What does Hollywood get right about recreational drug use?
When I think about it, the things they do best are the stories of people who really were addicts. They get that horrible story right because it usually has the ring of truth because it was written by an addict. Lady Sings the Blues [Screenplay by Terence McCloy and Chris Clark & Suzanne De Passe LeMat, Based on the Book by Billie Holliday and William Dufty], that one was great. Clean and Sober [Written by Tod Carroll] was a good story. I saw a really interesting movie called Down to the Bone [Screenplay by Debra Granik and Richard Lieske] about a mom who was a cocaine addict. But it’s gotten so that I can’t watch movies like this anymore, so I don’t watch as many as I used to because it’s so painful. Another two on my list were Less Than Zero [Screenplay by Harley Peyton, Based on the Novel by Bret Ellis], which was an ever too appropriate story for the actor in that movie, and Panic in Needle Park [Screenplay by Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne, From the Novel by James Hills], which i
