Hollywood: A Fast Town

March 17, 2006

Hollywood, California

As most of you know, Scooter had gone from a regular guy to superstar literally overnight. After shacking-up with the well-known producer who gave him his first major film role in the gay cowboy film, "Home On The Strange," Scooter then went on to a series of gay and straight relationships with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. I couldn't pick up a tabloid without seeing his face on the cover with his love-interest-of-the-moment.

In no time, Scooter was commanding tens of millions of dollars a film and his name was on the lips of everyone in the business. I was lucky just to speak to him on the phone once in a while. When we were finally able to get together for lunch, it was a frantic and uncomfortable affair, as one person after another interrupted us for his autograph and the paparazzi shadowed our every move. I even obtained a certain amount of notoriety by just being seen with him and for a short time was referred to by the press as "the mystery woman in Scooter's life."

A mansion in the hills, a vacation villa in the south of France, fast cars, boats, expensive jewelry, "S" had it all. One magazine reported he owned so many Ferraris, he could drive a different one every day of the month and never drive the same one twice. He told me he hadn't even been in some of them, as he pretty much took a limo everywhere. Wow, Scooter truly had it all.

Despite his fairytale life, there was a dark side, though. Before long, the pressures of fame caused Scooter to develop a drug and alcohol problem that compromised his acting ability and undercut his personal relationships. Once the studios got wind of his problems, the big scripts dried up and he was left doing "B" movies for "C" money. Slowly but surely, it all started to unravel. Several drunk driving arrests kept him on the front pages of the tabloids. Finally, his arrest at a seedy crack house signified his reaching bottom. He was a junkie, bankrupt, alone, and broken. After a dizzying freefall from the heights of superstardom to the lowest filthy gutter, the only direction was up.

I brought Scooter home from the Betty Ford Clinic yesterday and he's doing pretty good. While in recovery he discovered God and is slowly picking up the pieces of his shattered life. As for myself, it's just good having my friend back like he was a week ago, before Hollywood seduced him.

Comments

[Adolph from Cuba]

At least he didn't mingle with the Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg broads, did he?...so we can not really really say he got to the the lowest filthy gutter. He's got pretty near though.
God bless him :)

[David Amulet]

Funny that you never hear about the vacation villas in the north of France ...

-- david

[Redjuly4]

Dear PM, I'm sorry to hear about Scooter and would like to offer him work acting in our new TV ad campaign for California Closets tenatively titled "A closet worth staying in." Call me!

[Ma r t i n @ b l o g b a t]

So good to hear of Scooter's recovery...but how did he manage to hit bottom before first foraying into the requisite disciplines of Scientology and Kabala? Surely he must be saving these juicy details for his memoirs.

We wait eagerly...

[GI Joe]

First, there's life in the fast lane. then there's faster, and then there's SCOOTER!! Doggnone it, that ornery critter is FAST!!!

[SeanS]

I'm glad Scooter's back with you PM. I'd heard a rumor that they wanted Scooter for a role in a Taiwanese film. Keep him close.

[web_loafer]

Oh my Peace, I just ordered all of Scooters movies on DVD from netflix. Now I'll probably need cancel all of the watch parties I had planned, and sit alone at home and watch reruns of Gilligan's Island. On the brighter side, perhaps Scooter will get enough residuals from DVD rentals to kinda clean up and have a good solid meal.

[Violence Worker]

All That in a week! I've heard that a hollywood career is often meteroic, but that takes the prize! That must have been the most interesting 7 days ever!!

VW

[tblubrd]

Oh no! You got a face lift drop! Funny - it looks so much like someone I've seen before.
Good luck with Scooter. I really think he's a cat and not really a gay guy. He seems to have 9 lives - and maybe 2 left. :)

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

There's Jamie again visiting you behind my back. I heard a rumor about Scooter that his last role was as one of the sheep in Brokeback Mountain. Is that true?

[Justthinkin]

Ahhhhh... The ones that shine the brightest, fade the fastest. Buck up Peace...some good gopher goulash from Patrick, and Scooter will be right back into the thick of it.