Talk:John Blyth Barrymore
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editHere is an interview given to The Arts and Entertainment Magazine. It very clearly states that he is still acting. It mentions "Mansion of Blood" which according to IMDb was released in 2012. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuitan (talk • contribs) 10:32, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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editIn one of the sources listed on this page - http://www.janetcharltonshollywood.com/drew-barrymore-has-a-half-brother-on-skid-row/ - John Barrymore himself comes in to correct the record:
Well I am the aforementioned half-brother, and while it’s true that since I moved back to L.A. in 2009 that I haven’t had a mortgage or rental payment, I have not spent a single night on the street, let alone on skid row, I still have a lot of good friends. I didn’t even know where skid row was when this story first appeared, I had to inquire.
This story seemed to start when I was staying at Occupy L.A. late in 2011. While I did have a tent there and spent most nights there for the last 3 weeks of the encampment, I did have a place to live, the same place I’m living now, in Koreatown. This is where I went to bathe while I was staying at Occupy L.A., which I did primarily just to be a witness to history. At that time someone (my sister Drew’s publicist, perhaps?) got this story going; I suppose it was easy to confuse my camping on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall with living in refrigerator box on skid row. Easy for someone who just wanted to repeat a story without bothering to check a single fact.
I would also like to say that Janet Charlton had my email address, I’ve had the same one (john@barrymore.com) since 1995, and I believe I corresponded with Janet in the late 1990s.
But Janet is not alone in this, the Chicago Sun-Times, a supposedly ‘legitimate’ newspaper ran with the story which included so many bizarre, spurious allegations it must have come from a press release, if not my sister’s then someone else.
By the way, I’m quite easy to find on the internet, just try John Blyth Barrymore or John Barrymore III, anyone who spends more than 2 minutes searching can probably come up with my email address, mentioned above, as well as my phone number. No one bothered to even do a superficial fact check.
Think about that the next time you’re reading “celebrity news.”
If anyone’s interested, I burnt out on programming after 20 years as a contract software developer, but I’m still doing a little computer consulting, acting (check my IMDB page), directing, and running an actors workshop in Los Angeles. For further information see: