Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hatful of Rain (at the Astor). By far the best of the dope-addiction films, this one stars Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Tony Franciosa and Lloyd Nolan...
...Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges: that she was a loose woman, that she took dope, that she was addicted to alcohol and even drank hair dye to get it. Did Seymour hire a model to leave Harriet's offices-"clad only in blue tights"? Did he suborn witnesses to swear it was Harriet? These questions are not resolved. What is clear is the fact that...
...Black Swan. The principal source of these accusations was Montagna's discarded mistress, Milanese Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, known to Italy's avid scandal readers as "the black swan." In September 1954, largely on the strength of Anna Maria's circumstantial tale of sex orgies, dope trafficking and corruption in high places, Piero Piccioni was formally charged with "culpable homicide." Arrested along with him were Montagna and the ex-chief of the Rome police...
...final word: the publishers have seen fit to place on the front of the dust jacket part of Graves' own description of his book as follows: "A novel filled with sex, drink, dope, horse racing, incest, suicides, murders, scandalous legal proceedings, cross examinations, inquests and a good public hanging." None of these are described in the titillating detail which might be expected. The book, however, is a good study of a bad character, and another, though tiny, star in Mr. Graves' crown...
...moment, at a Greenwich Village brawl. Chayefsky almost dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the streets after something that doesn't seem to exist, when all the time a cozy little wife is waiting for him back home. Suddenly he knows that he "loves" his wife. The conclusion is apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright...