I saw him in a David Mamet play on Broadway last fall. He was pretty good.
Haley Joel Osment. He seems to still be working, although not in any movie I’ve heard of.
Anna Paquin won an Oscar at age 11, and seems to have made it to a mature film career without any serious problems.
Well there are plenty of child stars who ended up as trainwrecks, quite a few did just fine. Mayim Bialik, the kid from Beaches who played “Blossom” went and got a doctorate in neuroscience from UCLA. Fred Savage certainly never turned into a screw up. Most of the kids from “Little House on the Prairie” grew up just fine. Sean Astin and Ricky Schroeder are both devoted family men. The kids from the Brady Bunch all came out pretty normal (or at leas they are about as average as any other similar collection of adults that age). Fame does not automatically lead to “fucked up”.
All good points, although I would argue that musical fame is a different beast from acting fame. I could certainly be wrong, not having had personal experience with either.
True, although the Brady kids spent awhile doing the whole musical tour thing Jackson 5 style too. Billy Gillman seems to be doing just fine after being the youngest person to ever hit the top 40 in country music and LeAnn Rimes also became huge at 13 in th world of country.
However I agree that the music world can be brutal on anyone adults included. The music industry is a pretty ruthless machine.
That’s true, and an important distinction. The music scene still has this sort of hard-bitten carny side to it, relating mostly to the touring side of things. The movie scene is more outwardly glamorous, as that’s what they’re selling.
I can’t help but to want to apply that same admonishment to the parents who were under such a spell by the enormity of his celebrity as to let their kids do overnights and spend inordinate amounts of time with him, just because of who he was. To me that seems similarly inappropriate. I’m sure they’d be super creeped out if their kids wanted to spend the same kind of time with the no-name nice guy down the street. But they were so willing to allow it with MJ. Fame can create such delusions, for everyone involved.
I have a hard fuckin’ time imagining HJ-fuckin’-O doin’ Mamet fuckin’ dialogue.
The guy who played Doogie Howser seems to have turned into a nice,well rounded fella.
Poor kid. He’s going to get carded until he’s 60.
“I see dead fuckers!”
Agree about the media firestorm part, but I’d draw a fine distinction on the arc of his fame. He was a child pop star for 10 years (in the 70s); then a global superstar, icon, paradigm shattering megastar for 5 years. He’s been merely tabloid fodder for 20 years now. In a way, his death is a lot like Elvis’ – too early, but about 20 years after they’d ceased to make any impact (and at least Elvis was still performing).
The weirdest thing about the media firestorm is seeing the TMZ stalker-azzi being treated like real journalists. (I saw one on local news this morning, going public with the “demerol overdose” allegation, which at this point has to be nothing more than wildly unsubstantiated speculation.)
coroner is holding findings until further testing is done; tox, neuro, and pulm. no surprize there, just tons of speculation until 4-6 weeks.
on cnn they stated that the kids are with katherine jackson. personally i wouldn’t have my child stay with someone who knew there was abuse and did nothing about it.
in work discussions this am speculation is that the children may go with no 1 sibling and daughter, the jackson hardly anyone knows about, and apparently the most normal of them.
Ooo, touchy!
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If this is what’s happening outside, what’s going on inside?
Most of the “Stars” on your list were never all that huge. The biggest one is probably Marsha Brady and you apparently are unaware of how royally fucked up her life has been. Multiple serious drug addictions, bulimia, depression, obesity, prostitution, etc. She did not come out “pretty normal”.
I’m presuming this is genuine. Lisa Marie Presley’s MySpace Blog.
I wasn’t a *huge * fan of his, but I did (do) appreciate his talent very much. I keep thing, “What, Michael Jackson died?!” and it just seems so… weird. He was such an icon, for my whole life (I’m 40) and it just seems crazy that he’s dead.
When I get to the bargaining stage of my grief, I’m going to ask for a pony.
I think this is how I feel, except for being a huge fan. I listened to my Jacksons (Michael and the brothers) mix on my iPhone all day today. I noticed how many songs that Michael wrote have the word cry in them. And even though we haven’t seen him on a stage in years, I kept thinking to myself, We’re never going to hear him sing these songs again. I can’t believe he’s gone. It doesn’t seem real.