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Acid's First Convert, Cary Grant: On Edward J. Delaney's "The Acrobat"

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Henry and Clare Booth Luce, of Life Magazine fame also dosed repeatedly in and across the 1950s and advocated frequently for the drug in their magazine, (see also the peculiar spectacle of their legendary high-society LSD dinner parties) until the govt told them to shut up. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00947679.2008.12...

There is also a Skull and Bones Society hallucinogen crossover between Luce and R. Gordon Wasson formerly of J.P Morgan and latterly of Cubensis and Salvia promo efforts https://www.gordonwasson.com/

There's an upcoming series about Cary Grant's early life in Bristol, England called "Archie". Strangely, they're choosing to shoot it in Liverpool which has a totally different look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(TV_series)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/04/cary-grant-biop...

What? That's crazy! It's a real shame to not be on location in St. Pauls. It's a pretty important place in Britain's social history that deserves a higher profile instead of getting recast.

Odd considering Bristol is a popular place for filming TV/Movies because it's cheap and has a wide variety of modern/historic/shitty types of location that can work for period drama, gangsters or finance bros. ITV just has to do things in a shit way.

I was surprised as we've got lots of filming here in Bristol. The Outlaws was particularly fun as Stephen Merchant is another proud Bristolian and AFAIK was entirely filmed in Bristol (even included a genuine Banksy that Christopher Walken painted over).

What's next, a biopic of Paul Dirac shot in California?

My impression is Liverpool has more unimpeded views of a city that looks 100 years old? Having been to both cities.

That will save them on VFX budget.

But where's the Brunel suspension bridge?

Are we sure they wont just shoot MOST of it in Liverpool, and other scenes in Bristol?

Seems like they shot it in Liverpool, Chester and Manchester. No Bristol at all.

An LSD novel. I had no idea that’s a category. And it says Grant did 100 trips in approx 4 years. So that’d be about every other week. That’s quite a pace.

He was tripping in a beige coloured room, a shame he couldn't be out in nature.

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