Can you say rock bottom?

I feel bad for the guy. Does he have substance abuse problems?

brother is getting old.

sponger wrote:

I'm not sure if I'm remembering this right, but wasn't his situation the reason behind that law which protects child actors from greedy parents?

Child? He was like 25 when he played Arnold.

at least he looked happy when he was signing his stuff away.

Maybe Willis needs crack money....or bail.

Sucks when nobody wants you and that's how you need to survive.

Different strokes came out on TV when I was a kid, and Arnold was just a few years older then me at the time. Yeah, he was just a kid, and he got screwed over pretty badly. I still remember the first episode when they first got adopted. Look at dana Plato (dead).,. Todd Bridges..huge substance abuse problems as well.

great show...
http://crackle.com/c/ScreenBites/Diff_rent_Strokes_Whatchoo_Talking_About_Willis_/1609793

Hollywierd...chew em up spit em out..

chikevin wrote:

didn't read the article, but i can't help but thinking...'maybe if they just lived responsibily.'

When you're on top everyone loves you...when you're not...nobody knows your name....everyone want's to ride the wave and will sell out their own mother to ride it, so people get trampled on, lost and forgotten. It's hard to deal with psychologically and why so many develop substance abuse problems to escape reality.

...the nature of the biz.

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

When you're on top everyone loves you...when you're not...nobody knows your name....everyone want's to ride the wave and will sell out their own mother to ride it, so people get trampled on, lost and forgotten. It's hard to deal with psychologically and why so many develop substance abuse problems to escape reality.

things are hard.
people have to deal.
so...he wasn't able to deal with mass amounts of money and fame.
boo hoo. the system spit him out.
if he had been responsible before the system spit him out...
he wouldn't be where he is today.

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I suppose so...in a paranoid, brain damaging, contracting cancer, lose all your friends and family kind of way...hehe

choice...crack and lose everything.
choice...responsiblity...set yourself and your family up for life.

choice.

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I can;t speak to the every movie star on drugs, but unfortunately Arnold's family stole from him. The people he trusted the most screwed him over badly.

That's gotta suck and affect you for life.

choice. sucker. choice.

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I'll let wisdom and experience on the human condition provide my reality.

Run that rollercoaster of an experience sometime and get back to me on choices and how perfect the armchair observations of choice are.

i'll run the rollercoaster as long as you play the sympathy card.
could he have made better choices? yes.
could he have learned from others before him? yes.
did he let the 'good life' get the best of him? yes.

would you feel bad for britney spears or lindsay lohan if they lost everything? my guess is no. i also guess you'd feel that way b/c they were irresponsible.

for what it's worth, i think GC was irresponsible. he had a future set for him and he chose to gamble with it. for that, i don't sympothize.