Cannes: 9 Big Secrets from the Amy Winehouse Documentary http://variety.com/2015/film/news/amy-winehouse-documentary-secrets-cannes-1201498581/
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Kendrickmusicfreak 
True that. No Nancy Reagan mentality. Reegan, huge difference.
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Some bands do good music with drugs..beatles, dany Warhols, early stone temple pilots. It’s when the drugs take the central stage, issues occur.
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Nancy’s life.
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Amazon.com Review
Sex and drugs and shlock and more–Jacqueline Susann’s addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it’s inspired by Susann’s experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post “riot grrrl” culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but–alas!–she’s still a writer for our times.
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About the most fun you can have without a prescription! Julie Burchill Much imitated, but never bettered DAILY TELEGRAPH Decades ahead of its time…Mesmerizing…The equation of emotional dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality disorder is, if anything, MORE CHIC TODAY. VILLAGE VOICE Jackie, it seemed, understood by instinct that her readers were ready for the RAW SIDE OF LOVE…for a franker sexuality and a tougher kind of story – for romance with tears AND oral sex. Michael Korda, THE NEW YORKER
Product Description
Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight—for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn’t matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry—only to find that there is no place left to go but down—into the Valley of the Dolls.
About the Author
Jacqueline Susann left her hometown of Philadelphia at eighteen and moved to New York where she acted extensively and won the Best Dressed Woman in Television award four times. But it was the success of her three blockbuster novels- Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough-that transformed her into the Pucci-clad media superstar we remember today. Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield. She died in 1974.
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