Used to do cocaine on the beach with Rick James
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Suprdict — 14 years ago(September 02, 2011 06:13 PM)
FreewayRick, did Mr. James claim in his book that Ms. Shue
liked
doing cocaine? I know she smoked pot as a high schooler, but maybe he didn't have too much credibility. I, of course, can't independently verify whether or not Elisabeth Shue ever did a line of cocaine in her life. In any case, check out the following link:
http://books.google.com/books?ei=sH1hTsPqCYLjiALe_ryvDg&ct=result& amp;id=oV8iAQAAMAAJ&dq=rick+james&q=Shue#search_anchor
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FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 07:36 PM)
Yes Super. I just finished reading the whole book. It's a really good book. He gave Liz Shue props. Said she was very smart. The chapter on her was very short. Just said she would attend parties at his bungalow and that they would throw some blankets on the back of his car sneak oout the party and go to the beach and do coke and talk all night. Rick said Liz moved back east and he never saw her again. Reeve was in the book also. He used up all Ricks coke one night.
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Suprdict — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 08:45 PM)
I own a paperback copy of Christopher Reeve's book
Still Me
. He didn't strike me as a recreational drug user. He and my dad's sister went to Cornell at the same time. Maybe Mr. Reeve was introduced to Mr. James via Robin Williams.
FreewayRick, are you
sure
the time frame that Ms. Shue hung out with Mr. James was around 1984-85 and
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FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 06, 2011 09:23 AM)
Yep. It was in 1986 after a Robin Williams show. Rick James said he, Christopher Atkins and Christopher Reeve were snorting coke. I think Rick is very credible in this book. The details are are so specific. It's in his own words so the dates are scattered and names are misspelled. I guessed 84-85 with Elisabeth Shue because he didn't give a date but said she had just done Karate Kid. It might have been late 1983.
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FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 06, 2011 11:21 AM)
"On my arrival back in LA there was no doubt about who was the King of Funk. Everyone wanted to hang out with me. Everyone wanted to be my friend. My bungalow became the hangout spot for a lot of Hollywood stars. Rod Stewart, Timothy Hutton, Ben Vereeniging, Jim Brown, Robin Williams, Ola Ray, Helen Shavers were just a few people who hung out at the Bungalow parties.
While staying at the Chateau Marmont I met this young actress. Her name was Elisabeth Shue. She was one of the hippest young girls I'd ever met. She had just done a film, The Karate Kid, and was doing a weekly television show. We would jump in my Rolls, throw down some blankets in the back, buy some wine, and take a bag of cocaine. We'd just sit on the beach at night listening to music, snorting and talking. We'd talk about life, love and spiritual beep She was well educated in everything. She ended up going back east and I haven't seen her since." There you go. -
zina-vukin — 14 years ago(September 06, 2011 12:29 PM)
Hey, thank you so much. Not that many people in Hollywood strike me as well educated in everything as Shue so I'm glad someone confirmed this even if it's Rick James. Perhaps Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and maybe Helen Mirren, but then she's not really
Hollywood
. Of course I'm only talking about actors and actresses here.
"Martha is 108 years old. She weighs somewhat more than that". - George -
FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 06, 2011 12:54 PM)
Hey no problem. I'm fascinated by the Hollywood culture in the 70's and 80's. Some of the names in the Rick James book shocked me then again I wasn't shocked because of the time period. Everybody was doing it back then. Another book I'm interested in reading is The Hollywood Connection by Rayce Newman(who is also mentioned in Rick James book). I was kind of surprised that Liz Shue was mentioned in the book. You wouldn't think that her and Rick James would even know eachother nevermind hang out and were close.
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Flexicon — 14 years ago(September 09, 2011 06:26 PM)
Rick also had an interesting relationship with Linda Blair (yeah, who'd have thought) but that is confirmed. Rick was just a guy who was in the right place at the right time. The 80's really were the end of the party.
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FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 09, 2011 08:00 PM)
Yeah Flex. Linda Blair was in the book. Shannon Tweed also. Catherine Bauch is in the book a lot . She was the only one who didn't do drugs in the book. Some chick who was on General Hospital name Robyn Bernard had a one night stand with Rick after seeing eachother in a intersection on sunset blvd.
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Suprd
111c
ict — 14 years ago(September 10, 2011 01:26 PM)Going back to Elisabeth Shue, Rick might have meant "snorting" from a collective standpoint. It's hard to know for sure that Ms. Shue personally snorted cocaine herself when she was with Rick. It's up to Lisa to confirm or deny that she personally did cocaine. However, Mr. James definitely had a drug problem. An episode of
Behind the Music Remastered
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FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 12, 2011 01:24 PM)
He was talking about Elisabeth snorting coke. From reading the whole book he didn't even like to snort coke. Free basing was his thing. Of all the names he mentioned in the book if they didn't do drugs he specifically mentioned it. Eddie Murphy and Catherine Bauch were mentioned as not doing drugs. There are several pics of Rick James and Linda Blair in the book and other private pics of him and several actresses of that time including Lisa Shue.
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Suprdict — 14 years ago(September 12, 2011 07:53 PM)
If Ms. Shue did indeed snort cocaine, it doesn't mean she became addicted to it.
It's my understanding that Rick dropped names left and right in his memoir. Why did he feel the need to do that? BTW, a teacher I had in high school met Mr. James in person, like, three times. (They were basically both from Buffalo, New York.) I can't say the encounters were pleasant. -
FreewayRick — 14 years ago(September 13, 2011 08:47 AM)
I agree. I don't think she was an addict. Likely a recreational user like most of the people from that era. From what I understand Rick wrote most of the book while in prison. Maybe he was bitter with the name dropping. The guy had a rough life. A heroin addict as a teen, was in the music business nearly 20 years before he had any kind of success or even a record deal, and was nearly a victim of the Manson Murders at Sharon Tates house.(Jay Sebring stop by to pick up Rick James the night of the murders but James was sick and stayed home)