Robby Rogers was the most successful method actor, screenwriter, and director in 1972 when he was exiled from Hollywood. Robby was only 25, and every celebrity who knew Robby called him the nicest guy in Hollywood before he got blacklisted from every major studio. Robby became the best in the industry, got fired, couldn’t get hired in Hollywood for the rest of his eternity, and became the most hated man in America from five false accusations. 

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Robby was 24 when he directed, wrote, and method acted in The Way of the Oil Tycoon, a film critics deemed “the best picture ever made.” When Robby was 25, the film broke box office records, but three months after its release, every major studio executive in Hollywood announced that Robby wasn’t allowed inside their studio for the rest of his godforsaken life.

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The Way of the Oil Tycoon was a film based on the greedy, unethical way Oliver Picket made his fortune. Robby didn’t use Picket’s name in the film, but a writer for Variety confirmed that Picket was indeed the demon who unethically stole oil from land he didn’t lease or own.

Robby didn’t know Oliver Picket was anonymously the biggest film investor in Hollywood, so his dog days soared into the color blue.

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Oliver Picket bribed a writer at The Hollywood Reporter to slander Robby in five articles full of lies. The headlines of the articles—including three others—read:

Robby Rogers Had Sex with a 17-Year-Old

Robby Rogers Stripped Naked in front of an Employee

Robby Rogers Made a Donation to the Communist Party

Robby Rogers Didn’t Write a Screenplay that Awarded him Best Original Screenplay

Robby Rogers Emotionally Abused an Employee who Committed Suicide

Robby Rogers is an Alcoholic, Sex & Drug Fiend

Nobody Invests in Robby Rogers Next Film

Robby Rogers is Exiled from Hollywood

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Robby became depressed and relied on xanax, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and acid to numb his mind. He had no friends because he was a workaholic by trade and chose fame and fortune over meaningful relationships.

After Robby got exiled from Hollywood, he tried to make friends and fix the bridges he burned, but everyone believed every lie except Tiffany Marceau, his friend from childhood. 

After a depressing two years of drug and alcohol addiction, Robby hit rock bottom like a pebble on the frigid ocean floor. On November 7th, 1974, Tiffany visited Robby at his 10-acre mansion in Beverly Hills. He was on eighty-six tabs of acid because he thought he would overdose, but he survived, lost his mind, and had a bad acid trip that lasted as long as pregnancy.

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After a nine-month acid-induced psychosis, Robby discovered sanity at a psychiatric facility. He awoke from a long acid comedown, nightmare dream, told Tiffany, “Get in here, honey bunches of deliciousness,” and then gave her and the voice inside his mind a three-way hug. 

He checked himself into a drug and alcohol treatment facility. One month later, he was sober. Two months later, Robby relapsed. Three months later, he was sober and stayed sober for the next four months in treatment. He figured out how to be better, stay sober, and found meaning in his new life. Robby said sayonara to the treatment facility the day he finished a screenplay titled The Acid Actor.

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I met Robby a few days after he walked out of the treatment facility. I agreed to help house and feed Robby while he directed, produced, and method acted in The Acid Actor with every cent he had. 

The Acid Actor was a semi-autobiographical story about Robby overcoming the dreadful release of The Way of the Oil Tycoon. The film portrayed how every article written about Robby was a lie and that he wasn’t the horrible person everyone thought he was. 

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Robby told me the day I met him, “Making a film about who I truly am—is the only way—I can get my life back on track and get back into Hollywood, man. I want everyone to know forgiveness equals a beautiful life.”