Posts Tagged ‘John Phillips’

Kurt Schlichter

Enabling Celebrity Dysfunction (I Blame Oprah)

by Kurt Schlichter

Just when it looks like Roman Polanski has re-set the bar for personal behavior so low that it’s practically subterranean, the late John Phillips comes along and somehow finds a way to slink underneath it.  Maybe.  Maybe, because his accuser is his own daughter Mackenzie Phillips, a drug addict since the mid-70s who is currently peddling her sordid tale of incest, heroin and general dysfunction to anyone with a lens and a microphone.


Perhaps this junkie, who by her own admission had a decade-long affair with her own father starting at age 19, is not the most reliable witness.  On the other hand, considering the Hollywood community’s frantic defense of noted pedophile Polanski, it’s not too difficult to imagine how Mackenzie and her rock star father might have figured, “Well, we’re here, we’re high, we’re horny.  What’s some shared DNA between stars?”

I blame Oprah. (more…)

Daniel J. Flynn

Mamas, Papas and Daughters: Acid is a Helluva Drug

by Daniel J. Flynn

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I hate getting a song stuck in my head. This is especially true when the song is “I Saw Her Again Last Night” and the reason it’s stuck there is because I just heard the news that Papa John Phillips raped his drugged-out daughter Mackenzie the night before her wedding. The “One Day at a Time” star responded by partaking in a consensual relationship with him. At least that’s Mackenzie Phillips’s twisted story.

As much as one might want to believe that Mackenzie’s drug abuse discredits her story, one is reminded how much Papa John’s drug abuse credits it. If ever a man’s demeanor vindicated Nancy Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ admonition, Papa John’s did. When he was sober, he was still stoned.  (more…)