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18
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0%
0 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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When it comes to representing the famous and addicted, Hollywood seems to know only two stories.
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Hollywood → come → stories
Both begin with a passionate talent who longs to make an impact on the world.
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who → begin → world
Then, as no less an expert on this subject than Courtney Love memorably put it, they get what they want and they never want it again.
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they → put → it
Afflicted by affluenza or impostor syndrome or the newfound knowledge that success can’t heal their internal wounds, they escape into substance abuse.
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they → afflict → abuse
It’s only in their final chapters that the two narratives diverge.
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narratives → ’ → chapters
Some lucky souls hit rock bottom, get clean, and live happily ever after.
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souls → hit → bottom
The rest die young.
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rest → die → ?
It would be easy to slot Matthew Perry, the Friends star who died from ketamine and drowning in October 2023, into the latter category.
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who → slot → category
But in the intimate three-part Netflix documentary The One About Matthew Perry, director Mary Robinson (Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV) honors his memory by resisting that simplistic binary.
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Robinson → honor → binary
Yes, addiction (and a cadre of enablers who are now serving time for their roles in his death) killed Perry at 54.
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who → serve → 54
It’s also true that he spent more than 25 years surviving it, fighting to act and write and enjoy his friendships and make his family proud and fall in love.
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family → ’ → love
Instead of hiding that struggle, he used his fortune to aid others in their recoveries and his platform to advocate for a broader understanding of addiction as the illness that it is.
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it → hide → illness
Robinson captures all of this in straightforward, chronological order, through emotional interviews with family and longtime friends, as well as Perry’s own startlingly frank reflections in media appearances and his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
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Robinson → capture → appearances
The absence of major celebrities, whether by design or otherwise, limits the fond platitudes.
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absence → limit → platitudes
In their place are vivid behind-the-scenes anecdotes and candid memories of who he was offscreen—the ambition, charm, humor, and magnanimity, but also the pain he was capable of inflicting on those who loved and needed him.
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who → inflict → him
His sister Mia Perry Bowick, a psychotherapist, is the most insightful presence, embracing grief and ambivalence as she ties her big brother’s highs and lows to early family dynamics.
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she → embrace → dynamics
With all due respect to Chandler Bing, Perry’s greatest contribution was his vulnerability, even when the image of him it exposed wasn’t flattering.
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it → expose → him
In its honesty, this documentary continues that work.
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documentary → continue → work
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