Chalk this one up to pre-emptive schadenfreude: which child actor do you think will {or would like to see} hurtle into an Oprah-worthy abyss of petty theft, drug addiction, car wrecks and general moral turpitude, a la Edward Furlong. My moneys on Jake Lloyd, that annoying little wretch from The Phantom Menace, once he realises that that movie wasnt his big break since almost everyone hated it.
What I would give to see the Olsen twins arrested for some heinous crime.
Haley Joel Osment
For his own sake! He seems so boring, maybe he should go out and destory a hotel room in a drug induced binge like all good child-star-gone-bad’s should do.
That terrifying little Campbell kid/Stepford child hybrid experiment gone horribly wrong that was in the Welch’s juice commercials. I haven’t seen her for about six months,but I still have nightmares.
Take your pick from any one of those kids on Grounded for Life. Even money.
That annoying little lip-syncher from the Pepsi commericials. Ugh!
I have a bad feeling about that cute little girl in that new movie, “E.T.”…
Lil’ Bow Bow and Lil’ Romeo. In 10 years they will either be in jail, or washing windows for a living. :eek:
Just watch.
I’m afraid little Elijah Wood from that Lord of the Hobbits movie won’t be able to get further work, and tumble into a life of teenage alcoholism once he hits his teenage years.
I also happened to be reading the Mr. Cranky review of A Simple Wish which had Mara Wilson, and came across this line :
Too late! He is almost 21 years old! 
Well OK, if not that, then maybe someone could just slap him around a bit so that he loses that dreadful British (Austrailian?) accent he seems to have acquired.
I know he’s already been the butt of lot of sketches about this, but I’m waiting for Jonathan Lipnicki (sp?) to flame out on us. Somehow I see him getting killed, in his early twenties, in a drug deal gone bad.
Or he and Halley Kate Eisenberg will hook up and go on a
Natural Born Killers-style killing spree. Which will result in nationwide manhunt with wall-to-wall coverage on all the cable news networks. They will eventually be captured in an Arkansas trailer park, and sentenced to life in prison. Their mugshots will sell millions in merchandise on posters, coffee cups, etc.
Yeah, I see her getting into drugs and alcohol before she turns 13.
The Harry Potter kid is going to end up at the Neverland Ranch someday.
Frankie Muniz seems about due for a substance abuse problem.
The Backyard Gang: aka–The Barney Kids
Their crimes will range from addiction and assault to pimping and prostitution. Especially Min. That girl just screams out trouble.
If I had to guess, I’d say that Gary Coleman will find himself on a fast track to a life of petty crime.
Bad apple waiting to happen: the youngest kid on Grounded for Life. Mooch is right - he has all the makings of a troubled child. A little too cute (but that won’t translate well when he gets older), a little too precocious. Nope, doesn’t bode well.
On the other hand, I think that Erik Per Sullivan (Dewey, from Malcolm in the Middle), will be OK. His parents own a good mexican restaurant that I frequent, and they seem very down-to-earth.