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parkslump
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
I bet her little dog Ziggy Stardust is as happy as a dog with two peckers.
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Xylo
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
"Got on the train to Cuckootown" ??? That's how you describe someone who had a nervous breakdown? The FUCK.
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StonedAndDethroned
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
The celeb breakdown jumped the shark with Susan Boyle. Once the geriatrics start doing it, it's over.

Next trend: celebrities giving up their children for adoption.
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CaptainFantastic
07/23/09

@StonedAndDethroned:
Edit: Next trend: celebrities giving up their adopted children for adoption.
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dummyfakeroller
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Unrecognized? Did NO ONE see that movie she made with T.A.T.U? Cinema classic.
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snugbug
07/23/09

@dummyfakeroller: Link, please?
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hamburgerhotdog
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
What, no tie ins on how those cellulite stories drove her to madness?
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Spirit Fingers
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Erm, there are two types of celeb crazy.
High-power, role model-y, teen sensation fucking nutsdom i.e. Spears, Lohan, Chris Brown...and the former Hollywood elite, "so bonkers we really can't believe it because they did wonderful movies twenty years ago" batshit lunacy of Tom Cruise/Mel Gibson etc.

She's just not either. She's like Cybil Shepard babbling incoherently and wearing a scrunchie in the UK crazy right now. Meh.

In order for us to really care, Miley Cyrus and Tom Hanks would need to just completely destroy New Mexico or something.
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snugbug
07/23/09

@Spirit Fingers: I largely sustain your point, but may I submit a quibble? What "wonderful movie" did Tommy Cruise ever make? This dude has always and forever been a major cheeseball who comes in only two settings: "intense" (when he furrows his brow and combs his fingers through his hair and huffily exhales while delivering his lines) and "heeey, baby!" (when he smirks that come-hither smirk of his). Mel-the-anti-Semite-Gibson, on the other paw? Heck yah! Genius with the expected fatal flaws.
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Spirit Fingers
07/23/09

@snugbug: I kind of adore A Few Good Men, Demi Moore notwithstanding. (TNT at least twice a month, Baby! Heh.) Could care less about Top Gun and that other one where he slides around in his tightie-whiteties. Never got why that was appealing.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
07/23/09

@snugbug: Legend, Days of Thunder... c'mon, meow.
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$Image of Terrafractal$ Terrafractal
07/24/09

@snugbug: The one legitimizing Cruise movie for me has always been Jerry MaGuire, ashamed as I am to say so. I have a horrible soul-crushing thing for Cameron Crowe movies.
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snugbug
07/24/09

@Paul_Is_Drunk:
@Spirit Fingers: You guys are forgetting his comedic masterpiece "Far and Away." Watch Tom Cruise of Syracuse valiantly attempt to sustain an Irish accent while simultaneously putting the sexy moves on his (then-real) wife and "workin' the land." Fucken golden.
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PaisleyPajamas
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Mischa became irrelevant when she gave away the season ending "surprise" as she exited the OC. She's been a drug-addled curiosity since and that's it.

As for Anne Heche, she's really ruining Hung for me. She must have the best agent in Ho'wood, or know some pretty salacious details about people (blackmail!) in order to get these roles.
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snugbug
07/23/09

@PaisleyPajamas: For realz? I find Anne Heche a completely decent actress. Funny and smart while not in character, too.. And that "Celestia" trip she was on back in the day is very unique. Also, I was in the same yoga class with her once in LA when someone farted, and she TOTALLY took control and diffused the mortifying situation with humor.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/23/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Hung...I'm getting sucked in!
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bboston88
07/23/09

@snugbug: How does one exactly "take control" of that situation? How can you not laugh? I was in pilates once when it happened to the girl next to me. The "rolling like a ball" will get you every time.
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snugbug
07/23/09

@bboston88: If I remember correctly, what she did immediately post-fart was crack a joke about something ELSE, so everyone was compelled to giggle at THAT joke, and kinda forgot to be embarrassed about the fart incident.

Or if they were still laughing at the fart incident, it would have now been interpreted as laughs at Anne Heche's joke, so the self-esteem of the farter was spared a spanking, so to speak. It showed great awareness on Heche's part, and fab comedian instincts--was pretty impressed.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Look a standard has been set. The bar raised. I need to see people flip the fuck out. I need the crazy to be so over the top that handlers are losing their shit too, that's right these celebs need to start taking those that contribute to their mindless fame with them. I now need a mass meltdown; agents,personal assistants, managers, publicists...they ALL need to drink the Kool-Aid.
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Hydroceph
07/23/09

@PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: So you demand that people be removed from their homes, strapped to a gurney, and babbling like a loon, rather than just being weepy and not coping?

Damn. It's a good thing i'm not famous. I'd get no love at all around here.
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hamburgerhotdog
07/23/09

@PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA: She needs to do an OJ or Martin Lawrence to get attention. LA is full of crazy people, one needs to distinguish themself.
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/23/09

@hamburgerhotdog: A 5150 hold is child's play.
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Nice Beaver
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Twas the fankles that killed this beast of a story.
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SybilDisobedience
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
"Is the celeb meltdown passe?"

Sorry, but when the "celeb" involved hasn't done anything of note for years, it is. Don't get me wrong, I empathize with her bout of the crazies, but Mischa's more famous at this point for showing up to events dressed like a bag lady than for any actual, you know, MOVIES.
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snugbug
07/23/09

@SybilDisobedience: Hey, be fair now: She's had those Keds ads running in the national mags, too!
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Magister
07/23/09

@SybilDisobedience: It'd also help, if her one show had drawn more viewers than anything currently playing on the Food Network.
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TubOfTaft
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
Mischa is a has-been. Had this happened while she was on the OC (and that show was still on the air and popular), she’d be grabbing headlines. Sadly, I see her as a Brad Renfro or Jonathan Brandis type.
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DahlELama
07/23/09

@TubOfHowardTaft: Hey, whatever happened to Jonathan Brandis? Don't tell me he's dead...Brad Renfro's dead, right? Wait, what did he do again? I'm so lost.
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fuzzywhat
07/23/09

@DahlELama: Brandis: Suicide. Renfro: Overdose. :(
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TubOfTaft
07/23/09

@DahlELama: Both dead. Brad was the kid in The Client. Brad and Mischa starred in a movie called Tart that involved rich kids, drugs, and death. Weird how life imitates art.
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DahlELama
07/23/09

@fuzzywhat: Wow, I had no idea about Brandis...how sad, he was a cute kid. Renfro's overdose I remember, though I never saw him in anything.
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Conchie Birdie
07/23/09

@DahlELama: Yes you did! Tom & Huck (with JTT), The Cure (about the kid with aids - he was the friend), The Client (with Susan Sarandon)... argh, Brad was my childhood crush. I'm still torn up about it.

As for Mischa, I didn't even like her in the OC, why would I care if she's gone all looney tunes on us?
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DahlELama
07/23/09

@Conchie Birdie: I actually never saw a single one of those; perhaps I need to go relive my childhood...regardless, I'm sorry for your loss.
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Conchie Birdie
07/23/09

@DahlELama: Oh, well that's too bad. And thanks, although I think he died almost two years ago so maybe I should get over it.

Also, may I just note that even comments about a post on how no one cares about Mischa's meltdown aren't really about her either?
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TubOfTaft
07/23/09

@Conchie Birdie: TOUCHE!
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snugbug
07/23/09

In reply to Mischa Barton's Meltdown Ends, Not With a Bang, But a Celeb-Weekly Whimper
"Anne Heche wandering into people's houses in her underwear babbling about spaceships (remember that?!)."

REMEMBER IT? I'm wont to forget my own bank account PIN before I forget that. Also, it was "Celestia" doing the babbling, not Anne. Why aren't there more celebs with fun psychological afflictions, like split-personality disorders? This addiction business is too real and human and relatable to most of us.
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DahlELama
07/17/09

In reply to Mischa Barton is Not Well
Surprised by the picture choice; I totally would've gone with a still from The Sixth Sense.
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DahlELama
07/17/09

In reply to Mischa Barton is Not Well
I thought her new CW show was supposed to be her comeback...come to think of it, this is more work than she's had in the last 5 years. Bad timing on the crazy.
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Island of Misfit Toys
07/17/09

In reply to Mischa Barton is Not Well
I just have a hard time understanding young third tier actors in Hollywood who freak out like this. They are STILL making more money than 99.99% of the rest of America. Is it really that hard to walk away and buy a gorgeous home somewhere in the Connecticut woods with your earnings and live a normal life?
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katekate is squared
07/17/09

@Island of Misfit Toys: Yeah, because money fixes everything.
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Island of Misfit Toys
07/17/09

@katekate is squared: It gives one the freedom to leave a toxic environment or situation.
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Tattertotter
07/17/09

@Island of Misfit Toys: Not if the toxic environment is in your head. Sounds like generalized panic disorder which is a total horror show and only partially treatable with drugs. Poor girl.
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Island of Misfit Toys
07/17/09

@Tattertotter: I really hope it is just a drug issue so she can get help and overcome it. A mental disorder is another ball of wax completely. (Britney Spears seems to have pulled out of a similar tailspin.) Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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Edited by Island of Misfit Toys at 07/17/09 11:04 AM

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