No Sheepy No! This is not the way! Bad boys are only good for one thing- bad relationships! Good guys are where it's at! I like to have have a guy superior or at least equal to me morally and intellectually. ( I will wait patiently for jokes along the lines of "Well that shouldn't be too tall of an order..."etc.) And he has to be pretty calm and steady to even out my hyperactivity! I can't stand bad boys, mean boys, cheating boys, or dumb boys....hence, um, MacGyver ....in my book, nice guys finish first! Like Mac This Victor Reinier dude sounds like a real piece of work. He's so attractive, but no amount of attractive in the world can make up for scandalousness and drama!

Alec Baldwin sounds like such a jerk. He should be mortified, contrite, and ashamed. A little self-control may help him to stop name-calling at children.

Told you he looked like a weasel.

I would go for the boys from SG1 and Atlantis. Even Rodney Mackay - I do think he is cute, though he hides it very good

But I wouldn't go for real date-dates, I'm married to a wonderful man, and I have no intention of making a change in that. Just hanging out - that could be fun, I would love to cook for them - I love cooking. Or baking, making cake parties

By the way, saw someone wondering where Viggo Mortensen came from - well, he is Danish, like me , but I don't know him, never met him, probably never will, he lives in CA. To be some one in Hollywood, you have to BE in Hollywood

Aragorn! Oh yes! Dark, filthy hair. 3- day (well, somewhat longer) beard... Very yummy.
Don't like him blonde though.
I don't really like blondes. Well, there are exceptions to the rule of course...


Btw........ anyone seen the home vid of the Knight Rider? Now, THERE's a remedy for love....

I saw the link today but refused to click it. I just couldn't make myself watching it.


Did she really have to do this?

I'll never wash mine again.

I've seen him on the extra's of the Lord of the Rings. In some interviews he even has red hair.
That guy's nuts and so cool!!! I wonder what he's doing. He only made A History of Violence after LOTR. I heard he wanted to become a rock star.
On the set of LOTR he headbutts everyone every morning and he even kissed I think it was Billy Boyd when one of the last scenes was shot.

I saw the link today but refused to click it. I just couldn't make myself watching it.


Did she really have to do this?

He actually gave her permission to film it. I think he thought it might help him sober up...
I saw it on TV this afternoon. Poor guy.
On the other hand it makes me proud my fav actor was never caught drunk.
Or throwing phones at a receptionist.
Or ranting at his daughter....

So, all you gotta do now is:
don't wash your hair for a week
grow a small beard (well, not exactly a beard, but you know what I mean)
if you shave; do so with a blade
ride horse back
play guitar
and be extremely good at skating

Piece 'o cake, ey?

Oh yeah, and lend me a copy of the EXTRA's DVD of LOTR!

A week?

Yeah. Beardish like Aragorn, I looked like that two days ago.

I use one considered all the scars.

That might become a problem.

That too but I can always take classes.

That can't be too much of a problem.

Absolutely.

Actually there are six of those three hours each. Just buy the big green extended edition box. I bought it for 80 euros while in other stores it was 150.

He actually gave her permission to film it. I think he thought it might help him sober up...

I wasn't talking about Taylor-Ann, his daughter. With "she" I was referring to Pamela, his wife - I mean, who else would give the video out so that everyone could see it?

You rise a very interesting point here, actually. Since he has a dark spot in his life as well. I thought about this quite a lot, actually.

Do you think he will tell Wylie when she's old enough to understand? I think he should. He should tell her himself before she reads it in any old newspaper. I think that would be very confusing, to find out about your dad like this.

But if he approaches the theme in a serious way she would learn that you can make mistakes, you just have to realize it and change your life.

You mean the drug abuse?
That's why I think it's great how he got a hold of himself again. Also thanks to the biking trip to Alaska

He took on a role which put him in the shoes of a role model. And from what I know he loved it.
My guess is he will tell Wylie when she's ready for it.

Is that why he made that trip?

Is that why he made that trip?

Well, partially.
From what I know about it (wasn't there, , slightly out of shape)

I believe that trip was before that. He was seventeen there so it was 1967, but the drugs and living in San Francisco took place in the Seventies, actually.

Um... this is something I've never heard about... RDA did drugs??

From what I've read, based on what he said himself, he does somewhat admit to being a part of the wild culture of the sixties, and that usually includes drugs. But, who knows?

Rock, didn't you know?

When he was on his way becoming a juvenile delinquent he tried lots of them.
Especially a lot of LSD.

I had an interview in which he said the biking trip opened his eyes. But I will look it up for sure, Astra.

Question, hs anyone of you tried any drugs (no new thread, just a side trail from this one)

I was offered cocaine a little over a week ago. I declined.
I was a little outcast when I did so, but
A) I don't know what happens after it
B) It might be traceable for too long which could cause me lose my job
C) I'd rather have fun with a gin and tonic...

I'm such a wuss

Interesting because in this interview on rdanderson.com he says.

Q. We read that you were a "troubled" kid as a teenager. Is that true?

A. I started leaving home early on. I jumped freights and traveled a lot. By 1969, there was a big political and hippie thing going on and I was on the edge of it. I wasn't into the drug scene, but I was on the road, hitchhiking around, so it sounds worse than it was.

So he's lieing? or the drugs came later?

Okay, I'm confused now.
I am going on a quest to find that interview! (might take a while as all my important stuff is in the attic, due to a reconstructioning)

Cool interview. If he was on drugs I blame the sixties.

No but my brother was.

If they offer me so, I'd decline as well. I don't want to know what happens after it and I rather have my fun with a couple of beers. Don't need anything stronger.

Found the interviews.

I'll translate a few lines. After that I'll try and scan it, put it here (along with a complete translation)

They kind of are alike: Richard Dean Anderson (43) -old interview- and the brave action hero MacGyver. At least, that's what the actor says himself.
"That role suited me perfectly as I'm quite adventurous myself. I was barely 17 when I left my elderly home for a 6000 km biking trip to Aslaska"

Nevertheless, Anderson isn't too proud when he thinks back of that period of time, as he came across the justice department regularly.
"I was flat broke. I had to beg to stay alive. And if I ever ran hungry I stole whatever I needed. But I only did from people who could easily miss it"

"I must admit I've lived in a criminal environment for a while. But well, who roams the streets can easily come across the wrong kind of people.
I used drugs and that cost a lot of money. For a while I was driver on nightly maraudings. But I've never taken actively part in burglaries and I never used violence"

Luckily, Richard Dean Anderson ended up at the right path right in time.
After roaming for quite a while he was hired at the Californian "Marinaland"....



Etc.

Anyway, I guess I was wrong and he did use drugs after he got back from the biking trip. But the interview with Jay Leno which was recently added to the site here implies he took the trip to clear his mind...

Or I can hardly believe he used drugs, or it's just all a lie.
Magazines/tabloids can write whatever they want.

And if he did use drugs, well, we all know it's a big no-no, but we all do stupid things when you're a teenager.

Michael Des Barres also used drugs, if I'm not mistaken, when he was in the hard rock business.

I believe it and quite frankly, I don't mind if RD has done drugs in the past.
It's in the past.

We all do crazy things when we're young. Heck, I'm even doing stupid things at the age of -almost- well... older anyway.

Our past moulds us into we are at an older age.
We all have our lessons to learn. And I think we can state for a fact RD did. Maybe he couldn't have portrayed Mac as brilliantly as he did if he hadn't had such a past.
We know for sure he's against drugs, he's against weapons, against injustice and against violence.
Just like MacGyver.

True, it all turned out positive in the future. And it was all the more convincing in Blood Brothers when he threw that crackpipe to bits.

Here is a translation of a part of his biography in a German book I have about the series "Stargate", with episodes guides and the history of Egypt and such.

I also somewhere else read that he was in a gang that was stealing cars in his youth and would've come into jail for it if he had continued.

And, while we're at it, I still don't know what to make out of the fact that he was climbing in high hills without any securing. I don't know whether I shall be in awe about it or just call it stupid - I mean, one wrong step and I would not know anyone of you!


So, that's my proof, and I also believe it. I don't think the author is making this up. But like Sheepy, it doesn't throw me away. It's in the past and shall stay there. But I think he should be frankly about it, at least with his daughter.

I definitely would be much more hurt if it was the other way 'round, if someone that I believed to be my hero suddenly would turn into someone I don't recognize anymore. But I don't fear that will ever be the case with Rick, as we all know him now (or, at least, think we know him).


I never used any drugs myself, but I also never was offered some. Where I'm from it's not easy at all to get some, anyway. I never even once tried a cigarette. I'm not drinking coffee either, I just don't like it. And you really can't count the two or three occassions in a year when I drink alcohol

So I'm pretty boring, actually.

My book says he did this trip right after he had left the hospital after the broken arms, to prove himself that he still was able to do sports.

Know how that feels

I don't drink - neither coffee or alcohol, never liked it

BUT... being a teenager wasn't easy without drinking alcohol in the weekends, so I did - drink, got drunk, occasionally, hated every minute of it

Never did drugs, never had the chance, never wanted to.

When I got a little older/wiser, I stopped pretending, and stopped drinking

Today, I'm a saint
*hugging myself*
Don't drink
Don't smoke
Don't chase boys




I'm fascinating

Yeah Sheepy!!! Way to go on the cocaine thing. The drug gives you a really euphoric high and then slams you down. For a while you are invincible but when the high ends, life becomes unbearably dull. Cocaine can be extremely addictive and it causes a ton of physical damage to your body. It sppeds your heartrate and raises your blood pressure. If taken long enough it causes the inside of your nose to erode which leads to sinus infections, nose bleeds etc. It also causes insomnia, psychosis, weight loss, hallucinations, and sensations of insects crawling under your skin.

I have never used this drug. I know about this drug because my office mate teaches our anti drug and alcohol policies and talks about the major drugs.

I understand about drug use and jobs. The company I work for conducts random drug testing of anyone who comes on the job site, including our vendor contractors.

Sheepy you worked way to hard to get your job to screw it up. Its not easy to say no when people are pressuring you, but you stuck to what you think is right. Good for you.

Sounds like Rick was a little foot loose and fancy free in his over-seas interviews. Has he never heard of the AP?

Would explain some of the back tracking he had to do in an interview here.

Check out Rocky's video page and watch the HOUR MAGAZINE interview.