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I ran into a CoS girl outside their Hollywood Blvd outlet. We briefly talked about addition and rehab and she claimed Scientology has a 80% success rate. I told her that was ridiculous (knowing that the best rate proper institutions can hope for is up to 50%) and she became very hostile and started praising LRH's success. It's a mantra for them.

Lin, loved you in Detroit Rock City and 2001 Maniacs (among dozens of other amazing roles)! Could I ask if you have any idea, what's going on with Guiseppe Andrews? Any chance he'll get back into acting or is he enjoying the trailer park life too much?

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Hi Bill, two questions:

• As someone who profited off the shady 1996 privatizations in Russia, don't you think you should have a bit more introspection before advising that country again on domestic policy? Are you even on record at the time complaining about the bogus auctions? I'd love to see that. That would make you at least consistent on the issue of Russian corruption.

• Who killed Litvinenko? For a while I assumed it was Putin, but then I looked into the 2004 killing of journalist Paul Klebnikov. Klebnikov had exposed the corrupt Boris Berezovsky, famed oligarch, and I assume an ally of yours during the privatizations. Berezovsky seems to have been allied with Chechen gangsters and possibly blew up the apartment blocks in 1999. What reason could Berezovsky have had to kill Litvinenko?

Obviously, Putin is a horrible autocrat and RIP to Mr. Magnitsky, just so you know I'm no shill.

Thanks for your work with Richard Linklater and I hope that collaboration continues.

Could you share any insight into River Phoenix? Were there warning signs of his mental state back when you two worked on Explorers?