innaresting piecethis trend sort of fascinates me partly cos i know a fair few people who work in publishing, and it is quite a strange phenomenon, these insane advances. if anything i 'get' why michael barrymore is offered £300k, but rupert everett!? the surprising thing is that non-one seems to go out of business, but someone must have had to write off about a quarter of a million sheets on the chantelle book. amazing.
― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)
Preliminary "lol at perry groves outselling ashley cole" post here
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)
two years pass...
McCormick says she traded sex for drugs with a Hollywood cocaine dealer who later went to jail, and once allowed an older man she met at the Playboy Mansion to videotape her naked in exchange for drugs.
She began to “free-base” cocaine with a music-industry boyfriend and the two once spent a week binging in a hotel room with a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door.
― velko, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:02 (sixteen years ago)
In an interview set to air Friday on The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, former Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick pulls some pretty heavy duty skeletons out of her closet when she talks about her new tell-all memoir, Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice.
Turns out Maureen not only had a nasty addiction to cocaine but a family history of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis.
"My grandmother died in a mental institution, she had contracted syphilis from her husband...he committed suicide a week after. My mother contracted the disease from my grandmother," Maureen tells hosts Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy. "Writing the book was really cathartic. I feel like I don't have to hide anymore."
Maureen admits to loving cocaine the first time she tried it — so much so that "I became totally addicted for five years. It was awful. They would call me "The Hoover" because of how much cocaine I would do," she says.
At one point, Maureen says her addiction was so all-consuming that she became unaware of what she was doing, including getting pregnant.
"I was 18, 19 and 20 when I had each abortion," she recalls. It shows how careless I was. It shows what drugs did to me and how far I went. I was not aware of the things going on in my life. Playing Marcia, I always had to be perfect... but I had so much going on underneath. I always felt I had to be perfect for the public. Now I know I don't — I can just be me."
Maureen says she hit rock bottom shortly after auditioning for Steven Spielberg for his then-film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. "It was one of the worst auditions of my life," she says. "I was asked to meet Steven Spielberg. I was high and I had missed my meeting with him. I was totally spaced out... been up for days. He offered me an orange...he probably thought I was sick."
― velko, Friday, 26 June 2009 04:06 (sixteen years ago)