Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the alluring subject of Errol Morris’ Showtime documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, became enthralled in the 1970s with the LSD guru Timothy Leary.
It’s a sentiment the Oscar-winning filmmaker could understand.“I had met Timothy Leary just before he died. I was amazed,” Morris says, with perhaps a touch of his dry humor, during a panel for his film at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “Of all the people I have met over the years I’ve never known anyone who actually radiated light.
He was luminescent.”Harcourt-Smith and Leary became romantically attached in Europe where Leary fled to escape U.S. authorities.
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