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...somehow American leaders seem to feel that it is emasculating to apologize. Politicians reflexively follow the advice of the comedian Lenny Bruce who, when asked what to do if your wife accuses you of being unfaithful, said, "Deny, deny, deny...
...With the right contacts, like Colombian drug boss Pablo Escobar, a New England hippie could make maybe $100 million importing cocaine into the U.S. and help it become the favorite cocktail of movie stars, pro athletes and investment bankers. That is George Yung's story, as told by Bruce Porter in the book Blow and now made into a sprawling rise-and-fall melodrama by director Ted Demme (The Ref, Beautiful Girls) and writers David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes...
Happily, Blow (based on Bruce Porter’s book of the same name) has enough merit to avoid easy aphorisms. The title refers to cocaine, but Blow isn’t intended to be a drug movie in the sense that Traffic or Trainspotting are drug movies. It assumes its viewers already know the history of coke and how the drug took Studio 54 and Wall Street by storm, and thus steers away from dealing with the well-documented social effects of cocaine. Instead, the film is a biography of an extraordinary life, that of George Jung, the baby...
...raise people from their deathbeds with these medications," said Professor of Medicine Bruce D. Walker, the other primary sponsor of the statement...
...comedy is never far from tragedy: Bruce Conner's short film clips intersperse hilarious scenes of people falling off bicycles with newsreels of the airship Hindenburg burning and stacked bodies in a concentration camp. And tragedy, of course, emanates from Warhol's multiple images of Marilyn Monroe that are so emblematic of the Pop genre. Warhol incorporated tragedy more explicitly using the repeated, silk-screened image of a fatal auto accident in his Orange Car Crash, as if death, too, were a mass-produced consumer good...