1:08:00
(Reems)
Now that my name
was--was pretty recognizable,
1:08:05
I moved to LA,
1:08:06
thinking that
certainly somebody
would come along and say:
1:08:09
''well,
there's a sellable name.''
1:08:11
Allan Carr had produced
and directed films,
1:08:14
uh, for Paramount,
1:08:15
And he called me one day
and said,
1:08:17
''l'd like you
to play the role
1:08:19
of the high school coach
in the movie Grease, ''
1:08:23
I was excited that
I was given an opportunity,
1:08:25
Then about two
or three weeks
1:08:27
before principal
photography began,
1:08:29
Paramount Pictures
removed me from the cast,
1:08:32
That they didn't feel
as though I belonged
1:08:36
in a mainstream
motion picture,
1:08:38
And the lights went on
for me,
1:08:41
l had branded myself
1:08:43
and, uh, given myself
a certain stigma.
1:08:47
I just started
to drink every night,
1:08:49
looking for an escape,
1:08:51
looking for a little bit
of lightheartedness.
1:08:54
And, you know,
1:08:55
it just led me into
a terrible, terrible disease
1:08:59
of alcoholism
and drug addiction.
1:09:02
what are you doin'?
1:09:04
An antidote.
l'm mixing an antidote.
1:09:07
(Reems)
I remember
the last movies I was on,
1:09:09
I couldn't even walk,
1:09:10
I mean, literally,
they had to carry me to a seat
1:09:13
and l'd shoot
the whole motion picture
sitting in a seat,
1:09:16
delivering lines, drunk.
1:09:21
I was so drunk
and so drugged up at the time
1:09:24
that I couldn't do
sex scenes,
1:09:27
Oh, my head.
1:09:29
They'd carry me off the set
1:09:31
and somebody would get me home
and l'd drink some more
1:09:34
and they'd pick me up
and take me back the next day.
1:09:37
lt's all a blur.
lt's all a blur.
1:09:43
I lost my home,
1:09:45
I lost my career,
1:09:47
I lost my friends,
1:09:51
and ended up, literally,
1:09:52
panhandling in the streets
on Sunset Boulevard,
1:09:57
(Hopper)
Harry's personal defeat
1:09:59
in the face of
his First Amendment triumph