23-02-2015, 16:37
BassmanPicker Wrote:From his broken career I suspect that he kept getting addicted to dope since he would be years out of the business only to return even better than before. This seems to be becoming the norm for all musicians and actors these days.Not to be contentious but if you'll change "...these days." to "...those days.", I'll wholly agree. There are a couple of actors that follow this pattern these days but most of the heavy dope was from the '40's to the '80s. These days the glamour has been stripped from dope and alcohol, there is too heavy a media and fan focus on their lives and with so many good actors and musicians around, what manager/promoter/producer would take a chance on a doper or boozehound? Production insurance costs would skyrocket 'cuz insurance companies know all this too. Sure, there are outliers like Robert Downey, Jr. but that's just it--they are outliers, and in his case, a cleaned-up outlier. Oh and you are only addicted once...and it's forever--re-addiction is really only relapse, no matter how long the clean period was. A civil discussion here, right?--no direct challenge meant or implied.
Thanks again for bringing Mr. Heywood to our attention.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR