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| | Reel Classics: Article: Achtung, babies! Success comes fast to showbiz kids, lost careers faster |
 | | The words also conjure up names like Alfalfa Switzer, Judy Garland, Adam Rich, Anissa Jones, the cast of "Diff'rent Strokes"-- cute kids who grew into lives colored by divorces, arrests, drug addictions, suicides. |
 | | But while a few have gone on to greater success and some have come to troubled times, most of those are the extreme exceptions; in truth, most child stars have simply disappeared. |
 | | Drew Barrymore at 17 is working again, saying her years of boozing and drugs are behind her. |
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