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March 08, 2006

Toback Hints 'Vendetta,' 'Bambi' Better Than Acid

When The Reeler last ran into James Toback, the filmmaker was winding down one of his quintessentially modest nights on the town with a little private head-clearing. And not the kind requiring a handful of Kleenex, either. At any rate, New York Magazine's red-carpet regular Jada Yuan apparently caught Toback in a little better shape at Vanity Fair's recent preview of V For Vendetta--not that the guy will ever fully recover from the last, oh, 40 years:

YUAN: You claim to have done the most hits of LSD ever recorded. Would you have liked the movie better if you had been tripping?

TOBACK: On acid, you can't like anything. When I was 19, I did 100,000 micrograms of pure LSD-25 from Switzerland. And during the eight days of that unspeakable trip, I actually went to a few movies. I don't recall which ones, but I do know that compared to what was going on in my head, they might as well have been Bambi.

Leave it to Toback to find the silver lining in Bambi, which, in fact, yields its own crushing hallucinations when viewed with a fifth of bourbon in one hand and a photo of Mom after the hunting accident in the other. If Swiss acid is the antidote to baby-talking skunks and rabbits, then I need to get my passport in order. We should all be such brave, brilliant survivors.

Posted by stvanairsdale at March 8, 2006 08:25 AM

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Posted by: Bruce at March 8, 2006 02:51 PM