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...pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
Well, start with an all-American kid like Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, the ultra-conservative son in "Family Ties"). Surround him with a girl-next-door sweetheart, a caricature family and a mad doctor friend (Christopher Lloyd, who played Jim the drug addict in "Taxi") who has created a Time Machine. Sound familiar...
None of this would be possible without Bacon's mastery of the physical side of painting. Much has been made of his reliance on chance, but it seems to have affected his life (he is an inveterate gambler, an addict of the green baize) more than his art. One could say the ejaculatory blurt of white paint in a painting like Two Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1968, is chancy, but that kind of chance is easily manipulated with practice, and it rhymes suspiciously well with other curves in the painting (like the back of the chair...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...
When George Carillo arrived at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose one steamy July day in 1982, he seemed more a mannequin than a man. The 42-year-old heroin addict was bent over and twisted, drooling and unable to speak; almost every muscle was immobilized. No one knew what to make of his condition, so a call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous...