"The Nearly Impossible Question" for Monday, March 14, 2011 (movies, Las Vegas)

[Gue]

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

I was gonna say this too!

Final answer,

[tasmtairy]

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

I'll go with this answer!! Oh what about "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac!

[Caligula1]

Originally Posted by lookup138

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll final answer

Beat me to it, I wasnt sure if it was rumor or not though, I was going to give it a shot..

So with that said.. Lewis Carol

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by Caladium

Was Doyle on drugs when he wote many of the Sherlock Holmes stories?

Not according to his biographers.

[GloryB]

Dr Suess
Final Answer

Is this the answer
Yes or Not
That Dr Suess
Was smoking pot

[LauraC]

Stephen King was a big drug user. I'll go with him and The Shining. Not sure if he was on drugs during Carrie.

Tennessee Williams was a drug user but what did he write while he was on them that was made into a movie? I'll go with The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Robert Loius Stevenson (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) was a drug user.

Edgar Allan Poe (Murders In The Rue Morgue, House of Usher, The Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat, etc.) was a big time alcoholic but I have read a scholarly biography about him and he did not use drugs although a fictional narrator in his work did, causing rumor and innuendo to take over. Poe did not use drugs!

The guy who went by the pen name of Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) I don't think was a drug abuser. He was too sickly. Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar) used drugs but were they the recreational kind or the type that's supposed to help you fight depression which also brings me to another sickly author, George Orwell (1984). He had tuberculosis. I'm sure he must have used some kind of prescription drugs for his condition but I don't think he was a drug abuser.

[Cunucu Beach]

I remember from high school English classes that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an opium user.

Also that Edgar Allen Poe was a heavy drinker. And wasn't Ernest Hemingway a heavy drinker, too?

Don't know about any of the more recent authors but I won't be surprised if there are not dozens on a such a list.

[cityflair]

Siggie Freud??? (freak)

[PJSinger]

I'll guess Through the Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland), by Lewis Carroll. Final answer.

[Ilene Wright]

I'll go with "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Really freaky stuff