Is Heroin chic sweeping Hollywood?
August 2, 1996 Web posted at: 1:20 a.m. EDT From Correspondent Mark Scheerer NEW YORK (CNN) — What’s the hottest trend in show business today? To hear some people tell it, it’s heroin. A number of high-profile celebrity drug busts and two new movies, one a highly acclaimed film from Scotland, give some people the impression that heroin is chic all of a sudden. The movies are “Trainspotting,” which follows the escapades of some charming Scottish junkies, and “Basquiat,” director Julian Schnabel’s first film, about his friend and contemporary Jean Michel Basquiat, a young artist who died of a heroin overdose. Then there are the real-life drug cases. Actor Robert Downey Jr. ran away from rehab as did Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin overdosed, and Jimmy Chamberlin got drummed out of the same group after being charged with possession of heroin. Even in the world of high fashion, a current trend toward dark-eyed makeup and ashen s
