Robert Downey Jr. Is Back On Track / Cinema

At 43, he's a witty, charming, fun-loving, entirely off-slant kind of guy who got his start in mid-Eighties teen comedies like Weird Science and Back to School, spent a year on Saturday Night Live during its worst season ever, received his best early notices playing a doomed drug addict in Less Than Zero and then hit the Oscar-nominated big time with Chaplin, in 1992. For about 20 years, he was also a Hollywood profligate of the first water, a thoroughly doped-up Absolut-loving wastrel. And when voids loomed, whirl was king: He’d put the pedal to the metal, stopping only to get arrested while driving naked in his Porsche (1996); or to pass out in a stranger’s house, in a child’s bed, and wake up with medics staring at him (1996); or to spend some heel-cooling time in jail (various). About six years ago, though, he decided to clean himself up, and so far, so good. Since then, he’s continued to make movies, most of them great but small (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; Good Night, and Good Luck; Zodiac) until Iron Man and Tropiс Thunder hit theaters in 2008. Then was The Soloist and a really big heat Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009). In 2010 we will see Downey in Iron Man 2 released in May. 

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