Issue #03/84, February 29 - March 10, 2000  

"The difference was, in the early-eighties, it was very much acceptable – the way heroin is now. Nowadays if you go to a party and somebody pulls out some heroin, nobody’s gonna say, ‘Oh my god, he’s got heroin,’ you know... they used to do it on movie sets all the time – the prop truck was the place to be and you’d go to the prop truck and do your blow or whatever and that was it.

"In the late-eighties, it was a lot different – in the late-eighties, everybody was real protective of it. We knew it was kinda the sin and everybody would hide and, you know, just keep it hidden.

"There was this one place, though, that I went to in Los Angeles with Rick Shroeder and a guy named MICHAEL BASS, who’s one of these Hollywood hobnob guys who doesn’t really do anything but always seems to be around – always throwing big events, that kind of shit – basically, a guy I don’t respect. Guys like that... they’re all superficial, you know what I mean? Anyway, there were about ten of us all packed into this big limo.

"So we wind up down in some seedy area of town and on the outside of this building is a sign that says, ‘BJ’s Auto Mechanics’ and right next door, ‘BJ’s Fried Chicken,’ and you walk through the door and there’s this gate with a person behind it who lets you in and pats you down and you go through the door and everybody’s getting served fried chicken – even if it’s like two in the morning – there’s fried chicken everywhere! There’s all these different rooms – one is like a main restaurant with a cook and waiters and stuff – and I’m noticing that there’s lots of celebrities and everybody’s doing blow – eatin’ chicken and doin’ blow.

"You walk through a hallway lined with tables, and there’s more people doing blow. You walk further back and there’s this big den with couches and easy chairs and it’s dark – very dark – like those private clubs in New York only this is much more extreme.

"A waitress would come up to you and take your order and you’d say, ‘I’d like a half gram, please,’ and she’d go into the kitchen and come back with a half gram on a silver tray and you can basically get whatever you want in there – blow, heroin, grass... whatever."

"Near the end, as Feldman was reaching his "bottom," his career was rapidly slipping through his fingers. He had been cast as Donatello in the wildly successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series..."

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