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Johnson's offscreen life has been more eventful. At 22 he began a four-year liaison with 14-year-old Melanie Griffith, the daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren, with whom he had appeared in the movie The Harrad Experiment. Later Johnson plunged into drugs and alcohol. "I never drank or did drugs while I was working," he told PEOPLE magazine. "But brother, when they said 'Wrap,' I would try to set the land speed record." Johnson rehabilitated himself with the help of his current mate, Actress Patti D'Arbanville, and Miami Vice has put him in the fast lane...
...preparation for the yuppies, I bought a dozen Oxford shirts. In an effort to fit in with my roommates. I drank and played hard. My desire to belong at The Crimson drove me to view my work there as career-oriented and as if nothing else mattered. The diversity promised to every incoming freshman existed from the outside of the "Ivory Tower" but not from within. Not for me anyway...
...been drunk before, everyone wanted to get me trashed: But I hadn't done too much, so they really had to dig deep to find things I had done that no one else had. Someone said they'd never gotten the highest grade in a course at Harvard. I drank. Someone said they hadn't studied on a Friday night. I guzzled again. I kept telling them I wanted to leave, but they said "sit, stay." So I did. It was fun. I really wish I had left, because the game became a bit vindictive. Some who knew others' intimate...
Barbara Walker told the New York Times that the FBI would not take her seriously at first because she drank heavily before deciding to take the fateful step. She said she had suspected her husband of spying since 1967 and had even told their four children about it. "All I tried to do was tell them their father was not a good person, but he was still their father," she said. After turning John in, she remained concerned about him. "I wanted to give John a chance to run. That bond goes a lot deeper than you think...
Black Sparrow's first book was by a hard-drinking roustabout, Charles Bukowski. Says Martin: "He was the kind of guy that drank in sailors' bars, got into fights with everyone in the room and wound up drinking alone with everyone stretched out on the floor." Between bouts Bukowski wrote terse, explicit poetry and fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time...