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...commercials. Her biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty, constant changes of address, a short stay in a Catholic nursing home for the needy were all part of Cher's childhood. Even a three...
...doctor she called, saved a man's life (TIME, March 3). Last September she attended a party at Millionaire-Weirdo Ken Moss's with a couple of musician friends, where what they thought was cocaine was free for the snorting. It turned out to be heroin. One man, Robbie Mclntosh, a drummer, died of the stuff. But Cher (as she testified last month before a grand jury that indicted Moss for murder) took Alan Gorrie, a bass player, home with her and kept him walking around to prevent him from lapsing into a coma. It was strong evidence...
Janis Joplin, the subject of this willfully empty-headed documentary, died of an overdose of heroin in 1970 in a Hollywood motel room, all alone. There is no sense whatsoever in this film of the loneliness and desolation that could have led to such an end; indeed, there is no mention at all of her death, not even the fact of it. Instead, we are presented with a lot of concert footage and some spliced-in interviews, mostly gath ered from old television spots. Joplin reveals as much of herself as most people do under the flighty scrutiny...
...doctors from nine institutions under a grant from N.I.N.D.S. The researchers studied 503 seriously ill or severely injured patients whose brains had apparently stopped functioning. In each case, the doctors determined whether this lack of brain activity was caused by a drastically lowered body temperature, by drugs (tranquilizers, heroin, or barbiturates mixed with alcohol can result in a flat EEG), or by injuries or ailments. They also tested the patient's ability to respond to various stimuli (most unconscious people, for example, will blink at a loud noise) and found out whether they could breathe unaided. When temperature...
...against him. To protect that right, New York and California have both provided that even though a prisoner pleads guilty, he may still mount a constitutional attack with an appeal in state courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued that "the great writ was not designed as a means of freeing persons who have voluntarily confessed guilt." Justices Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun endorsed the procedure as a practical way of permitting "the constitutional issues...