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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Television@piefed.social · 30 days ago

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy review – the details are so sad … but are we really shocked?

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy review – the details are so sad … but are we really shocked?

www.theguardian.com

Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Television@piefed.social · 30 days ago
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His grief-stricken friends and co-stars are moved to tears remembering his genius. But this film feels increasingly disingenuous, like a race to get to the ‘good’ stuff … the criminal investigation sparked by his death
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    I listened to a podcast about his autobiography apparently he came across as an insufferable twat

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      insufferable twat

      What made you think that? Just curious, I am not surprised.

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        What I heard about his autobiography was that he was comparing himself to all these high caliber actors and would rather have keanu reeves die instead of river phoenix.

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          I remember that! Just this random nastiness

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            For a period in the 90s, that would be like saying “why did Philip Seymour Hoffman have to die, why couldn’t it be Gal Godot?”

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        Had a Google this thread is amusing and explains it

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          Damn, that’s rough. It’s even worse than I imagined.

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            I know it’s really bad

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        He apparently came across as really self pitying, bragging, disrespectful to women, not owning his mistakes and resistant to changing himself.

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          From the thread someone else posted, it sounds like he thought of himself as an internal victim.

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            Yep.

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