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marganagram said:
drtoboggan, Good thread!!
How about Paul Reubens?
For Pee-Wee Herman to go from beloved child entertainer to pervert masturbating in an adult theater was a bit of a blow (hmm. Nahh.) to those of us who used to light up and watch his shows Saturday morning
And, how do you explain that to the kids? Well, you just don't.
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Thanks! I celebrated when it became featured with the great taste of Charleston Chew.
The second Pee Wee bust was sad. I used to watch his show and both movies. Then again, it's kind of ambiguous as to whether or not it's CP. Sinead O'Connor I forgot about until now. It's not easy to get banned from SNL.
 
drtoboggan said:
Thanks! I celebrated when it became featured with the great taste of Charleston Chew.
The second Pee Wee bust was sad. I used to watch his show and both movies. Then again, it's kind of ambiguous as to whether or not it's CP. Sinead O'Connor I forgot about until now. It's not easy to get banned from SNL.
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Yeah, it made me sad, too. I used to really admire the great silliness and innocence of the Pee-Wee character. I hadn't really heard of that arrest until dcisp mentioned it. In both of his arrests, Reubens seems to have been more interested in looking more than anything else. Well, and being a bit of a jerk-off.

Sinead, Sinead, Sinead. Another personal favorite who seemed determined to smash her own popularity. Wikipedia said, "NBC received more than 500 calls on Sunday... and 400 more on Monday, with all but seven criticizing O'Connor", and a grand total of about 4,400 complaining phone calls.
Yep, when you shock SNL, you really know you have gone over the edge a bit too far.

My, I think I will try to find my Charleston Chew, and have a bit to celebrate with you. I've learned some pretty strange and interesting things from this thread! Hope there's lots more.
 
I'm surprised Edward Furlong, Corey Feldman and Uwe Boll haven't been mentioned. If you want to cringe-laugh just take a look at any movie Feldman has made since the early 90's. And Boll challenging anyone who criticizes him to a fight is hilarious.
 
Feldman made the news locally here just yesterday, apparently, he was invited as a celebrity guest to the local minor league ball club's game and made a complete ass of himself, refused to sign autographs, bitched about the catering, bitched about his lodgings, I have a feeling it was the first, and last, Cory Feldman night at the ballpark.
 
Kevin Sorbo (Hercules from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Dylan Hunt from Andromeda) has become a bit of a lolcow. Since he starred in that dreadful Christian film God's Not Dead, he's taken to banging on about his Christianity at every opportunity and talking about how Hollywood's "bias" against Christians has hindered his career when actually the thing hindering his career is that he's not a very good actor.
 
TowinKarz said:
Feldman made the news locally here just yesterday, apparently, he was invited as a celebrity guest to the local minor league ball club's game and made a complete ass of himself, refused to sign autographs, bitched about the catering, bitched about his lodgings, I have a feeling it was the first, and last, Cory Feldman night at the ballpark.
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You'd think that after over 20 years out of the special treatment given to SUCCESSFUL actors, Feldman would be used to having to deal with the mundane reality of normalcy like anyone else...or at least have experienced enough of it to know when he's making an ass out of himself around people who've never experienced things like daily catering to your job place, free lodging or admirers who (for some reason) have respect for you and want your autograph. Personally, knowing the things I've heard him do since his star has faded and turned black, I'd offer him some fresh shit out my cat's litter box if I knew he would be at an event.
 
What about Jim Carrey? An anti-vaccer and a hypocrite: withdrew support from Kick-Ass 2 due to the Sandy Hook shootings, saying he can’t support that level of violence, yet still starred in a film about costumed thugs killing criminals.
 
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sparklemilhouse said:
Remember when Paula Poundstone had similar charges, and her kids were taken away for a little bit? I still don't know how that ended.
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IIRC, Poundstone was caught drunk driving with her kids in the car and ended up being arrested for child endangerment and lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14. The lewd acts charge were dropped, and it was rumored to be a trumped-up charge by CPS in order to get her charged with anything that would get the kids out of her custody until she got her act together. She got into treatment for the booze, got her kids back, and there's been not a peep of any other trouble for ages.
 
Captain Cid said:
You'd think that after over 20 years out of the special treatment given to SUCCESSFUL actors, Feldman would be used to having to deal with the mundane reality of normalcy like anyone else...or at least have experienced enough of it to know when he's making an ass out of himself around people who've never experienced things like daily catering to your job place, free lodging or admirers who (for some reason) have respect for you and want your autograph. Personally, knowing the things I've heard him do since his star has faded and turned black, I'd offer him some fresh shit out my cat's litter box if I knew he would be at an event.
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I don't wish failure on anyone who's got a career, but it is an interesting study in psychology as a large number of these people just go off the rails later in life as their star fades, or sometimes even when it doesn't.... it's like somehow, growing up in that world of fame where the rules are different, is extremely detrimental to certain personality types.

And there never seems to be a middle ground, you either accept your career is over and either embrace the C-list persona, or, you go whackadoo conspiracy theorist/diva with unfulfillable demands.

I sometimes wonder if this is just a delayed childhood tantrum, in that having never really been told "no", the first time they hear it, at 30, they go ballistic? I know that's an oversimplification, but, has anyone really devoted any serious study to this? I find it honestly fascinating.
 
TowinKarz said:
I sometimes wonder if this is just a delayed childhood tantrum, in that having never really been told "no", the first time they hear it, at 30, they go ballistic? I know that's an oversimplification, but, has anyone really devoted any serious study to this? I find it honestly fascinating.
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It mostly depends on if said stars are able to keep themselves occupied in a way unrelated to their career. Even if said child star is successful for the rest of their life, they need to do something meaningful unrelated to their celebrity or they'll go mad. Look at Michael Jackson. He never stopped being successful, and he went almost as far off the deep end as Randy Quaid.

That said, sometimes the celebrities in question actually do have serious issues entirely unrelated to their stardom. A big reason Wil Weaton didn't wind up like Jake Lloyd despite playing equally hated child characters is because Lloyd's been struggling with schizophrenia since he was 19 and now looks infinitely more like a Sith Lord than Hayden Christensen.
 
*Asterisk* said:
It mostly depends on if said stars are able to keep themselves occupied in a way unrelated to their career. Even if said child star is successful for the rest of their life, they need to do something meaningful unrelated to their celebrity or they'll go mad. Look at Michael Jackson. He never stopped being successful, and he went almost as far off the deep end as Randy Quaid.

That said, sometimes the celebrities in question actually do have serious issues entirely unrelated to their stardom. A big reason Wil Weaton didn't wind up like Jake Lloyd despite playing equally hated child characters is because Lloyd's been struggling with schizophrenia since he was 19 and now looks infinitely more like a Sith Lord than Hayden Christensen.
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Also, child stars are, well, children. Kids grow up and change their goals. Mara Wilson (the little girl from Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda) is currently getting a name in low-level geek culture for her essays. She's really articulate in her relationship with her former fame and her disconnect between her current attitude of "this is something interesting I did once" and everyone else's attitude of "this is the only reason we know you."
 
Captain Cid said:
You'd think that after over 20 years out of the special treatment given to SUCCESSFUL actors, Feldman would be used to having to deal with the mundane reality of normalcy like anyone else...or at least have experienced enough of it to know when he's making an ass out of himself around people who've never experienced things like daily catering to your job place, free lodging or admirers who (for some reason) have respect for you and want your autograph.
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I still remember Feldman enthusiastically trying to suck Michael Bay's cock in the hope he'd get to reprise his role as Donatello in the new Ninja Turtles movie and make himself somewhat relevant again. He came across as so pathetic and desperate it was more than a little sad.
 
Jose Canseco is batshit crazy and I can't believe that he hasn't been mentioned. His twitter and reddit AMA is gold.

Some quotes from the AMA -
"yes but they make my 9 inch cock look like 12 inches,opticle illusion"
"i am wearing an old underwear with poop stains will that do"
"your mother thinks I do.i just jigawatted in her"

He shot his finger off while cleaning a gun and got it reattached. Then for some reason he lied about his finger falling off during a poker game and that he was going to sell it and the gun on ebay. Proof.

During the finger saga, he shared his thoughts about the comet landing. #cansecomet

Comet Transport is the key to our survival .

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

Galactic Beings have used comets as star taxis for eons

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

Comets are faster than anything we could ever build and have their own power solving are two problems

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

Opens up new business like galaxy touring cruising, asteroid mining, interstellar trade, and planet colonies

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

If Earth can control the comet transport system we will run the Milkyway. Think about that

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

hug for u NASA #cansecomet

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) November 13, 2014

He was hell of a player but holy shit. I followed him for a bit but then I unfollowed him because it was too painful to watch. There's so much more that I could have posted here too.
 
Wow, looks like that homerun ball off his head at Fenway really messed him up.......... (as evidence, he pitched the next day, and it's only been downhill from there)

In all seriousness though, people like this rarely just "go crazy" one day. He's likely BEEN this crazy all his life, it's just that when his crazy happened alongside career/financial/social success as a ballplayer, it was overlooked or not noticed.

But once he left that life behind, and he couldn't follow it up with continued post-career success, his foibles came to the forefront with alarming speed.
 
TowinKarz said:
In all seriousness though, people like this rarely just "go crazy" one day. He's likely BEEN this crazy all his life, it's just that when his crazy happened alongside career/financial/social success as a ballplayer, it was overlooked or not noticed.
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Yeah, I think there's always been something a bit off about him. I don't follow baseball but apparently when they did that Simpsons episode with all the baseball players ("Homer at the Bat") the guest stars were all very co-operative during the recording process except for Canseco who acted intimidating and insisted on a more heroic storyline for himself. That's why they added the plotline of him saving that woman and all her possessions from a fire. The writers said he was originally supposed to wake up in bed with Edna Krabbapel but his then-wife objected. He said afterwards he wasn't happy with his Simpson-fied caricature and when a paper asked him about participating in the episode refused to answer any further questions.
 
I heard he was getting his life together, but went off the rails again after his father died a few years back. Kind of a shame really, as he appeared in Celebrity Apprentice (the same season where Meat Loaf went postal on Gary Busey, in fact) and aside from being occasionally bad-tempered seemed pretty normal.
 
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