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I recently saw a copy of Ampersand dated
January/February Volume V, No. <4, 1982 It is
unavailable In any stores In my city I was
wondering If it would be possible for me to
order this issue
Man Wilcox
Hau Claire. Wl
We bate alas, many such complaints uv are dis
mhuteil uitbin, and only within, college turns
papers No newsstands Hut hack issues can he
nrilered. tl 50 pet issue or you can avoid any
future problems hy subscribing Oats star whole
dollars per year I send check and address infor
motion to Ampersand Subscriptions, 16HO North
Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 9002H)
At the ripe old age of twenty-four I am about
to do something 1 have never done before
write a fan letter As I sat lull asleep and
bored to tears in my Federal Jurisdtctum class last
Friday, I happened to spy a copy of Amftersatul
(January/February '82). The cover alone was
enough to snap me out of my boredom and the
article — on Timothy Hutton — was enough to
bring me back to life
Kussell Harris, Fan
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Consuming Mass Quantities
In the wake of irrepressible funster John Be
lushi s death from a synergistic mix of heroin
and cocaine come these two coke-laced reports
from a recent LA Titties edition First, actor Lou
Gossett (you loved him in Roots) and girlfriend
Honey Rufner were recently arrested for, among
other things, giving her two children and his
seven-year-old son drugs It's called "Child En
dangerment" in these parts Detectives found
cocaine and freebasing equipment in Gossett's
home. Freebasing is a highly volatile method for
cixiking out the impurities — baby laxative and
worse — that greed head dealers routinely mix
into cocaine Freebasing also cooked out most of
comedian Richard Pryor s epidermis between
phallus and adam’s apple a few months back, and
helped Pryor cut his time in the 100-yard dash to
practically nothing.
Second, corpulent beach Boy Brian WiLson
— whose apparently permanent drug-induced
psychosis has been public knowledge for years—
has reportedly resumed cocaine consumption,
with the help of his brother Dennis The news
came to light because of a Santa Monica court
action Dennis WiLson and Stan Love, former col
legiate All-American and Los Angeles Lakers bas
ketball player, agreed recently via a mutual re
straining order not to "harass, molest, threaten or
strike" each other
Dive, a first cousin to the Wilson brothers,
I lad spent the mid-Seventies as a sort of nurse/
coach to Brian Wilson, trying to cure the once
highly creative singer/songwriter's bouts with de
spondency and binges with drugs through an
exercise program and strict supervision (which,
apparently, was abandoned some time ago). He
alleges that representatives of Brian WiLson, in
eluding WiLson's business manager, told him that
the Dennis-to-Brian cocaine connection had re
New Contributors
Dennis Cah.yle Dam.ing (Hutch Hancock, Jim
mte (lilmore photo) teaches photography and
graphics in the Journalism Department of the
University of Texas-at Austin His credits include
Rolling Slone, the Washington Rost, Ro/ntUtr
Photography and Modem Pix ' graphy Clinch
ing an Ampersand assignment was a major
career thrill but, avers Darling, "I won’t give up
my day job yet."
RjuiakIi Gkaiiam (In Print) lives in San Diego
and signs his letters with impressive calligraphic
flourishes
Mikai Toombs (In Prtnt) had better write to us
soon and tell us where to send the check