The Coke Years

I remember when I was a little kid, I grew up in New Mexico. They shot convoy in Albuquerque and I went down to the Hilton Hotel and met all the actors. And he was just this little bearded dude all lit up. He did everybody in, huh, the coke? No, no, some of us came out the other end. You know, one of Sam's problems was that he was regenerated by defeat, his psyche. Only he could do that with alcohol and with other sense of the flesh. But he couldn't get up from the coke. It took a while. At first I left Los Angeles because of it. Then I left New York because of