Lindsay Lowhan in 'The Parent Trap.' 1998
Posted on 08/13/2011 6:48:04 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
Corey Feldman has no idea what it's like not to be famous. After all, he starred in a McDonald's ad when he was just 3 years old.
"I literally was famous before I knew my own name," he said in an interview with ABC News' "Nightline."
The ad led to roles in films such as "Stand By Me," "Goonies" and "License to Drive." He was a household name before he could read.
But being famous and underage, he said, caused serious damage to him and his friends, including loss of innocence and a lost childhood.
Watch the full story on the "Primetime Nightline: Celebrity Secrets" special "Underage and Famous," on ABC.
"I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret," Feldman said.
"I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere," Feldman, 40, said.
The trauma of pedophilia contributed to the 2010 death of his closest friend and "The Lost Boys" co-star, Corey Haim, Feldman said.
"There's one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim. And that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
In 1934, Jessel married silent movie star Norma Talmadge who was married at the time that they started their affair. After their divorce in 1939, he broke into her house with a pistol and fired shots at her current lover.
Jessel was acclaimed and lionized by Hollywood---producing movies, and getting all manner of top jobs.
He was considered a humanitarian----and was active in the Civil Rights movement.
In 1969 even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him....the pedophile was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a Special Academy Award.
This may explain Lindsey Lohan too.
Ewww, strange vibes coming off that picture.
Same vibes from back when The Waltons’ grandpa was on tv. Didn’t find out until just recently why. He thought there was no better teacher for a 14 year old boy than a gay guy. Sick just thinking about that cast of kids on the show.
I always assumed Puzo included it because it represented reality in Hollywood.
A key part in the interviews is when Feldman’s long-time manager is asked about Feldman’s allegation as to what contributed to the death of Corey Haim, and the manager, Snyder, does not confront the question directly but deflects it by pointing the blame to over-bearing parents.
I am sure over-bearing parents are part of the problem, but, in the interview at least, the manager, Snyder, seems to not want to address the pedophilia claims of Feldman.
Does he know more than he is saying? Most likely.
Who ares those people??? Luckily I don’t know ANY of them!
Agreed. Those vibes again even when Jodie Foster was a kid. When I was a kid and had no clue about such things, I felt sorry for her and could hardly watch anything she was in. She seemed to have such a great sorrow about her.
shocked to hear that...
Will Geer was a big-time commie, too. Not a mere dabbler, a leader and recruiter.
It was posted with a link on FR a few months or so ago. Or at least within the year. Don’t remember exactly when or what. But, yeah, shocking.
Then came Roy Disney.
In 2003, Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, resigned from his positions as Disney vice chairman and chairman of Walt Disney Features. Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, withheld their proxies to re-elect Eisner to the board. On September 30, Eisner resigned both as an executive and as a member of the board of directors, and, severing all formal ties with the company, he waived his contractual rights to perks such as the use of a corporate jet and an office at the company's Burbank headquarters. Eisner's replacement was his longtime assistant, Robert Iger (married to Estee Lauder model Williow who also held various spots on netwrok TV. Bay is currently a Senior Editor for the Huffington Post and a special correspondent for Bloomberg Television).
STILL CATERING TO KIDS After he left Disney, Eisner's investment firm, The Tornante Company, launched a studio, Vuguru, that will produce and distribute videos for cell phones. Eisner has acquired the rights to the internet series SamHas7Friends. The first series produced by Vuguru is Prom Queen, created by Big Fantastic (the same team behind SamHas7Friends), which launched on April 1, 2007. The second series produced by Eisner and Vuguru is The All-for-nots
In October 2007, Eisner, through his Tornante Company investment firm, partnered with Madison Dearborn Partners in the acquisition of Topps Company, the bubble-gum and collectibles firm. He produced a mockumentary style show about his takeover of the Topps Company, called "Back on Topps."
The College of Education at California State University Northridge is named in his honor.
damn.....worth 1000 words
Very sad. The pedophilia, and his parents pimping him out and taking all his money. What did he gain from the ruined childhood? Couldn’t his parents have done other things to earn their own money rather than selling their cute kid for profit??
Lindsay Lowhan in 'The Parent Trap.' 1998
terribly sad...
It will be especially interesting to see if anybody in Hollywood steps up and confirms Feldman’s claim.
I did not know will geer was a pedophile. I knew he was gay and I knew he was a commie.
I’m sure most people in Hollywood are afraid to step up.
Heh.. I remember seeing Georgie Jessel on TV from time to time back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I always took him for a comedy actor, not a movie mogul. I just read his Wiki bio and was interested to find out he basically gave Judy Garland her stage name.
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