# Is Acting the Only Job Where... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519 "2010-09-21T11:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/41 "2010-09-24T08:21:22Z")
Sounds like Grease for mine, where the icon was not Travolta or Newton-John or Tony or Sandy or Rizzo, it was the whole package. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/42 "2010-09-24T13:27:40Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > > [@kunilou](#): > > > > This article from [Hollywoodlife.com](http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/09/21/lindsay-lohan-insider-drugs-alcohol/) about Lindsay Lohan may be completely made up (or not) but it probably pretty accurately reflects the mindset. > > Yeah, but Hooker #3 doesn’t pay enough to cover the cost of her lifestyle. She may get help & get past it. I’d like to think that anyone with that addiction would have at least one chance to wipe the bloody coke-clay leavings off their mirror, realize they don’t like what they see, and have a fair shot at changing their life for the better. You may be right though; she could find her future is out of the business and in an office somewhere living a far less expensive lifestyle. Its not anything I get a vote on, but between the choices of her living out a long full-yet-humble life vs dead at 30 on a grimy bathroom floor, I’d always wish her the former (and I’d never wish her the latter). ---
**Author:** ![HeadNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@HeadNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadNinja)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/43 "2010-09-24T14:40:32Z")
> **[Paul Erdős](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s)** > > Paul Erdős (Hungarian: Erdős Pál \[ˈɛrdøːʃ ˈpaːl\]; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. Erdős pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered around discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved proble Erdős ... Paul Erdős seemed to do pretty good on amphetamines, so throw math out there as a profession where drug use may help you. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/44 "2010-09-24T14:49:20Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > For what it’s worth, the other day she made a statement (via Twitter) that accepted yes, she has failed her last two drug tests, she takes responsibility, she’s working on it, substance abuse is a disease etc. So at least she’s taking a step in the right direction, but I agree with you that she needs a pretty big attitude overhaul. [She may need a bigger attitude overhaul than we think.](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39323451/ns/today-entertainment/) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/45 "2010-09-24T14:52:16Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > > [@multimediac17](#): > > > > For what it’s worth, the other day she made a statement (via Twitter) that accepted yes, she has failed her last two drug tests, she takes responsibility, she’s working on it, substance abuse is a disease etc. So at least she’s taking a step in the right direction, but I agree with you that she needs a pretty big attitude overhaul. > > [She may need a bigger attitude overhaul than we think.](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39323451/ns/today-entertainment/) Ugh, I saw that. Oh, Lindsay, why? Why must you undermine my messageboard postings in vague support of you? I wonder what her response will be. “It was lemon lime and bitters!” ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/46 "2010-09-24T15:10:56Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > She may get help & get past it. Yes, but she needs to be willing to change and sooner rather than later. She isn’t a kid anymore. The big difference with some other stars like Downey Jr. is that even completely f\*cked up, he still showed up to work. I never once saw David Carradine sober, but they managed to work around him (even thought the delays were pretty bad and a lot of people on the crew wanted to punch him.) But Lohan doesn’t even show up. For her last principal role, Lohan had to have a body double fill in for her and then have her face CGI’d onto the double to finish the movie. She just didn’t show up, without warning, and no one had any idea where she was. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/47 "2010-09-24T16:18:52Z")
…and it looks like she’s back in jail. > **[Lindsay Lohan -- In Custody, No Bail](https://www.tmz.com/2010/09/24/lindsay-lohan-court-probation-hearing-drug-test-cocaine-jail/)** > > Lindsay Lohan is in custody ... after Judge Elden Fox shockingly denied her bail ... and Lindsay could be sitting there until October 22. But LiLo's lawyer just told us, the judge was dead wrong. She’s back in custody with no bail (which according to that article is out of the ordinary considering her charges) and could be there until the end of October. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/48 "2010-09-25T14:32:41Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > > [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > > > She may get help & get past it. > > Yes, but she needs to be willing to change and sooner rather than later. She isn’t a kid anymore. True, which also means her body has stopped healing kid-fast after recreational abuse. In a very ghoulish way, she’s probably a lot closer to to being that dead meat on the floor next to a urine stained comode than probably even she knows. Still, deep inside of her, she must want to live. For her sake, I can only hope that part of herself reveals itself too her before she [del]accidently[/del]\* kills herself. \*when you ingest it yourself that many times, its no accident. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519/49 "2010-09-25T17:23:33Z")
Just thought of a non-entertainment job where past drug issues are a career positive: rehab counselor (and various related types of jobs). Current drug issues are probably a big career negative, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-acting-the-only-job-where/554519.md?page=2)