The DVD Wrapup: Camp X-Ray, Free the Nipple, Giuseppe Andrews, Pillow …
No sooner have his siblings gathered for dinner than it takes on the appearance of an encounter group at a rehab clinic. …. Rifkin's doc chronicles the making of the nano-budget “Garbanzo Gas” and “Shlong Oysters,” whose casts include alcoholics and … Read more on Movie City News

Student-Loan Deadbeats: Fashionable Theft
He was the greatest poet and critic of his time, but poetry and criticism do not in general pay all that well, and T. S. Eliot, unfortunately for him, lived in an age in which celebrity academics did not bank CEO money. He came from a well-to-do family … Read more on National Review Online

Handwritten Jim Morrison poem found in Paris hotel could net K at auction
The Doors frontman was known for his heavy drug use and drinking, but last year singer Marianne Faithfull told Mojo magazine that her former boyfriend, a heroin dealer named Jean de Breiteuil, accidentally killed Morrison with a lethal dose of heroin. Read more on Examiner.com

In honor of Cole Porter's 124th birthday, his story of triumph over pain
His blustery and domineering grandfather, J.O. Cole, was the richest man in the state, thanks to a series of well-placed investments in drug stores, coal and timber. Young Cole loved poetry and playing the piano. …. East European Jewish Immigrants … Read more on PBS NewsHour (blog)

'Supermensch' rules
It all started in 1968 at a popular Los Angeles motel, where Gordon, a bewildered sociology graduate of the University of Buffalo and failed probation officer, stayed by accident, dropped acid and met fellow tenants Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi … Read more on Boston Herald

'Record' Amount Of Pot, Heroin Seized In Alberta, BC
… 6% (22 Metric Tons). A homeless California man shoots up heroin at an outdoor squat behind a dumpster in Los Angeles. … 13% (45 Metric Tons). A police officer lectures heroin addicts on the dangers of drug use, at a Bejing-based rehabilitation … Read more on Huffington Post Canada

Hollywood Widower Blames Rehab Clinic
LOS ANGELES (CN) – The widower of actress Lisa Robin Kelly filed a negligence lawsuit against the drug rehabilitation center where his wife died last year. Robert Gilliam and the Estate of Lisa Robin Kelly sued Pax House of Altadena and the clinic's … Read more on Entertainment Law Digest (subscription)

Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum back as cop buddies in '22 Jump Street'
In “22 Jump Street,” they're off to college, admission standards having plummeted, and will again impersonate students in order to squash a new drug epidemic, and to give directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller an excuse to include spring break … Read more on The Korea Herald