Re: Larry Hagman On LSD: ‘All Our Politicians Should Do It,’ Says ‘I Dream Of Jeannie’/'Dallas’ Actor

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/08/drugs-in-hollywood-201008

It reads like an alternate COL49:

	With her marriage now in tatters, Betsy knew she had to talk to
	someone and, swearing her friend Sallie Brophy to secrecy,
	poured out her heart. Sallie, a stage and television actress who
	had suffered from depression since childhood, told Betsy that
	she was trying a new kind of therapy with a wonder drug that
	had the power to break through to the subconscious. She
	insisted that Betsy meet her therapist, but when they arrived at
	his Beverly Hills office, Betsy refused to get out of the car. So
	Sallie went inside and brought the doctor out. He talked to
	Betsy through the open car window:

	“You are desperate, right?”

	Betsy nodded.

	“Well, then why not give this a try?”

	Hardly the most persuasive argument—or the most thorough
	intake interview—but Betsy saw the logic and agreed to come
	back the next morning. She was feeling somewhat more
	hopeful that night when she joined Cary, Clifford Odets, and
	Jascha Heifetz for dinner at Chasen’s. She told them,
	“Tomorrow I am going to take LSD.” But the men looked at her
	blankly and then went on with their conversation. “They didn’t
	know what I was talking about,” she says. “No one had heard of
	it.”

Betsy didn't notice that Jascha was carrying a miniature copy of  
Haydn's suppressed "Kazoo" Quartet, or that Ornette Coleman just  
slipped into the room, Cecil Taylor in tow.
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