If you think about it, and I'm sure some of you have, bad decisions you've made can frequently be tracked right back to the first one you made. So it is that we stumble down a mountain of meth in this week's True Stories, where we detail exactly where the road to excess starts for some. We also learn about a unique steamy story from space (pictured) and how life plays out with an alcoholic lover. Dig in ... deep!
| It's all crystal-meth fun and games until someone has to go to prison, and that someone is you. It was 1997. The summer I graduated from high school. A group of my friends and I were going to a Pink Floyd laser light show in downtown Minneapolis. They were all drinking. Me? I wasn’t a big fan of alcohol, so I was the sober cab. “It’s not as fun if you aren’t messed up. I got some crank for all of us,” said one of the guys. So five of my best girlfriends and I locked ourselves in the bathroom at my boyfriend’s parents’ house, feeling scared, nervous and excited all at the same time. It was 1, 2, 3, GO — and we all did our first lines together. | READ NOW |
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| | Director Yuri Kara had stars in his eyes. The Mir, a Soviet space station put into orbit around the earth in 1986, was a vital source of pride for Russians in the 1990s, as they grappled with the brutal realities of the collapse of the USSR. But it was also only built to stay in orbit for five years and incredibly expensive to operate. Slowly, Russia resigned itself to the reality that it would have to decommission its symbol of extraplanetary pride, letting it fall into the Pacific. But in late 1997, Russian director Yuri Kara approached the Mir’s custodians with an idea: He’d pay a hefty sum to send two actors to the station in 2000 to shoot scenes for a film, to be released in 2001 on the 40th anniversary of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s historic spaceflight. An ode to the Russian space program, the film might galvanize support for the craft. Kara openly acknowledged that he’d need about $30 million just to shoot on the Mir, and a total budget of about $200 million, tying Titanic as the most expensive film ever shot at that point. Oh, and a number of the shoots would reportedly be sex scenes. | READ NOW |
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| | | This networking event actually changed history. |
| | OZY’s Eugene S. Robinson addresses queries from the love-weary in “Sex With Eugene.” |
| | After a divorce, online dating was a world of excitement and, ultimately, surprise when she found herself with a committed alcoholic |
| | He fled racial abuse in America, fought for his native land in France and still got ignored by posterity. |
| | Love can be a wild and wonderful thing. Until you uncover the kind of crazy that you thought happened only in movies. |
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