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...what you read or see? The credibility of all journalists was damaged in 1981 when Washington Post Reporter Janet Cooke was forced to return a Pulitzer Prize after admitting that she had invented the title character of "Jimmy's World," a portrait of an eight-year-old heroin addict. A month later, New York Daily News Columnist Michael Daly admitted that he had made up the name of a British soldier who, he reported, had shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details...
...demons by turning them into imps from the underworld. And so he gives his impression of Old Richard emerging from the utopia of inebriation to "wake up in a car drivin' 90" and then wallpaper his bathroom with last night's dinner. His enactment of a heroin addict killing himself with a fix is no joke; it is a flat-out, Oscar-time horror show. Pryor starts out showboating: "They say, 'You goin' to hell.' I say, 'I been there. Had so much fun they kicked...
DIED. James Hayden, 29, promising actor of stage and screen; of a heroin overdose; in New York City. In the current Broadway production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, Hayden won critical raves for his meticulously wrought portrayal of a confused drug addict. A runaway at 14 from his family's home in Brooklyn, he lived for a time on the streets, served with the Army in Viet Nam, then spent ten years as an actor. His career was set to take off on the strength of Buffalo, a critically praised performance last year in a Broadway revival...
...form of theater with two speed freaks, becoming a caricature of himself. Ronis' performance is the most striking, strong enough to steal the stage, yet held in check. We feel his pain. And the strength of his portrayal is rivaled by that of a method one heroine addict named Mark (Harold Langsam), fresh from the Vietnam War. Langsam has a natural twitch that seems to come right out of the plastic bag of drugs he smiles for at the show's beginning. He shakily picks up a red diary, saying "Mom, I want to tell you about war." His eyes...
...barreled north on the Connecticut Turnpike, the suspects were driven in a black police van to the New Haven courthouse. John was handcuffed to a heroin addict...