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Actor Gene Hackman and a crew of narcotics agents and drug pushers out of Central Casting are currently in Marseille filming The French Connection II, a sequel to the award-winning 1971 dope flick. But as any real narc could tell them, this time they have the wrong location. For the moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
...creating increasing troubles. Petty crimes, shoplifting and muggings have been more frequent as addicts try to get money to support their habits. Reports of death from drug overdoses have become staple items in newspapers. The city is even beginning to have New York-style gang wars between rival dope pushers. The Rosse Buurt was recently jolted by a daylight gun battle between members of the local Yellow Mafia and a Surinamese heroin dealer. No one was injured, but police found packets of heroin on each of the three gunmen they managed to catch...
Thru Sat.: Viva Zapata, 4, 7:45 and Strawberry Blonde, 6, 9:45 and The Dope Show, midnight...
Nicholson has never taken any pains to conceal two of his greatest pleasures-women and dope-from public view, perhaps partly because he knows they will add a little darkening to his deliberately scuffed, slightly sinister popular image. He has been a cannabis aficionado for the past 15 years, sampled LSD, and taken some snorts of cocaine. None of that is very unusual, especially in high-living Hollywood circles. Jack evidently can handle it; several friends speak of his basically controlled, "non-addictive personality." His long-standing romantic relationships (with Model Mimi Machu, with Singer Michelle Phillips) ended stormily, with...
Thru Sat.: White Heat, 4:15, 7:55 and Each Dawn I Die, 6:15, 9:55 and The Dope Show [Reefer Madness Et al.], midnight...