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...think it's a glaring weakness in someone's personality if they let food affect them so much," he continues. "I look upon the whole habit as a vice that's just as bad as heroin addiction...
...were smuggled in with the aid of fraudulent passports. Today as many as 300,000 fugitives and terrorists use bogus identity papers, including U.S. passports and visas, to travel freely around the world. Says one DEA agent: "I can't think of a major investigation involving hashish, heroin, cocaine or marijuana smuggling in the past five years that hasn't involved passport fraud or false drivers' licenses...
...this world ever turns out to be precisely what it seems to be. Michael (Paul Newman) is an independent cuss, all right, but no crook. And Megan (Sally Field) is not so crazily ambitious that she would, just to take a random example, fabricate a story about a child heroin addict in hopes of tugging at a Pulitzer jury's heartstrings. Certainly she would not stoop to selling papers by retailing gossip about an incumbent President's bugging a President-elect's bedroom just before Inauguration. Indeed, throughout the film, as she reports each carefully leaked piece...
...declineinto dementia (Suddenly Last Summer, Long Day's Journey into Night). These later roles gave her the opportunity to soar, and she played each lovely chance to the hilt, whether she was getting morosely drunk over a lemonade in Pat and Mike (1952) or losing herself in heroin and reverie as O'Neill's Mary Tyrone...
...book's vast array of photographs is often more expressive than the text it decorates. In portrait after portrait, Brian Jones slowly loses the fierce beauty of his youth, transformed by heroin and fear into a corpse-like tag-along, who by the end can barely keep time with a pair of maracas. More cheerfully, Charlie Watts maintains through all the years his proud, patient detachment from the tumult created by his mates. He sits, smiling behind his humble drum kit, clearly amazed that he, or any other grown man, can do this sort of thing for a living...