# Have You Ever Seen a Celebrity Drunk?...or Naked?... or...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 13, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-celebrity-drunk-or-naked-or/250200 "2004-06-13T23:50:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-celebrity-drunk-or-naked-or/250200/61 "2004-06-17T03:00:20Z")

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I’ve seen **Erland van Lidthe de Jeude** _almost_ naked:

> **[Erland van Lidth - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887419/)**
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> Erland van Lidth, Actor: The Running Man. Born in the Netherlands, he came to the United States as a child in the late 1950s. Erland grew up in Orange, New Jersey; Ridgefield, Connecticut; and Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. He attended the Massachusetts...

He was the Big Bald Geek in **Stir Crazy** , **The Wanderers** , and **The Running Man** (where he finally got to sing in his own voice – they dubbed him in Stir Crazy because of some Union rule.)

We were in two productions by the Musical Theater Guild in college, so I’ve seen him stripped to his undies. He had no hair on his body, except for his head (and possibly under his briefs). He really didn’t _like_ to play Big Bald Geeks, but that’s basically all they’d give him. He turned down a part in the Bo Derek **Tarzan** because they wanted him to play… a Big Bald Geek.  
Never saw him drunk. I don’t think I’d _want_ to. Erland stood really tall and wide, and he had a brown belt in judo, besides…

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-seen-a-celebrity-drunk-or-naked-or/250200/62 "2004-06-17T04:30:02Z")

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I’ve seen most of the ex-members of the \*\*Squirrel Nut Zippers \*\* and \*\*Ben Folds Five \*\* drunk, stonesd and maybe shirtless. And doing mundane things like cooking dinner and cleaning the litter box.

I helped [John Mark Painter](http://www.flemingandjohn.com/) buy socks in Cincy once.

I wasn’t gonna post because they’re not all that famous, but I, like **GuanoLad** , have no idea who most of the people are that you’re talking about 🙂

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