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

[Joe Allonby]

Things aren't what they used to be,
Cary Grant's on LSD,
If I only had time,
I'd think of the perfect crime,


On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.