In the 1980s, you would have been hard-pressed to find anybody who had access to cocaine not on cocaine. As such, it was only a matter of time before a movie would give it the spotlight…and that movie was 1983’s Scarface. Appropriately enough, Oliver Stone — then a serious lover of booger sugar — was tasked to write Scarface. I was doing cocaine, and I was really an addict, without knowing it.” He added, “I did all the research for Scarface on cocaine, in and out of the country. After Scarface, Oliver Stone turned it around in a huge way.


Source:   The Star
May 15, 2024 12:26 UTC