Oh! THAT'S why young Hollywood is so fucked up? Oh ok, I didn't realize. I thought it was too much money, never being told no and having parents who act like kids and/or no adult supervision.

I was going to say the same thing. Hollywood is fucked up because they have a fascination with being fucked up. No one wants to be the normal one with thier head on straight. It's always more memorable to die of an overdose or suicide than to die of old age.

It's amazing how disposable people are in Hollywood.

He's not that memorable

this dude may be best known for getting a"f*&ck all y'all" tattoo a few days before he overdosed on heroin. class act, all the way. the people they memorialized had either dedicated their lives to working in cinema, and/or were talented, committed artists,not sure this junkie qualifies for either.

just because you were in a few movies, I don't see why people are required to memorialize you. I think his family is probably more upset that he's gone - not that the Oscars didn't mention him.

do you really think renfro was anywhere near the same league as any of the artists you mentioned? or every would have been? i agree with blah that the academy wasnt required to memorialize him. i dont think he earned it. he WAS white trash, he was given a golden opportunity, and he wasted it in a very white trash manner. i usually am way more pc, but am pms'ing and feeling bitchy today. plus, i was a white trash junkie myself many years ago, and i just kinda cant stand the whole "scene" of it.

Regardless… he was a really good actor. If they managed to put Heath Ledger in there they could have put Brad Renfro in there as well. He was great in the Client, Apt Pupil, Ghost World and Happy Campers! It was a tribute to those who have died over the year. He contributed wonderful performances to many films and should be recognized as such.

Nice that most of you jumped on the white trash bandwagon. I'm sure you have a lot more talent than he did! I would imagine you're not all heathens and are familiar with the bible verse:
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. (from the King James Bible, John 8:7) Get a life people, and have some respect for the dead. I'm sure you wouldn't like it if your relative died and people started talking &*^% about them like this! Real classy…

Brad Renfro was talented, and very sad. His death is tragic & he deserves to be remembered just as much as half those people on that list that nobody has ever heard of.

Wait, did Adrienne quote a Bible verse about being forgiving and not being judgmental - and precede and follow it with judgments and non-forgiving? I may be a heathen, but even I know how to apply the Bible's teachings.

Anyhow, he was great in Apt Pupil, and has done enough work to have warranted being in the montage. I sort of felt like Heath's was tacked on at the end. I mean, put a 10 Things I Hate About You clip in there, Academy!

lisa, you are a heathen with a very nice site.

BRAD WHO?

you are right, my post was judgmental, mean and disrespectful. apologies to anyone who i offended.

Tillie, thanks for the apology, that's very nice of you. I actually hadn't even considered your comments in my post since you qualified the entire thing with the PMS statement. As a woman, I completely understand and hope you feel better!

Lisa, I'm not real sure you actually read my post, I don't see anything in there that was judgemental…I stand by my opinion that to be disrespectful of the dead isn't particularly classy. I think that's still Christian of me.

Oh, and by the way, non-forgiving isn't even a word!

FUCK HIM, FUCK HIM, FUCK HIM, PERIOD. You dont deserve shit for throwing away your talent and you life to be a piece of shit junkie. I've seen some crackheads that could have been brain surgeons and might have shown some promise when they were in school, should we do a tribute to them for everything they could have accomplished before they purposely destroyed their lives? We all could have gone down that road so i have no sympathy for someone who fucked up their own life and did nothing to change that.

Hey Dummy, the difference is he did something with his life. Just because it wasn't a legacy of work and was only for 15 years does not mean he didn't accomplish anything! Every year the Academy has a tribute to those in the industry who have passed. If the Academy (who are idiots for over looking Renfro) chose to extend it a month so they can include Heath Ledger then they should have included Brad Renfro. Just because he was in movies that most of the (Transformers, Jack Black Blockbuster) cattle never saw or heard of doesn't mean they didn't exist!

yeahokay, I've read your other comments…you're just full of hatred for everyone, aren't you? SAD.

Nope you obviously have not read my other comments as i am not full of hatred, hell i might be tamer than most. Because he was an actor at some point dose not mean he deserves any more special recognition than anyone else who dies. Being an actor does'nt make you any better than anyone else. Its not like he died from cancer or lukemia or some disease that is mostly out of a person's control. I dont believe in feeling sorry for someone who destroys their own lives. There is not one person who can say that they dont know what heroine does to a person, so there is no excuse.

Adrienne you dont a clue what your talking about. Take a look at where you are. i am nowhere near as mean as other people can be. Just because you have read a few select comments of mine dont judge me as having hatred for everyone, that would make you a judgmental bitch wouldnt it?

Point being that it's the Academy Awards. We're not talking about a Presidential funeral… we are talking about someone who was an actor for many years and contributed his acting skills to the field and the field fucked him over by not acknowledging his death. This has NOTHING to do with drugs as Heath Ledger also died from a drug overdose. That is not the point since many actors have died from this… as well as other illnesses. What about someone like John Candy? Obviously that was a self induced illness that took his life… Is that any better? And if so please send me the rule book.

Wow yeahokay…I must have struck a cord. Yes, I still think you are full of anger, why don't you read your posts again? You just proved my point. Besides, I wasn't comparing you to other people and their posts, I was only commenting on the ones I've read of yours. Granted, I've only read three of them now, but every single one was some of the nastiest stuff I have ever read. You like to call everyone trash. I don't see you leaving your real name, you are hiding behind some screen name because you have no talent of your own. You can call me whatever you want, I could care less…you mean nothing to me. But it's people like you that make this world a nastier place to live in…that think you are better than everyone else. I still say YOU ARE A SAD EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING.

Alright, I am done commenting now, I said my piece and I actually have a real life. Enjoy! :)

Wow you are full of all sorts of poision are'nt you? Guess you dont like being called a judgmental bitch. Calling people a SAD EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING based upon reading three comments? Looks like you proved my point.

you know what Todd your right, the whole point was he is an actor and they didnt include him in their list of actors who died. I really was upset that people are making a big deal over this. What is being named in their list going to do for him? He's already passed on and it wont change anything. It shouldnt be important to anyone that some award show that most people have lost interest in recognize him. i was going off on my own tangent about people not deserving symptathy for fucking up their own lives when they have so much.

"I first caught sight of Brad Renfro when he was kicking a football around with Bryan Singer on the half-built set of Apt Pupil in Hollywood. He was a kid having fun and that's how I shall always remember him. But he was more than that. He was a proper actor and when we worked together he was determined to be accepted as such."

"His success in Joel Schumacher's The Client had lifted him out of his disadvantaged life in Tennessee and swept him into the film industry when he was only ten years old. He told me how the Knoxville police department had recommended him to the casting director, as a reward for having written and produced a short film against drugs, even though he was no stranger to them.

In Hollywood he was a teenage charmer, chaperoned by his beloved grandmother and by his admirers who protected him as best they could from the dangers of being a child in a careless adult's world. On set, he was blusteringly confident although it was obvious he would have benefited from training as an actor. Yet, as Todd, the disturbed teenager in Apt Pupil, he tapped into an inner demonic world and carried the film on his young shoulders.

Off the set he played football, played his guitar and one magical evening I shall never forget, invited me to his home in the Hollywood Hills. We chatted a bit about acting and his dreams to direct films, to write music and to return to Tennessee. When he heard a dog barking wildly across the valley, he mimicked the animal and the dog replied; a kid at play but capable of growing into someone special.

He longed to belong in the alien world which perhaps in the end overwhelmed him. He was only 25 and it is dreadful we shan't see all that he might have achieved.

With love, Ian McKellen, 16 January 2008"

"And people wonder why young stars are so fucked up."

In the first place, I didn't know young stars were fucked up. Or do the small handful that populate the tabloids represent all young actors and actresses?

In the second place, you're saying that the reason some of them are fucked up is because they end up not being mentioned in Oscar montages AFTER they die?

Seriously, just how stupid does one have to be to make such a statement?