One day I was furtively cruising eBay at work and lucked out by finding one of the rare double-signed Corey-Corey buddy photos takenĭuring the days when they were sharing needles and prostitutes. Whoever made child labor laws was an asshole. If you've got a wino pre-schooler on yours hands, youīest set that kid to work. To a toddler with a taste for Old Crow and who can also hold a Sharpie.

Fakers are not really a problem I personally don't know many people who have access Important that the signatures were original and I soon became a Haim handwriting expert. Photos with BOTH of them with BOTH signatures were obviously the most coveted. It's just that the sad saga of their lives makes for such great conversation. I want to be clear that the Corey thing is not because I like looking at them Despite getting photos of Circus of the Stars-era Scott Baio & Brooke Shields, Judith Light and Joan Collins, the primaryįocus was always to amass as many Feldmans and Haims as possible. Looking for a good Mindy Cohn if you've got one). Now, the real-life experience that ties it all together.Ī couple years ago I was obsessed with collecting 8 x 10 photos of random has-been celebrities - particularly the Coreys. Others now living with the disease include Frankie Muniz and Haley Joel Osment. Sit-com roles that eventually kill careers once and for all. To audition instead of simply being given roles in films and pilots and in the worst case, they find themselves flailing in dead-end Victims may suffer public disdain and ridicule producers and agents will not return phone calls they have The severity of the condition is not always evident until it has progressed tooįar. Often confused with the onset of puberty. Don't be misled the symptoms of Fred Savage Syndrome are Downy upper lips are transformed into landmines Noses don't quite match the rest of the face. However, as the disease takes hold, drastic changes seem to happen overnight. Until the ages of 12 - 14, the boy is a normal-looking child whose worst features might be pudgy cheeks or aįew ill-placed freckles. Thisĭisease, which most frequently affects child actors of the male sex, is sometimes predictable and almost always fatal. Rupert has recently developed a full-blown case of Fred Savage Syndrome. Scott Schwartz was more on par with Partridge Family-era Danny Bonaduce and Rupert Grint, that red-haired kid who Unlike Ricky Shroder, Hotdog did not put him on its cover. Is partly because he wasn't the most attractive kid. Scott was not a teen heart throb and was not featured in Bop! or Tiger Beat. The Wrong Snatch (1997) and Dirty Bob's Xcellent Adventures 35 & 36 (both 1997). Other 'hits' include Scotty's X-rated Adventure (1996), New Wave Hookers 5 (1997), By his third film he struck gold with the equivalent ofĪ Porn Oscar: a 1997 AVN Award for 'Best Non-Sexual Performance' in Silver Screen Confidential (Wicked Pictures, 1996). Straight-to-video feature, Beauty and the Beast 2 (1990). Of pity to the eyes of many a mid-western grandmother, Scott Schwartz leapt face first into in his debut adult

So he's in porn but can we call him a 'star?' At the tender age of 21, seven years after Flick first brought tears What's he doing now? There's no sugar coating this one: Flick does fuck flicks. The Toy (1982) and poor Flick, who drew our grudging sympathy when his tongue was frozen to, and torn from, a He is best known as Eric Bates, Richard Pryor's owner and pint-size torturer in It's time to put the spotlight on a former child actor whose adult acting career has not just been Gold, Olsen) or just as general fuck-ups (the Culkin family & the entire Diff'rent Strokes cast). The majority of child actorsĮnd up as junkie/alcoholics (Furlong, Phoenix, Haim, Feldman, Barrymore, Phillips, Downey Jr.) anorexic/bulimics (Bateman, Ricci, The Natalie PortmansĪnd Jerry O'Connells who managed to successfully evolve from kid to adult roles are few and far between. These kid stars were exactly that they never carried their careers into adulthood. I've wet my whistle on various former child stars: Danny Pintauro, Ralph Macchio and Tina Yothers to name a few.

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