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...later learned that he is helping out one of his buddies, and making the only living he could in 1963. Roger Corman, B-movie mogul and director of Nicholson's first picture, Cry-Baby Killer (1958), "directed" The Terror--it was filmed in three days, using leftover sets and props from the recently completed The Raven with Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price...and Nicholson. And Sandra Knight? Jack had married...
...hard not to view this as a setback. But movies were too ingrained in Nicholson's blood to be discarded after a few dozen failures; he turned to personal experience to improve his literary output. He wrote about drugs. The Trip (1967), directed by Corman and starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern, detailed, in an obscure way, an L.S.D. experience. Not coincidentally, wife Sandra had experienced a bad trip; understandably, she implored Jack not to work on such a screenplay; not surprisingly, he doggedly persevered, and she packed up and left with daughter Jennifer before The Trip...
Steven N. Fine '81, 1981 editor-in-chief, said he though the GSA "voerreacted" to the article, written by Adams House resident Jared S. Corman '81. Fine said the GSA's demands were "out of proportion to the hurt the article caused...
...Corman, in a letter delivered to The Crimson last night, said he regretted that his piece offended anyone. He said he "tried to write the piece in a tongue-in-cheek style, but evidently it didn't come off that way. I apologize for having hurt anyone's feelings, as that was not my intent...
Steven N. Fine '82, editor in chief of the 1981 yearbook, said yesterday he did not find the article offensive to gays or to Adams House. "Corman was trying to show that Adams House is more than its stereotypes. He wrote, 'Rumor has it'; he was not presenting facts. It is not malicious; I don't think it is derogatory. I apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize to anyone who was offended, but I do not apologize for running the article...