway, after the whole Toy Story debacle on the site this weekend, I thought we’d try and get back to truly important matters, like the devastating news over the weekend that Amanda Bynes — at age 24 — has announced her retirement. She probably told her agent, and all of her loved ones, and maybe she even filed her retirement papers with the Union, but none of that matters until you Tweet your intentions, as Bynes did over the weekend.

“Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem,” she tweeted from her verified account. “If I don’t love something anymore I stop doing it. I don’t love acting anymore so I’ve stopped doing it.”

I’m crestfallen. And confused, and maybe borderline inconsolable. I don’t know what to do with this news. I don’t know how to process it. I feel like something has been taken away from me. I can only imagine what went on behind the scenes that provoked this decision. It’s truly heartbreaking.

But the one question about this whole ordeal that boggles my mind the most is this: Who the hell is Amanda Bynes?

(Source: OMG via Rykker)









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Comments

Wasn't she on some Nickelodeon show 10 or 12 years ago? Other than that, I couldn't say what she's done.

Posted by: chad at June 21, 2010 9:41 AM

I can only imagine what went on behind the scenes that provoked this decision.

Your answer....absolutely NOTHING!

Posted by: PissBoy at June 21, 2010 9:41 AM

And you thought the BP situation was causing global devastation!

Posted by: Case at June 21, 2010 9:43 AM

I would also like to take the opportunity to announce that my careers in Indy Car racing, Bull Riding, Neck Jack Swing and Extreme Tetherball are coming to an end. It was a difficult choice, but I believe this will allow me to concentrate on my dual loves of spell checking and watching soup cool.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at June 21, 2010 9:46 AM

That's New Jack Swing. As you can see the spell check is suffering.

Posted by: mrcreosote at June 21, 2010 9:48 AM

Maybe she needs to devote more time to spray tanning.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at June 21, 2010 9:49 AM

Maybe she needs to devote more time to spray tanning.

That won't help at all. i think she needs to look more like a generic blonde actress.

Posted by: PissBoy at June 21, 2010 9:50 AM

Speaking as a 90's kid, I mourned the death of her career years ago. I actually really liked her on All That and adored The Amanda Show. I also did not hate her in Hairspray, which was interesting considering how much I hated that version (they took all of Penny's best lines away, which Bynes could've totally sold).
Honestly, I thought she gave up after the disaster that was She's the Man.

Posted by: Kevin at June 21, 2010 9:51 AM

Didn't she just do some Maxim or FHM spread? My guess is that didn't jump start her career like she had hoped...hence this news.
I actually liked her in What a Girl Wants. For some reason I kinda like that movie.
Stop judging me with your judging eyes.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at June 21, 2010 9:55 AM

Plus she is in Easy A with Emma Stone. I guess it is her last hurrah.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at June 21, 2010 9:58 AM

I, too, enjoyed What a Girl Wants for whatever reason. I miss her old look, though. I wish she hadn't gone all blonde and creepy on me.

Posted by: ssarah at June 21, 2010 10:05 AM

Much to my own disappointment, "She's the Man" makes me laugh every damn time. I'd like to think my tastes are more refined than that, but they're not. Curse my hyperactive giggle glands! Curse them I say!

Posted by: Lza at June 21, 2010 10:14 AM

Since she's at a career crossroads, I think she should move here and be my very special housekeeper intern for a couple of months until I get bored with her, and use that as inspiration to get back into acting.

Posted by: Confucius Jackson at June 21, 2010 10:23 AM

I've always liked her, but as an actress she is forgettable. But for some reason I always watch What a Girl Wants and Sydney White. I know, I'm dropping my head in shame as I say it, but I always watch them when they are on. Don't Judge, you know you watch them too!

Posted by: Daney at June 21, 2010 10:24 AM

Yes, I liked She's The Man too. It was dumb for all the right reasons. But then you get her work on that TV show she had and Syndey White, and you start to see where her uniqueness started to fade and started to become another blonde actress in Hollywood.

So, here's hoping a few years from now she'll do some indie film where he comedic chops can shine.

Posted by: Doric at June 21, 2010 10:25 AM

"She's the Man" is awesome, I've watched that movie a 100 times and it always makes me smile/laugh. "Be a man, rub some dirt in it." Hehe. It also has early Channing Tatum and gratuitous soccer nudity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OhwrMidSU

She also had a show called "What I like about you" that ran for 5 seasons with Jennie Garth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHKsvW_eLy8
- you can also see Megan Fox's early acting skillz

Posted by: kilmo at June 21, 2010 10:27 AM

Evidently she couldn't make the jump to shitty romcoms. You can only play Disney princess for so long before someone notices your only talents are a pretty face and clean white teeth.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at June 21, 2010 10:29 AM

No...we don't. On that note I think we should get that other girl from All That, ya know the umm one with more mass, And just replace this girl with that one, that would keep me chuckling...or Kel? Where the hell has Kel been. His hilarious love for orange soda gets me every time.

Posted by: Blank at June 21, 2010 10:30 AM

maybe borderline inconsolable.

Am I the only one who read this as "borderline incontinent"? Yes? Just me. Ok. More coffee, please.

P.S. I too enjoy Ms. Bynes. I actually watched a few episodes of that show she was on with Jenny Garth, which I would not have had she not been adorable on it.

P.P.S. RETIRING?! Who the eff RETIRES from a career at 24?! I am clearly in the wrong field.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at June 21, 2010 10:36 AM

Does this mean my students will stop trying to say Shakespeare wrote She's the Man and bring in cuttings for the annual Shakespeare festival? No? They'll still insist the film came out before Twelfth Night or, my favorite, say "What's Twelfth Night?" before quitting, won't they?

Posted by: Robert at June 21, 2010 10:44 AM

I associate Amanda Bynes with poor decisions I make while drunk in the middle of the night. Such as watching Sydney White on ABC family.

Posted by: sheshakes at June 21, 2010 10:58 AM

This all screams publicity stunt.

Hope it's true, though. Good for her.

Posted by: figgy at June 21, 2010 11:03 AM

Well played, Amanda. You got your spray-tanned ass all over every entertainment site this morning. Nothing like a little tweetanganda to jump-start the flat-line career thing, eh honey?

Posted by: tar at June 21, 2010 11:10 AM

Couple this with Robert Pattinson's recent prediction of not making it to his 30th birthday, and I may have hope for this generation's future after all.

Posted by: KLS at June 21, 2010 11:39 AM

I LOVED The Amanda Show.

My son and I would eat that stuff up. It was the cleanest yet funniest show for kids around at the time. Bynes had a recurring and wonderfully bizarre bit about a stalker, "Amanda, Please!" and another about a bootleg video store with a giant jar of coveted pickled eggs.

"Have you eaten of the egg?" is still code talk at my house for when the teenager eats all of a packege of something.

Say what you want. Amanda Bynes has a lifetime free pass with me, SCRAM bracelet or spray tan she's worth a hundred Lilos.

Posted by: Stacy D at June 21, 2010 12:20 PM

I thought she was kind of charming in Hairspray. I've never seen any of her shows and only a couple of movies, but I liked her because of an interview where she talked about how she'd rather die than to act like a drunken whore and get her face plastered on the tabloids for her parents to see. And to my knowledge, she's never gone Lohan.

Posted by: superEdna at June 21, 2010 12:21 PM

I've watched a few episodes of What I Like About You, but I can't recall how or why that happened. It was a solidly benign show. One thing I can say for the girl though is that she has fantastic legs. Even more so than your average, run of the mill thin starlet. She can always fall back on the glamorous life of pantyhose advertisements.

Posted by: katy at June 21, 2010 12:25 PM

But All That was so good! Kid me loved it! And The Amanda Show! Poor first grade me!


Oh wait. That was like 90234r490 years ago. Whatever. First grade me can go watch Keenan and Kel reruns.

Posted by: esme at June 21, 2010 12:37 PM

Carrie Underwood is retiring? There's hope for this world ye ...

Amanda who?

Posted by: , at June 21, 2010 12:47 PM

"What I Like About You" was (at least by post-reality standards) a quality sitcom.

And she was bonafide good looking, always straddling the line between 'cute' and 'hot'...Until the Maxim bit, where she tried to make a full step into 'Hott" territory, which I would say was a success.
But does she seem a little Hollywood-fake now? unfortunately yes.

but whatever, this is all just publicity.

Posted by: VinKong at June 21, 2010 1:10 PM

My only real quantifiable knowledge of who she is comes from a movie where she cross-dressed and played soccer that I watch while on 'shrooms and thought was incredible.

Posted by: matt at June 21, 2010 2:03 PM

I am retiring at the age of 24 means that her agent hasn't returned her calls for a couple of years and when she did finally get contacted by her agency it was some receptionist telling her that her contract wasn't being renewed. Somebody must have noticed that whenever three fourths of her face wasn't covered by hair she had a striking resemblance to Mr. Potatohead. Now if they could just get rid of Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst and after the collapse of Sex and the City Mrs. Ed as a general Hollywood beautification project.

Posted by: OscarTamerz at June 21, 2010 2:37 PM

Oscar,

I dunno. She's pretty in that photo up top, although pretty in an "I can stand outside the student union for an hour today (and it's summer session we're talking about) and point to 100 girls every bit as pretty" way.

Posted by: , at June 21, 2010 2:49 PM

She's Ask Ashley.

Posted by: Lucas at June 21, 2010 3:48 PM

Shit, I didn't even notice she had left. Sorry Amanda! Um...we'll miss your spry and charming personality on the erm...screens of film and television and beyond. Thank you for the legions of grand memories, even if...I can't recall most of them at the moment. Regardless, all my best! See you on Skinemax!

Posted by: Barnes78 at June 21, 2010 8:33 PM

I was really looking forward to her being naked in a movie. Now I'll just have to settle for old upskirts. . . . aw, nards.

Posted by: adam at June 21, 2010 11:48 PM

Bottom line Amanda - you should've been a guy.

Posted by: maewest at June 22, 2010 12:28 AM

I wonder how she's gonna keep busy? She can't even hawk her clothing line since Steve and Barry's went TU...

Posted by: DeaconG at June 22, 2010 1:15 AM

More like 1996 - 2010.

Posted by: David at June 22, 2010 7:25 AM

I like Amanda Bynes. For some reason, that Sydney White movie cracks me up. And she was good in Hairspray. That said, she needs to put on some damn pants once in awhile.

Maybe she'll go into writing or directing if the parts aren't what she wants.

Posted by: TWoP_Fan at June 22, 2010 11:35 AM

Eh. She's got money, she's pretty. She can go to pretty much any school she wants (or has she got a degree already? I don't know, it's not like I've followed her personal life) and jumpstart a career in most fields. Plus she'll have royalty income the rest of her life any time ABCFamily decides to air "She's the Man," I actually kind of respect her a bit for getting out of the game and doing something with herself instead of turning to Celebrity Fat Camp or whatever.

Posted by: Silmelas at June 22, 2010 2:01 PM

Give her a break, she has been working her ass off since she's 14. 10 years is a decent career in acting and she's still young enough to go do other things. Just cause you weren't watching her shows on Nickelodeon or whatever doesn't mean she wasn't doing well for herself.

Posted by: Sarah at June 22, 2010 6:32 PM

i kind of thought of her as the a sister to the olsen twins.

Posted by: Utah Dynamo at June 22, 2010 8:48 PM

Lucas: She's Ask Ashley.

What does it say about me that the second I read this I said (aloud) "Thaaat's me!"

Posted by: Kevin at June 23, 2010 10:26 AM

Embarrassingly I LOVE She's the Man but I'm a sucker for a Shakespeare interpretation. There was a castaway kind of movie in there somewhere which sucked beyond belief and Sydney White just didn't meet my expectations but I did love the line Hi Ho Hi Ho.

Posted by: Nxx at June 28, 2010 12:29 AM