essvee wrote “emolson, puhleeze! Veronica Lake is a major major babe.”
True, but a whore who’s been cut to look like Lana Turner is still a whore.
Did any celebrity come to a sadder end than John Belushi?
I’d say Chris Farley’s death was marginally sadder than Belushi’s. And then there’s David Strickland, who committed suicide in Vegas. He was on Suddenly Susan for a while. Maybe he got fired from that, but there must have been other contributing factors: I can’t see someone giving up that easily. (Andy Dick was with him on the pub crawl, but not in the room where he hung himself.)
Speaking of Belushi, when his death is mentioned, I always remember two things. First is Dan Aykroyd, standing at the gravesite in his motorcycle gear (he rode his bike all the way down from Alberta or wherever he’s from, to get to the funeral, and had to be a pallbearer in that getup). His stance communicates such grief and regret :(.
The other is the anecdote Robin Williams once told about how he found out. He’d been hanging out with Belushi for a while, and the night Belushi died, he’d been in his room at the Chateau Marmont for about ten minutes, but left because it was blatantly obvious that Belushi wanted to be alone-with-a-capital-A. The next morning, he’s on the Mork and Mindy set, at craft service. Pam Dawber came up to him, all doe-eyed, put her hand on his arm and said, “Oh, I’m so sorry about your friend.” Well, he hadn’t known, and just about choked on his coffee when she said “Belushi”. Being a lady, Dawber silently handed him the LA Times, and tiptoed away.
Shame that Williams didn’t take a cue from that, although he did clean up eventually. FWIW, not that I care about Chevy Chase, but he was immediately inspired to stop drinking because of that.
I think Fox should bring back Celebrity Boxing. That’s about as sad as I can think of.
From what I’ve read, what prompted Chevy to clean up was the drug-related death of his good friend Doug Kenney in 1980. Kenney was a writer and editor for National Lampoon, and in later years was credited as a seminal though little-known architect of 70’s humor. Doug, alone with Chris Miller and Harold Ramis, wrote Animal House. Doug played the role of Stork in the film (most memorable line: “Well, what the hell we s’posed to do, ya moh-ron?”) He and Chevy were vacationing together in the Hawaiian Islands, doing huge amounts of cocaine. Chevy left after a few days; the next day, Doug fell off a cliff in a drug-induced daze.
Drugs killed Kenney? Those bastards!
Actually, NOT the same guy. I’m trying to IMDB the Aaron Buhh guy but that’s not him.
And I’m not absolutely sure if Stephen Geoffreys is still doing porn or not, as I’m not a gay-porn-enthusiast; I had actually heard it was a limited-time thing, and he’s since moved on to…whatever you move on to from gay porn, I guess. :o
Thanks for the info.
:::Rilchiam scuttles away, properly humbled:::
a really good site is findadeath.com. it can give us some lowdowns on the mighty falling. most of it pretty good. as you can imagine, it is about the dead ones. as for live ones, what’s the status of chevy chase? his stock certainly dropped. that talk show of his was pure-dee-crap!
I think it’s worth noting the “child” in question is 17.
Yes, it’s still illegal, but- child pornography?
When I was just out of college 1981 I took his parent’s cordless phone in for service as a Radio Shack trainee. I thought I recognized him and asked him “are you in television” He smiled and told me who he was. Very nice man.
Hey.
Wait a minute.
I know that guy.
Ya want to hear a story?
When I was in college I used to hang out at this bar in the East Village. One night Stephen Geoffreys wanders in. My friends and I think, cool, we’re hanging out with a celebrity. The group, of us drink quite a bit and eventually head back to Phil’s to crash in his living room, Stephen included.
It’s the middle of the night and Phil wakes me up freaked out and trying to crawl onto the couch with me. Apparently he had just woken up a few minutes ago to find Stephen trying to put Phil’s dick in his mouth.
An alarming circumstance for any heterosexual boy, but perhaps even more so when the guy is a vampire :D.
So I reassured Phil of his heterosexuality (by way of a warm comforting hug) and we never saw Stephen again.
Sad end? Kind of sad in general, that.
Troubled over this whole “Evil Ed is now a Porn Star” business, I looked up Stephen Geoffreys in Google, using his Porn name (Sam Ritter) and his real name. I just wanted to learn a little more about his sad tale, and maybe see what he looks like (just his face—I just wanted to see his face!) I always thought he was a sweet kind of character (I especially liked him in an old episode of “Amazing Stories”) and him turning out to be a porn star was the last thing I would have expected.
This article appears to be “clean” enough to link to here (no dirty pictures, etc.)
Here are some excerpts:
and then:
The article also comments about how he always wears a hat or cap of some kind. I know the answer to that—I noticed that he was losing his hair, way back from something he did in the mid-late '80s. I guess he figures that a cap or hat is cheaper than hair plugs or a toupee.
betenoir: Whoa—freaky story. Your poor friend Phil! I confess, I am learning way too much about this Geoffreys fellow, who I had always assumed had faded into obscurity after fizzling out in mainstream films. Who would have thought…
During my Google search, I found one particularly disturbing page (I wouldn’t link to it now, even if I could remember the URL) where Geoffreys is showing off his ahem “assets”. I quickly backtracked out of that page, let me tell you, with the thought, “Scarred for life! I’m scarred for life!” Acck!
Aaaaghh! Zombie!
Due to Parkinson’s Disease…
Barbara Payton went from bonking Frank Sinatra and Franchot Tone to a bloated alcoholic toothless prostitute who was slashed by a john in about ten years.
And how did Amy Locane go from starring roles opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Lange, Matt Damon & Brendan Fraser to…nothing?
What about Gordon Jump? He got a regular gig as the Maytag Repair Man, like Jesse White before him. He did mostly live theater after WKRP, I believe. He was out in Salt Lake City several times.
Tom Sizemore seems like a prime recent example. Went from a steady and successful career of key supporting roles in a number of high-grossing movies to a precipitous decline into meth addiction, Heidi-Fleiss-beating, and amateur porn. Last I heard about him, he was busted using a fake penis to provide a clean urine sample as a condition of his parole, he might wind up in prison someday, and his career is totally in the skids.