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...Downey had a promising career in teen comedies like Weird Science and Back to School A groundbreaking role as a drug addict in Less Than Zero followed, and then, in 1992, came Chaplin. After he finished the shoot, he couldn't bring himself to leave the Swiss location. "I felt like I had just knocked one out of the park. I thought, You know what? This is the big turning point for me," he says. But when he went back to Los Angeles, it became "this huge anticlimactic thing that basically took on different shades of awe, wonder, acceptance, bitterness...
...ugly. In 1996 he was arrested driving his Porsche naked down Sunset Boulevard, throwing "imaginary rats" out of his window. Another night, he mistook a neighbor's house for his own and fell asleep in a child's bedroom. His life was a series of court dates and drug relapses. In 2000 he got caught in a hotel room with cocaine and a Wonder Woman costume. After another arrest a few months later, Downey was written out of Ally McBeal...
...addiction, Downey suggests that being the poster boy for recovery is just another form of narcissism. Other stars have been known to call Downey for help, a responsibility he doesn't seem entirely comfortable with. "I know this: I'm not the recovering guy, and I'm not the drug-addled ne'er-do-well, you know? I'm neither of those. I want out of that game. I want nothing to do with it. I want to do my work...
...Like most states, Kentucky uses a three-drug combination to execute condemned prisoners. The first drug is supposed to render the inmate unconscious, the second paralyzes the lungs and the third stops the heart. If the first drug isn't administered properly and the inmate was left awake, the second and third drugs will produce an agonizing death. The question before the Court was: How far must a state go to minimize that risk...
...much comfort to the inmates. Their opinion would have sent the case back to the Kentucky courts to decide whether the execution team should use some test - like checking the condemned prisoner's reflexes by brushing his eyelashes - to determine whether he's unconscious before administering the second drug...