She finally broke the sweet silence of our postcoital afterglow with this whisper: “But I’ll have to charge you for the massage.” Since she was also an old lover, it was not totally surprising that we began fucking on the bed before she even set up her table. I called an old friend who is a professional masseuse. What I really wanted was an exquisite massage. The “Tomorrow” show flew me from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and a chauffeured limousine delivered me to a fancy hotel, where I proceeded to partake of those magic mushrooms. “Would you wish me a happy birthday on the show?” “That’s my birthday,” said Abbie Hoffman, still on the lam at the time. The interview was scheduled for November 30. It was a kind of participatory journalism….” I’ve taken LSD in all kinds of unusual situations: when I testified at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial on the Johnny Carson show-Orson Bean was guest host-I was sort of a guide for Groucho Marx once while I was researching the Manson case I took acid with a few women in the family, including Squeaky Fromme and Sandra Good. The subject of drug use came up, and I said, “Well, maybe we could talk about my old psychedelic macho. There were a few follow-up phone conversations to explore areas that the televised interview might cover. As a producer for the “Tomorrow” show, he was always on the lookout for potential guests, and there was a particularly bizarre interview with me in that issue, so he called up to invite me on the show. Now, Andy Friendly had only been doing his job when he was reading the Sex and Dope issue of HIGH TIMES in September 1978. Which in turn explains why eating magic mushrooms was practically a prerequisite for my being interviewed by Tom Snyder. My prediction was accurate, so naturally I took an immediate vow never to appear on any TV show again unstoned. Years ago, when Mike Wallace interviewed me for “60 Minutes,” and asked about the difference between the underground press and the mainstream media, I told him about the above anagram and said, “The difference is that I could print that in the Realist, but it’ll be edited out of this program.” Charles Goodell came out against the war in Vietnam, it was Agnew who called him “the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party”-thus equating military might with the mere presence of a cock. Such appropriateness can give your boundaries of coincidence permanent stretch marks. If you take the name of a certain former vice-president, Spiro Agnew, and scramble the letters around, you can rearrange it to spell out Grow A Penis. The judge at the time said the newspaper’s report was “recklessly irresponsible.” Rush’s award was upheld on appeal in July 2020.In honor of Groucho Marx’s birthday, we’re bringing you a story from the February, 1981 issue of High Times, in which writer Paul Krassner remembers tripping with the comedy legend. The role of Groucho Marx is something of a comeback for Rush, whose last film credit is the 2019 drama “Storm Boy.” The actor was accused of sexual misconduct in 2018, with one allegation coming from “Orange Is the New Black” actor Yael Stone.īut in April 2019, Rush was awarded nearly $2 million in a defamation case that he brought against Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, which published a story in which actor Erin Norvill accused Rush of inappropriate conduct during a stage production of “King Lear” in Sydney, Australia. Even in a world that tells us ‘never meet your idols,’ Steve’s friendship with Groucho Marx, while filled with moments of heartbreaking humanity, proved to be an overwhelmingly positive and life-changing experience for him – an essence we hope to capture for our audience.” Done right, we will screw it up royally.”Īdded Bailey, “After many years diligently working to get Steve’s brilliant, true story adapted for the screen, I’m thrilled that we found the perfect ensemble of actors to portray these rich yet complicated characters that Oren will, no doubt, masterfully bring to life. “Steve Stoliar has given the world incredible insight into a bygone era.

“It’s a pleasure and an honor and a responsibility and probably something else to work with this amazing cast on a story I hope will reintroduce the genius of Groucho Marx in a new, provocative, entertaining way all these years later,” Moverman said in a statement.

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