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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful day out there," Nowell said--but Wilson closed his eyes and pretended to snore. It would be the last time anyone would see Nowell alive. A few hours later, Sublime's drummer, Floyd ("Bud") Gaugh, found him lying on his hotel-room bed, dead of a heroin overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SUBLIME: WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...busy freaking out that her 13-year-old daughter Zivia has run away from home. Ed, Pat's redneck husband, is still mad at Ian, his brother, because Ian gave Ed's new play a bad review and caused an actor to commit suicide. Zivia, however, has become a heroin addict and enjoys dancing wildly to "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. C.C. calls her old friend Porter, who helped her in drug rehab last year, to help Zivia. Ian comes prancing in and, after much pomp and circumstance, agrees to rewrite Ed's play...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Vampires': Searching for Biting Humor | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...wide-eyed and solitary-moshing best--adds a delightfully original flavor to the show. With her crazy mop of red hair, her rich commanding speaking voice and her strictly Allston Beat wardrobe, Zivia shoots looks as darkly and announces religious comings as coldly as any typical 13-year-old heroin addict...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Vampires': Searching for Biting Humor | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

Another Miramax import, the film tracks the misadventures of some twentysomethings in Scotland, nice little punks in their own special ways. The movie's humble narrator is Renton (Ewan McGregor), heroin addict by zealous choice, as he informs us in sympathetically bitter intonations...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: New Film: It's Square to Be Hip | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...Trainspotting" provides several very big laughs and perhaps hits just as much as it misses in depicting a certain breed of underclass, heroin-addicted youth in Scotland. Of course, the parents watch TV far too much yet keep on struggling, as those dang kids keep getting into trouble...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: New Film: It's Square to Be Hip | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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