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Post by heartbreakerboy on Aug 26, 2008 10:40:11 GMT -5
Judy was prescribed Benzedrine and Dexedrine. These were very popular during the '40s '50s '60s and '70s. If you went to your doctor and mentioned that you wanted to go on a diet, he would often prescribe these "cousins" of methamphetamine after he would reach into a candy jar and hand out free samples. "Dexies" and "Bennies" were in many medicine cabinets.
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Post by rainbowgirl on Aug 29, 2008 17:05:05 GMT -5
methamphetamine?? Isn't that the same stuff they use in the drug 'p' or speed?? OMG.
I know of people who go absolutley psycho on that drug. There was this one guy who cut open his stomach because he thought insects were crawling inside him and had to get out.
It's a class A drug.
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Post by judydarling on Sept 2, 2008 3:06:35 GMT -5
I don't know why people put so much faith in pills. Half the time they don't even work and it's just you believing that they work - called the placebo effect.
Psychologists once did an experiment where a one group was served alcohol and one group served drinks that weren't actually alcohol but told it was. The second group acted just as drunk as the first.
I think in the end they tried that with Judy - filled her pills up with sugar so she believed it was working for her (but without the toxic side effects).
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Post by rainbowgirl on Sept 3, 2008 3:17:41 GMT -5
SUGAR!!! That's just as bad lol.
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Post by bogart on Sept 11, 2008 15:02:33 GMT -5
The drug culture is rife in showbiz. Read Jacqueline Susann's 'Valley of the Dolls' (nicknamed VD) for an expose on that. It's ironic that Judy was considered for that movie. Apparently she was all set to star, but was so difficult, that they fired her. She ended up trashing her trailer and stealing the costumes from the movie (and wearing them in her concerts!)
She behaved like a true diva. I suppose the rock star culture of fan worship stemmed from that. Practically all of them are on crack or heroin.
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Post by rainbowgirl on Sept 12, 2008 3:22:08 GMT -5
Didn't Anna Nicole Smith die from diet pills?? She could have been one of the VD girls.
I read the book. As for the movie it's actually not bad either. I don't know how they could have got Judy to star as Helen Lawson. In one scene, Patty Duke's character steals Helen's wig and flushes it down the toilet. There's a huge catfight. Helen Lawson is this hard-as-nails broadway diva that you love to loathe. Judy in that role?? I don't think so.
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Post by heartbreakerboy on Sept 12, 2008 17:10:17 GMT -5
Did you notice that she wears the copper colored pant suit Judy wore all over the place in 1967? It was Patty Duke's part that was supposed to be based on Judy. I think there are overtones of David Begelman in one of the characters too.
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Post by jujube on Sept 12, 2008 17:15:25 GMT -5
That was one hideous outfit...I can't imagine anything worse than a pantsuit. They should be banned.
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Post by rainbowgirl on Sept 17, 2008 16:29:23 GMT -5
Was David Begelman the agent guy? He was a rat in the novel. Ugh I couldn't stand him.
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Post by bogart on Sept 24, 2008 15:28:09 GMT -5
Yes, I think he was the one who shot himself. Rumours were that he was romantically involved with Judy.
As for 'P' that can be manufactured using prescription drugs. Common over the counter drugs like Codral have the basic chemical ingredients that can be altered in a laboratory to make P.
I did hear that Judy was using morphine at one point, a cousin of heroin.
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Post by jujube on Oct 19, 2008 23:02:36 GMT -5
The scene in Wizard of Oz where Dorothy falls asleep in the poppy fields seems eerily prophetic of Judy's own sleeping pill addiction to me.
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Post by rainbowgirl on Oct 23, 2008 12:43:17 GMT -5
Well heroin is another version of opium and morphine. Opium is from the poppy flower.
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Post by judydarling on Dec 14, 2009 15:04:01 GMT -5
I'm still not quite over MJ's death.
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