It must be bad if he doesn’t write much about him. He was obsessed with the kid. What got me was that he knew that he was ruining Tommy by letting him have his way all the time, but he said he couldn’t help himself.
The diary used to be riveting when detailing the sorry story of Tommy. There was the video-addiction that caused him to be sent to a military school, the destruction of Stein’s beach house which Stein repaired himself, apparently wearing an apron like Jim Bacchus in “Rebel Without a Cause,” the purchasing of an expensive car for little T in which the two Steins drag raced on Sunset Boulevard, incurring the wrath of the L.A. police.
Talk about watching a train wreck! How could I take Stein seriously on anything after that?