The ending of Bedknobs and Broomsticks is some of the most metal shit I’ve ever seen in a children’s movie.
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He’ll always be Valentin Zukovsky to me.
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Clearly taking that shower is what finally killed him.
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RIP Jules Bass of the animation production duo Rankin/Bass, responsible for all those weird stop motion Christmas movies that have become permanent cultural fixtures. Jules also understood a fundamental truth about Tolkien that none of his successors could grasp - that orcs are funky.
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Damn, I had no idea he was still alive. Rankin-Bass Hobbit was so dank.
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Guys whole life seems like a horror show from the start. Making pre teens massively famous sex symbols is basically a straight line to dead in a tub at 34.
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Brutal.
Who’s the exception to this rule?
Not necessarily dead before 40, but actually turned out seemingly well-adjusted.
Maybe not sex symbols exactly, but the Harry Potter kids turned out great.
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I think the sex symbol part is especially corrosive.
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JT seems to be doing ok, nm I guess he was like 17 when n sync really blew up.
Does Natalie Portman in The Professional count?
I was going to say Natalie Portman, as well, but for Beautiful Girls.
I wrote about Aaron Carter several years ago:
How I Beat Shaq was legitimately brilliant. Let’s pour one out.
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Child actors/entertainers are very often coming from toxic backgrounds to start with. A parent/family has to make some extreme choices and huge sacrifices in most cases, and the reasons they do that are often very unhealthy. Then add money and fame to the mix, and boom.
He wasn’t a sex symbol really, but I’ve spent some time with Malcolm-Jamal Warner and he is an extremely well-adjusted and normal dude. He gives all the credit to his mother.
I also knew both Coreys, and it’s just as messy as you’d think. Corey Haim was a super sad case.
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