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Yeah, typical. I grew up in Hollywood, and a lot of the old timers at my synagogue were retired studio people. They told a lot of very interesting stories, and proved that the only difference between Hollywood stars now and those under the old Studio System is that in the old days, they'd call Studio PR if there was ever a scandal brewing, and Studio PR would hush everything up.
The glorious stars of the golden age of the silver screen were a mighty horny lot, and they fucked around, if anything even more than major stars today do, because they knew nothing would ever get to the press. They also got into domestic fights (I mean, not screaming, but hitting one another), they drank like fish, they had quacks prescribing them all kinds of drugs, and they did just as much smoking weed and snorting coke as today's stars.
A lot of times, I have been told, the ones that looked the cleanest, most well-scrubbed, wholesomest "family friendly" entertainment on screen were actually the filthiest, raunchiest, drink-and-drug-riddled sex perverts.
It actually sometimes makes me like them a lot more.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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