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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Crime / Drugs / Film Say It Ain't So: Drugstore Cowboy 2

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM

Last night, at the inaugural 20/20 Awards at Central Cinema—"correcting the Academy Awards with 20 years of hindsight"—Drugstore Cowboy finally got its due. (As did other films that went criminally under-represented at the 1990 Oscars: Do the Right Thing; Say Anything; The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, etc.)

It won best adapted screenplay and David Schmader presented the award with a heartwarming tale of junkie-made-good: James Fogle, who lived the story then got clean and wrote the novel that became the screenplay. (And good on Gus Van Sant for recognizing the novel's potential before it was even published.)

But it looks like Fogle is back in the pharmacy-robbery game:

Now the Centralia police say the 73-year-old burglar is back in action knocking off stores again.

Detective Carl Buster tells Washington's Most Wanted Host David Rose they believe Fogle was part of a brazen heist at Hall's Pharmacy in January of 2009.

"They locked themselves in the bathroom of the adjacent grocery store and basically took a saw and sawed their way through — and came out in the pharmacy," Buster said.

IMDb says Fogle is working on a sequel to Drugstore Cowboy—and, apparently, trying to live through some more material.

More about the 20/20 Awards here.

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The main point of Drugstore Cowboy was that he didn't think he could turn his life around in his middle age, which made it that more absurd that Van Sant cast a painfully young Matt Dillon as the lead.

Say Anything has not held up well. What award did 20/20 think it deserves?

Posted by keshmeshi on March 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM