Heavy drinkers in Hollywood

Keanu used to be drunk most of the time.

Tom Hanks.

R1 I believe that.

Brad Pitt was a arty heavy drinker, maybe he still is. Laurence Oliver was always drunk, right? Kinsky, sick and drunk. Apparently John Cusack a normal Irish drunk. Tom Hanks? But maybe Hanks took the cure.

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Ellen

Russell Crow, Kurt Russell, Robin Thicke and CZJ

Jimmy Fallon

Can newsreaders count? I just heard a new one the other day, but I forget her name.

Chris Matthews doesn’t drink.

Anna Maria Cox doesn’t drunk.

Former House leader John Boehner, who would drink and smoke like a fish on fire.

Diane Sawyer, as far as I know, still drinks.

,Joan Kennedy - may have stopped drinking, poor dear.

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lawrence are thirsty lasses who can put it away.

Jennifer Lawrence definitively.

Marilyn Monroe.... oh, are we talking 2018 ? Everyone?

Thats quite alright R12... in the nostalgic spirit, I vote Dame Liz Taylor & Sir Richard Burton

Russell Crowe. Johnny Depp. Sean Penn.

I've heard that many times R6.

Excuse me, miss OP

Chris Pine.

John Barrymore.

Former Brooks & Dean Martin.

Actually, my friend knew Martin’s caddy. Martin would bring apple juice with him while golfing, as it looked life whiskey a and that was part of his comedic schtick.

Mr. Gower. He was a drunk even before he lost his son.

R18- Any Barrymore.

Vince Vaughn: BOOZEBAG.

I think R19 is drinking right now

These two broads

Tara Reid? Lindsay Lohan? Lara Flynn Boyle? All the Irish girls seem to have partied their looks and careers away. It's sad as f.

Michael Fassbender

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Lara is one of the saddest of all. Those pics of her swigging from a bottle in a daytime liquor store parking lot are just awful. Jonathan Rhys Meyers drinking cheap vodka on a London street. Also there were pics of Brigitte Neilson swigging from a bottle of Popov and rolling around on the ground in an LA Park. She must have sobered up because she went on to birth a baby later at 60 or whatever she is.

You bitches are really slipping . . .

Heather we know about. R29

[R 12]. Actually Monroe was not a ' hard drinker ' .She would however sip champagne for hours often mixing prescription drugs in the process. I have met many individuals who actually knew Marilyn and not one has ever described her as a " hard drinker ".

Kiefer Sutherland

William Holden. He died after hitting his head on the bedside table at his apt. He dabbed the wound with some tissues but couldn't stop the flow of blood. He was probably too wasted to think it was a big deal. The loss of blood killed him.

Add Errol Flynn to R18's post. Didn't Flynn's drunken pal Raoul Walsh take Barrymore's body from the morgue and bring him to Flynn's house? I believe they propped him on the couch and waited for Flynn to find his dead buddy in the morning. Flynn came home after a night of partying drunk off his ass saw Barrymore's body and freaked out.

R29/R30 That poor thing, Heather Locklear, I HAD forgotten about her, as she has kept out of the news since her 5150. I've gotta say despite drugs & drink, she doesn't look at all bad for fifty-seven or eight.

That actress from Minnesota.

Oh God, R35

Who is Former Brooks?

Oliver Reed might be the king of heavy drinkers, if he counts as a Hollywood actor.

He died at a bar having lunch.

From IMDB, here was his lunch: He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450, about $594.72.

He died as he lived R38, shitfaced. That man was a legend.

Here's Oliver Reed in the Aspen show in the UK, after drinking backstage.

Oliver vs Shelley Winters on Late Night.

Mel Gibson

Denzel Washington.

FIRST I gotta figure out how to stand up and THEN I will tell you all about the Heavy Drinkers in Hollywood!

What is this place anyway? A lounge?

Wooo!!

I've heard several rumors about Johnny Carson loving the coke. And I'm sure he put away his share of booze.

Stephen Colbert often seems lubricated on his show.

That lesbian country singer married to Nicole Kidman.

Depp, Hanks, Lange, Sam Shepard ( Rip), Boyle Nicholson ( who can "handle" it), Tara Reid, Oliver Reed ( RIP), Richard Harris, Richard Burton, Liz Taylor, Madonna, Mary J Blige, Tamar Braxton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jackie Gleason ( who has given the wisest description of what constitutes an "alcoholic"), Ewan McGregor, Gerard Butler, Michael Fassbender, Nas, .

We could be here all day just going by visuals combined with having life experience of alcoholics and the visual signs of consistent over indulgence. That's why Paltrow , Blige or Madge don't fool me.

Messy, messy, Missy.

Former Brooks must be Foster Brooks who was a comedian in the old days whose schtick was playing drunk. Whether he was really a drunk I don’t know. His act seemed really tasteless and tawdry when I was a kid. He was from my hometown of Louisville and held a golf tournament there every year which is probably the only reason I knew who he was.

R45 I recall someone telling me twenty years ago now that Johnny Carson didn't drink, only his wives did. It was said Carson was keen on grass, and often stoned for [italic] The Tonight Show [/italic].

I seem to remember that Foster Brooks didn't drink at all. It was all an act.

EVERY SINGLE, AND GAY MAN IN WEHO OVER 40.

Peter O'Toole. Peter Lawford. Liza's first husband, the comedian? Mary Tyler Moore, despite her diabetes type 1 (think she managed to quit though - and maybe wasn't a drunk for too many years). Ann Sheridan. F. Scott Fitzgerald. William Faulkner. Ernest Hemingway though was he in Hollywood? Well, it's an infinite task, naming them all.

John Barrymore - who was famous for passing out and sleeping through the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

MTM would be surprising. She always came across as a quiet control freak.

Maybe one day there will be be a "Mary Dearest" tell all.

"Dick Van Dyke, bring me the axe!"

Q: "How much did you drink"? A: "Until it was gone".

Just one of many MTM quotes about her years of alcoholism.

Please keep up r55.

[R56]

I was never an MTM fan so I never read the articles about her.....

Spencer Tracy, the drunkest drunk who ever drank.

[quote] R55: MTM would be surprising. She always came across as a quiet control freak

MTM was one of those alcoholics who would twist herself into a pretzel to avoid being labeled an alcoholic. Sometimes, it’s because of fear that they can’t stop, and don’t want to be seen drinking after admitting that they should t be drinking. Sometimes Pride, or I guess, a million different reasons.

IIRC, Spencer Tracy would occasionally check into some fancy NYC hotel, with a suitcase full of alcohol bottles, and he’d drink-away his stay there.

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were both lifelong alcoholics, although with Davis she was able to abstain from drinking when she was working. Crawford couldn't, she drank on the set and was often drunk for public appearances.

Johnny Carson was a HUGE drunk, but knew how to clean up whenever necessary.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm so glad someone wrestled the bottle of booze out of "J-Law's" hands and got her to shut up. Or maybe they just locked her in her mansion and let her drink and babble like an obnoxious, irritating idiot all by herself.

Years ago I was a waiter at restaurant that Kate Capshaw and Rita Wilson would frequent. One time, they were there during the swing shift (around 3pm). It was just them in the dining room. I was *slowly* filling and refilling the sugar caddies at nearby tables... and totally eavesdropping. Seems Rita was pissed because Tom was wasted the night before. She made him sleep on the couch. Again. She was concerned it was becoming a major problem.

For some reason, that cracked me up. The most famous actor in the world relegated to the couch for being a common drunk.

"Celebrities Who Can't Stand Jennifer Lawrence"

R65 I understand that one of Hanks' kids is really goofy too.

Tom Hanks has apparently been a raging alkie for a long time.

Johnny Carson was a miserable alcoholic. He was a mean man who was petty and held grudges, and wasn't very funny in private life. He was the total opposite of his public image.

Well said R69. Very well said. Carson was a cold and mean little man.

I did not know that Julie Andrews could not act unless she was drinking!!

Johnny Carson was one of the biggest pricks of all time. Not a nice guy at all, contrary to his image. Bing Crosby was the same, a really shitty, mean person.

Madonna doesn't drink, or at least has not for most of her life. She is too much a control freak to allow herself to lose control by drinking.

Marilyn Monroe's downfall were "downers" - particularly barbiturates.

Humphrey Bogart and his wife Mayo June Methot were such heavy and violent drinkers their residence in Hollywood was known as "Sluggy Hollow."

Kit Harrington - see one or more of his recent threads here.

George C Scott.

The American counterpart to Oliver Reed. One difference being that Oliver Reed beat other men. Scott was not above beating women to a pulp, including Ava Gardner.

R67, I think you're talking about Chet Hanks, a.k.a. White Chocolate, Chet Haze, and B Rad of Malibu's Most Wanted. Here's a compilation of Chet clips & Wendy Williams commentating.

I cannot believe there is not one single mention of Ben Affleck.

He’s in trouble.

So hard to believe Tom Hank is an alcoholic. But the rumors have been around for ages,

I quite literally heard it from his wife's mouth, R78. He's just highly functioning.

Shia Labeouf

r78 Tom Hanks seems to be one of those alcoholics who does most of his drinking at home, and can keep his shit together in public.

Tom Hanks played a pretty convincing alcoholic in A League of Their Own.

Clooney gets wasted in private in his home and in friend's homes, but never in public. He's a fall down floor crawling toilet vomiting glass breaking wastrel. But he cleans up real nice.

Clooney does look like a drinker.

Clooney does all the drinkin' and his lady does all the (self-induced) vomiting.

Jon Hamm

Kathy Griffin told a story about a shitfaced drunk Jon Hamm being an insulting asshole at a private party.

Jon Hamm seems like an asshole. Like the role he played in Bridesmaids. And the hazing story sounds so true.

Marky Mark drunkenly falls out of his closet.

I read a story years ago about W. C. Fields which said the studio would not allow him to bring liquor onto the lot so he would bring oranges he had injected with vodka using a syringe.

Shitney Smears.

Bette Midler

[quote]Madonna doesn't drink, or at least has not for most of her life. She is too much a control freak to allow herself to lose control by drinking.

Madonna has been drinking in almost every Instagram pic in the past 10 years. She often seems loaded.

Adam Driver. Photographed in Cannes wandering around a party clutching a half empty bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label to his heart.

Has the fact that Driver and his wife had a kid two years ago in utmost secrecy been discussed here? This may or may not be due to the paternity of the tot. Now, that is enough to drive any man to drink!

Goop is a big drinker?

She said she works out constantly and has 1 glass of wine every Friday night with a single cigarette.

I'd be thrilled to learn she was a lush.

Nobody who smokes only has "one cigarette" a week.

I've known a few lucky individuals who have one per day R96, but one per wk is hard to believe. Especially if drink is involved.

[quote]Marilyn Monroe's downfall were "downers" - particularly barbiturates.

I'll drink to that!

All the people doubting the heavy drinking / possible alcoholism of Mary Tyler Moore, Johnny Carson, Tom Hanks, etc...wake up. Or just Google it. Tons of corroborating evidence out there.

Lucille Ball was a mean drunk for the last 15-20 years of her life.

R96. Actually that’s not true. I know several people who just smoke one or two cigarettes a week.

Mary Tyler Moore went to rehab in the 80s, and talked about it in interviews.

DL fave Joan Didion with the scotch and, I think, five cigarettes a day.

Helen Mirren

R96, I smoke one or two a day, but often go days without any. I feel terrible about it, because I have children and I’m terrified the smoking is going to kill me. But it’s my one damn vice. I am unbelievably virtuous in every other way.

Zooey.

R76, the word is “commenting”. Not trying to be a bitch. Just trying to be helpful.

R105 Don't be too hard on yourself. If it makes you feel any better, I feel guilty about it too, and I have no children, but "need" three-five per day. Sometimes a few more if I'm cocktailing. If you have young children, you probably need them.

Paul Newman was an alcoholic. He used to drink at least a case of beer every single day

r109 I didn't know that about Paul Newman. How the hell did he stay so skinny drinking a case of beer a day?

Jan-Michael Vincent, had a serious drinking problem. He was once looked at as the brad Pitt of his day. His drinking completely killed his career.

Surprised no one else mentioned him.

Terry Gilliam was the big name guest speaker at a closing night event sponsored by the American Illustrators in NYC a while back. He showed up 90 minutes late and plastered.

Jane Fonda likes to get her drink on. At a special NYC showing of Coming Home where she spoke afterwards, she readily admitted that she was "a few blocks away at Cipriani drinkin' martinis" while the movie screened.

Jason Robards Jr.—Lauren Bacall's second husband—as was Humphrey Bogart, already mentioned. Just finished her much-loved auto-bio and the booze runs rampant through both marriages and social settings, although not so much with Bacall herself. And it is never alluded to as alcoholism.

Marlene Dietrich ended up as an alcoholic recluse, drinking all day.

Drunk driver.

Renegade pirate crap-shlinging screenwriter Joe Eszterhas deserves a mention. At his peak as the highest paid screenwriter in the world he was drinking three bottles of wine and a half bottle to full bottle of gin EVERY DAY.

R115 Yes, good one. Eszterhas called himself a "militant smoker" too, until he got throat cancer. He survived and gave up cigs and booze, but got hooked on God instead. He wrote a terrible memoir called "Crossbearer" about all this.

I think Stephen Colbert may be a drinker.

Lot of unhappy people with lots of fame and wealth. Why drink and drug it all away? So sad.

Janeane Garofalo used to drink, but stopped in 2001. Amy Poehler initiated the intervention.

It's different nowadays. Bogart, Mitchum, Huston, Wayne, these were real MEN, and "real" MEN drank, simple as that. They started in the afternoon and drank until the end of the evening. Day in and day out.

Nowadays hollywood heavy drinkers means actors get drunk at every event after-party and then go to rehab behind closed doors.

Heavy drinker means what? If I know this one actor and he gets hammered two or three nights a week, does that a heavy drinker make? More of a normal binge drinker. The other days he's in the daily mail getting iced coffees and going to the gym and looking healthy.

Clooney's pals did a slight intervention, because he was drinking daily like his heroes Sinatra and Gerry Weintraub. "First vodka at 4pm" type of thing.

See R120, Doctors have been trying for years to get through to people that there is no such thing as "normal binge drinker", as binge drinking is abnormal, and not healthy. It is better to have a unit or two each and everyday apparently, rather than saving them up. I'm not judging, nor am I a teetotaler, but honestly feel binge drinking may only be somewhat "normal" for first or second year university students.

Norman Reedus from the Walking dead. He looks like utter shit. He looks like a homeless person. Unwashed hair and so haggard looking.

What is this obsession with alcohol around here lately? Drink, don't drink, whatever you want, just don't whine about it.

Harrison Ford

Go back and watch What Lies Beneath with the knowledge that he was drunk the entire time, also stoned. From what I understand he's always smoked pot. I have no idea how long he'd been drunk while he was working but I'm sure if I go back and watch all his movies it would be evident when it started.

Maybe that's why Harrison Ford was operating his plane so badly (crashed). Patrick Swayze also crashed a plane and was suspected to be on alcohol.

If anybody needs a motivation to stop drinking.........just google a recent photo of jan michael vincent and it is enuf to shock you into giving up booze cigs and drugs.

Marilyn s problem was that she couldnt sleep...........and she had to be up and looking beautiful the next day for the camera s...............a very distressing problem to have. In 1962 sleeping meds and barbituates etc etc, basically anything a dr prescribed were viewed as miracle drugs and were not considered taboo. There was no such thing as a rehab center in 1962. A different era.

There was never an incident either making a movie or a public event when Marilyn wasnt in full control, She was at most a moderate drinker and then it was bloody marys and champagne..........for sure not the beverage s of choice for alcoholics.

R125 It is. A guy I know flies hobby planes and says that Harrison flies drunk.

Amy Winehouse

Lassie was a drunk. That's why she always tipped to one side when waving goodbye.

Nick Nolte --- ya think?

Scarlett Johansson, I figure, is a Clooney style drinker.

God i hope you are right that makes her VERY attractive to me.

I think Scarlett drank more early in her career.

[quote] Marlene Dietrich ended up as an alcoholic recluse, drinking all day.

Yes, Marlene was a recluse at the end of her life because of vanity she didn't want to be seen. But she talked on the phone all the time with friends. She lived into her 90s so it's unlikely she was drinking alcohol all day. Where does that come from? Her ingrate of a daughter?

Johnny Carson was a raging alcoholic who propped himself up with cocaine. The coke Delorean got busted with was for him. Delorean's attorneys were from NBC.

Scarlett drinks coors light. I saw her with a group of friends.

Dietrich was drunk much of the time in her later years, she had several falls onstage.

Jessica Lange and the late great Sam Shepard.

Mel Gibson, Gerard Butler, Vince Vaughn, John Favreau, Jason Batemen

Charlize Theron

Fallon, Kimmel, Penn

I remember hearing about Jason Priestly having a serious case of whisky dick from all his boozing. He would have to feverishly flog his dick to get it up and had difficulty keeping hard.

I heard something similar with Sean Penn.

anyone that had to watch harvey weinstein shower or watch that ugly comedian jack off.....for starters...

Leo Dicaprio

I think Madonna was a hot mess "bad girl" before getting knocked up. Her life was off-kilter. She was dyking out, doing drugs in Miami, singing terribly (she'd basically stopped singing and was sing-talking her lyrics). Then she got pregnant and cleaned up her shit and we got Ray of Light. It's been kind of tragic ever since.

R141 never heard of Kimmel drinking but it does seem the late night hosts do like their alcohol.

Carson, Letterman. Merv Griffin? Chelsea Handler.

I heard DiCaprio was a big time drunk in the late 90s - I wonder if he still is?

I bet bump bitch at R147 likes to get wasted on box moscato sangria while she's bumping 2 year old threads.

R148 they make box sangria? Wouldn't the fruit go bad?

Andy Dick

Courtney Love (former)

Ben Affleck

Demi Thighsvato (off and on)

Joyce Behar

Susan Sarandom and Tim Robbins were both drunks

Tobey Maguire (and pills, think he’s sober now)

Mel Gibson but maybe he's sober now.

Whoopi Goldberg used to be. She went to Mardi Gras, blacked out for a couple of days and came to in another city. She doesn't really drink anymore.

Sloppy Tarantino

Joyce DeWitt Kirsten Dunst