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x-perimental gagal0ske #OO1. ___________ ::::::::::::::::::::: \_________//___ ::: ::: \ /_____ ::::::::::::: _____ ::: \___ _\ ╔/______ ______/ / :::::::#&/$(#") ___/ / /___ \ /_ \ __ __ _/___ ___ __ __/__\__ _// /----╝ \__ \ _________) /-----------╝ cARY gRANT tOMABA tRiPi. Grant (grαnt), Cary 1904-1986 British-born American actor who was the epitome of the elegant leading man in films such as The Philadelphia Story (1940) and North by Northwest (1959), known for his urbane and debonair manner. He was born Alexander Archibald Leach in Bristol, England. In 1932 he went to Hollywood, California, where he appeared in a long series of romantic and sophisticated comedy motion pictures that established his reputation as one of Hollywood's leading men. One of his well-known films is The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Katharine Hepburn. Director Alfred Hitchcock starred Grant in several films, including North by Northwest (1959), considered by many to be their greatest collaboration. Grant also worked repeatedly with director Howard Hawks, for whom he made such films as Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Monkey Business (1952). Cary Grant was once told, "Every time I see you on the screen, I think, 'I wish I was Cary Grant.'" He replied, "That's just what I think!" I've been repeating that story ever since I first heard it, and it never fails to amuse audiences, all of whom seem to understand it immediately. Everybody groks that Archie Leach, the poor boy from Liverpool who became "Cary Grant" never fully believed in "Cary Grant," since Cary was, after all, his own invention. __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Cary Grant (apparently had a medical condition and was subscribed LSD) Extract from CARY GRANT - THE LONELY HEART By Charles Higham and Roy Moseley .....And it was during Houseboat that he began to experiment with lysergic acid, or LSD. It is possible that Cary may have been aware of LSD as the so-called "Truth Drug" employed by both British and American military intelligence men in order to obtain information from prisoners. The effect of lysergic acid was to remove inhibitions and to release the unconcious mind; the drug was used in cases of sexual impotence. It had a deeper and more lasting effect than hypnosis, emphasising every aspect of the human mind to an extraordinary degree. The good and bad elements in the psyche were unleashed, in sessions that made the subject see colours and smell scents in a way that was not possible in normal conditions. The memory chain was opened up, often with painful consequences. This was a severe challenge, and on top of it the LSD patient has to deal with marvellous or horrifying hallucinations. Acid, as LSD became popularly known, can cause an individual to walk into his own bathroom and suddenly see violent streaks of colour in the basin, a flushing lavatory like Niagara Falls, a face in a mirror that turns into that of a gila monster, a vision of oneself as a baby or an old, dying human being, a magnificent athlete or a cripple. The patient can become violently hysterical or rigidly catatonic. For some people, the experience of LSD produced nausea, terror and despair. For others it brought exhilaration, visions of transcendent beuty and the confidence to deal with anything. Cary Grant went into LSD treatments to overcome his constant self doubts, his characteristic actor's feeling of unworthiness, of being less than a man, the pain of human relationships and the tormenting memories of his childhood. He underwent carefully guided treatments with two of the leading proselytisers of the new cure-all: Dr. Mortimer Hartmann and Dr. Oscar Janiger. He conferred with Aldous Huxley, one of the self-appointed shamens of mescalin, and he soon encounter the ineffable Timothy Leary, whose conversion to this use of the drug eventually gained him international notoriety as the idol of millions of students. __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Leary recalls that Cary had been involved with LSD for five years before Leary became the chief glorifier of the drug. He met Cary through a mutual friend, Virginia Dennison, a student teacher in the Ramakrishna Vedanta group, of which Huxley and Christopher Isherwood were adherents. Miss Dennison had taught Cary yoga. Leary was in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Peggy Hitchcock, and Cary invited the couple to lunch at his office. Leary says: "It was a thrill because it was the first time I'd been in a movie studio. Cary Grant was always my idol. When I was young I modelled myself on him; I'm very pleased, I think I made a wise choice. Cary was eager to meet me." Later Cary told Leary how he discovered a love for Elsie Leach for the first time because of LSD; the drug enabled him to knit up some ravelled threads of his life. Over the years, Cary saw a good deal of Leary: he was helpful to the younger man, giving him advice on many things, including film making, in which Leary wanted to be involved. He questioned Leary closely when he started a training centre for the use of psychedelic drugs in Mexico, and Cary wanted to visit Leary there, but the Mexican Government closed the centre down. Leary insists: The joke of all this is that, in a sense, Cary Grant got me into psychedelic experiences. I was a psychologist, from Havard, when I heard about Cary Grant getting into [LSD]. That struck me very much; that attracted my attention. I had been very much against the use of drugs before that; I had written books on the subject, because I felt that doctors shooting patients up and giving them pills was making them into an assembly-line cure. I knew that the truth drugs were being used by the CIA and the KGB, and that LSD was being used in chemical warefare, so I was much against it. Cary Changed my Views. He converted me. __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Cary began telling anyone who would listen that he was gaining strength through his treatments; he was finding happiness for the first time in his life. He would turn up on Saturday afternoons ath the offices of Dr. Hartmann and Dr. Arthur Chandler, stretch out on a couch with an eye shield, block his ears with wax, and revisit his past while music was played in the near darkness. He wrote later: "I passed through changing seas of horrifying and happy thoughts, through a montage of intense love and hate, reassembling, through terrifying depths of dark despair replaced by heaven-like religious symbolism." In another place he would also write: I had to forgive my parents for what they didn't know and love them for what they did pass down - how to brush my teeth, how to comb my hair, how to be polite, that sort of thing. Things were being discharged. The experience was just like being born for the first time; I imagined all the blood and urine and emerged with the first flush of birth. It was absolute release. You are still able to feed yourself, of course, drive your car, that kind of thing, but you've lost a lot of the tension. He added that all human beings were "unconciously holding their anuses". In one LSD dream, he defacated all over the psychiatrists office rug. In another dream, he became an enormous penis, shooting of from earth like a spaceship. He realised that in his earlier days he had despised himself. Betsy Drake also went on record on LSD. She wrote, "You learn to die under [it]. You face up to all the urges in you - love, sex, jealousy, the wish to kill. Freud is the road-map." __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Cary had several further discussions with Timothy Leary. Leary says: He took me aside and started pouring out things to me.... The LSD experience is a life-changing experience. Today, people are cool, they don't talk about it. But in the sixties, with everyone running around, taking off their clothes and saying they'd found God, and John Lennon eating LSD like popcorn, people talked about it a lot. Actors are insatiable neurotics. Actors depend upon getting love all the time. After all, Cary was the focus of a hundred million women lusting after him. You couldn't expect him to be like the guy next-door; he was carrying the weight and freight of the world's fantasies. LSD helped him with his burdens. And he was always charming, professional, courteous, open and helpful. I remember he said, referring to his Universal cottage, "What do you think of this bungalow? Would it be a good place to have LSD?" I replied, "Well, I always like to have a fireplace [during the experience]." He said, "Well, I'm going to call the studio right now and have them put a fireplace in." That was typical of him. Leary comments further upon other reasons why Cary needed LSD: All actors are impossibly sensitive and impossibly questioning. If the phone doesn't ring every minute they're worried nobody loves them anymore. This is not a neurosis that normal people have. I don't mean to say that you can equate this neurosis with the kind of self-questioning of a man like Cary. In the midst of meetings with Leary, the psychedelic nightmares and happy dreams, the visions of defaction and masturbation, Cary Grant continued to act out the bland, meaningless humours of Houseboat............... __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Grant was just one of hundreds of citizens in the Los Angeles region who participated during the 1950s and early 1960s in unprecedented academic studies of the then-novel pharmaceutical. In just a few short years, of course, LSD would become a chemical taboo, the notorious "hippie psychedelic" vilified by the media, criminalized in every state, classified by the FDA as a Schedule I drug of no medical value and banned globally by international treaty. But before most Americans had heard of lysergic acid diethylamide, here in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills students, professionals, clergymen, writers, artists and celebrities enthusiastically turned on, tuned in and didn't drop out. __ _\ -/_ _/ :____╗- -- - \\ __/ \ -╗ \ __/- ---/ / Cary Grant °°°°°°°°°°° Real name Archibald Alexander Leach Date of birth 18 January 1904, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK Date of death 29 November 1986, Davenport, Iowa, USA. Sometimes Credited As: Archibald Leach Actor filmography (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s) Walk Don't Run (1966) .... Sir William Rutland Father Goose (1964) .... Walter Eckland Charade (1963) .... Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank That Touch of Mink (1962) .... Philip Shayne Grass Is Greener, The (1960) .... Victor Rhyall North by Northwest (1959) .... Roger Thornhill ... aka Breathless (1959/II) (USA: working title) ... aka In a Northwesterly Direction (1959) (USA: working title) ... aka Man in Lincoln's Nose, The (1959) (USA: working title) Operation Petticoat (1959) .... Commander Matt Sherman Indiscreet (1958) .... Philip Adams Houseboat (1958) .... Tom Winston Pride and the Passion, The (1957) .... Anthony Affair to Remember, An (1957) .... Nickie Ferrante Kiss Them for Me (1957) .... Commander Andy Crewson To Catch a Thief (1955) .... John Robie Dream Wife (1953) .... Clemson Reade Room for One More (1952) .... George "Poppy" Rose ... aka Easy Way, The (1952) Monkey Business (1952) .... Barnaby Fulton ... aka Be Your Age (1952) ... aka Darling I Am Growing Younger (1952) People Will Talk (1951) .... Doctor Noah Praetorius Crisis (1950) .... Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson I Was a Male War Bride (1949) .... Captain Henri Rochard ... aka You Can't Sleep Here (1949) Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) .... Dr. Madison Brown Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) .... Jim Blandings Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947) .... Richard (Dick) Nugent ... aka Bachelor Knight (1947) Bishop's Wife, The (1947) .... Dudley Without Reservations (1946) (uncredited) .... Himself (cameo) ... aka Thanks God, I'll Take It From Here (1946) Night and Day (1946) .... Cole Porter Notorious (1946) .... T.R. Devlin ... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) .... Mortimer Brewster Once Upon a Time (1944) .... Jerry Flynn ... aka My Client Curly (1943) (USA: working title) None But the Lonely Heart (1944) .... Ernie Mott Destination Tokyo (1943) .... Captain Cassidy Mr. Lucky (1943) .... Joe Adams Talk of the Town, The (1942) .... Leopold Dilg ... aka Gentleman Misbehaves, The (1942) (USA: working title) ... aka Mister Twilight (1942) (USA: working title) Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) .... Pat O'Toole Penny Serenade (1941) .... Roger Adams Suspicion (1941) .... Johnnie Aysgarth My Favorite Wife (1940) .... Nick Arden His Girl Friday (1940) .... Walter Burns Howards of Virginia, The (1940) .... Matt Howard ... aka Tree of Liberty, The (1940) Philadelphia Story, The (1940) .... C. K. Dexter Haven Only Angels Have Wings (1939) .... Geoff Carter ... aka Plane No. 4 (1939) (USA: working title) Gunga Din (1939) .... Archibald Cutter In Name Only (1939) .... Alec Walker Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... David Huxley Holiday (1938) .... Johnny Case ... aka Free To Live (1938) ... aka Unconventional Linda (1938) _Awful Truth, The_ (1937) .... Jerry Warriner Toast of New York, The (1937) .... Nick Boyd When You're in Love (1937) .... Jimmy Hudson ... aka For You Alone (1937) Topper (1937) .... George Kerby Wedding Present (1936) .... Charlie Suzy (1936) .... Andre Big Brown Eyes (1936) .... Danny Barr Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The (1936) .... Ernest Bliss ... aka Amazing Adventure (1937) (USA) ... aka Amazing Quest, The (1936) ... aka Riches and Romance (1936) ... aka Romance and Riches (1936) Wings in the Dark (1935) .... Ken Gordon Enter Madame (1935) .... Gerald Fitzgerald Last Outpost, The (1935) .... Michael Andrews Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) (uncredited) .... Himself (guest star) Sylvia Scarlett (1935) .... Jimmy Monkley Ladies Should Listen (1934) .... Julian De Lussac Kiss and Make Up (1934) .... Dr. Maurice Loman Born To Be Bad (1934) .... Malcolm Trevor Thirty Day Princess (1934) .... Porter Madison III Alice in Wonderland (1933) .... Mock Turtle I'm No Angel (1933) .... Jack Clayton Gambling Ship (1933) .... Ace Corbin Eagle and the Hawk, The (1933) .... Henry Crocker She Done Him Wrong (1933) .... Captain Cummings Woman Accused (1933) .... Jeffrey Baxter This Is the Night (1932) .... Stephen Blonde Venus (1932) .... Nick Townsend Devil and the Deep (1932) .... Lieutenant Jaeckel Hot Saturday (1932) .... Romer Sheffield Madame Butterfly (1932) .... Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) .... Charlie Baxter 'DeBrion' Sinners in the Sun (1932) .... Ridgeway Singapore Sue (1931) (uncredited) .... First sailor .// pHUENTe: fusionanomaly.net