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George Segal is an ex-hairdresser called J., a facile and funny junkie who likes to say "I'm not addicted, I'm habituated." He roams around Manhattan's West Side scraping up money for fixes and getting into trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes...
...were pushing drugs instead of trying to stop their spread. It had become frequent practice for a patrolman to turn in part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other part to be sold. In one instance a patrolman arrested a pusher on the street, while a detective seized the opportunity to burglarize the pusher's home. In another case two cops supplied heroin to an addict until her horrified boy friend went to the commissioner's office. One of the cops pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail...
Needle Park is a more conventional work, concentrating on a love affair between a pusher named Bobby (Al Pacino) and a girl called Helen (Kitty Winn), who has come to New York from Indiana, had a bad love affair and a painful abortion. She picks up a habit from Bobby and becomes a prostitute to raise dope money for both of them. They hole up with other junkies in the threadbare hotel rooms around...
Report Your Local Pusher The Wild West bounty system that put a price on men's heads and waited for others to collect has its modern applications. The Tampa, Fla., Chamber of Commerce initiated a "Turn in a Pusher" program almost six months ago, and the response has been a combination of Gunsmoke and James Bond...
...Familiar Terrain. "It's an old-hat drama," Playwright Otto Jefferson Gibson says diffidently. In an eerily contemporary sense, he is right. In Later, Jason the generation gap between father and son is aggravated by the son's serious involvement with drugs. The son cannot pay the pusher who supplies him. Finally the son murders the pusher and is sentenced to life in prison. Jason's terrain is familiar; what is special about the play is that it is hardly an academic exercise. In this case, art imitates life with unsettling directness. At times the actors move...