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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:25 pm    Post subject: 'Blade Runner' star in rehab after awards outburst Reply with quote

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/29/people.seanyoung.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.

The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Century City Saturday night after sparring with Julian Schnabel, who was nominated for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."

"Actress Sean Young voluntarily admitted herself yesterday to a rehabilitation center for treatment related to alcoholism," a statement from Insignia PR said Tuesday. "It is understood that Young has struggled against the disease for many years."

At the DGAs, all of the film nominees get a chance to say a few words before the top prize is announced. Schnabel, in his trademark yellow-tinted glasses, was a bit slow to start, looking down at the podium and running his hands through his wild, curly hair.

That's when Young could be heard throughout the room urging him to get on with it. Apparently rattled, Schnabel scanned the room and asked who said that, then spotted Young and suggested that she "have another cocktail."

Then he suggested that she should finish his speech for him and started walking off the stage. Music began playing for his exit, but the audience urged him to stay and keep speaking, and he did. Young, meanwhile, was removed from the ballroom.

A call seeking comment from the Directors Guild was not immediately returned.

Joel and Ethan Coen were the winners for "No Country for Old Men."

Young made her name in the 1980s with films like "Stripes," "Blade Runner" and "No Way Out." But she's become more famous for some of her more bizarre behavior, including dressing up in a homemade cat suit in her quest to secure the role of Catwoman in the 1992 sequel "Batman Returns," which went to Michelle Pfeiffer.

She also tried to crash the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2006.

"It was degrading," she said in an Entertainment Weekly article last year. "But when you have nothing to lose, it's really not that big of a deal."
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a pity... Sean ever looks like a fallen angel for me... but will be ever Rachael also! Confused
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sigh. Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's my understanding that she's always been considered to be - - - "unstable".

She caused problems for Tim Burton during the production of 'Batman Returns' (she thought she should've been cast as Catwoman), & IIRC, she got very stalker-ish with actor James Woods, a few years ago. I remember something about Sean Young leaving a baby doll covered in fake blood on Woods' doorstep after he & his wife (girlfriend?) lost their baby due to a miscarriage.

In short, I thought she was exquisite in BR, but otherwise I find her to be scary.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This breaks my heart.

She's beautiful...preternaturally beautiful at her age. She's obviously extremely smart. She's a good actress when she gets the right material... Blade Runner, of course, was the right material, for example. But she definitely seems to have a mental illness which has gone untreated for most of her life. There shouldn't be stigma in seeking help, but unfortunately there is, and a lot of people would rather self-medicate than get help.

Maybe now that she's in rehab there will be help for her. I'm thinking good thoughts for her anyway.

And yeah, we'll always have her as Rachael.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So sad to hear this news about Ms Young. I hope that she can successfully overcome what has been described as a long-term situation. We can't even begin to understand the pressures of her career. If celebrity was all that great (or all that easy), there wouldn't be the heaps of broken lives along the gilded pathway....

We wish her the best and will look forward to news of her recovery.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is so funny how people like to believe everything they are told.

One interesting note is how often her attempt to get back into the Batman project is mentioned. She was injured in the first film! Lots of actors take part in crazy PR stunts to get noticed. Most are rewarded for criminal behavior. For some reason she has not been rewarded for her exploits, but instead punished.

We are told to pity Margot Kidder, laugh and applaud Paul Rubens, forgive (yet again and again and again) Robert Downey Jr., ignore the cover up of Burt Reynolds, etc etc but jeer at Sean Young.

Very odd.

I wonder who she pissed off all those years ago.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James woods...

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In 1988, Young appeared in The Boost with James Woods. Woods later sued her for harassing both him and his then-fiancée, alleging that Young left a disfigured doll on his doorstep in addition to other disruptive behavior. Young denied the allegations and claimed that Woods filed the lawsuit out of spite. Young stated, "It was a crush being turned down, that's all.... So sue me! And he [Woods] did." The suit was settled out of court in 1989.[5]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Young
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

...And that answers my question how?


On a side note:

An important point about Wikipedia is its constant change. Wikipedia is a forum that goes through constant change. It removes thousands (I believe the last count was 50,000) pages per day. It is something George Orwell would have predicted if he had considered the internet.

If an encyclopedia is out of print or a set of volumes get destroyed, another exists somewhere. Unlike an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not static. It is not a record that remains into the future. Like many sites, it could one day disappear altogether -forever.

Personally, I don't like "Books that rewrite themselves" as mentioned in the phone company ads.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Masao wrote:
...And that answers my question how?


I thought your questions was...

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I wonder who she pissed off all those years ago.


Wasn't sure if you knew about this or not.

Plus the Wiki journal talked about a few others she pissed off, and I have found that though flawed at times, wikipedia to be a better reference than anything that would become imediately dated and obsolete after it was published.

The least valuable books to most used book dealers are encyclopedias. Not to mention their flaws (which they aren't immune from) continue to exist as long as the book does. Nothing is perfect and if you avoid things in life for their flaws you can never gain from it's benefits. It is just important to keep working on your sense of skeptisicm when dealing with all information. It is all second hand or worse, and even first hand knowledge is flawed by the limits of perception.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

andy wrote:
The least valuable books to most used book dealers are encyclopedias. Not to mention their flaws (which they aren't immune from) continue to exist as long as the book does. Nothing is perfect and if you avoid things in life for their flaws you can never gain from it's benefits. It is just important to keep working on your sense of skeptisicm when dealing with all information. It is all second hand or worse, and even first hand knowledge is flawed by the limits of perception.


Perfect response. Bravo!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree, too... Smart answer, indeed !
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maseo, Good God man, fix your avatar!!



I will forever have a crush on Sean Young, I don't care if she's crazy.

Wink

Crazy isn't always a bad thign either. I think she's candid to a fault (she doesn't hold back in interviews anyway) and not afraid to look bad in the media.

She may have made some bad judgements in her life, but she also seems to ackowledge that she screwed up too.

I've never had a girl want me so much she left a disfigured doll on my door step! Hahahaha.

Creepy, no matter if it's true, it's a creepy idea.

And James Woods is like 80 years old and he's "dating" his best friend's 18 year old daughter. The guys doesn't seem to be interested in women over 19.

Glass houses.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok Avatar fixed. It seems that Flickr lost my last one. Do you like the new one?? Wink

Now about hard copy vs digital:

There is this member of another board who has a habit of using inappropriate/abusive language in his posts and when someone with a brain answers him, he edits and says something like "I didn't say that!"

In the digital realm, this kind of cover-up is the reality. If a flaw is in hard copy, it is there with no way of covering the fact. This is why Nazis loved book burning BTW.

"The least valuable books to most used book dealers are encyclopedias."

Well maybe in terms of money. But then again, who cares what book dealers value?? The value of books is in the reference, not the populism!

In terms of usefulness, the least valuable have to be text books! I remember in the '80's when the largest textbook distributor in the USA had its most popular textbooks reviewed. In just one case: the history textbook got the year of Columbus' landing wrong! This was one of 47 factual errors! I have yet to see this error in any encyclopedia.

The documentation of this may still exist, but you may not have heard of it if I hadn't mentioned it.

Eliminate the record of the past and you begin to cut the ties to the past. "He who controls the past, controls the future" All that we have to tie us to the past are our relics, language, and genetics. Disturb any one of those areas and a very dark future is assured. Destroy one and hope for the future is destroyed.

There seems to be a lot of this as an undercurrent it the entire BR storyline. See what happens?

In a more immediate example; can we discuss BR sites like Voight-Kampff.com or Bullet Bob's with newcomers to BR?? No. Not in any meaningful way. They are just recollections...But are those memories real?? Wink

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When I asked who she pissed off, I meant "who with any power in Hollywood" did she piss off?

It is clear that she has spent many years in "Movie Jail" as Rob Lowe puts it. Unlike people like John Landis, her term seems unending...and she hasn't even killed anyone.

That was the question.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good points, I do agree that it is important to have a "Hard Copy" of anything you do. Iron Mountain is is a company that relies an that, storing the paperwork of many of the major companies of the world. It may become the last bit of information any future generation has of us because it is supposedly nuclear war proof. I personally make PDF copies of many of the threads, ebay auctions and websites that I find important and don't want to lose to internet posterity. I once read that if Wikipedia was actually printed out though, it would be the worlds largest encyclopedia and fill up an entire house.

As far as Sean Young, being "difficult" to work with can be bad enough to keep you from the good jobs, and add it all together it could ruin a career. I feel it may just be the quality of her acting after BR that has hurt her career the most though. ...Just kidding Sean Wink

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about the avatar??

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