Comedy in the Fast Lane: Sam Kinison’s Rock Star Life

Rehab at the Log Cabin

Bill, who was on the road with his brother 280 days of the year, had to make sure Kinison caught every plane, train, and automobile. Along the way, Bill would have countless dealers arrested. It was a relentless five years of madness.

Sam Kinison smiles as he poses on stage at the Emmy Awards.

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Finally, he forced his brother to get clean, or at least to try to. Kinison started rehab in Malibu at a place called the Log Cabin (it was “Like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there”). The rehab actually worked, and the comic was relatively clean for the last year and a half of his life.

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