“Rehab. It’s every artist’s nightmare. Or perhaps…their birthright.”
It was these words that Richard Naiboir spoke to the assembled press as Brad Radby entered Malibu Waters Mountain Valley Canyon Drug Rehabilitation Resort.
What happened inside that building became the stuff of paparazzi legend, and in no small way, kick started an entire new wave of online internet celebrity gossip.
Rumors of midnight escapes and attempts to light the Pacific Ocean on fire found themselves escalated when self-produced video of Mr. Radby doing these very things showed up online.
(He would later attempt to chronicle these “rehab escapes” in the little-seen short film Brad Radby’s What Time Is It?, which was found hidden on his website, shortly after his alleged death.)
After two years, Brad Radby emerged from his dark recesses, and resumed making movies. Save for Brad Radby’s The Exploders, this era demonstrated perhaps the most self-assured and confident filmmaking of Mr. Radby’s career. Whether this was simply sobriety, or his discovery of a popular alien-based Hollywood religion is unknown.
He came out with a bang to be sure, with his second post-rehab effort breaking the all-time box office record set by his own Brad Radby’s Spider-Babe. Not only that, but it garnered Brad Radby the best reviews of his career to date.
Interestingly enough, before that movie, he chose to tackle an entirely different type of material, wading into the complicated waters of computer animation. The result was pure Brad Radby.
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