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an exceptional talent; After dark years of addiction, rehab, and prison, Robert Downey, Jr.

Vogue

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Byline: Joan Juliet Buck

We are in a culture of salvation, where all crimes are annulled by confession and apology, and narcotic substances are washed away by spells of rehab. Robert Downey, Jr., as famous for the abuse of drugs as he is for the use of his talent, spent the years between 1995 and 2001 in and out of rehab and prison, but he's a reluctant penitent on the confessional circuit. He doesn't subscribe to the self-congratulatory confessional mode of the recently saved, who most often emerge eager to feed the voyeurism of the waiting choir and maybe make a few converts along the way. Downey throws off a bright cloud of metaphors instead, to stun, blind, ...

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