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...Last week, a nicotine addict who decided to smoke in the bathroom of a Continental Airlines jet started a small fire. Smoke wafted into the cabin, alarms went off and Charles Mason Everman, 41,was arrested on federal charges. The Boeing 737 landed safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...couch for spare change when she wants to order pizza, certainly hasn't hurt his bid for the White House. Despite her financial influence, the new marriage meant so much to McCain that he ignored his wife to the point where she became a vicodin and percocet addict. "Maybe I was wrapped up too much in Washington and my ambitions to pay as much attention as I should have," McCain recently admitted on a Dateline NBC interview...

Author: By Brad R. Sohn, | Title: Don't Vote McCain For Altar Boy | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

Later that day, Thomas G. Nelford, a Columbia dropout and alleged cocaine addict known for his artistic ability, threw himself in front of a Manhattan subway train. He was found carrying Roskot's wallet...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Murder-Suicide Stuns Columbia | 2/8/2000 | See Source »

...Patterns, Barbara sobs because she's a slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camp in the Classroom | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...handful of little-seen films. She came to Allen's attention for her raw, uninhibited portrayal of Iris in Carine Adler's 1997 Under the Skin, about a girl who goes into a promiscuous spiral after her mother dies. Next spring she will also be seen as a heroin addict in Jesus' Son, with Billy Crudup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Her Silence Is Golden | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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