In a recent interview with Bunte Magazine, David Hasselhoff pined for the good old days back when the abusive drinking and chain smoking of legends like Bogart and Richard Burton was considered normal.
The star — currently in Germany to promote his book “Making Waves: The Autobiography” — told Germany’s Bunte magazine: “Back then things were different… Back then every star smoked and drank. Think of Richard Burton or Humphrey Bogart… But nobody scrutinized them. Every kind of consumption was normal.”~ FOX
He’s right you know; I would go so far as to say that the drugs and alcohol even added to the mystique of Bogart and Burton while the Hoff is widely ridiculed for his drunken behavior, hounded by reporters who only want to know how much he has drank that night. But even so, I wonder if he has actually considered exactly what this “normal” is for an alcoholic.
Back in my drinking days, normal was a bleeding ulcer and tremors. Going further back, both Bogart and Burton literally drank and smoked themselves to death. Bogart died of esophageal cancer and Burton of a cerebral hemorrhage and cirrhosis of the liver and kidneys… both died in their fifties. Is this the “normal” Hasselhoff seems to long for, does the fifty-seven year old actually want to be this kind of normal?
