July 06, 2003
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Having it all - and then some
I went to school with a fellow who truly had it all: He was from a prominent wealthy family, honed his immense musical talent early on, and girls swooned everywhere he went*. Showing no interest in sports, he was still fast and adept on the field. It seemed like there was nothing he couldn't do. You just knew that someday you would open the New York Times Magazine and find an article all about him.
It's worth noting that Adam was a genuinely nice guy (is, I assume, but I haven't seen him in 15 years). A little aloof, but not in an egotistical way. In fact, given all he had going for him as a teenager I thought he was pretty down-to-earth. This article, however, is a bit much. Oh what a burden to come from a famous, wealthy family and have great expectations, etc!
It's extraordinary how many people with all the advantages end up wrecking part of their lives with drug addiction. As Adam says in the article, he lost 'ten years of composition'. With Adam's talent, it could have been ten years of almost anything.
*My wife, for crying out loud, cites him as the best looking man she's ever seen (and then she adds the required but meaningless "present company excluded of course").
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at July 6, 2003 08:22 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksGolden Boy with feet of clay
Let me help you on your way
A proper push should take you far
My, what a clumsy lad you are!
Oh my, another newspaper story about another "tortured" artist. How friggin' original.
Posted by: David Crawford on July 7, 2003 01:11 PMI've always thought it was extraordinary how many people with all the advantages continued to succeed by having daddy's lawyer call with threats every time the extraordinary darling is about to be sacked for stunning incompetence.
On another note - does anyone get over the shock of opening a magazine or turning on the TV and seeing a friend, a normal person, someone one from the real world, right there in celebrity land.
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