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Dumont said that junkies are not violent and that there is "no correlation between heroin addicts and crimes of violence such as rapes, murders, armed assault...
Dumont said that "heroin is a benign drug, it's much safer than penicillin. In terms of death, heroin is not as lethal as suicidal tendencies or alcoholism...
...blamed the President for fostering misconceptions about heroin addiction and said that "placing responsibility for crimes in the street onto the backs of heroin addicts is a gigantic mistake...
PROSTITUTION, HEROIN, imprisonment, rape, unhappy love affairs: the elements of Billie Holiday's life sound like a soap-opera maker's dream and any serious film based on it would have to be handled carefully so as not to result in a tear-jerker. However, while the Berry Gordy production avoids melodrama and the extravaganza often used in filming the life of a legend, some inconsistencies exist that are so extreme as to be incongruous...
...Ross, who offers a sensitive interpretation of Holliday which shows that she went beyond a superficial investigation of Lady Day's personality. For instance, Holliday was well know for being languid, but Ross plays her as a normally vivacious woman whose lethargy is a byproduct of an addiction to heroin. Unfortunately, while her acting should draw no complaints, the fact that she is Diana Ross intrudes into the story. This is not due to her singing (she altered her style to sound remarkably similar to Lady Day) but nonetheless, she remains Diana Ross playing a role that she never quite...