I am hoping that him* kicking drugs and alcohol has mellowed him out. I can’t believe he’s alive, to be honest.
*Artie Lange
While there seems to be no public record of him donating, others say Jobs was generous on behalf of some causes.
That’s not surprising, because I heard that Ford’s mother left the marriage because his birth father was an abusive alcoholic. ISTR that his stepfather never formally adopted him, either, and Ford had to file something with the court as a young adult to legally change his name.
There’s that unwritten rule that if you see a public figure out in public and they are not making a formal appearance, to just leave them alone. And they are off limits if they are eating and/or with their children.
I was wondering if you ever laughed out loud at a comedy scene you filmed, gave a loud sharp intake of breath at a shocking scene you filmed, such that the scenes had to be shot all over again? Did you get yelled at or did any other crew person?
Its hard to snort coke or heroin without a nose. 
I had never heard of Artie Lange until I saw this thread.
Wow. And I thought Keith Richards was impermeable.
I have wondered for awhile why no one has fixed it. I don’t know plastic surgery stuff, but it seemed to me someone would step up and fix it for him.
Maybe because they didn’t want their cosmetic surgery reputations blown up when he would inevitably relapse and the nose would collapse again.
He claimed that his nose collapsed when he was knocked out by an enforcer for a bookie he owed money to. Aided by all the drugs he snorted of course. If he had been open about this aspect of his life he would have been a lot more interesting on the show.
He said something to that effect on his Netflix show “Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee”. I think in being asked why he only interviewed comedians on the show he said (paraphrsing from memory) “comedians are the only people I want to talk to. I don’t care about anybody else.”
I have to say that Peter Frampton (see previous opinion) has been charming both times I met him. He genuinely seemed to like performing and meeting people, and he definitely knew how lucky he was to still be performing, recording, and drawing crowds.
(Slight hijack: I happened to spend 10-15 minutes alone with John Wayne once and he was exactly like he appeared in his movies. He was incredibly friendly and engaged in genuine conversation.)
I’ve heard something similar about Paul Schaffer (former SNL bandleader and Letterman sidekick) to the effect that if you’re not a musician he simply has no use for you.
Not sure that translates to being an “utter prick,” as Asuka put it* - more like being passionate about something to the point of single-mindedness.
*Of course, if they go out of their way to be mean or abusive to others, that’s a different story. I don’t know, though, never met either of them.
Never heard of snorting heroin but I guess it must work.
Frampton retired last year from touring due to health issues.
Before he got married Seinfeld had a girlfriend for a while who was still in high school and he was way older than her.
Snorting heroin is often used before people graduate to the needle. The effects aren’t as rapid, but they’re definitely there.
Actually, snorting heroin (and other drugs) can get some of the pertinent molecules directly into the brain via the olfactory nerve, the only nerve that goes right from from the outside world (topologically speaking) and into the frontal lobes, without all the tedious transit time spent in veins, lungs, crossing the blood/brain barrier, etc. As a result it can deliver a stronger punch than IV dosing, particularly in the episodic user. It can also burn out that pathway quicker too. Folks may continue snorting it after this occurs due to getting their rush from the drug’s absorption into the blood and hence to the cerebral receptors via the nasal mucosa, until this burns out also.
That explains something I’ve been wondering about ever since I saw Pulp Fiction - why Uma Thurman’s character, who was obviously accustomed to inhaling cocaine, was knocked out by a single snort of heroin.
Snorting vasoconstrictors like cocaine when you’ve just had nose surgery pretty much guarantees the surgery is going to fail and you’ll left with an even worse problem. Think tissue death and sloughing. It’s not about reputations, it’s about there’s no point in doing a surgery you know is going to fail because the patient will just **** your hard work.
His marriage started out in a pretty controversial manner also. He began dating his current wife a month after she got married to her first husband. This obviously had a negative effect on her marriage and she got a divorce three months later.
Vince Vaughn has a reputation for being a dick to pretty much everyone, both from media reports and personal friends who have met him. To be fair, it’s part of his appeal. Did you see Made? You can’t possibly play that character that well without at least partially actually being that guy; nobody is that good an actor, especially not Vince Vaughn.