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M3g4d37h t1_je8gsoh wrote

Reply to comment by redbug831 in Guitarist Lita Ford of The Runaways, 1976. by gregornot

She married a crazy dude who ended up fucking her life up pretty bad.

> Speaking about her custody arrangement with her ex-husband, Lita said (hear audio below): "By the time our divorce was final and everything was said and done, it was such a joke that it didn't matter what I got on paper. There was no way I was gonna be in those boys' lives. They were such a mess by the time I left and my ex-husband left that it just didn't matter. I just needed to walk away from everything and regroup and come back with Plan B. The big problem for me was I couldn't find them after hiring four or five private investigators and them being out of the country in a Carribbean island. I really didn't have any United States… The Hague Convention, the Hague treaty was working against me with them being in a Caribbean island. And when they did come back to the United States, it took me nine years to track them down and find out that they were living in Tennessee. If somebody wants to fall below the radar, they can."

> Asked what justification the courts used to deny her custody of her two children, Lita said: "They said I was not taking the medication that they prescribed for me that was absolutely ridiculous. It was just an excuse. I did everything in my power that they asked me to do. I did everything. They had nothing on me. And my ex-husband was just lying, he was just making up stuff as we went along. It was just insane. And as he made stuff up, there was no proof that I did all these things he said I did. It was just absolutely crazy. Because I really was a great mom. I put everything into being a mom. I stopped my musical career. I focused on nothing but my boys. I homeschooled my boys living on that deserted island. I mean, I spent all day every day with these kids. I had stacks of books. And then we would go fishing and we would cook dinner. We had a great, great relationship. So for them to turn around and say, 'Mom, you did this and you did that.' Like, 'Wait a minute. You guys are dreaming. You guys are being brainwashed by your dad.' And the attorneys are just feeding off of that."

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Kiernian t1_je8g3qb wrote

Reply to comment by herbdoc2012 in Dorothy and Lloyd Bridges with their talented sons Beau and Jeff, mid 1960s by eaglemaxie

Yeah, but let's face it. Growing up in a house where both of your parents were actors might leave you predisposed to going that route anyway.

>She encouraged each of her children to "pretend" for an hour each day.[2] Her son, Jeff Bridges, later said that the playtime "pretend" games were "basically the basis of acting."

The difference here being that back then people would say things like "it runs in the family" while referring to the talent but by the same token nobody that I can think of tried to claim that their becoming famous had absolutely nothing to do with who they were related to.

It was openly acknowledged that being raised in the culture by people who were already famous gave you a leg up and noone was really trying to pretend otherwise.

I can't imagine everyone was rushing to train total n00bs on the ins and outs of Hollywood society and the finer points of filming for the big screen vs. performing on a theater stage when they had a whole crop of kids who had been around it since they were in diapers.

>Jeff Bridges notes that both his parents studied under Michael Chekhov and that "and a lot of things my mom learned with him were passed down to all of us."

They came pre-conditioned.

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egonsepididymitis t1_je8dlr6 wrote

Reply to comment by Baptor in Lea Thompson in the 1980s makes me contemplate about me being born in the wrong era by [deleted]

When it 1st came out and over the next couple years, I watched Space Camp 30-40 times. It made me want to be an astronaut so asked parents if they could find a Space Camp in Southern CA. that i could go to (we had the money & lived 3 hours from LA, drove there all the time to visit relatives). They said no & kept saying no every time I asked (:

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