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...stars turned out with pooches in tow, and some even took a turn on the runway. Sigourney Weaver arrived with her daughter Charlotte and pup Petals. Robin Strasser, who plays Dorian on "One Life to Live," brought her dogs Scooter and Lola to the bash. "Sopranos" star Edie Falco brought along Marley, who took an unscheduled turn on the cat - er, dog-walk...
...actor still possesses the self-effacement that comes with having once supported his craft by driving delivery trucks for Gimme Seltzer. "You go into these TV things always worrying about the kind of egos you're going to encounter," says Sopranos co-star Edie Falco, "but he just doesn't have one." 8mm director Joel Schumacher was equally impressed by the actor's lack of pretension and gift for capturing a character's telling moment or gesture. He recalls how Gandolfini, who plays a pornographer in the film, persuaded him to have a diary hidden in a toilet tank instead...
...need treatment and those who will actually get it. Depending on which Administration document one reads, the total number of needy addicts ranges between 1.1 million and 2.7 million people. Whatever the best guess, Clinton's new dollars will aid only 74,000 addicts. "It's inexplicable," says Mathea Falco, who ran the Carter Administration's interdiction efforts as the first Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. "Everyone in the field, and Clinton too, knows the supply-side efforts have largely failed. Clinton's effort moves in the right direction, but at a pace that won't have...
What to do with the millions who will go on to heavy drug use anyway? Falco says the best hope lies with lengthy residential programs, such as Phoenix House in New York City and Amity in Tucson, Arizona. Phoenix House loses about a third of its clients within the first six weeks, but 80% of those who stay the course for at least a year remain drug-free. She also wants more prisons to serve, in effect, as compulsory residential programs for incarcerated drug offenders. But while more than three-quarters of state prison inmates are drug abusers, no more...
...Falco's title is probably too optimistic. Even universal drug education and treatment on demand will not guarantee a drug-free America. For one thing, only about a quarter of all drug abusers currently seek help to kick their habits. And treatment is far less effective with the inner-city poor than with middle-class drug users. But even a partial success would save more lives and dollars than the present, failed approach. All it would take is a recognition that real wars aren't fought with balloons and puppets...