Followup on a couple kids BU was recruiting, and Hollywood lifestyle exposed...

Darius Smith out of Chicago -- went to UConn, then left after his freshman year and is now playing his sophomore year at College of Southern Idaho.
he's agood point guard but not a big scorer. He is being followed now by several D-I schools, but it looks like Bradley is no longer in the picture.
CSI is currently 22-3 and Darius is their starting PG. He has solid offers from Iowa, Detroit, UIC, and several others but he is being followed closely by Tubby Smith of Minnesota -- who is pretty desperate for a point guard after his top three options for this season are injured or gone.
Darius Smith averages 5.5 assists per game and an Assist to Turnover ration of 2:1.
He also scores 8.7 ppg but doesn't look to shoot that much and is not really a 3-pt threat.
He averages almost 80% from the FT line.


Minnesota is also looking hard at another kid Bradley was following...Chris Colvin.
Colvin left Iowa State and is now at Palm Beach State College in Florida.
Colvin's numbers are...16.0 ppg, 4 rpg, 7.1 assists per game and 2 steals.
His team is 21-2, and Colvin's shooting pct. is 48% and 46% from the 3-pt arc.
Colvin is getting strong interest from West Virginia, Iowa, California, Clemson, Arizona State, Minesota and Butler - who is recruiting Chris the hardest.
He also has other lesser offers.


Speaking of point guards......
Ex-Bradley Brave Eddren McCain has now enrolled at and become eligible at Paul Quinn College
http://www.pqc.edu/future/studentlife/paul-quinn-athletics.htm

They are a strong NAIA school - and are currently 15-8, and 10-5 in the Red River Athletic Conference, in 4th place..
In 23 games Eddren is averaging 9.74 ppg, and just 29.9% on 3-pointers, but rebounding well at 5.13 rpg,
and leading the conference with 7.74 assists per game and 2.52 steals per game

Eddren's assists leads all of NAIA and he's also top 10 in all of NAIA in steals and assists to turnovers.

In fact, Eddren's 7.74 assists would lead ALL of organized college basketball.....the current leader in D-I is Ohio's DJ CVooper at 7.5 assists per game!

Ex-BU recruit Diante Watkins at Robert Morris (Chicago) is also among the overall NAIA leaders with 6.18 assists per game and 19.1 ppg



Lastly -- if you ever have a daughter who says ...
"I want to grow up and be a beautiful and glamorous movie star!!"
...then save the link to this blog, because I want to show you just how happy of a life the most glamorous movie stars have!

Here's just one person's rankings of who were the TOP TEN most glamorous movie stars and what ever became of them....
if the next generation of "stars" such as Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears is any indication, then I guess this sad trend of ruined lives is going to continue...

#1 - Marilyn Monroe was miserably unhappy in life, married and divorced three times, but many, many affairs, became drug addicted, perpetually under treatment for psychoses, and killed herself at age 36...with lawsuits going on for years over her estate.

#2 - Elizabeth Taylor born into a wealthy famliy but was fairly unhappy much of her life, ran through multiple marriages (eight) and divorces, and was a drug addict and alcoholic and her physical health was all but totally destroyed by the time she was in her 60's.

#3 - Jane Mansfield, although glamorous and beautiful, never enjoyed the success most thought she would. Once in the limelight her personality turned bitter and hateful and nobody wanted to work with her. Married and divorced three times, she also had numerous "affairs" (adulterous encounters) and died in a horrible car crash in the middle of the night after partying -- her two kids surviving in the back seat and seeing their mother decapitated. Lawsuits over her estate followed for years.

#4 - Brigitte Bardot - married at 18 and famous within that same time span...she went on to five unhappy marriages and divorces, plus endless unhappy "affairs".
Her life was also marred with disputes, alcoholism, drugs, and several suicide attempts.

#5 - Judy Garland may be the saddest of them all since she really had talent in addition to her good looks. She could sing and act and was very intelligent.
She also went through multiple marriages, divorces, and "affairs"...never finding any peace or happiness. She was heavy into alcohol and drugs and abusive relationships with men. Her health deteriorated mostly because of the drugs, alcohol, and cirrhosis and by the time she was in her mid-40's she looked like a 75 year old hag... Sadly, she killed herself with an overdose of barbiturates in her bathtub at age 47.

#6 - Catherine Deneuve - also born into a wealthy famliy and had everything. She was pronounced the most beautiful woman in the world by many, and had multiple acting opportunities. Unfortunately she was not a good actress and her film career died out but she continued modeling. She's likewise been married and divorced and multiple "affairs" and has had illegitimate children. She's dabbled in political activism but in interviews has revealed she has never had a single happy or satisfying personal relationship.

#7 - Jane Russell zoomed into Hollywood stardom helped by her affair with Howard Hughes. She had a fairly successful career as a "bombshell" but was always overshadowed by Marilyn Monroe - to whom she was often compared unfavorably.
Married three times with numerous affairs..but was never able to have children. Strangely and surprisingly -- after a life that had her headed for destruction, she became a strong Christian believer in the 1960's and virtually disappeared from public life.....she is still alive at nearly 90 years of age and says her only real happiness in life was as a mother of her adopted children and in her Christian life after she left public life.

#8 - Greta Garbo - Swedish actress, despite tremendous fame she shunned publicity and was fairly shy. She was known for the line "I vant to be alone...". She had numerous unhappy "affairs" but never married, never had a satisfying relationship, and never had children. She was known for her moodiness and her desire to remain secluded most of her life, she had few friends, was often ill during much of her final years, and never appeared happy. When she died, she left her considerable fortune to a neice who barely knew her.

#9 - Jean Harlow was the absolute classic "blond bombshell" who was the toast of Hollywood because of her stunning beauty.
She was married and divorced THREE times before she was 23, and had many affairs, and was into drugs and alcohol, dying at age 26 after being ill for months.

#10 - Rita Hayworth -- like most Hollywood stars, despite being beautiful was never happy -- had five marriages & divorces and many unhappy "affairs".
She was repeated ill - usually due to drugs and alcohol and died at 68 after years of deteriorating health.
Family said this about her last 20 to 30 years of life..
"..She'd fly into a rage. I can't tell you. I thought it was alcoholism-alcoholic dementia. ... She wasn't diagnosed as having Alzheimer's until 1980. There were two decades of hell before that."

There are others, too....but before you send your daughter off to Hollywood for a great life...just check the track record of those who have gone before.......
it is with great sadness that one views this list of beautiful and talented young women who were used and abused but also shared in the horribly bad decisions that ruined their lifes rapidly and in most cases ended their lives way too early. In the end it is really quite difficult to find a single example of a beautiful and glamorous Hollywood personality who actually claims to have found satisfaction or happiness at any time in life. Go figure -- could they be missing something -- maybe the something that one of them actually did find?
Hard to imagine why anyone would want this lifestyle.....