As I recall, that was the problem of her career.
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valro — 16 years ago(January 22, 2010 11:09 PM)
Actually, showbiz doesn't abandon you if you take drugs but only as long as you are successful and making lots of money for the people around you. When the money sta5b4rts to run out because your popularity is fading, that's the time when you are abandoned.
Drug use was very common in the 1970s and people were much more open about it back then. For example, the infamous celebrity disco Studio 54 had a giant light sculpture of a crescent moon face with a coke spoon and lights that suggested the sculpture was snorting it. Some of the party favors they used to give out were grams of cocaine. Can you imagine anyone being able to get away with that now? -
flan99 — 16 years ago(January 23, 2010 07:12 AM)
Valro,
Exactly.
Hollywood doesn't care if actors are drugged out day and night, as long as they make a profit. Judy Garland is a prime example - the studios even drugged her.
Linda Blair simply spent too much time with drugs and partying and not enough time on her career. She derailed it. -
Gold_Moon — 17 years ago(March 05, 2009 03:03 PM)
Not really look @ Robert Downy Jr. Big crack head and got a glden globe and nominated for an Oscar!!!
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vindicator19 — 17 years ago(March 21, 2009 07:05 PM)
Everyone assumes that just because it was the 70's and 80's that drugs where everywhere. This is not true. In hollywood during the late seveties and early 80's, there was not a buzz around drugs. The media actually left celbs alone for the most part. it wasn't until the show trials of the late 80's and early 90's that tabloids started stalking celebs.
People go to drugs for a variaty of reasons. And lets remember something, we dont know linda or her situation. -
jefspicoli82 — 16 years ago(May 26, 2009 10:58 PM)
"Everyone assumes that just because it was the 70's and 80's that drugs where everywhere. This is not true. In hollywood during the late seveties and early 80's, there was not a buzz around drugs."
Huh? What plannet have you been living on? Seriously, because I would like to go. -
ofumalow — 16 years ago(December 26, 2009 11:30 PM)
When I interviewed her in the late 80s or early 90s (I forget), she was totally straight-edge. She gave the impression that her few personal follies were a long time ago. She was also nicer, funnier, and less pretentious about herself than almost any celebrity i've met.
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Gold_Moon — 16 years ago(January 22, 2010 03:24 PM)
When you come right down to it, show-biz abandons you regardless.
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SimplemindedSociety — 15 years ago(January 13, 2011 01:26 PM)
not,it's not "utter rubbish", and why are you so hostile?
We are talking about 1980's ,an arrest, and a moderately successful actress. Were you around in 1980? Was Blair some huge bankable star? Did you read her imdb bio?
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SimplemindedSociety — 15 years ago(January 14, 2011 02:19 PM)
Which celbs do you mean, and did they have more clout? It's not using the drug, but being arrested for it,and resulting damage to one's reputation. Even if Blair's controvery simmered down, the momentum of her career could still had been affected. I don't wish Blair any ill,just stating how the biz can lose their trust in an actor for doing certain things. She couldn't even book TV films after that incident.
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bigbadwolf666 — 3 years ago(April 18, 2022 12:40 AM)
I completely agree. Hollywood probably didnt want to publicize her life at the time and you knew it was going to come out so they just said the hell with it.
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