When I heard the news about Sean Young's embarrassing outburst at the Directors Guild of America awards dinner the other night, I was going to write something up and figured I'd take a few playful shots at her.

After all, you don't usually hear about actors heckling their peers at an awards dinner, which is what Young did to "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" director Julian Schnabel. I'm sure a lot of them have wanted to; some of the speeches at those events turn into marathons of monotony. But the traditions of the evening dictate you suck it up and endure all the 'thank you's' to the winner's support team, agent, family, manicurist, sponsor, etc.

Not sticking to tradition is what made Sean Young so interesting as an actress and an interview. She didn't follow protocol. This was the woman who tried to convince Warner Bros. to cast her as Catwoman in "Batman Returns" by putting on a homemade catsuit and walking onto the studio lot with it. She tried (and failed) to crash the Vanity Fair Oscar party a few years ago to try and schmooze her way back into the industry's good graces. That's moxie.

But this wasn't some resort town film festival awards dinner she was thrown out of. It was the DGA awards, for goodness sake! In a room full of people who typically have final say over who gets cast in their films, Sean Young, an actress who says she can't find work in Hollywood, gets thrown out for razzing one of the year's most heralded filmmakers.

Young's career has been dead for some time now. She may pop up every once in a while in a made-for-TV flick or an episode of "ER" but as she told Entertainment Weekly last year,"it's always another actress besides me. I mean, everybody always gets my part.'

And that's a shame, because before her career went down in flames, she was on fire in the 1980s. Look at her resume: "Stripes," "Dune," "No Way Out," "Wall Street" and of course, "Blade Runner." I had a chance to talk with her last year at the San Diego Comic Con when she joined her fellow BR cast mates to promote the new DVD release. She was gorgeous and charming, and even commented on how much she enjoyed being back in the spotlight.

This incident probably put two extra nails in her career coffin. She's gone into rehab for alcohol abuse on the heels of her getting tossed from the DGA dinner. I hope she comes out a happier, healthier person. And I hope someone gives her a second chance to revive what was once such a promising career.

[All photos courtesy of TCM and Getty Images.]