Dawson’s silver lining
Rosario Dawson admits there’s an upside to her boyfriend’s withdrawal from the Democratic presidential race, said Kristen Yoonsoo Kim in Bustle.com. A longtime political activist herself, Dawson has been dating New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker for 16 months; he dropped out of the Democratic race in January, ending a year of constant travel. “He’s here!” Dawson says of Booker’s return to a normal life. The couple is now planning a vacation to recover from the campaign. “I’ve burnt out before, and burning out is not pretty,” Dawson says. “And it ends up degrading everything else you’re passionate about.” Despite the fact that their political views are simpatico, Dawson, 40, was initially wary of becoming involved with Booker, 50. She has an adopted 17-year-old daughter, Isabella, and she worried about how the relationship with a public figure would affect her. “It’s the first time I felt like I had to be responsible about my choice of love, which is challenging,” she says. “If you fall in love, you fall in love. But there’s another aspect I had to consider: what this meant in [putting] a microscope on my family and particularly on my daughter.” Those doubts have vanished as she and Booker have grown closer. “In each other I think we found our person.”
Feldman’s one-man crusade
Corey Feldman says that Hollywood has a dirty secret, said
Hadley Freeman in The Guardian (U.K.). A child star in the 1980s, Feldman had featured roles in a string of hits such as Goonies and Gremlins. He and fellow child actor Corey Haim were best friends and frequent co-stars, heartthrobs known as the Two Coreys. Girls would stand outside their houses, screaming for their attention.
Yet by age 19 they were washed-up, unemployable, and addicted to drugs; Feldman once sold his CD collection to buy crack. Both continued debasing themselves on reality TV, and Haim died of pneumonia at age 38 in 2010. After Haim’s death, Feldman claimed the real reason for their self-destruction was sexual abuse. “The biggest problem in Hollywood,” Feldman, 48, says, “is pedophilia.” He says Haim was raped by “a major Hollywood figure” while making the 1986 film Lucas. “He made me promise before he died that I would get the truth out,” Feldman says. Although he’s refused to name his abuser and Haim’s rapist, he says he will in his upcoming documentary Truth: The Rape of the Two Coreys. Feldman claims he’s been blackballed because of his crusade and left out of the #MeToo spotlight. He points to an award show that honored victims, asking, “Why was I not invited?”