Word: rehab
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...when she put her children to bed, called the police, and Downey spent the night in a hospital-jail ward. He left the next day wearing slippers and a hat fashioned from a T shirt. By week's end, damage control was in full swing: Downey was in rehab and had a brand new publicist, and his lawyer issued a statement: "Mr. Downey has a problem. He's taking care...
...instead become the next River Phoenix. Stopped by police as he sped through Malibu in his truck last weekend, Downey was found to be carrying a small pharmacy of illegal drugs--crack, heroin--and, police said, a heavy-duty handgun. The hard-partying actor has been through rehab at least once since the late 1980s, but friends recently became alarmed at his downward spiral. A few weeks ago, Sean Penn and Matthew Modine arrived at Downey's L.A. home to attempt a rescue mission. "Sean told Robert he had better clean himself up," says a source, "and offered to take...
...leading Turks, Ovitz's boy wonder and former heir presumptive Jay Moloney, 30, has been in and out of a rehab clinic for drug abuse since last fall; he was due to return to work this week following a lengthy recovery. Moloney's absence has left power concentrated in the hands of agency president Richard Lovett, 35. A go-getter nicknamed L'Ovitz, Lovett has worked at CAA for more than a decade, handling Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Nicolas Cage and other A-listers. The perception is that Lovett is performing well, if not exactly thriving...
TONY BROWN, 18, BROWNING, MONT.; high school wrestler Brown survived a horrific train accident last April that resulted in the amputation of both legs below the knee. But after intensive rehab, the high school wrestler refused to give up his sport. By adjusting his skills and maneuvers, he continued to compete--without the use of his prostheses. At a state meet last month, he placed sixth out of 16 finalists at 105 lbs. His coach, Steve Komac, calls him "one of the most courageous people I've ever...
Thank heaven no one has let McCauley's publisher in on this nearly accurate bit of cynicism. There aren't any filthy facts here, no trite wrap-ups--just funny, sustaining fiction. The only resemblance between McCauley's writing and rehab is that you can just check in. Such are the author's fluency and humor ("Nothing is more intimate than the right kind of insult") that the reader can ramble along, smelling the roses...