Matthew Perry dead at 54 - RIP

[StriderX]

This all seems like just another nail in Hollywoods coffin. The shine and glamour is truly gone.

Huh?

This has been going on since Hollywood began.

 

[Em3bbs]

You couldn't really get *more* Hollywood than this story.

 

[shifty_uk]

Huh?

This has been going on since Hollywood began.

Yep we’ve been seeing stars crumble for decades but recently and compounded with a change of audience preferences, streaming, lack of creativity, me too movements, the world being more conscious of mental health and drug use etc etc etc, its just another highlight to the mainstream of the ridiculousness of their little bubble.

 

[One More Solo]

It’d be nice to see similar levels of compassion when we’re discussing addicts from less fortunate backgrounds.

 

[Hotwired]

It’d be nice to see similar levels of compassion when we’re discussing addicts from less fortunate backgrounds.

Not going to happen. People have a connection through his visibility and popularity during his better times. Someone looking rough getting their methadone allowance at the pharmacy, that'll be the only image in the mental file of who that person is.

 

[Stretch]

It’d be nice to see similar levels of compassion when we’re discussing addicts from less fortunate backgrounds.

In both cases I feel outcomes would be far better if they could access drugs via people who would look out for them rather than exploit them.

 

[dlockers]

Drug dealing doctors in the US? Shocking what goes on these days!

Anyway, back in 1992:

Classic Simpsons is legendary.

 

[One More Solo]

In both cases I feel outcomes would be far better if they could access drugs via people who would look out for them rather than exploit them.

I agree.

 

[Kelt]

Not going to happen. People have a connection through his visibility and popularity during his better times. Someone looking rough getting their methadone allowance at the pharmacy, that'll be the only image in the mental file of who that person is.

Sad, but true.