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...cherry on the top of this holiday sundae of good cheer is the fact that Robert Downey Jr. should make it back to jail just in time for Christmas pudding. Hooray...
...More recently Hollywood has turned its attention to recovery because of the high-profile substance-battling of two of its own, Robert Downey Jr. and Melanie Griffith. For Bob (as his friends call him) and Melanie (who vacuumed topless in ?"Working Girl"), the world is one big meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here's Downey on the cover of ?Details discussing his hard road to recovery and sounding optimistic, several weeks prior to his arrest once again on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. Here's Griffith, detailing her recovery from "pain pills" in ?Melanie's Recovery Journal...
...tradition among stars to go public with their recovery, and in fact they can hardly avoid it; Downey's drug abuse became news after his run-ins with the law. In the interest of full disclosure, TIME is among the many publications who've offered him a chance to tell his story since going to prison. But these past few years, Downey hasn't served himself by discussing his addictions and recovery every time he's been sober for a few weeks. It's called Alcoholics Anonymous for a reason: Going public with one's recovery, especially in the beginning...
...ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Found with drugs three months after release from jail. Will H-wood finally lose patience...
...time goes by, I have less and less interest in acting in movies," Gibson admits. "It's like a hobby. It isn't the hunger I had before." Instead, he's looking for directing projects. He had been planning to direct "Hamlet" onstage with Robert Downey Jr. in Los Angeles before Downey was arrested on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. "He would knock your socks off," says Gibson, sounding sad and frustrated. "I don't think even he knows it. I hope he gets it together...