By RM
friday, january 2, 2026 at 5:32:00 p.m. est
"Kevin Spacey... is the greatest actor of his generation."
April Fool's Day got here awfully quick this year. Say it ain't so!
And he was acquitted because at least three of his accusers conveniently died before the trial- a record worthy of the Clintons.
And his sexual persuasion isn't remotely in doubt. Far as I'm concerned, neither is Will Smith's-he has to be the most freakishly ugly leading man ever to step before a camera, at least up to his time (a female acquaintance of mine said "he looks like a bat").
hollywood has a long-standing record of poor parenting, leading to the deaths of their offspring. Was appalled to recently learn that James Arness had a beautiful daughter who was into the drug scene and killed herself, because she was going with dirtbag Greg Allman, and he left her for Cher Bono!
Also dead from overdose: actor Tim McIntire, son of John McIntire and Jeanette Nolan; the son of Michael Ansara and Barbara Eden; Carroll O'Connor's son; and famously, Art Linkletter's daughter, who jumped out of a window while on an LSD trip. Sad.
-RM
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I've long resented the insinuation that parents must be cited for negligence if one of their children is in a downward spiral. That's as much true for parents in the world of film and TV as in any other sphere of life. There are plenty of offspring of movie stars and directors, by the way, who not only live productive lives but follow in the footsteps of their elders, and with real achievements to their credit: Sofia Coppola, Colin Hanks, Dakota Johnson, Bridget Fonda, Jason Reitman, Michael Douglas, Bryce Dallas Howard, Kate Hudson, Ben Stiller, Kiefer Sutherland, Scott Eastwood, John David Washington, Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin. And that's hardly the whole gamut. Morally scolding Hollywood parents, citing a few cherry-picked examples, misses a much larger story.
Point taken, though surely the parents bear some responsibility for the child's waywardness (probably a lot of absentee parenting when the parents are busy with a career; probably also, liberal parents raising liberal children- Rob Reiner as a dire example). And I'd hardly cite the likes of Charlie Sheen or Ben Stiller as shining examples, just because they have careers and aren't dead! (Charlie's lucky to still be alive!)
-RM
Another side to this is,that like Tommy Lee Jones' daughter,in which her probable ongoing drug addiction was hidden from the public for years(I don't need to know about it,I agree),the point being:how many of the lives of Hollywood's offspring ARE productive and "normal"? The public relations teams only show them as
the family wishes them to be shown--in the best possible light. Only when an addiction flies out of control do we see an appearance on the news with rehab or a coroner. Bridget Fonda,for one,turned into a 200 lb mess,from pics I saw years ago.
--GRA
jerry pdx
I do wonder if the suicide rate of Hollywood celebrity children is higher than the norm, someone would have to gather data and crunch the numbers to see if it exceeds national averages. The impression we get from the media could be deceiving because when it happens to someone famous, it makes national news, whereas regular folks we may never hear about it, or it just gets a brief local mention. However, liberals do tend to have higher depression and suicide rates and Hollywood people tend to be more liberal so maybe there is a correlation there. It could also be that children of celebs are feeling more pressure in some way to achieve, from what I read about Reiner's kid is that he was struggling with not being the talent his father was, which may have contributed to his drug and mental issues. Then you combine that with liberal parenting that actually enables and encourages depressive mind sets along with promoting homosexuality and gender confusion rather than normal healthy socialization and there may well be a higher suicide rate. All speculation of course, without hard data we just don't know.
Never even heard of some of the names you dropped, but many of them have parents who are pretty horrid people, whatever they may have accomplished in their careers- Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland (apologized late in life for being white and male), F. Coppola (said Brexit was an "embarrassment"), Tom Hanks (said we declared war against Japan because we were "racist"), D. Washington (recently admitted to drug and alcohol addiction- color me unsurprised), ... Martin Sheen, fine actor but a far-left mental case; Kirk Douglas, one of the greatest stars ever, but also a big-time lefty and enabler of Communism! In some of those cases, one would hope the children would turn out BETTER than the parents!
-RM
Best comment on the topic:
John Carradine, when asked if he were proud of his sons' success: (you have to imagine his booming voice and delivery)
"My sons are BUMS- I am an AC-tor!"
-RM
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