You gotta love the blame game. Courtney Love (of all people) is claiming that British comedian Steven Coogan (of 'Alan Partridge,' "24 Hour Party People" fame) is at fault for Owen Wilson's alledged drug problems and suicide attempt.
According to the Daily Mail, Love (who had an affair with Coogan 3 years ago) said, Under normal circumstances I would not comment but I care too much about Owen. I went through it with Steve. I was just out of rehab and he was right there with the drugs."
"I tried to warn Owen. I tried to warn his friends. I hope from the bottom of my heart that Owen stays the hell away from that guy," Love said. The Mail also reported that Wilson's ex gf, Kate Hudson had banned Coogan and him from hanging out (all the reports claim Wilson had a heroin and coke problemo).
Coogan for his part is now threatening Love with legal action. “These accusations are unfounded, unhelpful and hurtful to all concerned," Coogan told Extra. "We are taking legal advice.”
Meanwhile, the media kept asking questions. Was this alleged suicide attempt the end of Wilson's career? Experts debated this question for less than 24 hours and then decide, hey, guess what? His career will be, ok! (Gee, thanks for that media) USA Today asked, was he a class clown or gasp!, a lost soul? Then all his future projects came into grave, pensive doubt.
Then Wilson dropped out of "Tropic Thunder" a Ben Stiller directed film that was to co-star Steven Coogan.
The worst, most crass and base part of it all is shlocksters like USA Today, US and Extra that are looking at past and future films to find "clues" in Wilson's "cries for help" (and generally looking at Wes Anderson films) They note that there was a suicide scene in "The Royal Tenebaums" (and he co-wrote this movie! the horror!) and that his character in the upcoming "The Darjeeling Limited" suffers a motorcycle accident head wound that may or may not have been a suicide attempt.
It's all just really exasperatingly stupid. This is probably not the right time to put a link up for "Needle In The Hay," right? (oh wait, some other idjit did that).
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Steve Coogan is one of my favorite actors, so I guess I'm prejudiced. And it's certainly true that he's a major sex'n'drugs party animal--when his wife divorced him (a scenario feebly depicted in 'Tristram Shandy') she named cocaine plus two hookers in a hotel room for cause. So what? If drug-taking is the reason he's turned out so many great comedy shows and created so many excellent comic characters, then so be it IMHO. It certainly has never showed up in his acting, his appearance, or his incredible work ethic.
Because he's not just an actor. He's also one of the Uk's foremost and most cutting-edge TV comedy producers; his company 'Baby Cow' is responsible for about half the really good shows you see on the beeb and channel 4, and he's been a loyal friend and promoter of other comic geniuses like Armando Ianucci, Rob Brydon, Chris Morris, Judy Davis, etc etc.
I like Owen Wilson. He's a sweet presence in most of his movies, some of which have been quite cute. So I wish him nothing but the best. But like Courteney love he'll be long forgotten in ten years when Coogan will still be championing young talent. There are two sides to every story--and Courteney Love has made a very successful media career of hogging the spotlight and blaming other people for her pathetic failure as a singer.
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