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Brad Renfro gone

Harry here... Nobody has written up an Obit on Brad Renfro because frankly... it's not a story any of us wants to write. Here was a kid actor that showed an awful lot of promise. I remember watching APT PUPIL the first time in my living room with Josh Hartnett and Elijah Wood and Laura Harris as the two boys went through jealousy pains because they each desperately wanted that role - and they loved what Brad did with it. I remember watching THE CLIENT and loving his character in the first half of the film, before the writing made his character dumb for the sake of the movie and it pissed me off. But I liked Brad throughout. That said... it's been a long time since APT PUPIL - and since then, his career took a nosedive. Who knows what it was. Bad friends, a bad scene or just the orgasmic feeling of Heroin which leads one on a path that few ever recover from. The fact is another young promising star has died. We get one last film from Brad and lets hope he gave one last great performance to make this day all the more tragic.

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