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The film follows Moon Frye who carried a camera around with her everywhere she went. As an adult, Gosselaar has remained a TV staple, joining the cast of NYPD Blue back in the day and moving on to Franklin & Bash, Raising the Bar, Commander in Chief, The Passage, and Pitch. Read more of his work at johnserbaatlarge.com or follow him on Twitter: @johnserba. 'Perfect Match' Turned Him Into a SUPER Villain, Is 'Yellowstone' On Tonight? In April 2017, the Now44News website reworked a years-old legend into an article reporting that a teen boy had died of . Cause of death: Murder. Most known for: The Land Before Time. Perhaps that's why the documentary felt so empty- she was so self-absorbed that she literally had nothing meaningful to say about other people. Hulus Kid 90 is a where-are-they-now documentary in which Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye sort of tells us where shes been and where she, uh, is now. He was 90 years old.<BR><BR>Here, Bob McGrath attends Sesame Workshop's annual benefit gala, May 27, 2009, in New York. The 1984 series ran for four years, and from the very first episode, Frye says, her life changed forever. In the early hours of July 11, 1994, after a night of partying, 23-year-old Shannon Wisley crashed her car into a picket fence, injuring her face and breaking her nose. Some of them are featured in new interviews, looking back; others arent alive to do so. The list includes Stephen Dorff, Brian Austin Green, David Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and more. I just hope he doesnt find my gun, the Growing Pains and Baywatch actor cracks when she and Frye are pulled over by a cop. Soleil Moon Frye created and directed the project, which looks back on her life as a teenage actress in the 1990s. She explained how, watching and hearing some of the footage and audio, she realized "some of my friends really needed to be heard and to have a friend listen. Where he is now: Like several of Fryes friends from her youth, he is no longer around. The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1990s.The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age. Discovery Company. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. In the early 2000s, she married Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek, but the two divorced in . The documentary features a lot of the positive elements of her experience, including time spent hanging out with other young stars such as Beverly Hills, 90210's Brian Austin Green and Saved by the Bell's Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Pierce died by suicide in 2000 at the age of 25, and Hunter died in 2006 from complications from drug abuse at the age of 31. Mark-Paul Gosselaar is embedded in every 90s kids heart as Zack Morris on Saved by the Bell. Copyright 2023 Distractify. It was amazing and each person had their own perspective. "I think we all had different levels of it. As a teen growing up in Los Angeles, Frye began carrying a video camera with her wherever she went truly, wherever. Some child actors mentioned here departed this world veryyoung, such as Poltergeist star Heather O'Rourke. Offers may be subject to change without notice. She had a regular gig on the series Brooklyn Bridge and appeared in films, but by 1998 left acting behind to start the band Rilo Kiley. I really was so focused on making it about everybody but me. I think it really goes to show that these were really true friendships that go so far back, and we really were like our own middle school of friends and kids growing up together," said Frye. #SIOSI. ", "Brian, it was so funny when he first watched it, shaking his head. In June 2016, 27-year-old Anton Yelchin died at his home in Los Angeles after being struck by his own car. Frye also opens up about a date-rape incident before that term existed and her later relationship with Charlie Sheen, who insists on referring to himself as Charles in the voicemail messages that she saved. Soleil reflected on hearing audio from late actors Jonathan Brandis and Justin Pierce, who both died by suicide. Distractify is a registered trademark. Culled from a treasure trove of VHS footage that she shot during her '90s teenage years, Frye's non . Tragically, Knox's life was cut short on May 24, 2008, when he died of stab wounds while trying to defend his younger brother from a knife-wielding man outside a London bar. The film ends with a tribute to eight friends who died as a result of depression or substance abuse, and even if she doesn't state it outright, the . Now, Frye has decided to unlock the vault., The unwitting co-stars of this footage are her luminous group of friends at the time, an all-star cast of 80s and 90s Hollywood teen actors, including Leonardo DiCaprio (one of the films executive producers), Mark-Paul Gosselaar from Saved by the Bell and Balthazar Getty of Lord of the Flies., We did the things that teenagers did, Frye says in the film. Why do you have so many hours of boring video tape, she snarks at Frye while washing her hands in a bathroom. An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye. In 1988, she succumbed to complications from surgery to remove an acute bowel obstruction. There are plenty of memorable tidbits sprinkled throughout "Kid 90," from Frye videotaping herself going for breast-reduction surgery as a teenager (after her rapid development made her the. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Since then, its been all about her music career, with solo albums and forays with other bands. If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org. In June 2016, 27-year-old Anton Yelchin died at his home in Los Angeles after being struck by his own car. I had remembered our lives being so joyful and so full of life and so blissful and really I didn't realize that I was opening Pandora's box," she explained to TooFab about the project, which hits Hulu on Friday. "The moments that are so amazing in retrospect and just the joy to be able to have the ghosts of the past that I really feel are angels surrounding me, to have them live on through this," she continued, "I hope people are watching this through their own lens and that in some way, I would love to be able to raise awareness around the things were talking about, around growing up, around being teens, around the awkward stages in our life, around mental health awareness, around suicide prevention. And she was going to document every f---ing second of it, so that she could share it someday.". Born on March 21, 1975, Justin Charles Pierce's breakout performance as Casper in the 1995 movie 'Kids' made him a star overnight. The preview also hints at the impact being a child star has on a teenager later in life, as one of Frye's friends, Jonathan Brandis shown in the trailer during happier times died by suicide. Frye, who was first cast in Punky Brewster when she was just 7 years old, makes it clear that she wanted to act as a young girl. Turns out Soleil Moon Frye TVs Punky Brewster meticulously documented her formative years, recently wading back through home movies, phone messages and photos and assembling them into Kid 90, a documentary that she calls A true chronological blueprint of what it was to grow up as a teenager in the 90s. But Frye was a special teen one with Zelig-like exposure to practically everyone else who was young and famous during those years. When Soleil Moon Frye was 7 years old, she was cast as Penelope Punky Brewster on NBCs sitcom Punky Brewster. Other 1990s highlight films include Natural Born Killers, Judge Dredd, White Squall, and his most famous role in Lost Highway. One reason for that? 1. Andrew's brother, actor Stephen Dorff, opened up about the 40-year-old's death during an interview with Larry King. Where she is now: Shes a founding member of rock band Rilo Kiley and is a successful solo musician. . Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. He also appeared in Alpha Dog, Fright Night, and Charlie Bartlett. Our Take: Kid 90 isnt the typical crash-and-burn tragedy/redemption-story narrative that so many child-star bios follow. She was getting T&A roles, and she was only 13. Some celebrities featured in kid 90 have sadly since passed away Kids star Justin Pierce died in 2000, for example, and seaQuest DSV actor Jonathan Brandis died three years later but. Where he is now: He directed 2018s Gotti, one of the few movies to ever receive a 0 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Though the Hulu documentary shows some of the fun times of these kids' lives, it also shows the hardships that they went through and their personal struggles. Get our Celebrity & Entertainment newsletter by tapping the button below. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair . But by opening up the vault, I was able to reconnect with who I really am.". I saw that movie on HBO after it came out. Now, 30-something years later, she's sharing that treasure trove of memories with the world in a new documentary called "Kid '90," a project that wound up being far more emotional than the 44-year-old actress ever expected. "The greatest thing I can do now is carry those memories with me," she told PEOPLE. At the start of Kid90, she explains that at the time, she somehow knew that one day her footage would help make up a cohesive story. 1978-1988 It looks back on the star's first romantic relationships. There was so much joy and bliss that I remembered and there were also some internal struggles we were going through, some of us more than others. Dorff recently starred in a season of HBOs True Detective and now stars on the Fox series Deputy. 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