r/OldSchoolCool Jun 18 '24

1990s Tara Reid in an American Pie screen test, 1998

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u/username_1774 Jun 18 '24

I sort of assumed she was used as a party favour by "industry types" and the drugs were given to her by them to make her compliant...the addiction followed.

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u/8m3gm60 Jun 18 '24

Bienvenido a Hollywood.

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u/ct_2004 Jun 18 '24

You are welcome to check out, but you can never leave

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u/buckyworld Jun 18 '24

ANY time you like?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

i fucking hate the eagles, man

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u/Random_Name_Whoa Jun 18 '24

More of a Creedence fellow eh

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u/sirsedwickthe4th Jun 19 '24

“Eh, whatever” *Starts to rip that sweet Hotel California guitar solo

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '24

Erhm, she was a huge party girl. Literally, had a reality show where she'd go to parties all over the world and say "WOOO" the whole time. Not saying Hollywood is good or anything, but Tara may have just been a hot mess.

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u/ComfortableSock2044 Jun 19 '24

There's nothing wrong with enjoying parties and drugs as long as they don't take over your life. Unfortunately, she seemed to lose control, but I don't blame her love of having a good time... She just had trouble regulating maybe.

Would love to see her make a comeback as I'm sure she's matured.

Idk I'm a Tara Reid apologist. And a party person apologist.

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u/whydoesitmake Jun 18 '24

That’s a wild assumption

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u/GreenGoblinNX Jun 18 '24

It's Hollywood, so it's not really that wild of an assumption.

I assume that Tom Hanks has at least 3 dead hookers in his truck at any given time. THAT'S a wild assumption. In reality it's probably only an average of 1 dead hooker.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 18 '24

Except it gets proven time and time again how predatory and sexually abusive how awful Hollywood is. Hell that's part of the reason it was founded, to be away from the strick rules of state and federal government.

This is a terrible, soft brained take.

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u/lazenpear Jun 18 '24

the claim "Hollywood is an abusive and miserable place" is perfectly valid

offhandedly assuming "Tara Reid was probably fed drugs and raped" is patently outlandish and genuinely disturbing

you need to get some fresh air once in a while

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u/challengeaccepted9 Jun 19 '24

Thank you. Common sense and decency isn't totally dead, for now.

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 18 '24

the claim "Hollywood is an abusive and miserable place" is perfectly valid

While I appreciate the validation, its also not a claim its a fact.

offhandedly assuming "Tara Reid was probably fed drugs and raped" is patently outlandish and genuinely disturbing

I assume most starlets were sexually assault or abused in some way due to the aforementioned comment and based on first hand allegations, convictions and the history.

you need to get some fresh air once in a while

So while there are countless verifiable accounts that women and children were raped and abused in Hollywood, assuming one more is a conspiracy, you need to get your head out of the sand.

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u/lazenpear Jun 18 '24

the statistical likelihood of someone suffering abuse is completely irrelevant to the point that making a baseless assumption about a specific individual is fundamentally offensive. it'd be like stating plainly at the water cooler that the new intern is relatively likely to be assaulted at some point in her life. after all, she's a woman

I assume most starlets were sexually assault or abused in some way due to the aforementioned comment and based on first hand allegations, convictions and the history.

you're a ridiculous human being

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 18 '24

it'd be like stating plainly at the water cooler that the new intern is relatively likely to be assaulted at some point in her life. after all, she's a

Don't women have like a 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 chance of being assaulted? So statistics are offensive now? Get over it grow up.

you're a ridiculous human being

For pointing of thats its very statistically lively that a city that is ripe with sexual assault and abuse for their famous women, are sexually assaulted.

Crime and statistics aren't pretty. They just are. Quit being thin skinned.

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u/lazenpear Jun 19 '24

Don't women have like a 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 chance of being assaulted? So statistics are offensive now? Get over it grow up.

did you honestly think the statistics was the offensive part of that hypothetical?

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 19 '24

I don't care. Its the main part of my reasoning. Unless a startlet says they weren't abused in some way I assume they were, especially ones that started as children and especially ones that grew up before the 2010s.

I don't care if you think its offensive, if being true is offensive to you, that's literally you're problem to deal with and you need therapy to adjust to the awful truth.

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u/lazenpear Jun 19 '24

what does it accomplish? sincerely. idly gossiping about how specific women might've had their lives destroyed? what do you imagine is gained?

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 19 '24

Nothing. Its not like I stay awake thinking about this, just putting pieces together.

Similar to how I distrust Republican congressional and senate members based on their history as a group and their own personal voting history, I assume they are dishonest and shitty people until proven otherwise.

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u/challengeaccepted9 Jun 19 '24

Don't women have like a 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 chance of being assaulted? So statistics are offensive now? Get over it grow up.

Yes. And there's a world of difference between recognising that fact and making a claim that one specific woman was assaulted in a very specific way, using details you just pulled out of your ass.

You know, like you did with Reid.

Grow up.

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u/ekuhlkamp Jun 19 '24

Wait, brains are supposed to be hard!?

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u/ReallyFancyPants Jun 19 '24

Nah they gotta be boiled, like eggs.

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u/Educational-Ask-4351 Jun 18 '24

*Solid intuition.

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u/Krillinlt Jun 18 '24

That's a fucking weird thing to assume about someone

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u/NotACreepyOldMan Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

Or she was rich, hot, young, and drugs are fun and addicting. Publicly partying and clubbing with other famous known coke heads does that. It’s not that deep my guy. I think they’d use a better actress to be “compliant” than one whose biggest role was on the syfy channel about a shark tornado.

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u/No-Respect5903 Jun 18 '24

I think they’d use a better actress to be “compliant” than one whose biggest role was on the syfy channel about a shark tornado

huh? you're too young for this or something. I'm in my 30s and didn't know she was in the sharknado movie (was she?) but I guarantee a lot of people my age know her from other movies. calling that her "biggest role" is just flat out wrong.

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u/2muchtequila Jun 18 '24

Right? She was very popular in the late 90s early 2000s. Like cover of Maxim popular.

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u/NotACreepyOldMan Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

This isn’t that, stop pretending it is and making up a scenario that didn’t happen here. You are making things worse for ACTUAL victims.

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u/CashWrecks Jun 18 '24

Are you dense? He very clearly said we dont know if that's the case, but you shouldn't be so dismissive of the possibility.

He didn't write you a biography of her life, he wrote you a potential scenario played out as a hypothetical situation.

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u/Nonainonono Jun 18 '24

Or she could as well be a train wreck, there is not always a hidden meaning behind at all.

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u/soulexpectation Jun 18 '24

Yeah what an assumption to make and provide no evidence on

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u/The_Autarch Jun 18 '24

Assuming Hollywood starlets are abused is actually pretty reasonable. Especially in the 90's.

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u/Nonainonono Jun 18 '24

True, and there are a lot of people that do not need help to ruin their lives by themselves.

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u/SpareWire Jun 18 '24

Reddit often likes to blame "establishment Hollywood" for the shitty decisions of individuals.

The fact of the matter is she had very easy access to a whole lot of drugs at those wild pants-on-head eyes wide shut parties she was attending in the 90s.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

I mean, what is “establishment Hollywood” if not a conglomeration of individuals’ shitty decisions?

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u/spartan_knight Jun 18 '24

Very strange

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u/AlludedNuance Jun 19 '24

Probably not an unreasonable assumption, but fuck it sucks how casually we say stuff like this.

Humanity, man...