(3.16) Oscar nominated feature documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty largely responsible for the opioid epidemic’s unfathomable death toll. The film relates the photographer’s struggle with OxyContin and her protest against the art establishment that took money …
If some of today’s Oscar nominated movie titles were unfamiliar to you, you are not alone. Fortunately, Tom Weyman, director of programming over at the Columbus Theatre, is on the job. The theater has been screening more movies lately, and he has several of these lesser-known titles in the pipeline. This weekend on Friday, (1/27) …
I want to make sure something horrible turns up whenever future Sacklers google their family name. Ditto for the institutions that have plastered that name on buildings and wings, people who might actually care about their reputations. Now comes this development: Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges for Opioid Sales (NYT 10.20.20). The Justice …