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[amberlea]

Thank you for the article. I'm sure many people did not always hear the full story and held it against Eric. We all know he is a good guy and loves Eliza very much.

[claudia75]

I'm glad I could read this article. Amberlea is right: Eric was known as a wife beater, but this clarifies the whole history. I knew he was a good husband and now I'm happy that I have the confirmation.

[Sunflower]

claudia75 said:

I'm glad I could read this article. Amberlea is right: Eric was known as a wife beater, but this clarifies the whole history. I knew he was a good husband and now I'm happy that I have the confirmation.

HI Claudia75 and welcome...Are you a new member or one who has just re-registered with a different name. Thank you for stopping by to visit with us here. I will try my utmost to help any where I can with our fan base..
Today is our "Remembrance Day " here in Canada.. I am feeling a little sad. My stepdad was in the war but he survived . he seldom talked about it. he had numerous scars on his legs and always had a circulation problem because of it..I guess I am thinking about him a little today. he was a wonderful man...

[Sunflower]

Article for interest only:by M kane

ERIC Roberts isn't a creep - he just plays one on TV. And in movies. And in music videos.

The actor brother of Julia, who faded into semi-obscurity after an early '80s heyday, currently appears in not one but three MTV videos as a devious, controlling womanizer.

It's that sleazeball Svengali role he aced in "Star 80" - 22 years ago - and has been saddled with ever since. Now he's slithering around in a Mariah Carey two-parter and the "Mr. Brightside" clip from the Killers, once again portraying the quintessential lurker-perv-shademeister.

He spies on a sultry Mariah through closed-circuit TV, then lures her away from her true love. In the Killers vid, he skulks around a brothel like a lecherous pimp.

It's come to this. Please, somebody save Eric Roberts. Stop him before he slimeballs again.

This is a devoted family man whose greatest wish is to eradicate child abuse. News flash: Eric Roberts is not a scumbag.



"I am so unlike that," he told me last week during a break in filming a part on "CSI: Miami."

So, why does he keep getting cast as a sleaze?

"I think it's because I can look like trouble," he guessed, "in the way a fast car might be trouble."

I say it's because of that eerie scene in "Star 80," when his shirtless and Speedo-clad weasel, Paul Snider, admires himself in a mirror with a self-satisfied, "Paul Snider ... yeah."

It's the "To be or not to be" of creepy. And it's stuck.

"You know what," says Roberts, "playing a villain is not more fun. Except for maybe all the cool clothes.

"What I'd really love is to play someone who saves children, someone smart. I'd like to play Elvis Presley's dad, Vern. Or romantic leads with real women."

Are any directors out there listening? Quentin Tarantino, give this guy a Travolta role, quick! He's your next Vincent Vega.

These days, Mickey Rourke is back in the A-list action after landing "Sin City." Demi Moore, Pam Grier and Pee-wee Herman all got a second chance.

Roberts was great once. He stood tall. He stood out. He stood in the middle of the street in "The Pope of Greenwich Village," shouting, "The cop s--t his pants!"

Bring back that guy. I want more of that guy.

Roberts has talent, range and that cool quaky voice - so why is he stuck in decent-script Siberia?

In "The Pope of Greenwich Village," Roberts was a lovable screw-up cousin to Rourke, another '80s star whose career tanked.

"Charlie, they took my thumb!" cried Roberts, as small-time hustler Paulie, after an angry loan shark took a saw to his left hand.

And if you've seen the film, you know Rourke would never abandon Roberts.

"Yeah," says Eric, "Mick and I should do a 'Where are Paulie and Charlie now?' sequel. We'll give Paulie a prosthetic thumb."

After an early soap-opera stint on "Another World," the Georgia-bred Roberts shot to fame in the '80s with starring roles in "The Coca-Cola Kid" and "Runaway Train," a jailbreak thriller for which he earned an Oscar nomination in 1985.

Then the "Runaway Train" went off the rails.

Drug abuse, a custody dispute and a reputation as being surly on set led to a rift with his star sister - with whom he's now again on speaking terms - and a string of lousy roles.

More than 100 credits later, Eric's had enough of "Dark Realm," "Prophecy II" and "Spawn 3."

Hey, work is work. But Roberts won't lie. He's still searching for that blockbuster comeback role.

"Always," he says. "Stardom is an addiction, too."