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Opponents say they have raised only $30,000 to defeat the measure. The war chest in favor of Prop 215 tops $1 million, much of it from sympathetic tycoons. On the recommendation of Baba Ram Dass, the spiritual leader who works with aids patients, Laurance S. Rockefeller contributed $50,000. Global financier George Soros has contributed $350,000. With deep pockets like those behind it, the fight over medical marijuana could easily go national next...
Alpert, who later renamed himself Baba Ram Dass, left Harvard soon after Leary. He was fired by Pusey for administering hallucinogenic drugs to undergraduates, The Crimson reported on July...
Indeed, Leary's recent guest list is both eclectic and electric: Yoko Ono, goddaughter Winona Ryder, former Mama Michelle Phillips, dolphin researcher John Lilly, onetime Dodger catcher Johnny Roseboro, the widow of Aldous Huxley, the members of the industrial-metal group Ministry, and Ram Dass, who used to be Leary's old Harvard bud Richard Alpert. Oh, yes, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins just dropped by and dropped off a tape of Dead Man Walking. "It's a little hectic up here," says Leary's personal assistant, a young woman with magenta-streaked hair, Technicolorfully tattooed legs...
Next month the Laserblast episode will take MST3K out in style, with deftly flicked allusions to, among others, Eddie Deezen ("heir to the Arnold Stang fortune"), Ram Dass, Georgia O'Keeffe, Haile Selassie, Sister Mary Elephant, Iron Eyes Cody and Roddy McDowall ("as Dr. Casabamelon"). Crow notes that "this movie was run through a highly technical process called 'tension extraction.'" And in an especially inert section of Laserblast, Servo says what might be said of any MST3K experiment: "There's a point where it stops being a movie...
...last Thursday morning, Michael Eric Dass, from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, shuffled tentatively through the door to the secretary of state's office and asked where he could register to run for President. Dressed in stiff new blue jeans, work boots and a windbreaker, Dass sat down at the desk to fill out N.H. form 655:47. Out of an empty Mueller's spaghetti box, he plucked a $1,000 check. A reporter from the Manchester Union Leader pulled out a pad and asked Dass why he was running. "No one appreciates the press more than I do," said Dass...