Posted on 09/26/2019 1:37:08 PM PDT by RummyChick
HE'S a multi-millionaire actor with a chiselled jaw and smouldering eyes who landed the ultimate macho role of James Bond.
But as Pierce Brosnan's career was about to take off with his first box office hit, he suffered the first of a string of devastating tragedies when his first wife Cassandra Harris lost her battle with ovarian cancer.
t that moment, he became a single parent to three children - Charlotte and Christopher, who he had adopted five years earlier after the death of their father, Dermot Harris - and Sean, the eight-year-old son he shared with Cassandra.
Pierce, who went on to have two more children with second wife Keely Shaye Smith, has often said his love for Cassandra, "made me the man I am."
While the actor's marriage to Keely is widely regarded as one of the happiest in showbiz, he hasn't been spared further sorrow.
Tragically, Pierce's daughter Charlotte died in 2013 at the age of 41, from the same cancer that claimed her mother.
Despite his best efforts, Pierce was unable to stop Chris from spiralling into a drug addiction which ended in the Bond star, 'cutting him off' 15 years ago.
This week Chris, 46, was pictured in London, looking pale and draw and bizarrely wearing three pairs of glasses near his North London home.
Yet Pierce spent years battling to save his adopted children and admitted he found it "painful" to admit defeat over Chris.
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Oh that one? Through the years, I really wanted to get the low down why he was “really” replaced on Iron Man 2. Had to hear it from the producer himself...cant say it here on forum though haha
Nic Cage doesn’t turn down a role either, and we all know about his spending problems.
Drugs are bad for you ...
I met her a few times at her pad went to school with Ikes kid Mike i concur she was down to earth and nice ike not so much
Il stick my nose in Liberace was one cool cat and very generous
Thanks for the info, and I agree with you about a lot of actors doing it for the applause and not the money. Same thing with Rock bands.
Tina Turner’s son was in my Navy boot camp company. She attended our graduation ceremony.
I had a neighbor who won $4.5 million about 30 years ago when we were in Florida. He went from making $17k a year to $17k a month (for 20 years).
3 ex wives and 1 kid later he was broke, working in a convenience store. The kicker? One of the women he married would not let him live with her or have sex. She got preggers by someone else and he signed of as the dad because he didn’t want to admit he never banged her. The child support must have been bad, but I don’t know how much it was.
I’ve never worked with any of these people, but did work at a five-star resort in Hawaii where they frequented. Some were jerks (won’t name them). Some were great. Barbara Eden was kind and never had an attitude. Dustin Hoffman helped my friend and me set up chairs for an outdoor event when we were running behind.
The worst and most entitled ones weren’t the actors, but the wives of the studios’ top dogs. Nasty people, and they carried on feuds with each other from one year to the next. Very weird.
I can understand Mick Jagger requiring a new bed in every hotel as I have an aversion to hotel beds...but some of the demands must leave stories with employees for years.
Elton John tells the story about how one of his worst was demanding the hotel do something about the wind.
Big Mike's Dancing Boy [Bacha bāzī]...
“some of the demands must leave stories with employees for years.”
No kidding! (And we had to kiss their asses. It was tough.)
Treats everyone around him like sh*t. I think the final time a year ago was when he threw a stapler in front of us, at a delivery guy who didn’t like the way he waited for the signature..
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat the help or a service person.
You know what the package was? It was a cooking book. Which made us all who witnessed this drama face palm..
I agree. thanks for sharing; i did not know that about these two guys. my estimation just went UP.
The second Mama Mia kind of gives me a poor impression of his current nasty state. Same can be said for Harrison (the horse abuser) Ford.
I wouldn’t work for him or anyone like him. But that is just me. But agreed, if in their rant, they end up hurting someone, then they should be liable.
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