Anonymous wrote:Chandler Bing/Friends actor Matthew Perry has a book coming out. I keep reading bits in the news about it. He sounds like a bitter, angry dude with some serious addiction problems. Who wants to read his book?

(I’be seen maybe 3 episodes of Friends so I’m not a fan.)

If you are not a fan than that's why you don't give a fig. But you care enough to start a thread...strange

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Anonymous wrote:The man has a net worth of over $100 million. I’m sure he doesn’t give a hoot what any of you hags thinks. Maybe his book will help an addict. Good for him.

Like much of America he has struggled with addiction. Hopefully his book will help an addict, someone struggling with recovery, and an addicts family.

Congrats on his 10 years of sobriety.

He's only been sober for 18 months, which explains SO MUCH.

He has not done nearly enough work, and doesn't have nearly enough perspective, to be writing a book at this point. Blaming Reeves for Phoenix's death (if that's what is going on) is just more proof that Perry hasn't done the work. Addiction is an illness, and is no one's fault. But getting treatment for that illness, and taking the steps necessary to treat the illness, is entirely the responsibility of the person abusing drugs. The fact that Perry is blaming anyone but River Phoenix and Heath Ledger for their own choices is part and parcel of being a teeny tiny recovery baby who has not done nearly enough introspection to be speaking in public.

Yep.

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I think it’s weird too. You can interpret it a couple ways, both unflattering. Is he saying Keanu was just as abusive with drugs and alcohol but someone managed to avoid death? Or is he saying why are these great talents gone and a no-talent like Reeves is still around? Both? Either way it’s an unnecessary shot. Keanu is pretty much well liked by everyone and still is considered an A-lister. His movies do well. This doesn’t make Perry look too good.

This is the way I read it.

Honestly, it just seems like regular old-school jealously on Perry's part. Keanu Reeves is still hot as hell and genuinely universally liked. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a personal back story like Perry was up for a role that went to Reeves.

Reeves is likable, but he was notorious for being a bad actor earlier in his career. How anyone has forgotten this even though he's still a terrible actor, I'll never know. And now that he's done some "work" to his eyes, he just looks freaky. I don't like Perry, but I also hated the show Friends and think there's some evil conspiracy that brought it back to popularity. It's just so very bad.

Anonymous wrote:Anyway, Perry has already apologized.

Though this whole thing reinforces my general belief that editors have stopped doing their jobs.

I think in this case the editor did their job - because here we all are talking about this book

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Keanu Reeves so untouchable?

Because no one has ever said a bad word about him, and he seems like a genuinely good guy, maybe? Why would you trash a guy who is best known but being really nice?

Obviously, there are only snippets. But Keanu was only a drug addict back in the time period River died. And insulting Keanu is kind of punching up. Punching up used to be acceptable, now we punch down.

Well yeah but you don't just punch up willy nilly, right? His comments still seem really weird.

Anyway, Perry has already apologized.

Though this whole thing reinforces my general belief that editors have stopped doing their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Keanu Reeves so untouchable?

Because no one has ever said a bad word about him, and he seems like a genuinely good guy, maybe? Why would you trash a guy who is best known but being really nice?

Obviously, there are only snippets. But Keanu was only a drug addict back in the time period River died. And insulting Keanu is kind of punching up. Punching up used to be acceptable, now we punch down.

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Anonymous wrote:The man has a net worth of over $100 million. I’m sure he doesn’t give a hoot what any of you hags thinks. Maybe his book will help an addict. Good for him.

Like much of America he has struggled with addiction. Hopefully his book will help an addict, someone struggling with recovery, and an addicts family.

Congrats on his 10 years of sobriety.

He's only been sober for 18 months, which explains SO MUCH.

He has not done nearly enough work, and doesn't have nearly enough perspective, to be writing a book at this point. Blaming Reeves for Phoenix's death (if that's what is going on) is just more proof that Perry hasn't done the work. Addiction is an illness, and is no one's fault. But getting treatment for that illness, and taking the steps necessary to treat the illness, is entirely the responsibility of the person abusing drugs. The fact that Perry is blaming anyone but River Phoenix and Heath Ledger for their own choices is part and parcel of being a teeny tiny recovery baby who has not done nearly enough introspection to be speaking in public.

Anonymous wrote:Why is Keanu Reeves so untouchable?

Because no one has ever said a bad word about him, and he seems like a genuinely good guy, maybe? Why would you trash a guy who is best known but being really nice?

FWIW according to this article, River Phoenix became addicted to heroin during the filming of “My Own Private Idaho” with Keanu Reeves.

https://grantland.com/features/river-phoenix-hollywood-left-behind/

To immerse himself further in the role, River started experimenting with hard drugs. He was friendly with Matt Ebert, a former street kid who acted as a production assistant on both Dogfight and My Own Private Idaho. Before they did heroin together for the first time, River assured Ebert that he had done it before. “I remember thinking, ‘He’s lying,'” Ebert said. According to Ebert, there was “rampant heroin use” going on among the cast and crew of Idaho. “He would come up to visit me, and we would do drugs together,” Ebert said of River. “Let me tell you, it did not take him long to go from, you know, a casual user to having an intense drug problem.”

Maybe Matthew Perry blames Reeves for this in some way, though there is no evidence that Reeves himself did hard drugs.

Anonymous wrote:I think the Keanu stuff might have been taken out of context, blown out of proportion. Just a way of saying “these fantastic talents were taken from us so soon.” But that might just be me, because I say things like “why is Keith Richards still alive.”

Was Keanu an addict? I don't really understand the comparison.

I guess if the point he's making is that addiction takes people much too soon - and why is Keanu around? Because he's not an addict - then it sort of makes sense?

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I think it’s weird too. You can interpret it a couple ways, both unflattering. Is he saying Keanu was just as abusive with drugs and alcohol but someone managed to avoid death? Or is he saying why are these great talents gone and a no-talent like Reeves is still around? Both? Either way it’s an unnecessary shot. Keanu is pretty much well liked by everyone and still is considered an A-lister. His movies do well. This doesn’t make Perry look too good.

This is the way I read it.

Honestly, it just seems like regular old-school jealously on Perry's part. Keanu Reeves is still hot as hell and genuinely universally liked. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a personal back story like Perry was up for a role that went to Reeves.

Ok Keanu is adorable but he is a mediocre actor at best.

Anonymous wrote:The man has a net worth of over $100 million. I’m sure he doesn’t give a hoot what any of you hags thinks. Maybe his book will help an addict. Good for him.

Like much of America he has struggled with addiction. Hopefully his book will help an addict, someone struggling with recovery, and an addicts family.

Congrats on his 10 years of sobriety.

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I think it’s weird too. You can interpret it a couple ways, both unflattering. Is he saying Keanu was just as abusive with drugs and alcohol but someone managed to avoid death? Or is he saying why are these great talents gone and a no-talent like Reeves is still around? Both? Either way it’s an unnecessary shot. Keanu is pretty much well liked by everyone and still is considered an A-lister. His movies do well. This doesn’t make Perry look too good.

This is the way I read it.

Honestly, it just seems like regular old-school jealously on Perry's part. Keanu Reeves is still hot as hell and genuinely universally liked. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a personal back story like Perry was up for a role that went to Reeves.

Anonymous wrote:Why is Keanu Reeves so untouchable?

https://www.boredpanda.com/positive-things-keanu-reeves/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic