…he said today in his blog at the Sun Times. (The poor man said he doesn’t drink anything any more due to his sad medical condition.) Well, I never read in the past years that he was an alcoholic, but I’m certainly not surprised. In his movie reviews (Under the Volcano, Withnail & I) he has written so very eloquently about alcoholism that he never needed to tell the world.
I figured he was a drug addict. He wrote the screen play for Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
And he gave *Knowing *four stars. Sober my ass.
If there was ever a good reason to drink, seeing that film would be it.