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Drew Barrymore: Girl Lost
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In 2007, Drew Barrymore was finally able to do something that the majority of people care about! She was able to get a role on "Family Guy!" On the show, she plays herself, only her name is "Jillian" (for legal reasons). Her role currently requires her to come up with "memorable" Jessica Simpson-esque idiot girl quotes every episode, and to have sex with an anthropomorphic alcoholic dog named, "Brian Griffin." Drew claims to be having "the best time of my life on this show!"
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As a teenage star battling alcoholism herself, Drew Barrymore wrote about her father in the memoir "Little Girl Lost." He was depicted as menacing, showing up only to abuse his daughter and former wife and ask for money.
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The latest in the line of Barrymore actors, Drew was initially cast in cute little-girl roles, most notably in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) at age 7, and television's Babes in Toyland (1986). After several years overcoming her parentage in drug rehab, she emerged to take on the world as a wild child in leading bad-girl roles in Poison Ivy (1992), television's The Amy Fisher Story (1993), Bad Girls (1994), and Batman Forever (1995). She continues to work prolifically, turning out 3 to 4 projects a year in films ranging from thrillers (Scream, 1996) to musicals (Everyone Says I Love You, 1996) to romances (The Wedding Singer, 1998; Ever After, 1998 and 50 First Dates, 2004) and action films (Charlie's Angels, 2000; Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, 2003). She became a hyphenate, both executive producing and starring in Never Been Kissed (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Fever Pitch (2005) and the Charlie's Angels films.
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Drew Blythe Barrymore was born on February 22, 1975. Parented by the famous Hollywood-royalty Barrymore family, she first began acting at the tender age of 11 months in a TV commercial. At 7, Drew was starring in box-office record-breaker E.T. (1982). The flip side of this child stardom was revealed when she dropped out of school at 14 and published her co-written autobiography, Little Girl Lost (1990). Drinking at 9, dope-smoking at 10 and coke-snorting at 12 were some of the stops on Barrymore's descent.
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Drew Barrymore was seven when she snagged a role in Steven Spielberg's hit film E.T. (1982). She was already a member of the famous Barrymore acting clan; her great-uncle Lionel tormented Jimmy Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life, and her great-aunt Ethel and grandfather John Barrymore ... were popular thespians earlier in the century. For Drew, early success bred excess: by age 10 she was using alcohol and marijuana, by 13 she was in rehab, and by 17 she was posing nude for Interview magazine. She described this troubled period in a 1990 memoir, Little Girl Lost. Despite her tabloid-fodder personal life, in her twenties Barrymore became a prolific and respected actress in films like Boys on the Side (1995, with Matthew McConaughey), The Wedding Singer (1998, with Adam Sandler), Never Been Kissed (1999, with Jessica Alba) and Fever Pitch (2005, based loosely on a book by Nick Hornby).
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Unsurprisingly, observers began writing Barrymore off as just another failed child star when she was barely into her teens. She made a string of (largely forgettable) movies, many of which only reinforced her image as a has-been. However, in the middle of her teen years, Barrymore entered rehab, cleaned herself up, and wrote an autobiography, Little Girl Lost, which detailed her travails with drugs and alcohol. In the early 1990s, she entered another phase in her career, gaining notoriety for playing a series of vampy, trampy trailer-park Lolitas. In this capacity, she turned in memorable performances in Poison Ivy (1992), the 1993 made-for-TV The Amy Fisher Story, and Batman Forever (1995), all of which featured her pouting seductively and showing more thigh than all the Rockettes combined. Barrymore's on-screen antics were ably complemented by the off-screen reputation she was forming at the time: first she could be seen posing nude with then-boyfriend Jamie Walters on the cover of Interview magazine, then modeling for a series of racy Guess ads, flashing David Letterman during an appearance on The Late Show as a "birthday present" to the host, and finally posing nude for Playboy in 1995.
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