#lapsed

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in. ↗

— John Blair

#arrest #assaulting #beaten #cell #charged

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #children #collapsed #once #parental

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cleopatra #collapsed #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #million

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #i #lapsed #like #point

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#any #art #awful #central #century