Busted at the Border
Some movie history, and why you shouldn’t buy drugs in Morocco.
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8 min readNov 4, 2020
The furnished house I was given in London for the duration of The Sheltering Sky was near Earls Court Road station, a couple tube stops away from the editing rooms in Piccadilly. As Ken and I rolled onto the street for the first time, the taxi passed house after house of adorable brick Victorian row houses with white trim…