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Don’t Do Drugs
The latest Britney Spears freakshow exhibition made me think about all of the celebrities over the years who destroyed themselves in the public eye thanks to their drug and alcohol abuse. Sure, their spiralling demises make for reality programming of the most fascinating kind, but it’s also sad to watch talented people with the world at their disposal completely fall apart.
Britney’s latest antics make us forget that her rise in the late nineties transformed popular music. Add to that her incredible sexiness, and you have a recipe for multiplatinum success. Look at this side by side; it’s hard to believe it’s the same person.
Think about the marvelous Corey Haim. He was once considered the most promising young actors of his generation with his performance in Lucas. Then, drugs came into his life, and permanently squelched his career. Look at the difference a few years and lots of drugs can make:
Their grandmother in drugs would easily be Judy Garland. Her face was painfully beautiful, and her singing voice would make God Himself weep, yet her insecurities kept her returning to drugs for comfort. All of her great talents went largely untapped throughout her life, and ended permanently with a drug-induced death that tagged her forever as a junkie. Look at the startling difference between divinely-inspired talent and pharmaceutically-inspired self-destruction:
Kids, don’t use drugs!!
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Not even a little bit?
No, not even a little bit.
But you can get drunk whenever you want.
The bigger problem is why these celebrities start doing drugs, their parents. Their parents whore them out for a paycheck at a young age and their lives fall apart and they turn to drug to escape from it.
Also, it’s OK to get drunk whenever you want as long as you don’t act like Ray.
Does paint thinner count as a drug?
@ jared - only in the red states.