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Well, it's been a big day in entertainment since I last posted. First Gary Dourdan was arrested on drug possession, and then Sean Avery of the New York Rangers collapsed this morning and was rushed to the hospital in reported cardiac arrest. It was later reported that he had a ruptured spleen. I'm not sure if that was in conjunction with the cardiac arrest, or if the press leaped to that conclusion on hearing of his collapse because it was the most salacious. In any case, Avery is recovering in a New York hospital.
Gary Dourdan, though, is another kettle of fish. I shouldn't be as shocked as I am because hey, it's Hollywood. Who isn't snorting coke or downing Oxy by the fistful or chewing diet pills like Pez? But I am shocked because it's Gary Dourdan, and he plays Warrick Brown, who I adored before S8, and even though I know that actors are not their characters, there's a space in my brain that insists that no one who plays someone as cool and decent as Warrick could possibly pass out behind the wheel of their SUV and be found with cocaine, heroin, and Ecstasy. It doesn't jibe. It'd be like Charlie Eppes, geek god, being caught at a NAMBLA orgy or holed up in some flophouse with crab-infested hookers and a pyramid of crack phials. It's incomprehensible. And it makes me worry that one day, I'm going to read about Eddie Cahill, forty and blasted out of his mind on coke on Santa Monica Boulevard.
I've neither right nor reason to worry about that. I don't know Eddie and never will. But I do worry because I associate him so strongly with Flack that it would be like Flack going on a bender. Like it or not, fans--even sane, respectful fans--can be proprietary over the characters they've come to love, and the actors who give them life. So even though I know Gary is not Warrick, my brain keeps bleating, "Warrick on smack? Impossible."
His arrest makes me wonder why he's really leaving CSI at the end of this season. Is he really ready to move on, or has his alleged drug problem gotten out of control and begun to affect his work and his relationship with the rest of the cast? Did the rest of the cast know he might have been on drugs? How many of them might be snorting and toking up with him? Is Petersen chopping the lines while Marg scores the crack? Is Szmanda shooting up in the trailer while Eads rolls the spliffs? If they didn't know about his alleged substance abuse, how could they not have known? Granted, Dourdan never seemed anything less than crisp and professional in his role, so maybe he hid his alleged abuse by indulging only in private.
Still, it's a shame, and I hope the arrest gets him the help he needs.
Gary Dourdan, though, is another kettle of fish. I shouldn't be as shocked as I am because hey, it's Hollywood. Who isn't snorting coke or downing Oxy by the fistful or chewing diet pills like Pez? But I am shocked because it's Gary Dourdan, and he plays Warrick Brown, who I adored before S8, and even though I know that actors are not their characters, there's a space in my brain that insists that no one who plays someone as cool and decent as Warrick could possibly pass out behind the wheel of their SUV and be found with cocaine, heroin, and Ecstasy. It doesn't jibe. It'd be like Charlie Eppes, geek god, being caught at a NAMBLA orgy or holed up in some flophouse with crab-infested hookers and a pyramid of crack phials. It's incomprehensible. And it makes me worry that one day, I'm going to read about Eddie Cahill, forty and blasted out of his mind on coke on Santa Monica Boulevard.
I've neither right nor reason to worry about that. I don't know Eddie and never will. But I do worry because I associate him so strongly with Flack that it would be like Flack going on a bender. Like it or not, fans--even sane, respectful fans--can be proprietary over the characters they've come to love, and the actors who give them life. So even though I know Gary is not Warrick, my brain keeps bleating, "Warrick on smack? Impossible."
His arrest makes me wonder why he's really leaving CSI at the end of this season. Is he really ready to move on, or has his alleged drug problem gotten out of control and begun to affect his work and his relationship with the rest of the cast? Did the rest of the cast know he might have been on drugs? How many of them might be snorting and toking up with him? Is Petersen chopping the lines while Marg scores the crack? Is Szmanda shooting up in the trailer while Eads rolls the spliffs? If they didn't know about his alleged substance abuse, how could they not have known? Granted, Dourdan never seemed anything less than crisp and professional in his role, so maybe he hid his alleged abuse by indulging only in private.
Still, it's a shame, and I hope the arrest gets him the help he needs.
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