The Panic in Needle Park
Written by Joan Dion and John Gregory Dunne; based on the book by James Mills
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
USA, 1971
Al Pacino gives a riveting performance as Bobby, an energetic street hustler and heroin addict who forms a bizarre, yet accepting relationship with a homeless woman, Helen, played by Kitty Winn. The Panic in Needle Park is a gut-wrenching expose into the drug culture in New York City. American films of the late sixties, such as Easy Rider, Performance and The Trip, portrayed the edgy glamour and counter-culture boom of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll revolution, but after the release of The Panic in Needle Park, filmmakers forecast the downward spiral of addiction. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll transgressed into heroin, prostitution and jail. To this day, no other film has topped the realistic portrayal of the drug culture. Shot in a documentary-like fashion,...
Written by Joan Dion and John Gregory Dunne; based on the book by James Mills
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
USA, 1971
Al Pacino gives a riveting performance as Bobby, an energetic street hustler and heroin addict who forms a bizarre, yet accepting relationship with a homeless woman, Helen, played by Kitty Winn. The Panic in Needle Park is a gut-wrenching expose into the drug culture in New York City. American films of the late sixties, such as Easy Rider, Performance and The Trip, portrayed the edgy glamour and counter-culture boom of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll revolution, but after the release of The Panic in Needle Park, filmmakers forecast the downward spiral of addiction. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll transgressed into heroin, prostitution and jail. To this day, no other film has topped the realistic portrayal of the drug culture. Shot in a documentary-like fashion,...
- 6/23/2013
- by Yale Freedman
- SoundOnSight
The author who wrote Drugstore Cowboy is back behind bars after he was arrested on suspicion of robbing a pharmacy in Washington.
James Fogle wrote the novel, about four marauding drug addicts who travel America looting narcotics from pharmacies, while he was in prison and based it loosely on his own experiences.
It was later used as the basis for Gus Van Sant's 1989 film of the same name starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch.
The 73 year old, who has spent much of his adult life in jail, was arrested on Tuesday night along with another man, 45-year-old Shannon Benn, on suspicion of carrying out a raid on a pharmacy in Redmond, Washington.
Both men have been booked on suspicion of first-degree robbery and are scheduled to appear in King County Superior Court on Thursday.
Jim Bove, a spokesman for the Redmond Police Department, tells the Seattle Times, "He's 73 years old and this is probably the only thing he knows."...
James Fogle wrote the novel, about four marauding drug addicts who travel America looting narcotics from pharmacies, while he was in prison and based it loosely on his own experiences.
It was later used as the basis for Gus Van Sant's 1989 film of the same name starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch.
The 73 year old, who has spent much of his adult life in jail, was arrested on Tuesday night along with another man, 45-year-old Shannon Benn, on suspicion of carrying out a raid on a pharmacy in Redmond, Washington.
Both men have been booked on suspicion of first-degree robbery and are scheduled to appear in King County Superior Court on Thursday.
Jim Bove, a spokesman for the Redmond Police Department, tells the Seattle Times, "He's 73 years old and this is probably the only thing he knows."...
- 5/27/2010
- WENN
Seattle - The author of the book Drugstore Cowboy has been arrested for robbing a drugstore, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday. James Fogle, 73, was nabbed by police Tuesday after holding up a pharmacy at gunpoint in Redmond, Washington, just outside Seattle. The report said that Fogle and an accomplice tied up staff in the pharmacy and demanded drugs. However, one staff member managed to alert a passerby who called police, while another triggered a silent alarm. Fogle's book about his life as a drug-addicted pharmacy burglar was made into a 1989 film starring Matt Dillon.
- 5/27/2010
- Monsters and Critics
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