15 Child Stars Who Did Surprising Things After Leaving Show Business

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Omri Katz started off playing John Ross Ewing III on the legendary nighttime drama Dallas, then became a teen heartthrob after landing the lead role in the series Eerie, Indiana. The show didn’t last long, but the actor made an impression nonetheless. He went on to have sizable big-screen roles in Joe Dante’s Matinee and, most famously, the witchy Bette Midler comedy Hocus Pocus, where he played Max. Katz had trouble getting roles after that, for some reason. A bit part on Freaks & Geeks in 1999 was his most notable post-Hocus Pocus appearance.

Following a one-shot on General Hospital in 2000, he bolted from show biz for good. That’s not to say he stopped acting, though. Katz starred in a bizarre short film entitled The Perfect Girl that got some buzz when it debuted on YouTube. The one-time child star showed a significantly more grown-up side in this racy video. He also worked as a hairdresser for a time before deciding to move to Israel where, at last report, he currently resides. Katz did stir up the internet recently, when he posed for an Instagram photo with fellow Hocus Pocus stars Vinessa Shaw and Thora Birch.

Fair warning, guys: don't look for that YouTube video.

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Oh god no, do not look for the video.

I regret everything.

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After a while I manage to forget or block out that video and then someone writes about Omri Katz and mentioned it. LET IT DID INTERNET. LET IT DIE.

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"I just want a better mental picture of older Mars. How bad could it possibly be?"

Some things cannot be unseen, past!Me. Some things cannot be unseen.

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It's up there with seeing Queen of the Damned at the cinema in terms of things I'd like to go back in time and kick past me in the shins for doing.

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Oh, I'm so, so sorry.

(Speaking of things that have scarred past!Me, I just made it to the first Sammiversary on King Falls, and why are there pet zombies?! I read Pet Sematary at a way too impressionable age for that.)

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I know. Poor tiny hope-dashed cinema going me. I got on a bus for that mess! I hate buses!

(HaHAH I love Rosenbloom, he's soooo weird. "And I'm, hurrhurr, oooouuut" *hangs up*)

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He's becoming one of my favorites.

Alas, I have to stop for the time being and get some actual work done.

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I love the peace garden advert with the gravedigger where he's talking and then spots Dr rosenbloom sneaking around. So good!

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Oh, man! I just finished the episode that was one long Smokey & the Bandit reference!

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Oh my God Rich McGuffs ghost, so awesome! "Ghost cough".

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Yes! Just finished the one with him and President Lincoln in the library...

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Yes!

This is so going to be the fastest I've ever binged an entire podcast...

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I'm so glad you're enjoying it!

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Oh, yes! Now Doyle is describing summoning the ghost of Silent Bob...

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Oh my God I cried laughing at that bit. "Isn't Kevin Smith still alive?"

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Just finished 44 and 45. I have...feelings.

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So many feelings! Poor real Tim! Even more in love with Troy than ever! Still got an embarrassing wrong crush on Pete Myers!

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Ep 48: "Janice, no! Janice that's weird!"

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"Although problematic, a member of the Illuminati..."

Have you seen Janice's in character twitter account?

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I haven't! Now I can search for it, since I no longer have to be worried about spoilers.

Gah! Now that I'm at the end, I am so worried about Emily (assuming, of course, that is the real Emily), creeped out by Frickard, and furious at Ben. And I can't even move on to the next episode!

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Yes! A thousand times yes!

Dang it, how am so emotionally invested in this podcast already? I wasn't even like this about Night Vale.

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Because it's awesome? And also you just saw two years of character development and world building in the space of two days only to watch one of the ME a get crushed life on air in the creepiest way possible...

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I have a binge hangover and I just want to go home and eat ice cream and drink corn whiskey and have feelings now. (Or whatever an appropriate King Falls beverage is. I do not have any Sofa King Beer.)

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I had a feeling the Sammiversary would be rough so I went out and got an ice cream milkshake before listening. Then after listening, I went out and bought another one. If my local Shake Shack offered the Sofa King milkshake, I would have gotten Sofa King drunk.