Maureen McCormick is best known for her childhood role at Marcia Brady on the classic sitcom The Brady Bunch. In her new memoir, titled Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, McCormick tells the story of the battle she fought between the picture perfect character she played on TV and the real-life turmoil she endured off-camera.

"When the series had its final bow, she took up a hard-partying lifestyle in Hollywood, using drugs including cocaine and Quaaludes. She struggled to regain her earlier success, landing some TV and movie roles, but developed a reputation for unreliability due to her addiction, even botching an interview with Steven Spielberg for a role in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' because she was high."

Now 52, McCormick is still surprised by how much Marcia Brady was and is part of people's lives. She admits it took her most of her life to separate Marcia from Maureen, but says she's finally reached a point of "equanimity and acceptance." Source: The Associated Press

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Amy Winehouse is in the news again, this time for being rushed to the hospital where she was reported to be coughing up blood. She is the latest in a series of stars whose "fast and furious" lifestyle is seductively appealing to many people - primarily young fans.

"The idea that some spirits burn too fiercely, consuming themselves in their own flames, is incredibly seductive to the people least likely to know better, by which I mean the young. As you get older, you start to question all that romantic nonsense and see such deaths for what they really are: a tragic waste."

The danger inherent in Winehouse's lifestyle is that, without ever realizing it, she may take others down with her. The singer is admired by many young people who don't view her as someone who makes reckless and destructive choices, but rather as a person who is living with an all-out passion. Source: Belfast Telegraph

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