So much for being a role model for children. Craig Phillip Robinson, who plays warehouse foreman Daryl Philbin on The Office was busted for possession of drugs. Actually, he was arrested in June and the felony charges for possessing MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and methamphetamine were just filed.Ah, drugs and Hollywood. The perfect pair. I don't know how this will affect his standing with NBC, but his character is low-key enough to easily be replaced on the show. On the other hand, celebrities (including minor ones) are caught so much with drugs nowadays it should practically be expected. Perhaps NBC should have had better drug testing.
If you look at his IMDB profile, you'll see that Robinson has been in quite a few movies (most recently Pineapple Express). Given that, I think the only thing this arrest is going to do to his career is strengthen it. He'll do the usual shtick of apologizing and getting community service and then take on larger roles.
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8-16-2008 @ 1:46PM
Argus said...
I like Craig Robertson, I hope people are focused enough on his talent to not be bothered by his personal mistakes.
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8-16-2008 @ 1:53PM
Peanut said...
I told you the Newsies were hardcore.
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8-16-2008 @ 2:10PM
Anita said...
That's a shame. I always liked him as an actor -
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8-16-2008 @ 7:28PM
StillBash said...
Wow so he had some E. Him and about 2 million ravers each weekend.
Why is it ok to kill yourself slowly via alcohol but if you want to kill some braincells over the weekend with a couple of pills, you are automatically evil? Role model... LMAO. He plays blue collar guys. So I guess if he would have been reported to have checked into the Betty Ford Clinic, implying heavy alcohol abuse, everybody would've given him a pat on the back.
Seesh.
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8-16-2008 @ 7:43PM
Frank Wrench said...
You do realize that chain of thought leads to the extremes of either excusing or hating the guts of anyone with an addiction, right?
8-17-2008 @ 12:02AM
BartmanDK said...
I dont see it that way.. Like StillBash i cant really see what the big deal is.. Yea he got busted and what time/fine he gets he'll of course have to pay.. But im not going to see him in a diffrent light.. he's a great actor and the parts i have seen him in have been great, so what he does when he's off the clock isent really my buisness!
8-17-2008 @ 11:52AM
StillBash said...
BartmanDK hits the nail on the head.
Heavy drinking is commonplace... in germany alone, with 82 million people, approximately 300,000 die each year due to the effects of alcohol over the years.
The difference: as an alcoholic, you can still be productive, and it kills you slowly. Who cares if you shave off 20 years at the end of your life?
How many people die each year of Ecstazy in the US? The number must be either two or three digits maximum.
And then people here talk about role models. Yeah. Great. I hope you all burned all your George Carlin and Robin Williams material as well as everything Robert Downey Jr. ever starred in.
Even more so I can't understand why people expect stars from Hollywood to NOT be taking drugs in the first place. They make so much money, they are told they are the bomb and you expect them to behave better than the people all around you. Casual drinkers, drinking three, four nights a week.
When I was 16 and had my first job, two workers asked me to pick up a 0.7 liter bottle of Jägermeister before they started working. What shocked me more later on was that I was actually able to buy the stuff (dunno, 32% alcohol that stuff has at least I think) when all I should've been able to buy was beer. You have to be 18 in germany to buy the heavy stuff.
But whatever. E is evil. Hash is evil. But all the other stuff is totally fine as long as you kill yourself over the course of 40 to 50 years and not faster.
8-16-2008 @ 8:52PM
Michael said...
He'll do the usual shtick of apologizing and getting community service and then take on larger roles.??????????? How offended do the readers think I am about that ridiculas statement I can barely contain my rage. How dare you pass off such a hard drug as ecstasy as being ok
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8-16-2008 @ 9:55PM
pumpkinhead said...
The effect this has on his career will be determined primarily by the quality of his mugshot.
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8-17-2008 @ 8:59AM
eric f. said...
Rage is no excuse for bad punctuation.
And no, his recreational drug use is none of your business. And who would he apologize to? The World? Who cares.
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8-17-2008 @ 11:53AM
StillBash said...
"Hard drug"?
Laughable. Ridiculous. How's E a hard drug? People take it left and right and the amount of deaths is miniscule. But stars like Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith die of presciption drugs.
It's so nice to see that you know exaclty what the "good" drugs are and what the "bad" ones are.
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8-18-2008 @ 2:39PM
Ari said...
Not sure why we're focusing on E when he was on meth also, clearly the harder drug. Regardless, it's his life so enough of all these self righteous preachers thumbing their collective nose at him. Get over yourselves.
8-19-2008 @ 9:08PM
StillBash said...
Hm Okay you are right. I just read that Meth is more on the Level of Crack compared to E.
Still - both rather have long-term effects just like alcohol, and again, the only difference to alcohol is the rate of addiction (which IMHO is debatable) and the way it affects the user. Alcohol let's you work. Meth doesn't. And that IMHO is all that counts for society. As long as you are productive, no matter how doped up you are, you can use.
8-17-2008 @ 10:49PM
tingrin87 said...
imo, i couldn't care less.
he's an actor, he takes on a completely different personality on-screen. that's what i'm interested in, not his personal life.
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