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not true, both of them had several guest appearences in TV shows


* ''WheelOfFortune'' is literally the only TV credit for both Pat Sajak and Vanna White.

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* Screenwriter Diane Thomas was discovered by Michael Douglas, wrote ''RomancingTheStone'' and then died before she could do another film. There's now a Diane Thomas Screenwriting Award.

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* Screenwriter Diane Thomas was discovered by Michael Douglas, MichaelDouglas, wrote ''RomancingTheStone'' and then died before she could do another film. There's now a Diane Thomas Screenwriting Award.


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* Screenwriter and author Dalton Trumbo directed only one film, ''JohnnyGotHisGun'', an adaptation of his own novel.
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* Carole King's band The City released one album, ''Now That Everything's Been Said'' (1968), before they broke up and she embarked on a solo career.
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* Singer-songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey released his debut album in 1972, and has never released anything else, even though he's still an active performer with a cult following. Supposedly whenever anyone asks him why he hasn't released another album he says "What was wrong with the first one?" One of the songs on the album was "Muskrat Love" (originally called "Muskrat Candlelight"), which was CoveredUp by The Captain & Tennille, thereby allowing Ramsey to collect a lot of royalty money while distancing himself from his OldShame.

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* The Eurodance/trance duo Trouser Enthusiasts produced countless remixes, but "Sweet Release" was their only original production.

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* The Eurodance/trance duo Trouser Enthusiasts produced countless remixes, but "Sweet Release" was their only original production.production, after which they disbanded.
* Jumalatar only produced two EP's, ''Are We Thinking the Same Thing'' and ''Frenzy'', before parting ways.
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* The Eurodance/trance duo Trouser Enthusiasts produced countless remixes, but "Sweet Release" was their only original production.
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This would make Brandon Lee a ONE HIT WONDER; Brandon Lee has acted in more than one movie, which is what this trope would entail


* Brandon Lee, star of ''{{The Crow}}'' was poised to be an action hero in the vein of his father, Bruce Lee, but a gun scene {{gone horribly wrong}} resulted in him being accidentally killed during production. A double was brought in to finish the rest of the film, which contained the younger Lee's only major role, as the protagonist who dies and comes back to life to avenge the murders of him and his girlfriend.
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* Voice actor Thom Huge voiced Jon Arbuckle in the animated specials based on ''{{Garfield}}'', as well as ''GarfieldAndFriends'' (where he also voiced [[USAcres Orson the pig]] and various other characters). To this day, those are his ''only'' credits in any medium.
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* ''WheelOfFortune'' is literally the only TV credit for both Pat Sajak and Vanna White.
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* Edmund Gettier was a philosopher looking for tenure at Wayne State University. To help with this he was encouraged to publish any ideas he had. He published a 3-page paper called ''Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?'' which COMPLETELY changed epistemology (the study of knowledge) by showing that apparently, no it wasn't, contrary to everything since Plato. He never touched epistemology again, and in fact has published nothing else.
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*Forest For The Trees' self-titled album, which itself was a TroubledProduction that almost never saw the light of day due to [[IAmTheBand Carl Stephenson]] having a nervous breakdown. There is the somewhat hard to find EP ''Sounds Of Wet Paint'', which combined remixes with a few outtakes from the debut, and a second album was reportedly finished but never released.
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No longer accurate then.


* TomHanks' only credit as film director to date is ''That Thing You Do!'' Which is funny considering the [[OneHitWonder plot of the movie.]] As of February 2010, however, Hanks is [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1583420/ in the process of developing the second film]] in which he will fill the roles of writer, director, and star.
** His second directing effort opens in July 2011.
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This is called a OneBookAuthor, when a person produces one work in a specific field that becomes extremely popular but never forays into that field again. Compare OneHitWonder, where someone has produced several works but only one had managed to become popular. May overlap with AuthorExistenceFailure, where the author doesn't live long enough to compose another work (i.e.: works published posthumously), or ToughActToFollow, where they're afraid they've peaked on their first attempt.

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This is called a OneBookAuthor, when a person produces one work in a specific field that becomes extremely popular but never forays into that field again. Compare OneHitWonder, where someone has produced several works but only one had managed to become popular. May overlap with AuthorExistenceFailure, where the author doesn't live long enough to compose another work (i.e.: works published posthumously), or ToughActToFollow, where they're afraid they've peaked on their first attempt. May result in {{Lostalgia}}.
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* Sylvia Plath, ''TheBellJar'' (she also, of course, wrote many poems, and at least part of the reason she never wrote another novel was that, well, [[AuthorExistenceFailure she committed suicide]] shortly after ''The Bell Jar'' was published.)

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* Sylvia Plath, SylviaPlath, ''TheBellJar'' (she also, of course, wrote many poems, and at least part of the reason she never wrote another novel was that, well, [[AuthorExistenceFailure she committed suicide]] shortly after ''The Bell Jar'' was published.)
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* The Fitness's ''Call Me For Together''. They were never heard from again.
* Lily Allen's ''It's Not Me, It's You''. She has vowed to never venture into music again.

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* The Fitness's ''Call Me For Together''. They were have never heard from again.
* Lily Allen's ''It's Not Me, It's You''. She has vowed to never venture into music again.
produced anything more.
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* Lily Allen's ''It's Not Me, It's You''. She has vowed to never venture into music again.
* Ashley Jade's ''Dreaming'' album. It is unlikely she will ever return to the spotlight.
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* Lily Allen's ''It's Not Me, It's You''. She has no intention of resuming her music career, :sniff:.
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* Fictional example: In the ''TeenageWorrier'' series, Letty's father is the author of a widely acclaimed novel called "Moving On", but since his daughter's birth it has taken him almost sixteen years to finish his next work (and, it is implied, he probably never will.)
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* Lily Allen's ''It's Not Me, It's You''. She has no intention of resuming her music career, :sniff:.
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* The Fitness's ''Call Me For Together''. They were never heard from again.
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* Austin Tappan Wright's utopian novel ''Islandia''. He worked on the project for years strictly as a hobby; a heavily-condensed version was published after his death in an automobile accident.
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* Bill Watterson. Aside from a few preceding political/college cartoons, ''{{Calvin and Hobbes}}'' is the only thing he has done, ever. After he retired his comic strip in 1995 after a ten-year run, he released no other work, despite writing a few essays on sporadic special occasions.

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* Bill Watterson. Aside from a few preceding political/college cartoons, ''{{Calvin and Hobbes}}'' is the only thing he has done, ever. After he retired his comic strip in 1995 after a ten-year run, he released no other work, despite writing a few essays on sporadic special occasions.occasions.
* Gary Larson likewise. He did write a proto Far Side comic which essentially became TheFarSide. Then retired and hasn't done much else.

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* Bill Watterson. Aside from a few preceding political/college cartoons, ''{{Calvin and Hobbes}}'' is the only thing he has done, ever. After he retired his comic strip in 1995 after a ten-year run, he released no other work, despite writing a few essays on sporadic special occasions.

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* Brandon Lee, star of ''{{The Crow}}'' was poised to be an action hero in the vein of his father, Bruce Lee, but a gun scene {{gone horribly wrong}} resulted in him being accidentally killed during production. A double was brought in to finish the rest of the film, which contained the younger Lee's only major role, as the protagonist who dies and comes back to life to avenge the murders of him and his girlfriend.


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* Skip Spence, whose album ''Oar'' was released in 1969. He was a prominent member of the psychedelic band Moby Grape who turned out to be the American equivalent of Syd Barrett. He weirded out his bandmates by indulging in LSD and attacking someone with a fire axe. He got institutionalized, recorded ''Oar,'' and dropped out of the public life until his death in 1999.
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* Chris Fuhrman, who died from cancer as he was finishing his sole book, ''The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys''
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*Sixties experimental rock band The United States Of America broke up after their self-titled debut, which sold poorly but was later VindicatedByHistory.
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** [[SoBadItsHorrible And humanity breathed a sigh of relief.]]
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** [[SoBadItsHorrible And humanity breathed a sigh of relief.]]

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