Texty

Corey Feldman, on Larry King Live:

"I appreciate the fact that everybody really cares and -- and is trying to show their expression of -- of sorrow right now. But at the end of the day, Larry, where were all these people the last 10 years, the last 15 years of Corey's life?

Corey was living in the Oakwood Apartments with his mom, very broke, very destitute. … He didn't even have a car. Where were all these people to lend a hand out, to reach out to him and say, you know, you're a legend, you're -- you're an amazingly talented, wonderful person who's really never gone out of his way to hurt anybody other than himself. He was there for his mom and he took care of her. He's always been a good person.

In this entertainment industry in Hollywood, we build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they're not marketable anymore, we walk away from them.

And then we taunt them and we tease them and things like TMZ, outlets like that, where it's acceptable in society, it's OK for society, as a whole, to poke fun at, to -- to point fingers at, to laugh at us as human beings. Why is it OK to kick somebody when they're down?

I don't think it is. And I don't think it should be tolerated anymore. I don't think it should be accepted anymore with our -- within our society, within the entertainment industry, within the world as a whole."

As much as I think doing drugs at all is stupid and people should know better, I do understand that the world Corey grew up in made it all but impossible to avoid that. Only a rare few can escape it entirely. Some young actors can eventually get past it--Drew Barrymore, for instance. Some struggle for years with relapses before they finally get clear. But some just don't ever make it out. Sometimes it's only a matter of sheer luck as to whether an OD episode is deadly and whether we get lucky enough to keep someone like Robert Downey Jr., or unlucky enough to lose someone like River Phoenix.

Sometimes, people with addictions cause enough problems for other people that there's really nothing anyone can do but to get out of their way so you don't get caught in the shrapnel. But other times, maybe just a little more patience and compassion is all that's needed. Perhaps if Corey had gotten that when he was younger, and not been treated as disposable once he grew out of his cute teen idol phase, he'd still be with us today.

Very tired, especially since I was working until 2 this morning (well, technically, yesterday morning) on the paper, and needed wind-down time after that before I could sleep. So only about six hours. I know some people can run on that, but not me. I'm zombified.

But I'm in a good mood. Spent the evening at mrdorbin's place with much of the gang, and had a spiffy time playing silly games and laughing my ass off. Good to see everyone again after so much time. I need to socialize more, dammit.

Recorded BSG and must watch that asap tomorrow, as I hear it's intense and wonderful. Then I really have to buckle down and do that site mockup, even though I'll have to do it the half-assed way until I can figure out how to make the CSS work with the host's component system.

I did find out I'm probably losing my scholarship. They wanted to require me to be full time not just for this term but for all terms this year. Uh. Yeah. Not gonna happen. Not if I want to get any sort of GPA that would allow me to ever consider grad school in this lifetime. Not that I want to do that now. I just want the option to do so later on, and don't want to fuck myself over just for a measley $1k.

The training seminar was boring and a little annoying.

( minor grousing )

Meh. Tired and rambly, but wanted to get those thoughts out of my head so I can sleep instead of muse on them.

G'night.

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