Dr. Belch's Snooze Reel III

[DR. BELCH]

Low Ryder
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011213/en/people_ryder_arrest.html

Add this to my growing list of celebrities who just can't handle their success. I've heard it dubbed "affluenza" by a certain well-known AM radio host, and I'm inclined to agree that some people are just psychologically conditioned to at some point sabatoge themselves and lose it all. Whether it's the media's bias towards those who do well for themselves, the government's exhorbitant "soak the rich" tax laws, or just emotional immaturity on their part, there are just some people who just inexplicably go out and destroy themselves. Then there's people like me who are scheming and fighting to get something in life and if we do finally scrape up something good, fight and scheme doubly as hard to hold on to it. So what explains this vast chasm?
I'm a big Wynona fan; I'll watch her in anything. I suppose, though, I'll have to rethink my image of the innocent yet morbid wide-eye goth waif in Beetlejuice.... :( :mad:

[Clayface]

I don't know that she's so much trying to consciously sabotage herself and her career. Sounds like she's got a number of psychological and drug abuse problems that are the source of her bad behaviour..

[Captain Caps]

I'm still trying to get used to the idea of Pee-Wee Herman as a child perverter (It was all over the entertainment circuits a few weeks ago). Bonus "Beetlejuice"/Winona Ryder connections: Tim Burton directed "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", and Jeffrey Jones, the father of Winona Ryder in "Beetlejuice", was named as another suspect in the Pee-Wee case. Add that to a mug shot I've seen of Michael Keaton (the portrayer of "The Ghost With The Most"), Alec Baldwin's abuse-to-the-press tendencies and accusations of wife-beating from Kim Basinger (who has a thing for rough guys: She's supposedly seeing Eminem now), and Harry "Day-O" Belafonte's civil rights arrests, and that leaves these "Beetlejuice" stars as clear of a criminal record (unless someone has evidence to the contrary):

-Catherine O'Hara (I caught a great rerun of SCTV last night, and she looked terrific on it)
-Geena Davis
-Robert Goulet
-Dick Cavett

Would you say I have too much time on my hands?

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[DR. BELCH]

There is something about celebrities and scandal, no doubt about that. Garey Busey was recently arrested for wife-beating as well, like Mr. Baldwin--which lends Sultana "Barry" Sultana's claim of "that no-good Gary Busey" some merit. I've seen him play some pretty creepy characters--a fire-and-brimstone preacher, a crazed ex-wrestler/Fagin-type villain, and a boozehound uncle, among others--and he actually scared Howard Stern when he appeared on his show, ranted like a kook, and putting The King of All Media in a headlock. So he's a pretty scary redneck, for my money.
As I speak, Pinky is sadly throwing away his VHS copy of Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, weeping with disenchantment.... :rolleyes: