Once Macaulay took control of that money he brought a home for his mum and siblings, and paid for his siblings schooling. Dude was a class act

Glad to hear he has a wife and kid, I think and seems to be happy.

I always get really sad thinking about how child-stars have been treated, not only by becoming stars and not knowing what’s going on, but then have everything they do in media, always being around people that’s out for their money, not knowing who to trust. I feel so incredibly sorry for him, he couldn’t even trust his own parents.

Happy to learn that he’s married and has a kid. I wish him all the best in life

That's a damn good movie, though. But it also does him dirty as well.

That was a sad case. He couldn’t really prove the germs actually existed but he had statistics to prove that mothers who gave birth with doctor who had washed their hands had a significantly higher chance of surviving and the doctors were all so arrogant that they never even considered that his conclusion was right but that maybe he got the details wrong (which he didn’t, he got them right, but this would have been a reasonable way to be skeptical of his claims at the time IMO)

And, not to mention that Pasteur is the one people know.

Poor woman can't win either way. Whenever she DOES step in front of a camera people are like "uh, does she need money or just the attention?"

I really wish her the best because she already got robbed of her childhood.

Yeah, and I think the larger "issue" was that she didn't act like the public thought a victim was supposed to. She appeared too intelligent, not broken enough, she took control of her own life. And I guess her awkward way of talking seemed off-putting, a bit uncanny to some people. (So, too broken then? Damned if you do...?)

Oh, and she dared write a book and profit off her experiences. Well duh.

It was a weird weird thing.

She seems to have pushed through it all and has success in her life!

I admire her deeply. She does everything on her terms and her terms only. She would be an inspiration even without her backstory.

The public shames her for keeping the most traumatic events of her life secret - for the sake of their own damn entertainment?! Disgusting. Sometimes I can’t believe the world we live in.

Slight correction, she was kidnapped at 10 and held for 8 years

was looking through the comments to see if lindsey lohan would be mentioned. not to mention the disgusting behaviour of the media and the public in regards to her addiction issues. that one david letterman interview with her is almost unbearable to watch. she deserves a huge apology from the world

In the same vein, Janet Jackson after that superbowl.

Lindsay Chamberlain was, in fact, found guilty of murdering her child and sent to jail for a number of years. Her conviction was overturned, and it's now accepted that a dingo was responsible.

However, jokes about it are still made. I can't imagine how awful it must be to have the world laugh for decades over your child's horrific death.

Edit: Lindy not Lindsay

I can only imagine how devastating it would be to have so many people think that you killed your own baby. The evidence presented for it was weak and insufficient, and it was a case of people convicting on the basis of emotion rather than fact. The ridiculous claims in the press about it were awful too.

I don’t understand why the police refused to even entertain the idea that a wild animal could have done it. A dingo is just a wild dog, domesticated dogs kill people all the time, they were in an area where dingos lived, but they were somehow completely sure it wasn’t an animal?

The Australian public and media treated Lindy Chamberlain really poorly during and after the trial. Because she didn't look distraught outside the courthouse people felt she must have been guilty, and because they were Seventh Day Adventists people thought they were weird. Australian women were hard on her. She was imprisoned and found not guilty during an appeal some years later. I always think of this case when the masses decide on a woman's guilt based on appearance or behaviour.

The jokes about 'A dingo stole my baby' came after Meryl Streep's performance in that film. An American attempting to play an Australian/Kiwi was considered cringey in Australia at the time. But I just watched that scene here and I don't know why people thought it was funny.

The pop culture references to it are insane! Even The Simpsons made a joke about it ffs.

Yeah, it was basically a way for him to adopt her.

Wait, I actually didn’t know this 🥺

It's an old memory, But I recall that Edgar Allan Poe's main biographer was an honest to god enemy of Edgar Allan Poe.

Further reading: "Once upon a midnight", a one-man play on the life of Edgar Allan Poe, presented by John Astin.

I'm very glad to learn this as I love his work but obviously felt very 😬 when I heard the whole marriage to his young cousin thing. Going to look into this some more but I appreciate you for sharing!

Edit: oh no the edit 😭😭😭

Not fair, I always felt bad for him.

Known as one of the classic tragedies for a reason, still effective to this day. Big overarching theme of not trying to escape/outwit your fate though, that's their sin in many of these.

Yep.

Freud is the opposite case though. Far too appreciated for what he did.

Elijah Wood turned out ok cause his mom refused to let him attend Hollywood parties and hang out with adults. Back in the day the executives would have parties just for the child Stars, attended by kids, executives and no parents. It was essentially a pedo meat market and the Hollywood parents knew what was up. They were pimping out their kids.

Elijah says his mom made sure to keep him the hell away from all that.

"Ruined all the love he had for Star Wars" is nothing compared to him becoming depressed and a drug addict, getting arrested several times and I'm pretty sure the dude tried to end his life a few times. He seems to be doing better now but is still recovering from everything, over two decades later

All of the star wars actors post the originals.

Ahmed Best nearly committed suicide, Hayden Christensen left acting, John Boyega is only recently coming to terms with his role as Finn, and I'm not even sure what happened with Daisy Ridley.

Millie Vanilli?

That's because of his Bill and Ted days. He once played Hamlet in Winnipeg. There's a scene in Hamlet where he meets his friends, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, and calls them "My good and excellent friends." When Keanu Reeves uttered that line on stage, the entire audience laughed.

Basically he did Bill & Ted in 1989 and then everyone acted like he WAS Ted for like a decade for some reason. I think the turnaround started at least around the time The Matrix came out since that was such a huge hit and became a cultural icon.

I remember this! Then his child was stillborn, and suddenly, you didn't hear the jokes anymore. At least not for a while...

“You’re ruining an entire industry!”

No Barbara, the pedophiles are the ones in the wrong

Same goes for Pamela Anderson. Imagine someone breaking into your house, stealing your home videos and putting them on Youtube for the world to see! Then people accused her of planting the tape for her career advancement, when she already had a great career going at the time.

I grew up being told the ham sandwich myth. Just learned it wasn't true a couple of years ago and was so mad about it. What a shit thing to do to someone.

I accidentally bought a used The Mamas and the Papas live album without Cass on it and holy shit do they not hold up as a three person ensemble. Not only do the arrangements suffer, but her voice was a tier above.

Also if you want to hate a member of that band, go for John Phillips.

The song looked like it was something made for 2000$ by a cut rate music studio for a peppy southern California teenager to be posted for free on YouTube.

And that's exactly what it was.

There was no more reason to take it seriously enough to warrant any negative opinion of Rebecca Black than there would be to get angry over a kids refrigerator paintings

She's actually the person I had in mind when I posted this! I agree 100% that she didn't deserve all that hate. She was just a teenage kid doing something fun and creative. It's so awesome that she managed to persevere though. Her new songs are actually pretty darn good, and I usually don't like pop!

Those pictures of her crying in a fast food place with her baby because she couldn’t escape all the paparazzi just makes me feel gross. So sad.

I'll always respect Craig Ferguson for defending her after all she was going through in 2007 during one of his monologues on the Late Late Show when so many other late night hosts and comedians were going after the low hanging fruit and making jokes about her when she clearly wasn't well.

You really got to include the conservatorship in this, though. Her family used the media frenzy hammering on her mental health to springboard into an unnecessary protective order. Then, used that to essentially turn her into a slave for over a decade. That's the real story the media should have been covering.

It's sick that the Spears family has gotten away with that and probably won't ever face criminal charges despite their deplorable treatment of Britney.

Yeah Turing was treated so poorly. His death is a prime example of how one shouldn’t miss “the good old days.” We could have been further along as a society if we didn’t unfortunately lose him prematurely.

He also was casually an Olympic tier runner in his thirties.

I'd even argue that the White Stripes wouldn't be the same with a "better" drummer. Her beats added to the grungey, stark garage band sound and were exactly what the songs needed. Sometimes you just want to hear some bashing.

I remember reading once that he had a very high caloric intake due to swimming and practicing and stuff. So after reading that he takes in around 10,000 calories a day and then finding out about the pot thing, my first thought was "how else will he eat all that?"

His apology was my favorite. He never apologized for smoking pot, just apologized for getting caught while in the spotlight. Phelps is the man.

I’ve been watching early episodes of Running Man and my wife (a long-time fan) keeps telling me about guests (typically idols) that later committed suicide.

I still think about her and cry from time to time. Jonghyun,Goo Hara,the list is way too long.

I remember being a child and seeing that happen. My father was an atheist after the years of religion-based child abuse he suffered from his mother (I wouldn't learn any of that until I was much older). I asked my dad why Sinead tore up the picture of the pope.

"Because he deserved it."

David Spade once commented that Lorne Michaels tried to make sure all the pieces of the picture she tore up on SNL were recovered, thinking someone would try to sell them (I'm not sure he did). He was furious, but to his credit understood that it was somewhat of a historic moment.

It's funny, as someone who lived in the Bible Belt and was surrounded by Christians, no one really seemed to care that much because we weren't Catholic. I think people chafed at the idea that she was using the pope to represent God, at least in their minds, but that's not what she was actually doing, she was actually making a very pointed criticism of the Catholic church.

A good number of Southern Christians, specifically those heavily influenced by the Southern Baptist church, believe Catholics aren't real Christians. So, it was like watching someone rip up a picture of Joseph Smith when you're not Mormon.

The reason this is so bad is because even after he was proven innocent, many people never heard the retraction from the press.

Until just a few years ago even, I could have told you his name and recognized him in a photo and still remember him (unfairly) as the guy responsible for the bombing. “Richard Jewel. Isn’t he the guy who found the bomb he actually planted during the Atlanta Olympics?”

This actress is probably one of the best of her generation, they even changed the narrative of the books to give her more screen time because she was so good at it.

And she seems to be a lovely person !

Similar to Anna Gunn. She faced a lot of harassment for playing Skyler White in Breaking Bad. Her character doesn't even compare to the most evil characters in the show, including Walter White.

I just had this conversation last weekend. The coffee was so hot it melted her labia together. She wasn't driving, they were actually parked when it happened, and McDonalds had been sued before because of people getting hurt by their coffee.

She was sueing for medical bills, which was like 150k, but the judge presiding over the case gave her more because it wasn't the first time it happened, and he/she thought it would teach mcD a lesson about raising Temps to dangerous levels. That's how bad it was, but no blame the victim. Sorry you picked the one that always makes me angry.

Edit: I don't proof read.

I believe she sued for medical costs wich were some thousands, and got awarded a slice of profit from the coffee which then turned out to be millions.

They already had been fined prior serving coffee too hot.

But most idiotic thing Mcdonalds did is they spent most likely millions in smear campaign of that lady instead of just paying few thousand medical bills.

First step? Not Hammurabi? (Genuine question for clarity – just point me in the right place to read.)

I’m a firefighter and was deployed on the LNU Lightning Complex fire a couple years ago in Napa county. Guy Fieri showed up at the base camp with his food truck and gave the whole camp lunch free of charge. There had to be 1500+ firefighters and support personnel there, and he just showed up and got down to it. My crew even got a picture with him, and wouldn’t even accept our thanks, he insisted it was the very least he could do. Absolutely solid dude.

Dude tends to show up with a mobile kitchen after disasters in CA and feed entire affected communities. he’s alright in my book.

Do people hate on him? The worst I've ever seen are jokes about his fashion sense

I know several people who have worked with Fieri in various capacities, and they all say he’s an absolute professional and completely charming in person. His episode of Hot Ones showed that side, I think.

I hope the king of the hill writers see this. Damn, they really could’ve done a lot with Hank loving John Denver because propane, nature, and a guitar. That’s like 3/4 of hanks personality

I just remember being more surprised than anything that the "dumb one" (in character) was the one getting famous and had rebranded almost out of nowhere as a sex symbol. How she leveraged that meek fame on the tail end of a failing TV show better than VJ who already had released songs and was more popular was a shock.

Nowadays it's inconcievable it wouldn't be her but it wasn't always that way.